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Nov

Using Individual Creativity as a Traffic Generator

by Dan Waggoner, under Internet Marketing

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Your own individual creativity can generate much traffic to your website. Entrepreneurs and musicians alike share the art of being creative. If you possess this gift you can’t afford to waste it.

Website visitors and surfers respect individual creativity. If you can develop an extremely creative idea for your niche, you can generate thousands of new visitors. In some cases it could be millions!

Think along the lines of a YouTube video or possibly a collage of very powerful pictures that when combined will display a certain theme or idea. Just try to keep it somewhat related to your niche and always have a link to your site. This will help to hold the users attention and nudge them to click the link to visit your site and learn more about you and what it is that you do. If you have done a good job the new visitor will opt in to your email list and you can soon begin marketing your products to them.

Similarly, you should use your creativity inside your website as well. When you are drawing visitors in from another source they need to be able to find some useful content. You want them to be happy they visited and you surely want them to come back again. That’s the whole idea right?

There’s a ton of Web 2.0 sites out there where you can display your creativity and use it to draw your audience in such as Squidoo, YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Delicious just to name a few.

Be your own original self with your own original thoughts. Let your individual creativity flow all over the Internet always remembering to add a link to your own domain and you will soon find yourself with more new traffic than you care to count.

Best Wishes!

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Oct

Boost The Awareness of Your Business

by Dan Waggoner, under Blogging, Business, Internet Marketing

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Looking for a way to boost the awareness of your business? Consider getting yourself a free Press Release. Make your business or your brand known to the world for free. The big timers do it all the time. Why shouldn’t you? It doesn’t matter what type of business you’re in. Musicians, actors, ecommerce, brick and mortar store fronts, websites or any other kind of businesses can and should do a press release just to help boost the awareness of what they do.

1888PressRelease will do exactly that for you. You can also pay them a fee if you want to get additional exposure. The company has been around for quite some time and has different plans available based on your PR needs. They want to earn your business one press release at a time. Just visit their website at the link above and sign up for free. When you get there, check out their user-friendly submission process which takes only minutes to perform. You can attach files, images and logos to your press release making it easier for their journalists and others who need the information to prepare your release for publication. In fact, the company is so intense about the quality of the releases that they keep a dedicated group of editors on hand who do nothing but review and approve each press release to ensure it meets formatting, grammatical and content standards.

If you’re truly searching for a way to put what you do into overdrive then you may want to check these guys out. You can boost the awareness of your own business in minutes.

Best Wishes!

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Sep

The Awesome Power Of Inspiration!

by Dan Waggoner, under Everything Else

Instead of writing about the usual this evening, I want to talk about the absolute awesome power of inspiration. I’m not talking about being inspired to go out and run 2 miles everyday which would certainly help me be a healthier person. I’m thinking more in the lines of the driving force that it takes for a writer to write an award winning novel or a musician to make an album that influences generations of fans for 25 to 50 years. The kind of inspiration that it takes for a poor young black girl growing up in 1950′s America to become a legendary icon worth a billion dollars.

It almost seems that some people are born with these traits. Or are they? At age 3 Oprah Winfrey gave her first public recital in church. She liked talking to people so much that by age 4 she said when she grew up she wanted to be paid to talk. Amazingly this is what she still does and without a doubt it has helped her to become one of the richest people in the world. A twenty year old novelist by the name of Stephen King sells his first book in 1967. He enjoyed it so much he has since wrote 40 others with a good portion of them made into movies. Stephen King went on to become one of the most successful writers of all time. Then there was an 18 year old gentleman by the name of John Winston Lennon from Liverpool who in 1957 arguably formed the most popular band in the world. The Beatles songs have transcended time and are to current day still some of the most popular songs in history.

Sure all of them had help along the way and the marketing didn’t hurt either but the main thing they all have in common was sheer power of inspiration. All of these figures were so deeply moved by their inspiration that what they did never really seemed like work to them. It’s not just dumb luck that these people became iconic and very wealthy individuals. They loved their jobs! Those of them that are still alive continue to do it. What does that tell you?

