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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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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