First off I'd like to thank everyone that signed up to SFLM in the past few months, musicians, bands, music fans, fan site owners and our advertisers. As the site is about to be updated we're reaching our goal of 200 band and musician sites from the New England area. We will have a total close to 500 ads in the networks prior to our public release. It is important to note that not all of these sites are claimed by their owners.
Discovering New Sites:
As the site owner and moderator I found that by discovering new music sites each month, is great way to keep the networks fresh with new sites for our music fans to discover. If the site owner does not claim the free advertisement spot of their URL I will simply replace it with a new one. Yesterday I did this very thing and 12 Myspace sites were replaced by semi pro and professional music sites. As you may already know "Myspace" Music Profiles are no longer allowed on our networks as they proved to take up to much time to moderate in keeping the networks family oriented and from keeping the site's clock from freezing up due to large graphic files.
Side note; In my opinion, I think Myspace is great for attracting new fans outside of your geographic area. Other the other hand I'd advise any band to have their own professional site to refer their close fans to or just simply run an e-mail and/or USPS fan mail campaign to stay in touch.
Now here is a benefit to using SFLM as an alternative; Many people now shy away from signing up to another e-mail list in fear of an overage of in box email clutter and spam. SFLM offers a safe way for fans to receive your e-mail through our system without "you" the artist knowing their e-mail address. The best part is that they can always have the option to sign up to your direct e-mail list when they feel more comfortable to do so. Right now SFLM uses our referral system for this task but soon our site will be updated and we will have the expanded e-mail options. You can either use your referal links on our promote SFLM page now or wait until we update the site and give you a detailed plan on how to best take advantage of what SFLM has to offer.
FREE Ad Spots on SFLM:
If you have received an email (a month ago or longer) from me telling you that your site has been added to our rotation chances are it is gone by now if you did not sign up and take control over managing the Ad. All is not lost though because you can sign up and just enter your URL address. Remember, an "Ad" on SFLM refers to a URL, banners (two sizes) and text ads.
SFLM is not a set and forget system:
I think some site owners think that all they have to do is place their URL in our system and then forget about it. Nothing could be furthur from the truth. This is a Network and Networking any business takes effort. Things on your to do list include; communicating, assigning credits to ads from your total balance and surfing the network to gain credits (or buying credits).
Why become a Paid SFLM network member:
For just $8.97 you can subscribe to SFLM monthly (by the month it is $9.97) and be a "Semi-Pro" SFLM member. Here is what you get;
- Place up to 5 URLs in the system!
- Manual surfing is every 7 seconds @ .6o credit ratio (see our pricing page for more info.)
- 10% bonus for sign up
- *Email you referal line every 20 days
- Upon Signup: 200 Credits
- Monthly; Free auto credits: 200 Free manual credits: 200 Paid-to credits: 20
- SFLM pays you 5% if your referal becomes a paid member.
* See our pricing page for the most acurate up to date information.
This is a great way to support the network!
Surf For Local Music focuses on the New England area. By sending your fans to us all of the bands in the network share this warm market (live music fans living in the area). Your not selling out by any means. By having a close knit networking list of fans to market your music to, creates a powerfull promotion machine. We will soon be updating our site and will be launching our site publicly to the "L.ive music fans of New England". Untill then use our system to rack up the credits (keep your assigned credits on the low side- say 50 to 75) so upon our release you will take advantage of the exposure.
That's it folks for today! Make sure you surf the site's networks (4) today to gain some credits in each one while discover some great new sites of musicians, bands and music pros to network with.
Sincerely, Glen @ SFLM
