So how can you gain a ton of Twitter followers without blind following?
Find lists of metalheads
I have talked before about how you shouldn’t just blind follow people on Twitter. The reasons are many and you will have to go back to that article to check that out. So how do you get a ton of followers without blind following? Well, if you are a metal band, fan, record company, online radio station, journalist, or whatever else, you want to find other people that care about metal. The first thing you do is find a list of metal fans. There are several ways to find these lists of the metal community on Twitter.
Other metalheads are “following” more metalheads
The first way is to find some people passionate about metal on Twitter. If you have at least 5 followers or are following at least 5 people you should have at least one. I’m talking about the nut jobs that live, eat, breathe, and crap metal 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There is a good chance that the people they are following are at least metalheads on some level. So just pull up their “following” list from their profile. Then start opening up tabs of each one of the profiles of the people they are following. Look at the bio they have, their user name, who they are following, and what types of messages they are sending. Most of them are going to be metalheads and you should follow them.
We Follow does have it uses
The second is to go to the metal chart on “We Follow”. Now just like with the trick above, you shouldn’t just follow every profile on the We Follow metal chart. I saw one profile of a company that made stair cases. Wanna guess what those stair cases were made of? Metal! There is also a gem and jewelry blogger. They put themselves on the metal chart with zero thought to the style of music under the same keyword. There are also some people who hate metal and put themselves into the metal category to be funny. They do it in mockery and will not help your metal band in any way. In fact they could cause problems for you. So only follow the ones who look like real metal fans.
We need more metal bloggers to rank metal Twitter users!
The third way to gain a ton of metal loving Twitter users is to find a blogger that ranks metal related profiles. To be honest I have not run into any other than myself, but if anyone knows of any let me know. Very soon I hope to post a new chart of metal and hard rock Twitter users. It could be the ones who follow the most, are followed the most, have the best ratio, bands, fans, record companies, online radio stations, journalists, or who knows what else. I suck at programing, so this will be “static” lists and will not update automatically like some of them. However, unlike the charts at places like We Follow, I won’t have a company that makes metal stair cases on the list.
Using these methods I have gained almost a thousand people. Now after a week of adding all these people though, you might want to use SocialToo to mass unfollow anyone who isn’t following you back. It costs a tiny one time fee, but it is well worth it. You don’t want your following/follower ratio to make you look like some lame spammer. People hate that. That could cause quality people to unfollow you. Good luck and by all means follow me!
As a geek I will admit that I love internet memes. I’m a huge fan of them myself. What I hate though is when people just beat them to death. It’s like re-animating a corpse just to kill it again. Let the dead rest in peace will ya?!
10. Pwnd
Sure this one works when it fits, but I find it is one of the most over used internet memes around. People use it for the tiniest little thing. “Oh you got pastrami when you wanted ham and cheese. Pwnd!” This is used by very insecure people that need any excuse to feel better about their pathetic little lives, but don’t have enough imagination to think of something original.
9. Fail
Seriously? Can you not even offer a full sentence? Everything I said about pwned can be also said about this one. It stinks of unimaginative loser. If all you can say is ‘Fail’ then you are a total failure when it comes to creating insults…you sorry excuse for your daddy’s man seed!
8. I can haz?
Ok, I will admit it. I find LOLcats to be as addictive as crack to a homeless bum, but enough with the “I can Haz…” crap. No you can’t have an original thought. That’s obvious you waste of space!
7. Rick Rolled
I’ve heard of beating a dead horse, but this has reached frightening levels. This horse was dead about a year ago. Can we please move on to something new?
6. Nom Nom Nom
Yeah I chuckled when I first saw the turtle too. But was it funny enough to be used every time someone posts what they are having for lunch on Twitter?
5. Any variation of 2 girls 1 cup
Try as I might, I was never able to watch that video for more than a few seconds. It was train wreck kind of funny for awhile, but there is so much more that can be done with poop jokes. It seems a waste to keep recycling this one.
4.Don’t Tase Me, Bro!
Like most of the items on this list, this was funny for a time. The guy who said it was an idiot. I get it. I’ve just heard it way too many times. I don’t care how funny a joke is. If you tell it enough, it gets as annoying as a Will Ferrel movie marathon.
3. O RLY?
Now you all know that I lean a little to the left, right? I understand why the spotted owl is important. That being said, this owl needs to be killed! I want to eat him on a burger cooked on a wood fire grill dripping with barbecue sauce. There are tons of things you can say without being another douchebag re-hashing this one stupid line. Seriously? Or how about ‘If you think that you ride the short bus’ or even ‘Don’t make me hit you’. All you have to do is think. I know that is asking a lot, but I know you can do it.
2. Chris Crocker references
“Leave ____ alone” has gotten really out of control. If you did a parody on this after the first month or two fine. Chris deserved to be made fun of. The problem is that people just don’t seem to know when the joke is well past it’s due date.
