Summary: Special thanks to Rich Palmer for pointing out a new tool called "Artist Growth." I"ll be checking it out, if you have any experience with it please let me know. You can use the voicemail button on the right, or leave a comment below. Check out the Artist Growth Youtube Channel. Rich read about it on American Songwriter. Here is what Rich said about it: "I was reading American Songwriter magazine when I came across an advertisement for the "Aritst Growth" app and account. It looks like a nice full featured service that artists might want to explore. It integrates many of the tasks that they should already be doing into one place -- including social media announcements from their calendar, tracking of merch sales/inventory, taxes/accounting/income, and connecting to industry pros. There's a section called "AGtv" that provides videos straight to the phone (or web) of insight and advice from many music industry pros. Looks like a cool service; perhaps something to share on Marketing Musician. According to the FAQ: Sign up before March 18, 2012 and receive a year for free. After that, you can sign up for a 30 day free trial before it becomes $5 per month, which you can totally avoid paying if you sign a friend up via our referral rewards program. So, based on the final sentence from that FAQ, here's a referral link. I signed up to explore it, but haven't started integrating much. http://www.artistgrowth.com/rb7426 Keep rockin'! Rich richpalmer.com Getting Clicky Real Time Statistics I had hread about Clicky, but had not used them. I was pleased to see there is a plugin that makes it super easy to apply the code to my website, and within SECONDS I was getting real time stats in my Clicky dashboard. I could see what brought people to the site, where they came from, what pages they visited. It's insane, and it's FREE for 100,000 daily impressons over three websites. It's definitely worth looking at. There is even a "SPY" section where you can see exactly wehre anyone on your site is doing. Cool. If you're not using Wordpress you can still use them. They have plugins for just about every platfrorm (or just manually add their tracking code). This is very cool. If you need more impresisons (or websites) the price is 9.95 a month.
