Comments on: SpamSpace http://www.bandbo.com/blog/archives/19 blogbo: just nonsense Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: admin http://www.bandbo.com/blog/archives/19#comment-7 admin Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:48:28 +0000 http://www.bandbo.com/blog/archives/19#comment-7 I totally agree, it is the most efficient way to connect with people. I was more pissed off this morning because the spam has tripled in the past week and I have to sift through tons of crap to get to valid messages/friend requests from bands and artists. Thanks for commenting though, especially when the blog today has no useful resources in it. :-) I totally agree, it is the most efficient way to connect with people. I was more pissed off this morning because the spam has tripled in the past week and I have to sift through tons of crap to get to valid messages/friend requests from bands and artists.
Thanks for commenting though, especially when the blog today has no useful resources in it. :-)

]]> By: William http://www.bandbo.com/blog/archives/19#comment-6 William Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:10:56 +0000 http://www.bandbo.com/blog/archives/19#comment-6 MySpace is one of those necessary evils for small bands out there. We hate all the spam, BS, and excess, but it harbors a hungry audience right within our target demographic. We make better connections sending targetted friend requests and messages (i.e. not using bots) to people on MySpace than we do playing gigs. Is it because we suck live? Based on the feedback we've gotten on our live show I don't think so (thanks mom!). Seriously, the few strangers we do meet at our live shows often buy our CD and talk to us. But this isn't the 80s or 90s anymore, there are so many activities for people to do besides listen to live music. And there are so many mediocre acts out there, why would most people who aren't scenesters waste their time going to check out unknown live bands? The answer is they don't. We have to sell them first on MySpace with personal connections and then they listen to our music and decide for themselves. The point being as long as there are hundreds of millions of people age 18 - 28 on MySpace, it will continue to be a cost effective way to reach people. We've tried flyers, free live shows, free demo CDs, but none of it has gotten as good a response as simply talking to people on MySpace - which costs us nothing but our time. MySpace is one of those necessary evils for small bands out there. We hate all the spam, BS, and excess, but it harbors a hungry audience right within our target demographic. We make better connections sending targetted friend requests and messages (i.e. not using bots) to people on MySpace than we do playing gigs. Is it because we suck live? Based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our live show I don’t think so (thanks mom!). Seriously, the few strangers we do meet at our live shows often buy our CD and talk to us.

But this isn’t the 80s or 90s anymore, there are so many activities for people to do besides listen to live music. And there are so many mediocre acts out there, why would most people who aren’t scenesters waste their time going to check out unknown live bands? The answer is they don’t. We have to sell them first on MySpace with personal connections and then they listen to our music and decide for themselves.

The point being as long as there are hundreds of millions of people age 18 - 28 on MySpace, it will continue to be a cost effective way to reach people. We’ve tried flyers, free live shows, free demo CDs, but none of it has gotten as good a response as simply talking to people on MySpace - which costs us nothing but our time.

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