I guess the moral of this post, at least for me, is find something that you love doing so much that once you start it you can’t stop it. It’s never too late! Reach deep inside yourself and grab your own awesome power of inspiration. When you find it, harness it! Don’t worry about the money for if you love what you do it will come in droves with time.

Best Wishes To All!

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Sep

Internet Promotion For Musicians

by Dan Waggoner, under Music Promotion

I recently stumbled onto a new outlet for musicians to promote their music through the Internet that I wanted to share. It’s called musicSubmit. The thing that fascinates me so much about these guys is what they actually do! Basically you register with them online and submit your music to their site. They will then proceed to submit your music and materials to a combination of Internet based resources for you such as radio stations, online music magazines, blogs, directories, podcasts and Indie Record Labels.

Even more cool is that they also provide you with full reporting. After you have submitted your material they will notify you by email when your submissions begin. You can then log into your account and go to the reporting section and see a complete list with running totals of the sites to which your music and materials have been submitted. The reporting page will include website link, date sent, site name and type of site. This allows you to keep track of the sites that have reviewed your music.

The company was set up by a musician who was spending too much of his time marketing his music on the Internet and too little time actually playing out and making new music. What an excellent idea! You get to create more and better music which is what you love anyway and they do all the Internet marketing for you. musicSubmit has basically taken your hours and hours of Internet research work and submitting out of the picture. They do the Internet promotion for musicians and musicians get to do what they love doing! Cheers to musicSubmit!

Best Wishes

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Sep

Marketing Your Music To The Masses!

by Dan Waggoner, under Music Promotion

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This post may seem a little redundant to some of my professional musician friends out there but for others it may really help you get on your way.

There are many different things you can and should be doing to market you or your band’s music to the masses in the world. If you’re serious about your music and I am assuming you are then you need to take the necessary steps to prove it and let the world know as well. I have listed a few of the best ways below.

Branding Your Name

One of the most important things you can do is let everybody know who you are. Get T-shirts, buttons, flags, pens, hats and any other marketing devices you can think of made to distribute at your live shows. It’s great if you can sell them but if you can afford to then give them away. It will pay you back in huge sums later on just by the free advertising alone.

Distribute Your Demo

If you don’t currently have a demo you need to get one cut fast. Make sure it’s done as professional as possible. You don’t want your fans to hear hurried sloppy work. Regardless if it’s MP3, MP4 or on CD it needs to be of excellent quality. I would strongly recommend putting only your best song or few songs forward. These are the ones that people will remember. Make sure it’s your strongest song 1st followed by the next strongest and so on. Once you have them together and ready to go then start distributing your demo to anybody who will listen. I would also recommend using local radio and Internet stations that except unsigned Indie music. There are many of them out there. Send it to a radio station in every state in the country if possible and maybe even some overseas. Not all of them will play it but you are increasing your odds by sending to as many as possible.

Practice and Play Out Often

Live concerts are the absolute best for promoting your music. Have killer shows and get your audience involved. Play as many local clubs and venues as you can. If possible get out on the road also. Travel to different states and cities if your schedule and budget allows it. Just remember that word of mouth is the best or worst advertising you can get so make sure you stay practiced. You want to always give the audience the best show of their lives.

Secure and Keep an Up To Date Press Kit

This will include your demo, artist or band photos, press clippings, venue list, contact info, artist or band bio and things of that nature. Keep it all together and professionally done and organized. You never know who is paying attention! You may stumble across a record producer, talent scout or record label at any point in time.

Start and Promote a Website

If you don’t already have a website then start one today. With the amount of people browsing the Internet for new music these days this is absolutely essential in your quest for marketing to the masses. There are many different web hosting companies out there that will allow you to set up a website for free. It can get a bit technical and time consuming to do this but if you have the experience and the know how do it yourself. If not then hire somebody to do it for you. It will pay huge dividends in the end. Your fans must be able to find you on the net. Once the website is up and running make sure it is optimized for search engines so it draws as much free traffic as possible. Then plaster your website everywhere you go and on your t-shirts, buttons and all other marketing devices.

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Our site recently added a free optimized link to artist and band websites all over the world. Search engine optimization involves having as many links pointing to your website as possible. If you already have your website set up you can get a link pointing towards it for free here. Your website will enjoy highly optimized website traffic for life at no cost to you!

