Marketing Musician

Want more views to you YouTube videos here is a quick tip. 1. Do a search for the topic of your video. 2. Find the most popular video of that search result. 3. Look at the tags for that video and use the same tags. 4. Now when people watch the popular video, you have a better chance of having your video show up as a related video.   Man Your Website Sucks! Thanks to Hue Patrice of http://rockaixpress.com point out that http://bigtroubless.angelfire.com/ "Man that website sucks!" Stumble Upon To Promote Your Music I was reading an  Article at the CDBaby DIY Podcast site, and it turns out "The Bolt" is a StumbleUpon addict. I've heard that StumbleUpon brings you traffic, but it doesn't give you quality traffic. As most people are coming to judge your website (not sit and listen). It is addicting. You may find interesting things such as How to hijack a street sign.  With this mind, I throw this out to you. have you had any quality visitors from StumbleUpon? If I was submitting my website to StumbleUpon, I would make a page where people can listen to my music and hope that the music makes them stick around.

I had signed up for a merchant account for my Internet business and got taken to the cleaners. It seemed like every time my authorize.net account sneezed it cost me 20 bucks. I was getting bills for 60 and 70 dollars for processing credit card payments (there were some nice orders, but especially American Express charges were getting ridiculous). I have spoken about Square Up in the Past and Now I heard about Intuit offering a system to take credit card payments from your phone. There is a catch here. You get a good deal if you swipe the card. This is great for gigs, but if you need to key in the card, it may be more profitable to send them an invoice via PayPal and let them pay that with their credit card. Here are services mentioned in this episode GoPayment from Intuit 2.70 if swiped, 3.7 if entered manually. Square Up 2.75 for swipe and 3.5 +.15 for manually entered. Check Your Tweets with Crowd Booster Tired of complex monitoring software? Quickly identify your most effective messages - drill down to see the impact of each Tweet and Facebook post. Their technology suggests who you should engage with and how to improve the content and timing for your messages. The more you use Crowd booster, the smarter their suggestions get. For more information go to crowdbooster.com Hello A Show They call themselves the Craig's List for bands and venues. I'm a little uneasy that this is built on "Google Sites"... You may want to check it out.