OK...here I am at Week 6 of the Ariel Contest - I received some great tips on how to expand my mailing list in this chapter...Ariel mentions in one part of the chapter gaining fans by asking them to text you their info while your on stage...I really want to get a better grasp on the whole texting thing...I joined Broadtexter as she suggests....I just need to learn how to file things on there ,because they mention having it where I could be doing a show in Jersey and texting people specifically in that area...so I don't have to text everyone...I like that idea. I just have no idea how to do that, I suppose I will figure that out. So it's back to the book for me on this whole Social Media thang...until next blog, I wish you all...
peace.luv.music.
fiZ
Friday, January 22, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Ariel Contest Week 5 :Newsletter list Vs Email List
OK...it's Martin Luther King Jr. day(thank you Martin!) and most people are off for this holiday...
I could choose not to do anything today, what good would that do me...
So here I am at Week 5 and this 'aint no jive,' tryin' to stay alive...I got's ta get it right.
Well I've had a mailing list for about ten years now...maybe a little less...I dunno,...all I know is I should have well over a thousand people on it by now, but I don't,so I'm completely open to suggestions...and some of Ariel's I have been using already...I've had contests and all sorts of interation with my fiZ fanZ, BUT...who are they?...how old are they? etc.etc....well,here's another tricky area for me,...I have fanZ of all ages....Sixteen year old girls & boys,Moms and their kids...I would say women tend to big my biggest fans..I would say allot of my fans know that I have a passion to help others through my organization "Notes For Life",by doing fundraisers and performing for children in need,so that is a big part of my focus...my newest episode of fiZTV has me interviewing a mother and her son Anthony who is blind and sings(and now learning the piano)...so,that's the direction I'm going in with fiZTV.
There are areas I really want to improve on in this area...For one,I think my writing skills are of weak (strange for a songwriter ,eh?). I have a layout I use with my banner on top ,but I need a more professional looking email templete...ok...I'm reading Week 6 right now....there's no doubt that I'm going to need to back trace my steps and go over these weeks,but I feel it's best to keep moving on instead of getting overwelmed....so I'm off to see the Wizard!....Until next time...I wish you...
peace.luv.music.
fiZ
www.fiZband.com
I could choose not to do anything today, what good would that do me...
So here I am at Week 5 and this 'aint no jive,' tryin' to stay alive...I got's ta get it right.
Well I've had a mailing list for about ten years now...maybe a little less...I dunno,...all I know is I should have well over a thousand people on it by now, but I don't,so I'm completely open to suggestions...and some of Ariel's I have been using already...I've had contests and all sorts of interation with my fiZ fanZ, BUT...who are they?...how old are they? etc.etc....well,here's another tricky area for me,...I have fanZ of all ages....Sixteen year old girls & boys,Moms and their kids...I would say women tend to big my biggest fans..I would say allot of my fans know that I have a passion to help others through my organization "Notes For Life",by doing fundraisers and performing for children in need,so that is a big part of my focus...my newest episode of fiZTV has me interviewing a mother and her son Anthony who is blind and sings(and now learning the piano)...so,that's the direction I'm going in with fiZTV.
There are areas I really want to improve on in this area...For one,I think my writing skills are of weak (strange for a songwriter ,eh?). I have a layout I use with my banner on top ,but I need a more professional looking email templete...ok...I'm reading Week 6 right now....there's no doubt that I'm going to need to back trace my steps and go over these weeks,but I feel it's best to keep moving on instead of getting overwelmed....so I'm off to see the Wizard!....Until next time...I wish you...
peace.luv.music.
fiZ
www.fiZband.com
Monday, January 4, 2010
Week 4 : Blogging & Podcasting
Ok,so here I am at week 4 and I feel more overwhelmed then ever before.
I started this contest with the hope that I had a chance at possibly winning this contest...I no longer feel that way at all...if anything, I would say this confirms my feelings about having a team to help me. I'm sooo lost with this blogging thing...I haven't even been able to find a blog ...except Brooklyn Vegan...but even that is not the right vibe for me....I write very Pop/Rock mainstream sounding tunes...the kind of music that would be totally shunned on by the artsy fartsy community where many have the mentality that if you write songs with commercial appeal ,your a sellout...or perhaps not a true artist...I've been around...I know what I know...I know that couldn't be further from the truth in my case,which is why I'm not crazy about this whole spend 5 hours a day to promote myself thing..because the truth is ,I'd rather be doing what I do...and that's working on MY craft...It's easy to say,you have to do this blogging thing to promote yourself ,otherwise no one will know who you are...I get that...the thing is...it takes many hours in a day to be effective at your craft...I feel COMPLETELY out of MY element...I entered the river in week one...week 2 I started moving around...week 3 the current started getting stronger...and week 4 is forcing me to swim upstream...seems to go against things I've learned in life on how to be successful...If it's work you don't like to do and your not good at doing it...then how can you be successful at doing it?....The answer is simple....you can't...but I will continue with the contest because ,...well for one thing,....I'm not a quitter ...so on to week 5...which is tricky because I'm still overwhelmed with week 4....OK anyway...see ya next week....until then ,I wish you...and myself...
peace.luv.music.
fiZ
I started this contest with the hope that I had a chance at possibly winning this contest...I no longer feel that way at all...if anything, I would say this confirms my feelings about having a team to help me. I'm sooo lost with this blogging thing...I haven't even been able to find a blog ...except Brooklyn Vegan...but even that is not the right vibe for me....I write very Pop/Rock mainstream sounding tunes...the kind of music that would be totally shunned on by the artsy fartsy community where many have the mentality that if you write songs with commercial appeal ,your a sellout...or perhaps not a true artist...I've been around...I know what I know...I know that couldn't be further from the truth in my case,which is why I'm not crazy about this whole spend 5 hours a day to promote myself thing..because the truth is ,I'd rather be doing what I do...and that's working on MY craft...It's easy to say,you have to do this blogging thing to promote yourself ,otherwise no one will know who you are...I get that...the thing is...it takes many hours in a day to be effective at your craft...I feel COMPLETELY out of MY element...I entered the river in week one...week 2 I started moving around...week 3 the current started getting stronger...and week 4 is forcing me to swim upstream...seems to go against things I've learned in life on how to be successful...If it's work you don't like to do and your not good at doing it...then how can you be successful at doing it?....The answer is simple....you can't...but I will continue with the contest because ,...well for one thing,....I'm not a quitter ...so on to week 5...which is tricky because I'm still overwhelmed with week 4....OK anyway...see ya next week....until then ,I wish you...and myself...
peace.luv.music.
fiZ
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