All Posts Tagged With: "myspace"
Myspace aquires iLike
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Be sure to enter your band in our Socially Awesome Band of the Week contest and thanks for visiting!Woke up to this message from iLike in my inbox this morning.
We wanted our artist community to be among the very first to hear [...]
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20Aug2009 | maxlowe | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat People Want to Read About Your Band
Sitting down to write those first mind-racking band descriptions and introductions on your profile can be very hard. It involves a great deal of thinking, planning, and usually a lot of collaboration with the rest of the band, your friends and family members for ideas and the “right” thing to say. But, rather than worry excessively about what you want to say, you should consider what people want to read about your band.
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13Oct2008 | maxlowe | 2 comments | ContinuedMySpace vs. a ‘Real’ Website: Why You Still Need to Have a Website at yourbandname.com
Too often, people tend to think of MySpace as the only marketing tool they need to have in place when they utilize the Internet for their music marketing. They post as many of their songs and their preferences as possible and invite a few hundred new friends to the fold and hope that this will be enough to get them into the upper rankings of bands with Internet presences.
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6Oct2008 | maxlowe | 4 comments | ContinuedUsing Twitter to Quickly and Easily Build a Devoted MySpace Audience
Twitter is one of those micro niche tools that has developed in the last few years to take advantage of the various different opportunities available through Web 2.0 technologies. Basically, the service allows you to post a short, 140-character line about whatever it is you are doing at any given time. You can upload them directly to the website or from a cell phone. It is basically a take on the status messages so many people use on their social networking profiles as applied to the Internet at large.
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6Oct2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Darcys headline MySpace NXNE Showcase
Holy crap.
If you’re in Toronto, Canada for the North by Northeast (NXNE) Music Festival, you probably don’t want to miss the MySpace NXNE Showcase at Sneaky Dee’s (413 College St. at Bathurst) on Thursday night.
Doors @ 8:30pm.
The Darcys (Kirby, Wes, Jason, Mike and Dave) hit the stage at 1am to play their hearts out [...]
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10Jun2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | ContinuedNow Search The Best Indie Music Promotion Resources on the Internet from maxlowe.net!
Recently one of my blog posts about how to keep up a good MySpace blog was featured on Knowthemusicbiz.com. I’m really pleased to see how fast that site is growing because it links together all of the best music business resources on the web, totally free. Most of the time, if you’ve got a [...]
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29Apr2008 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Ultimate Guide to Promoting Your Music Online: A shameless plug for my book…
The world of online independent music marketing is getting more confusing every day. Sometimes it’s difficult for busy independent artists to quickly learn the tools and tricks that will help them reach new fans and industry contacts and keep in touch with their current fanbase.
Back to Basics
Whether you’re new to the MySpace phenomenon or you’re [...]
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21Apr2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | ContinuedMySpace teams up with Major Labels, Screws Indie Artists?
At least that’s my take on the new MySpace music site reported to be taking shape in the New York Times yesterday.
According to the NYT:
Visitors to the site will be able to listen to free streaming music, paid for with advertising, and share customized playlists with their friends. They will also be able to download [...]
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4Apr2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued



