Artist Growth - any opinions?

[neilmct]

I am helping my daughter Briagha go pro as a singer/songwriter. She's starting to play more, solo acoustic. We bought an awesome little PA that fits in the Corolla. Her website is running, Facebook, Twitter and we have a couple of songs for sale online. We are starting to design merch and get her email list going.

I got a link for Artist Growth from a Bob Baker interivew and it looks really good - especially for people starting out and are totally DIY. The scheduling tools are especially impressive to me as they seem to be a template and guide you to do things, like schedule press releases, in a manner to support your gig with effective lead times. This, to me, is stuff you only would otherwise learn how to schedule the hard way - through missed deadlines and opportunities - or have done for you by a manager ($$$). It also seems to be a central place to manage merchandise and finances, complete with analytical tools. It also seems to be able to run on an iPhone, which is incredibly cool as I don't always have my laptop with me on the road and also share the app with others on the team, which is great for transparency. Has anybody used it? Is it for real and reliable?

https://www.artistgrowth.com

Thanks for any and all help! See you at the Rally!

[neilmct]

Hmmm. Looking at the number of views without a response perhaps other people want to know more about Artist Growth as well. I wonder if they will be at the rally. I wouldn't mind a hands on demonstration.

[hummingbird]

I checked out the site, it says to sign up by email and they'll let you know when it goes live. Meaning, no one's using it yet. Looks impressive, but what's the cost, and maybe it's wise to wait until it's up and running before making a decision?

[neilmct]

Actually, it was released on January 17th of this year.
http://arielpublicity.com/2012/01/24/mu ... st-growth/

There are reviews for it on itunes app store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/artist- ... d491732863

I posted here because I don't trust reviews at mass sites. I wanted to see if any Taxi members are using it and what their experiences are.

Your recommendation of waiting until it is released refers to version 2.0 of the program. The program is currently on version 1.09. Thanks for replying though.