Sean McManus's Blog
WhoseSpace is this?
26 March 2006
Last night I saw The Starts supporting Tom Hingley's pre-Inspirals revival Too Much Texas. A great night, and since both bands are on MySpace, I was inspired to check it out again. Song and dance man Tim Ten Yen also has a page there, as do My Life Story and ExileInside. By setting up an account, I can join their communities and make it easy for me to find all their pages in one place.
This is not the first time I've considered joining MySpace. About a month ago, I went to their website, clicked 'join up' and found that the site's terms and conditions were broken. I notified the site through the contact forms, but I find that today, it's still missing (tested using Opera and IE).
What can we learn from this? Any of the following might be true:
- MySpace doesn't monitor its sign-ups so it doesn't know the devastating effect this is having on new memberships.
- MySpace does monitor its sign-ups but hasn't seen a significant drop in people signing up, even though they don't know what they're signing up to.
- People don't even click the link to terms and conditions or don't care if they're absent. Even if they are posting their own recordings, email address and date of birth.
- MySpace doesn't listen to visitor feedback about essential site maintenance, or does not care that people cannot see the contract they are signing.
If anyone wants to tell me about their experience using MySpace to promote music, I'd be interested in hearing from you.
I have today updated my list of places to promote your music. You can still read my 15 top music promotion tips and my article about how to choose where to host your music.
Labels: customer service, music, music promotion
Erasure pioneers customised MP3 sales
29 December 2005
Erasure is using a new technology that enables you to mix a single and then download your preferred mix as an MP3. This technology for mass customising MP3s has also been used by The Prodigy, among others. My article looks at how it works.
Labels: 1980s, music, music promotion, technology
New music promotion article
10 December 2005
If you're an independent music act, wouldn't you like to tap into Ebay's market of 157 million registered users? Robin Cowpertwait has done just that. In six months, he's sold 126 copies of his Midfielder CD to paying customers via Ebay. In this new article, I ask him how he successfully sells his own music on Ebay.
Labels: music promotion
Promoting your music online - updated
14 August 2005
My list of places where you can sell your music online has been updated.
Labels: music promotion