Well January flew by and 2011 is moving at a brisk pace in spite of the Winter trying to slow us down. Just in case you may have missed some of the New Rockstar Philosophy talk we’ve decied to put up a monthly review of our top posts. MySpace Lays Off Half Of Work Force – Well [...]
Facebook has been busy building a lot of new features. For bands it’s still not the one stop shop that MySpace used to be, but it’s getting closer. One feature you should try out is creating a Facebook Landing Page. It’s exactly what it sounds like, the landing page is the first page fbook user [...]
Last week Facebook revealed a whole sack full of changes and updates for the social network. CNET‘s Caroline McCarthy has a great article on how the changes will affect the general public, but as musicians these changes could affect us differently. Starting with Groups. Groups are different than fan sites. Fan sites are for them masses. Facebook [...]
Facebook passed Yahoo to become the second largest video web content site recently. What does that mean for you as an artist? It means that even though Facebook has minimal customizations for artist pages, it still has the one thing you need. AUDIENCE. Does this mean you need to invest more time into making Fbook specific [...]
Greetings! Just a quick note today that over at Hypebot they are having “Social Media Day.” It’s a idea started at Mashable but Kyle and the Hypebot team have brought it to us musicans. A quick glance at thier page shows a huge number of ideas, theories, and plans that you can put into action [...]
The online music world changes about every 3 months. Some players may drop out, like MySpace (too soon?), some change shape like WaTunes and newcomers like NextBigSound appear. We’ll try to keep this post up to date, but below are resources that have been tried and tested. Let us know if you find something for [...]
Some statistics: Facebook has 350 million active users. More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day. Your audience is on Facebook. With the help of the glitchy Facebook Insights you can identify where your fanbase is located and get creative with that info… Meaning plan a tour, release region specific content, etc,. [...]
Hey guys, We set-up a Facebook page for DIYgigs.com and we wanted to invite all of ya’ll to join if you feel so inclined. We’ll keep you in the loop regarding all things DIYgigs and even some NRP stuff. More venues are continuously being added all over the world, so keep checking the site. If [...]
In the NRP book we wrote that although MySpace is getting pushed around by facebook it still holds weight for artists. I was concerned that I’d have to revise that during the summer as MySpace looked like it was going down for the count. But then Tom went and grabbed a second wind. So here’s [...]
More Proof Email Lists Are Your Golden Ticket
2010 went out as a very big year for Facebook. Zuckerberg had the year’s best movie made about him, was on the cover of time magazine, and talked with Barbara Walters which now means my mother knows who he is. It’s interesting to watch one social network ascend, while it’s forefather of less than 3-5 [...]