The fruits of our efforts.
September 7th, 2007Hey evrybody,
I hope this post finds you all healthy, wealthy, and wise. If it does your 3 steps ahead of me! : )
Do you all have any idea how many internet radios station there are out there, or how many music sites there are, how many podcasts are available, how many forums on country music?? I do, because I’ve been researching them for the past 3 weeks. The number is unbelievable. I spent the last 4 or 5 days contacting about 50 of them, to only end up with about 15 that were worth their weight in salt. It strikes me as not too good a ratio. The bad news is you spend a lot of wasted time signing up, filling in all the information they require, Just to find out that, when you get in, all that good stuff they bragged about on their home page is available only when you pay an extra cost for them. The good news is there are probably over a million more of them available to apply too.
However the website or the albums are now posted on about 20 other locations, like myspace, isound, soundclick, songramp, artistopia, and a whole lot more. We picked up another Radio supporter today, and that’s a real good thing, well two actually. One is a show in Australia, and the other if your a big country music fan you might know, It’s the Jerry Mac and friends show over at www.countrymusicplanet.com, they broadcast from 4PM est to about 8pm est, and he took 4 songs which he started playing today , and he requested hard copies of the 2 cd’s which are already in the mail to him, so apparantly he liked the songs and I got a feeling he is going to be a real big supporter, and do a lot of good for us by getting the music out there for the world to hear. We have cd’s on the way to 2 other dj’s, and several podcast dj’s we are sending music to tommorow.
The group thing isn’t going as well I thought it would, and I doubt I will pursue any more of those. Most have very little posting activity, or so much your post gets lost in the pile, they don’t seem to realize that the quality of the information is more important than the quanity. If your going to use groups, the MSN groups in my opinion are the most useful. They are usually pretty active and they do a good job of maintaining the post boards. They aren’t filled with advertisements and porn like the yahoo groups tend to be.
I can’t update you with how “Don’t Hold On To A Memory” did this week, because Ram Radio hasn’t posted their top 30 yet. They had to bring in a new broadcaster just recently, and it’s gonna take a little while for them to catch up.
All in all things are going good and more than meeting my expectations at this point. We had some sales this week and thats a real good thing! By the way, have you gotten your copies of the cd’s yet, or purchased that favorite single? ; ) Thats how every performer in the business evaluates his fans, and his worth, by the sales. It’s the only way to measure the popularity of the music he offers. Combine that with the fact that, that’s how the bigger radio stations, and other distributors decide if your worth adding to their lists, and it’s even more important. So if you haven’t gotten around to it yet, there’s no time like the present. : )
One last item then I got to get back to the grind. This blog is meant to be , not just a journal for me, and to let our fans know what’s going on, but it’s also done to allow you all to participate and have some input to me. If you all have a suggestion, or a comment that might help us do things better or more efficiently, or you have some promotional knowledge and would like to share it, theres a comment button at the bottom of this page, click on it and share your views. Any insight or help you might be able to give as far as how to better promote this site and the albums would be deeply , deeply appreciated. If nothing else it lets me know I ain’t typing to myself or the wall.
Thank you all for your support
Your friend,
Billy Darnell