This is week 4 of the "Music Success in 9 Weeks" blogging challenge and the corresponding chapter in Ariel's book is all about social media and Web 2.0. The Internet has become so interactive and such a great way for bands to reach out and have a 2 way experience with music fans and other musicians. There are so many great tool and resources, but keeping up with it all can be a full time job. I mean who has time for Twitter, Twacker, Tweeker and Tooter when you have to write songs, hang fliers, play shows and record albums? Well some how or another you have to make time.
The problem is, the ease of sharing songs and videos has become so easy that it seems impossible to stand out amongst the endless other artists trying to do the same thing. I have come to see consistency is king and the job of marketing through social media is never ending. Luckily some sites are making it easy to stay current with tools such as widgets. Widgets are applications that can be customized and placed all over the web and they draw their content from one source which is easily updated. Reverbnation.com has mastered this and is well on the way to being the next inclusive music site for fans and bands. I highly suggest signing up for Reverbnation.
Taking part in this blogging challenge is forcing me to stay on top of shit and I wanted to talk a little bit about what I have accomplished in the last 4 weeks. What I am most excited about is I started recording my follow up to "En Los Campos". To get fans involved with the this, I have been releasing demo versions of tracks exclusively through my mailing list. I knew that this would increase the amount of people signing up for my email list but I decided to take it one step further. My Goal is to write, record and release a new song every week until I get 15-20 songs and then let the mailing list vote on which songs I should further produce and then release on my next record. Taking it a little further I decided to give free copies of my new CD and "En Los Campos" to anyone who took part in this and voted. Pretty stoked on this.
In the last couple days I have been talking to Danny from the Cool and Deadly and Aleko from Planeta Lem about swapping tracks and collaborating. I finished a track last night that I am sending to Brooklyn for Danny to record on and tonight I finished a song that I am sending off to Barcelona for Aleko to be on. I love being able to record with people around the world through email, there is something really special about that.
Last couple of weeks I have also been lucky on the Podcast front. Cue, from the freestyledub podcast has invited me to host a couple of the next pod casts and Coverville (best of Itunes Podcast series) included my cover of Donovans "Berts Blues" on their latest podcast. Download the whole show here
It really is amazing everything you can get done when you are keeping your goals and little successes in the front of your dome.
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