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Hey Smook! Welcome to Songstuff

As an anecdote don't pick names that ultimately lead to disappointment. For example, you might think calling your band "Free Beer" would ensure packed venues publicising "Free beer tonight"... but you can only imaging how annoyed the audience would be when they found out lol

Hey Nana K, welcome to Songstuff!

Hey gang Ok, we have invented a time travel device. We have managed to arrange a dream tour playing anywhere, any when, with anybody.... you could be with the Stones at Altamont, or the Doors on the debut TV performance, Beethoven premiering Moonlight sonata in Vienna, hell even Adam and the Ants performing Stand and Deliver, or Blondie recording Picture this, Lou Reed on the Transformer tour or Van Halen performing Jump, or Nirvana's break through single, Smells Like Teen Spirit..... You only get 3 actual events. You are just added to the line up...... Who would be on your list? Where? What would you be playing? Why that person at that event, playing that song? Cheers John

Hi gang I am planning to write a blog post or article about picking your artiste name. I have my ideas, and what I know from a variety of research, but .I thought it a good idea to ask you, our members, what you think. As a prompt: Do you have recommendations for generating potential names? Tools? Film or book titles? Headlines? Lines from poems? Words in a hat? What has worked for you? How do you qualify potential titles? What tests do they need to pass? What would cause an instant fail? What makes a good name? What makes a name memorable? Are there any other dos and don'ts? Cheers John

Hey Toby Welcome aboard!

Sings.... "Hello, again, hello...."

Hi and welcome to Songstuff

Hi and welcome to Songstuff John

Sounds like a cunning plan! lol

You could always review it... lol

It is also available on iPhone

Hi Joe, Welcome to Songstuff

How are you getting on with retirement Rudi?

Hey Stefan, you're in the right place! Welcome aboard.

Tours were loss leaders, promotional activity for albums. No album out, no tour. There were of course exceptions to this, but the common scenario was that tours did not make money.

Hi Rem, Welcome to Songstuff!

Hey Paul Welcome to Songstuff! Good to have you aboard

I will go out on a limb and say... you could be a Casio fan? Welcome to Songstuff

You can post songs to the Musician's lounge, if you are just looking for promo, or to the critique boards if you are looking for, eh, critique! lol Usually I would recommend uploading to Soundcloud or another similar site and then posting your links back on Songstuff. In the case of Soundcloud it will embed their player.

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Hi Gang I am looking to recruit 10-20 people to act as the Street Team for the Music Marketing Research Group (MMRG). This number may fluctuate depending on need. The MMRG is made up of selected members who are planning to release an EP or album with accompanying singles, or implement a rolling single model where the artiste doesn't release larger collections of songs, only individual songs. The intention is that this group will try new and existing methods of online and real world marketing and promotion. This will benefit the artistes involved, members of the street team, the broader community and site visitors. We aim to pool knowledge about what exactly works and why. We can then use that info within articles, reference and training materials, produce templates, forms, and spreadsheets. We can build a knowledge base that will benefit the whole site, and especially the members involved, gaining experience of performing the tasks necessary for modern music marketing and promotion. We aim to be fully involved with MMRG members from specifying goals, formats, strategies and tactics, throughout the lifecycle of their music releases. The MMRG Street Team will ideally be members who plan to release their own music in a more effective way and want to gain experience helping with active projects. Members will act as a team supporting MMRG efforts, learning to coordinate marketing and promotion efforts. We will be using established techniques, but also looking to be creative and innovative in what we do. Some techniques and timings will be more effective than others. Learning largely relies upon using metrics to measure accurately the effect of every action we take within a campaign. If you would be interested in joining this group, please send me a PM, clearly marked "MMRG street team application.", outlining why you would be suitable as a team member. We would be looking for you to make a commitment to be an active team member. Exact time will vary, but as an average expect 1-3 hours per week. Initially some training tasks should be expected, and in some cases the creation of social media and blog accounts on a range of networks. We will not ask you to do something unethical. In terms of content, we would aim to provide exact text and images for you to post on most occasions, and relatively tight guidelines on anything you would author yourself. You would be expected to grow your social media presence on each network, focusing on target listeners and potential fans. If if you would be willing to do some things but not others please say so when you apply. While that can be restrictive I appreciate that each of you is different. Just because you are unwilling to do some tasks does not mean you cannot be a member of the street team working on the tasks you are comfortable with. I would however stress that among the aims of this group, is you building skills and experience by durect activity on tasks that could be useful to you when marketing and promoting your own material. I look forward to hearing from you. Cheers John