Do all these things properly and you will definitley be marketing your music to the masses. With a little luck and a little talent on your part you and your band will be well on the way to stardom.

Best wishes!

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Jul

How To Get Your Music Heard On A Small Budget

by Dan Waggoner, under Music Promotion

music symbol When speaking of getting your music out there and you aren’t independently wealthy, to put it bluntly, you do whatever you have to do! Get your music in front of anybody you possibly can. This includes doing current shows for local fans to help spread the word, cutting a single on CD for submission to local radio markets, building and marketing a look for you as an artist or your band , and networking on the computer and anywhere else that the law will allow.

It will take all of the efforts above and then some. Make sure you have quite a bit of stamina and a “I’m going all the way no matter what” attitude. If you want something bad enough there will be nothing big enough to stop you from getting it.

Regardless if you’re trying to become a Super Star or just want to sell a few songs to some movie or television producers, start today by sitting down and planning out a budget. It will take a little money but you know what they always say, “It takes money to make money”. This is a very true statement. Unless you happen to be the friend of a music producer’s son or something along those lines it doesn’t matter if you can sing like Madonna or play the guitar like Eric Clapton, you don’t get in that easy. It will involve some dedication and work but in the end it will be worth it won’t it.

If you have some songs put together and haven’t cut them on CD then do so. Record them to mp3 and whatever other latest music transfer files are available. Why is this important? You need to have a means to display your music to the world easily and quickly! Go to some of the online music submission facilities and start putting your mp3′s out there for them to hear. Get an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) fast. This is a promotional tool used for online promotion. You can pay a professional promoter to set one up for you or you can build one yourself and save money if you are tech savvy. It includes photos, history, a few current songs, listed website for you or your band, any news releases or articles written about you, booked events, labels if you have one, etc. The EPK should be stored on your computer so you can send it out immediately if you need to.

Before you place recorded songs on your EPK, make sure they are of good quality. Think of your EPK as the “modern day demo”. When the person at the other end listening to your music hits “play” then it better be of good quality or they won’t be listening very long. Think about it….how long do you want to listen to a song that has garble and feedback and other noises in it. I’ll bet not very long! So if this means you have to go and get your songs professionally recorded then do so if you can afford it. You could also record your music on your own with a good multi track recorder and burn the songs straight to CD or mp3 by yourself. This will be a less expensive way to go but you will need to learn how to operate your multi track unit well.

Again, once you have your music (the most satisfying to you) on CD and mp3 format start sending it out via the Internet. You can use venue’s such as Sonicbids, Taxi, Myspace, Ourstage, etc. There are plenty of them online just make sure that you do your research before dealing with any company. Also make sure your music is copyrighted before you present it to the whole world. You never know, you just might have some stuff that is so good that people may try to steal it.

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Jul

Looking for an Audition or Job in Music or Acting?

by Dan Waggoner, under Everything Else

Check out Explore Talent…. This company boast they are the World’s largest talent resource and judging from the looks of it they aren’t kidding! There are currently 38, 859 current auditions and jobs listed on their site as being available. In addition to acting jobs and auditions we’ve noticed their are plenty auditions and jobs on their website for musicians as well. They currently have openings for drummers, guitarist, bass guitarist, singers, etc.

Founded in 2003 ExploreTalent.com is the worldwide leader in acting Modeling Auditions. They are offering thousands of casting calls and Auditions. Explore Talent offers more Casting, auditions resources and Talent Agents than all other sites combined. Spending hours and not finding the Acting Jobs & Modeling Jobs you need? Find Reality TV Shows Casting Calls the modeling auditions Acting Auditions, modeling jobs, acting jobs, all in one place. Stop spending hours searching for casting & auditions. Submit yourself to casting calls, auditions – Get a call when Casting directors wants you.

If you’re a musician searching for a way to get your foot in the door and jumpstart your career or an actor or actress trying to do the same we would recommend your visiting this company and finding out for yourself what they are all about. Read the testimonials from their happy members. The best part about ExploreTalent.com is that it appears to be an honest venue between the folks looking for the talent and the folks who have the talent! Check them out today.

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