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http://www.magmamusicflows.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:54:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don't take our word for it, check it out: http://10trecords.com/the-vital-might-signs-with-10t-records/ http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/07/14/the-vital-might-signs-with-10t-records/ Not sure any of our bands can afford this right now, but it's an interesting idea: http://www.springwise.com/entertainment/mobileroadie/ http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/05/26/iphone-apps-for-bands-in-minutes/ So we've heard about bands getting their "Profile" type pages deleted from Facebook. They're really trying to push people with bands, businesses, and organizations to use their "Page" profiles instead. Recently, they've added the ability to post status updates from the band page. If you're logged in as yourself ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/05/19/when-will-facebook-reward-us-for-using-pages-rather-than-profiles/ Outsourcing has been a bit of a four-letter-word with how the US economy is doing, but it mostly relates to offshore outsourcing. What I'm talking about is delegating repetitive tasks to others, preferably others who will do it free or cheap.  I've tried hiring interns in the past, but I didn't ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/05/01/outsourcing/ Big event on Friday March 27th.  Cancer research benefit show.  Here's the invitation: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLelQVDdKM] More info and tickets:  http://www.rockandrun.org http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/02/27/giving-back/ I've noticed that a lot of radio stations (college and commercial) are getting on Facebook recently.  MySpace has always been a great venue for radio stations with its "band" style profile that allows for posting of shows and music.  More recently, stations are popping up on Facebook with either profiles ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/01/28/promoting-to-collegespecialty-radio-on-facebook/ I'm in a predicament right now where THE VITAL MIGHT's tour got here faster than I had time to get everything done. While I should be sending out press releases and following up, I'm writing this blog post instead. I'll make it fast since I need to tab ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/01/13/running-out-of-time-order-by-date/ Posters for essential for promoting a band. Most of the time, there isn't a direct correlation between posters and people at shows.  A lot of the time, they're simply a large business card for a band.  Until a band is really sought after, they might only have 1% effectiveness for ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2009/01/05/posters-posters-posters/ For this past release of Red Planet from THE VITAL MIGHT, we put together a release plan that included PR, print advertising, online ads, college & specialty radio promotion, social networking, tour support, and a bunch of other pieces.  Being the small label that we are, we can't handle all ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2008/12/18/if-you-dont-have-the-time-and-resources-hire-someone-else/ For many years I've dug around for the best contact management software.  I've used Outlook, Outlook with the Small Biz Contact Manager addition, Highrise, FreeCRM, Salesforce.com, Access, and I even built my own web front-end for my contact database.  They all had too many features.  Even Highrise, by the 37Signals ... http://www.magmamusicflows.com/2008/12/11/if-you-cant-find-a-tool-that-fits-use-a-spreadsheet/