Yourself, or a gignight, label etc?

I want one!

I've sent you a private message. :)

damn underscore being next to closebrackets

www.myspace.com/parisriots <<<<<no underscore!

the problem is maintaining plays, on certain days they'll be hundreds and the next day it appears no was is interested. Maybe they'd heard enough. I would definitely recommend flyers or badges to give out at live gigs, and sticking your myspace on it, has worked for us in the past.

To be honest i don't EVER click on bulletins any more, so i'm not sure if that's the way forward.

www.myspace.com/subrosauk

;D

You're a moron.

i know loads of people will disagree but if you actively don't want to play a certain gig night because you're 99% certain no-one will watch/care just don't do it - it'll just be a waste of your own money (travelling etc) and effort.

send out lots of messages to promoters you like and to gig nights you like attending yourself and they might put you on - hopefully people will like you and come and listen on myspace.

....i did this thing around new year when i posted a bulletin saying i would write a song a day, video it and post in on my blog on the day.
The songs had to be from ideas posted by people on the blog.... i got soooooooo many views and nearly 200 people sending in ideas.... even made it into the manchester evening news

crazy!

x

you write bulletins pretty often though. Do you do that to get more plays? Don't more people see the bulletins than see the reviews?

im not. music, and playing music with my friends is the most important thing in the world to me. so dont say that.

I didn't really think you were obsessed with plays. The only good thing about the play counter is that it gives a very, very rough idea of how many are listening. Only you don't know how they got to your page, whether it's one person listening a lot, loads listening once and buggering off never to return, or whether you've got 20-odd people checking your page once a month looking for new material. It's worth bearing in mind that plays aren't counted until most/all of a track has played, which means someone listening to the first 20 seconds of a track won't register. Which is another reason to give them something to read - it'll keep them on the page longer. Change your content often - it's what keeps people coming back.

Use google analytics on your own site and you'll get all this - where they came from, how long they stay, whether they're new users, where they're based. You can use this info to tweak your site - if people aren't coming back maybe you need to write something more interesting, if most referals are coming from facebook then you can concentrate efforts there or if someone has linked to you in a blog you can follow it up. And if you're getting a lot of hits from Manchester maybe it'd be a good time get a gig there.

You need to do everything you can to maintain a relationship with people who like your music. That means writing personal 'thank you's to people who contact you in any way - leave it in there comments section, but NOT a standard 'thanks for the add' and HUGE banner - and follow it up from time to time to remind them you exist, mailing lists, mobile text lists, offer to send out free stuff (which could just be artwork, demos, videos or anything else that can be downloaded). Anything to prompt people to think about you.

I've got bands I've added to friends, bookmarked their page and then forgotten all about them until I stumble across them while looking for another bookmark. They never replied to my complementary comment, never followed up at a later date, never asked if I'd like to be on a mailing list or even offered the opportunity to add myself. And just looking at one of these bands pages, there doesn't seem to be much different so not much of an incentive for me to go back in a hurry. A wasted opportunity for them to pick up a potential fan who'd actively sought out their page.