How the power of Leo Laporte can help your band!

Ok, so maybe not Leo Laporte specifically, but getting plugs from higher profile people on the internet can help drive traffic to your band’s website. Now that you are all hooked up with Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, FriendFeed, and your band’s official blog, you need to drive traffic to it. However, be very careful on how you do this. It can hurt your reputation if you are too pushy or make yourself look like a spammer.

Now many of you may know that my wife does a blog about really cheesy b grade movies called QueenOfCheese.com. Well, she has been having a heck of a time trying to get her Webalizer stats to line up with her Google Analytics stats. It was driving us both nuts that Google was saying she had half the traffic that the internal server stats were claiming. We have called Leo’s live show The Tech Guy twice and both times we were able to narrow down the problem a little more. We now are pretty sure that no matter what anyone tells you, Google Analytics should be taken with a massively huge grain of salt. Always trust the internal server stats more. Keep both, but don’t be discouraged by what Google Analytics claims. It’s pretty buggy. Now let me make this very clear, the main goal was to get a question answered. However, we had a bonus prize. When the website was mentioned my wife had hundreds of extra visitors that day. On a weekend no less, which is normally one of the slowest days of the week!

Now the key thing to remember is that no matter if you are going on a tech show like The Tech Guy, a metal show like Talking Metal, or a morning talk show like The Howard Stern Show, don’t be a massive plug machine. You better not come off like the plug is the main reason you are there or you might not be invited back. It also might make people not take the bait if they think you are just a low life spammer. You must respect the goal of the show and what their listeners expect to hear. When I call Leo Laporte I take weeks to make sure my question is something that will help tons of his listeners. My wife’s site uses a CMS called Word Press. It is one of the most popular content management systems available. So I am pretty sure that my question was able to help, inform, and entertain hundreds of other people. So Leo shouldn’t block me next time I come on. That’s the goal at least to show him and his fans the respect they deserve.

How to get on these shows? Well, Leo is a call in show. So you just call in like anyone else. It’s a long wait and will take up several hours of your Saturday or Sunday. Talking Metal is on Twitter, they have email, and even have forums. Try them all, but make sure and include links where they can find your music easy. Those two don’t have a ton of time these days. Most morning talk shows have call in segments all the time and there is nothing like a local band giving a plug on a local morning talk show. If done right this can be a major help to your band. Again, respect their show and the show will respect you.

I hope to get my live show back on the air again soon too. If you ever want to come on my show please by all means contact me! I am all about helping others. That’s the whole point. Isn’t it?