- The Stir band
- Orange Community band
- New Life band
- The King Bees
- The Rogue Blues band
- Johnathan Singleton
- Ryan Montbleau band
- Greg Luttrell
- Bruce Bears
- Strict9
- Chuck Regto
The sites above replaced current sites that were listed as a free promotion. The webmasters failed to sign up for their free promotion. Also, as new rule "Myspace" sites are secondary to professionally hosted dot com or dot net sites. So most of the myspace sites will be phased out. Why? They generally load to slow and bog down our traffic timer. Myspace webmasters do not seem to control thier site's heaviness as they allow "auto play media" and comments that have heavy graphics. Myspace webmasters that control their site will most likely be able to stay on the SFLM rotation. That said, we are asking our members who have myspace sites to ad another site URL (the band's main site) and use myspace as a back up in case their site goes down.
As far as marketing your band, It is suggested that you use a dot.com or .net site hosted by professional server or your own. Telling your fans to go to myspace is like a business telling their prospects to find them in the yellow pages rather than handing them a business card with thier phone number on it. Why send your current fans to a site that has a million other bands to distract their attention. Always, refer the main site if you have one. Use services like myspace or even SFLM for that matter to find new fans that you would not otherwise reach.
It is important to note the difference between a service like SFLM and a social site though. SFLM is a specific service and that is to promote local music in a defined market in a specific geograghic area. SFLM is some what like a radio station except that we play "websites" and like radio listeners our viewers (also known as surfers) come to surf for new content and perhaps win a prize or two. They also surf to gain credits so they can use these credits to promote their own site. It is a perpetual networking community. The biggest contributors are those who surf and promote for free while our also important supporters pay for ads and call it a day. But even those folks must surf at least 50 sites per month to contribute to the surfing network. This is only 12.5 sites per week!
Some folks abuse our system. especially on our "Auto Surf" network. One particualr member is currently racking up up to 1500 hits per day. We would not mind so much if he or she was actually looking at the ads. This person is going to work while leaving the computor on and allowing it to Auto surf our network. Hmmm....I'm working on this one. We call this abuse. I don't like to lose members so the task here is to communicate proper surf etiquette and to educate proper marketing techniques as well as to inform new marketing techniques.
Glen_P @ EccentricMusician.com
