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		<title>Market Your Band Using Social Media</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you are in a band and all sorts of your members embrace social networking being a promotional platform on your music. By having an online presence already established on social media websites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Purevolme, you carry on and post, tweet, update, and comment. Unfortunately, you are finding the results [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thefriendsterlayouts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bd.jpg"><img class="alignright  wp-image-296" src="http://www.thefriendsterlayouts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bd.jpg" alt="bd Market Your Band Using Social Media" width="230" height="152" title="Market Your Band Using Social Media" /></a>So, you are in a band and all sorts of your members embrace social networking being a promotional platform on your music. By having an online presence already established on social media websites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Purevolme, you carry on and post, tweet, update, and comment.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you are finding the results you would expect. Nobody is considering your MySpace, Facebook, etc., nobody is sharing your music web-sites, and nobody is buying your merch. In addition to the only thing that, it&#8217;s always the exact same group of friends and small amount of fans that attend your shows. So exactly what is the problem? Well, your band probably doesn&#8217;t have something unique to supply, does not function effective technique of marketing, or both.</p>
<p>Social networking is a powerful marketing strategy not until you know how to use it. Sending countless spam messages and friend requests isn&#8217;t a good way to advertise your band. To be a fellow musician and friend to many independent bands, listed here are some hints that I&#8217;ve go to learn, which can help your band effectively and efficiently use advertising and marketing to market your band.</p>
<p>Engage. Advertising and marketing depends upon connecting and emailing others. Use Twitter and Facebook to activate along with your fans on a deeper level. Don&#8217;t just release content. You have to create interaction, participation, and involvement. Become familiar with who your fans are and<br />
allow them to learn more about you. But try to remember to keep a private feel instead of make use of online community purely as a promotional tool.</p>
<p>Increase awareness. Clearly, your band&#8217;s goal for using social websites is usually to spread your music to as numerous ears as you can. However, this may not propose that you place up accounts to countless advertising and marketing websites you might find. Instead, focus your time and efforts over a few. You should manage to increase your impact and awareness to those communities. Furthermore, when designing content, update it regularly with timely information.<span id="more-295"></span></p>
<p>Start networking. Social media marketing sites just like MySpace and Purevolume permit you to find other bands that share things that resembles your band. By networking with a number of artists or perhaps an indie music scene to suit your band&#8217;s identity, genre, or style, it&#8217;ll certainly benefit your<br />
band. The bands with your scene can share fans, promote one another, and are members of something bigger, an online community with shared common tastes and interests.</p>
<p>Generate traffic. Creating content articles are crucial in getting the band on the market. A lot more content you generate, the additionally likely persons are to discover your music. By linking your sites and advertising your band, shows, and music on each channel, your band can benefit from<br />
traffic generation.</p>
<p>Measure success. Tracking your web 2 . 0 recovery rate with Band Metrics is a good solution to know if you do a good job to promote and advertising your band online. Built only for musicians, Band Metrics can look at the way your fans connect to your band and content. Consequently, your band receives valuable information with the your fans react to.</p>
<p>Overall, there&#8217;s not one specific formula that works for everybody. Advertising and marketing is required for numerous reasons as well as how it is used are different from others. However, by using the information proposed, and also maintaining a commitment for your strategy and goals, you may effectively use social media marketing to showcase your band.</p>
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		<title>Friendster or Facebook: anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online community enthusiasts are now turned between two sites, Friendster and Facebook. These two giant networking sites are like battling out for popularity contest. However, it seems like our first love, Friendster, which by the way is still the biggest social networking site in the Philippines, is losing the battle to the newbie, Facebook. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><a href="/wp-content/uploads/cc/friendster11.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="friendster" src="/wp-content/uploads/cc/friendster11.jpg" alt="friendster11 Friendster or Facebook: anyone?" width="145" height="105" /></a>The online community enthusiasts are now turned between two sites, Friendster and Facebook. These two giant networking sites are like battling out for popularity contest. However, it seems like our first love, Friendster, which by the way is still the biggest social networking site in the Philippines, is losing the battle to the newbie, Facebook. So whats so appealing to Facebook that makes us be unfaithful to our first love friendster?</p>
