This should probably be a more thoughtful post than what I have time to write... but that's the whole point of this post anyway.
I have a band that I really love to work with. Playing music, writing, performing, recording... it's all great fun and I love being an artist and creator again.
What I don't love is dealing with promotion and maintaining a presence on at least 15 different sites.
So here's what I'm wishing for...
A service that would have a real person evaluate the type of music my band makes, that can then put the music in the appropriate social networks, and perhaps more importantly, tell me what blogs to contact. That's step one.
Step two would be a timely way to help me update all these sites, let blogs know about my latest happenings and keep them current.
I enjoy writing things and can email and so forth. But to put a blog up on the 5 or 6 blog sites the band has (plus this one, plus my own web site, etc) is time consuming. It would be great if I could just have someone email me and say "Please write a 1 paragraph description of what's going on with your band last week and the upcoming month." Please attach a new photo as well.
I would reply to the email and then it would be parsed out to imeem, iLike, facebook, myspace, garageband, secondlife and whatever else needs to be serviced.
Because it feels like my biggest obstacles are
1. prioritizing my time to know what's important to get out in the world (show updates, emails to fans?)
2. Prioritizing the places to put this information.
3. Taking the time to do all this.
If somebody could help me figure out what's effective (in terms of what I need to create) and then where it goes (in terms of where I need to publish it) then I could probably hire somebody else or automate the last bit.
I have a band that I really love to work with. Playing music, writing, performing, recording... it's all great fun and I love being an artist and creator again.
What I don't love is dealing with promotion and maintaining a presence on at least 15 different sites.
So here's what I'm wishing for...
A service that would have a real person evaluate the type of music my band makes, that can then put the music in the appropriate social networks, and perhaps more importantly, tell me what blogs to contact. That's step one.
Step two would be a timely way to help me update all these sites, let blogs know about my latest happenings and keep them current.
I enjoy writing things and can email and so forth. But to put a blog up on the 5 or 6 blog sites the band has (plus this one, plus my own web site, etc) is time consuming. It would be great if I could just have someone email me and say "Please write a 1 paragraph description of what's going on with your band last week and the upcoming month." Please attach a new photo as well.
I would reply to the email and then it would be parsed out to imeem, iLike, facebook, myspace, garageband, secondlife and whatever else needs to be serviced.
Because it feels like my biggest obstacles are
1. prioritizing my time to know what's important to get out in the world (show updates, emails to fans?)
2. Prioritizing the places to put this information.
3. Taking the time to do all this.
If somebody could help me figure out what's effective (in terms of what I need to create) and then where it goes (in terms of where I need to publish it) then I could probably hire somebody else or automate the last bit.
1 comment:
"A service that would have a real person evaluate the type of music my band makes, that can then put the music in the appropriate social networks, and perhaps more importantly, tell me what blogs to contact. That's step one."
A marvelous idea! I'm surprised no one has come up with this already. I wonder if I can corner this market?
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