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Fan Goldmines

Post by CarvinAbuser » Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:14 am

Hello friends at Taxi,

I'm a guitarist/singer with The Fabrockators. I thought it would be helpful to list websites that allow you to obtain fans relatively easy with little or no money. I used to friend people on Myspace but I stopped after the redesign, now I'm friending people on YouTube. I still haven't completely figured out how to use Facebook. Any other site suggestions? Thanks

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Post by mojobone » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:56 pm

The Straight Stuff; Roots, Rock & Soul

http://twangfu.wordpress.com
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Post by anne » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:31 am

Another way is to build a good interesting properly configured web site and properly optimize it , promote it, and use all of the search based techniques that I teach people (how is that for a plug...) just like you would for any business.

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Post by mojobone » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:37 am

The Straight Stuff; Roots, Rock & Soul

http://twangfu.wordpress.com
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Post by CarvinAbuser » Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:15 pm

Thanks for the replies.

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Post by kclements » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:10 pm

You can check out Headliner.fm

I have had some success getting through, but not a lot of new fans. But I think the more you work it, the more it works for you. Also, if you have a genre that is more represented by other artists, you may have better luck.

Soundcloud.com also has some interesting social networking features going on.

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Post by CarvinAbuser » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:11 pm

Hey Kayle, thanks for the info. I did some reasearch on Headliner.fm and I found this article that talks about a flaw in the site but I'm not really sure what the author is trying to say about how to work around the flaw. Any ideas?

http://www.digitalvegetarian.com/ways-t ... ic/302780/

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Re: Fan Goldmines

Post by mojobone » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:37 pm

Here's a new beta that may prove useful for facebook fan page promotion:

http://www.damntheradio.com/
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