I knew I needed a mailing list for my music promotion. Every music blogger out there will tell you “YOU NEED A MAILING LIST”. Once I found my mailing list solution, I knew it was time to strategize and plan.
While I agreed it was important when I first started, I didn’t know too much about what I could really accomplish with Aweber. It’s not just about collecting an email and shooting out a newsletter.
I read some articles and became convinced that my mailing list promotion needed attention and not treated as just another tool.
Here is a collection of awesome articles to get your mind thinking on different ways to approach your mailing list promotion.
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger: How I Use Email Newsletter To Drive Traffic and Make Money
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More and more people are joining the blogging community and creating their own websites expressing their passions. It is very common to find a reader that leaves a comment who also has a blog. Why is this important for musicians?
I recently did a guest post and noticed some great opportunities.
Social networking makes it very important to acknowledge and help those that help you. Maybe that is not an approach that every musician wants to take, but from a small operation standpoint, I love the Idea.
While reading Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere 2009” I wanted to observe some blogging growth trends.
The goal of this initiative is not to find massive traffic, it’s to find relevant users and increase my content distribution. It is one thing to gauge your monthly visitors, but how active are you in resolving issues or continuing success in your online marketing campaign?
I was very pleased to see monthly stats rise, greater discussions and new social networks flourishing adding to my visibility. I got too comfortable in 2009 with just raw numbers, that my data analysis was lacking. You don’t have to be a scholar to make improvements: just show you care and improve.
Themes on a Budget
Design is a very important factor for musicians. I was looking for a theme for some other projects and stumbled across Themeforest. Themeforest allows independent web designers to upload their themes for sale for multiple content management systems. I am running my blogs on WordPress, but you can find templates for Joomla, Drupal, Email templates and PSD templates. The prices are just right, ranging from $5 to $40.
The reason I like Themeforest is I bought a theme for $25 and it had so many options, with a sweet modern design. If you are a WordPress musician, you will love the options features on many of the themes.
To wrap up this week I wanted to direct you to a guest post I wrote for David Risley. The topic is directed at every musician looking for a way to organize, plan and brainstorm through Mind Mapping.
The concept of this article was to explain how I use Mind Mapping to organize my projects, with a specific relevance to musicians. I find myself caught up all the time with balancing music and blogging schedules. Don’t let good ideas die due to no organization.
Mind Mapping has been my savior to start off this year. I was able to create a schedule I could handle balancing all my projects and I found myself having more free time to work on things I enjoy.