<p>In the US and other parts of the world, Facebook is the dominant networking site. People are amazed with its user-friendliness. Its features are said to be very accessible enough to play around the site with the countless applications and tools to enjoy. The applications are also very interactive so there are a lot of things that can be done your with friends. It also allows you to track more friends than Friendster. No wonder why it has been really fast to catch-up in the Philippines. So has Friendster really lost the battle against Facebook? Is it really true that it is dying a slow death?</p>
<p>Friendster is now trying to catch up with Facebook as it is drawing near to the path taken by the latter. It will just be a matter of time before it will eventually match Facebook. Besides, it is still the icon of social networking in the Philippines and in Asia. The people still adores its simplicity and fun features. If Friendster will be successful, it will rise again and it might well be on its way to becoming the major competitor of Facebook.</p>
<p>Well, it wouldnt really matter in the end who wins the popularity contest. What always matter to the online community is what site gives them the things that are important to them. Being close to family and friends no matter how far they really are, is the main reason why sites like Facebook and Friendster are made, they should truly serve their purpose in everyway possible.</p>
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		<title>Friendster &#8211; Popular Social Networking Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almir Dizdarevic asked: Like Myspace, Friendster is another popular social networking website founded by Jonathan Abrams in Mountain View, California. The techniques, on which this privately-owned social networking site is based, are mainly Circle of Friends and Web of Friends. Using those techniques, individuals are joined in a network of virtual communities. As per the [...]]]></description>
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<div><em><strong>Almir Dizdarevic</strong> asked: </em><br/><br/><br/>Like Myspace, Friendster is another popular social networking website founded by Jonathan Abrams in Mountain View, California. The techniques, on which this privately-owned social networking site is based, are mainly Circle of Friends and Web of Friends. Using those techniques, individuals are joined in a network of virtual communities. As per the latest record, the network has 50 million registered users. Friendster has a traditional Chinese site too, existing as a part of the main Friendster URL. The users of Friendster can also have video pages in their profiles from various sources like YouTube, Grouper, Sharkle, and many other video sites.<br/><br/>The site is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#038; Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and individual investors. The main aim of Friendster is to help the users to keep in touch with old friends while getting new friends of same wavelength. People of the age of 18 and above choose to register with Friendster to get in touch with friends, family, school, groups, activities and interests. Friendster is popular because it delivers a clean, user-friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world. There are websites where one can find several customized Friendster layouts and Friendster background that he or she can use in his or her own profile. Along with these, Friendster also offers customization layout and background for the users that make the site more attractive to the users as well as the viewers.<br/><br/>Friendster also boasts of a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking. Friendster was awarded with a patent in 2006 based on its 16th June 2003 application of a method and apparatus of calculating and displaying on social network. The system that is effective in the network is a combination of Circle of Friends and Web of Contacts. It collects descriptive data about several individuals and also points out other persons with whom they share personal relationships. The descriptive data and the relationship data are integrated and processed to reveal the series of social relationships with which any two individuals within a social network is connected. The users can even see the pathway that connects two individuals. A user can also determine the optimal relationship path with which he/she reaches the desired individual. There is also a communication tool with which a person in the system is introduced and can have direct communication.<br/><br/>Friendster is considered to be one of the top online social networks and was, in fact, the most popular of its kind for quite sometimes; until the market was divided after the arrival of Myspace and it overtook Friendster as far as page viewing is concerned. Recently, the social networking websites have been facing competitions from some other networks of its kind like Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook and newer sites like hi5. Google offered $30,000,000 to buy out Friendster in 2003, but the authorities turned down the offer. Associated Press claims that the rejection is often considered as one of the biggest blunders in the Silicon Valley.<br/><br/><br/><br/></div>
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