Today we spotlight two services. One will help you check or secure your brand online (like your band name) and the other will help you follow your tweets, likes, stumbles, diggs, all in one place. Know em is a website where you check your band’s name (or user name) on hundreds of websites. If you ...…
This is from Areil Hyatt, and sometimes its good to go back to the basics. As many of you know Cyber PR® is a hybrid of Internet Marketing, Social Media and PR. I am an avid Internet Marketing student and I gather the nuggets I learn from my studies for musicians. For many years, I’ve ...…
Today I’m playing clip of someone in the entertainment business who just made $15 million in two days. His name is Kevin Hart, and the clips are from Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast (a favorite of mine). In it we learn how Kevin had a lot of momentum going where his standup lead to Television and ...…
An artcile at Gigmasters.com reveals where their traffic is coming from. They state that: 1. Google (organic) 56.1% It’s not surprising that Google’s number one, however, it’s pretty amazing that it accounts for more than half of our traffic. Plus, this is organic traffic, which means that it’s from searches and not from paid advertising ...…
If you’re hungry, you will have a much better chance of getting food if you move to where the food is. Likewise if you want to grow your audience online (let’s say twitter, or facebook) you need to do the following: 1. Understand your audience. You can get to know them by starting a podcast, ...…
Special thanks to Rich Palmer for pointing out a new tool called “Artist Growth.” I”ll be checking it out, if you have any experience with it please let me know. You can use the voicemail button on the right, or leave a comment below. Check out the Artist Growth Youtube Channel. Rich read about it ...…
There are some new interviews on Youtube that show David Lee Roth interviewing Alex and Eddy Van Halen. It starts off with them talking about how they started off. They weren’t shooting for stadiums. They were shooting to play that first small club. Then the next bigger club. Then the next small theater. I read ...…
A call to action CTA shold be in your thoughts when you fire up an email. Even if its just to let people know where you are on twitter, facebook, etc, there is a goal. When you write a call to action you don’t want to put “Click here.” I’m guilty of that. A better ...…
Today we talk about some research study that had over 1000 people rad over 47,000 tweets and explain what they liked to read. Here is what worked: 1. Informative 44% 2. Funny 24% 3. Useful %20 4. Exciting 12% What didn’t work on Twitter: Cryptic tweets Rehashed news Using too many # and @ signs ...…
Today we talk about breaking down the price of airplay, and how to track your Return on investment (ROI). I got a notice from CDBaby about a service called Jango. According to their website they have 7 million listeners. It’s an internet radio station that allows you to create your own stations. They compare themselves ...…
