JonMorning

Hi, I'm worse than a newbie. I don't have too much luck with money or money making. However, the times has come and I must journey out to the scary online marketing people for help and advice. I read all your rules and will comply to full extend. This is probably not worth your time at all but just may be somehow seem interesting venture so you would kindly consider granting me your precious advice.

Now, if you're stubborn enough to read the whole thing, your insensitive is, there's money at the end.

I am a DJ?Producer from LA with a decent following and a legitimate amounts of gigs to say I'm somewhat known. Somehow I kept on meeting all these people who wanted to be involved with electronic music, somehow now I have a pretty big team of talented DJ's/Producers who are looking up to me for the next step. We now play at clubs and events locally several times a week and even started working on a compilation. Needless to say our lives are turning a little on the crazy side. Managing the events, answering fans, manning the distribution, booking talent for other shows, teaching inspiring artists how to work the software, and promoting all at the same time leaves with little or no time to actually have a day job. I am at the point of an artist development where my personal accomplishments allow me to actually exist as far as rent and bills concern (not really) but I would love to figure out a way to make some money out of what we have by utilizing the mighty Internet Marketing. We do that now but we're just a bunch of dumb asses who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Bored yet?
Let's take my personal example. I'm a shy boy. I won't come up to people. Nuff said to ruin someone's social-depended career. I've been struggling with shit for years. Finally, myspace and texting came around and I saw the light. I bought me a bot and it rocked my world. People actually started recognizing my art. I started getting booked, girls came around, you get the point. As much as I hate that dumb phrase, the "now what" finally came knocking. I have about 4000 friends and I'm kind of stuck. Needles to say, I'm now hungry for more people to play to and now I have a whole big crew of people who think I'm their solution for realizing their long time calling.
Questions.
1. What do I do now to dramatically increase myspace traffic?
2. How do I spread out of my region?
3. How do I help my crew to get to at list where I am at?
4. There is a limited (struggling artist) budget but what should be a real budget to push a project like this?
5. I'm looking for help. I know that no matter how much advice I get, I won't be able to properly do things I have minimal talent with. Do you think this is something you could do wonders with?
6. How much would you charge us?


Thanks so much for reading my worthless whinnying. I hope someone will be kind enough to reply. In either case,

Much love and respect from LA underground






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LazyHippy

Hi.

Have you thought about using pay-per-click advertising for your myspace? Try out the free credit deals with Google Adwords, Yahoo, and Microsoft. (Yahoo below, others on my blog).

By reading some of the threads here on ppc and testing with the free credit you should get an idea for how it works (It's easier than Protools or Cubase... but takes just as long to master!)

Should definitely help you get targeted visitors to your page.

Another way to increase myspace traffic would be to just add friends... find people on mypace into the same music and add shit-loads of them... 4000 isn't that many really compared to some people on there.

Are you giving out flyers at the events promoting your online presence?

Loads of other ways to get traffic too - search about a bit!

Regarding the management side - it sounds like you might need an agent or promoter to work - Let someone else deal getting bookings etc (for a cut) while you focus on other stuff maybe?

I think you would be better finding a music promoter that uses internet marketing rather than a marketer that may or may not know about music promotion.

Be careful asking how much someone would charge - it's not that clear what you are looking for. Be sure to check out anyone you might pay to promote/market you.

GL - sounds interesting! Sorry my reply isn't more er.. focussed....

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