1. Susan Boyle
Come on people! You do know that footage was totally staged and edited to get the planned reaction, right? You were all punked and you continue to be punked. She wasn’t THAT great. If a hot chick had the same voice no one would have even noticed.
Now I want to make it clear that I spelled punked the way I did for a very good reason. This has nothing to do with any show Ashton Kutcher was part of and I have been saying that since the 80′s. So that is my list. Now please feel free to post insults about me below. Just please try to use some tiny amount of imagination.
1. Fixion Media
Focused on hard rock and metal. Best if you can only afford one network and need to get to your band’s specific audience on a budget.
2. Indie Click
They cover metal, rock, punk, goth, and even horror movie fans. Great place if you get a hold of a good chunk of ad budget.
3. Blast Beat
If your band has a style that can be described as metal elitist, this is an ad network you really should check out.
4. Ultimate Metal
Just one site, but they are cheap and will give you more than your money’s worth.
5. KNAC
Another site that is not part of a network. They are a bit over priced, but they do have a following you could use if you can afford it.
6. Google Ad Words
Sure it is the largest ad network, but not at all what I would call target audience.
7. Microsoft Ad Center
This is a brand new one, but I hear great things. I hope Microsoft will challenge Google to be as good as they should have been this whole time.
8. YouTube
Yes I know they are owned by Goolge. However, I am not talking about the text ads. I am talking about that little link that says “Promote” next to videos you submit. Ever think about paying a little extra to get more eyeballs on your bands YouTube videos?
9. Stumble Upon
Did you know that you can pay to have people “stumble” on to your band’s website? The bad news is that this will burn ad dollars so quick it will make your head spin.
10. Buzz Net
I have checked out this site and it makes no sense to me. A few websites I go to claim that their ads are done by Buzz Net, but yet Buzznet seems to be it’s own webzine. So try as I might I could not figure out anything about this one. Of course I’m sure I could do some research, but I feel that if you have to contact the people to find out info then they have some issues that need to be dealt with.
So there you have it. This is the best info I have right now. Over time I will try to tweak the info I have so this can be a great resource for everyone. Ok, to be honest I really don’t care about any of you. I will keep this updated for my own purposes and if you benefit from that I really don’t care.
Just to be clear, the only ones I have used myself are most of the top 6. However, top 6 lists don’t seem to get any attention. So I added the others. I may try the others if I’m ever in a situation where I have a regular ad budget. Until then feel free to talk smack about this info in the comments.
Why does music suck now?
I think one of the most interesting questions to ask people is “What do you think is killing the music industry?” You can guess a persons answer by what category they fit into. Your standard person will almost always say that it is because music sucks now and there is only one or two good songs and a bunch of filler. But the question is why does music suck now?
Musicians have Stockholm syndrome
Why is there only one “good song” per cd anymore? The music industry falling apart is something they have been working on for a very long time. Musicians have a bad case of Stockholm syndrome and have been told that they think it’s the downloading. When I interview bands and ask this question they are unable to think beyond “you gotta stop the downloading”. Try to tell them that the cats already out of the bag and they get very flustered. Of course the music industry says the same thing since they are the ones brainwashing the artists. Internet geeks will tell you that it’s simply that video games are taking those sales. I say all of you are right, but at the same time wrong.
Greed and business vs artist development
The music industry is a business and so it is fueled by greed. You can’t blame them for this because they do this for a living and that new baby is going to need diapers. However, it is that greed that lead them to bad business decisions. Why? Because what we are talking about is art and art and business never go well together. The record companies very quickly created a formula. This was a good thing at first. This formula was to find out how to get the most sales out of the talent pool. When something was proven, they add it to the formula. This formula kept getting better and better until it was perfected. Around the 90′s this formula peaked. This formula is something I could write and entire book about so I won’t go into the details. It’s a combination of many things, but part of it is looking into the future just enough to sign an artist before that artists style becomes “the next big thing”. Soundgarden for example. They were not ready to be hit machines on that first major label cd, but the record company didn’t care. It’s called artist development. Soundgarden was given that ever important time to grow as artists.
Less artistic integrity let video games take over
Artists no longer are allowed that time to develop their craft. Even before the 360 deals started being forced on new artists, they were expected to have a hit on the first cd. This rush of the hit machine is one of the things that has cheapened the music. This has caused people to care less about music in general. This has caused music to be less of a priority for people. In about 25 years this has caused a situation where the video game industry is the bigger priority to the age group that has always been the most obsessed about music. So video games are a big part of it, but how the video games took the crown is very important to the big picture.
Artists never made a penny from cd sales
Part of what made people embrace downloading so much in the first place was the horrid percentages artists made from their work. A band can have a career of a couple decades before their first release even makes them a penny. This happens more often than not. A great majority of artists never see a penny from any of their cds. So many fans hear this and start downloading because they know their favorite band isn’t going to get any of the money anyways. Sure we can debate why this line of thinking is wrong, but the fact is that it is the perception. Their greed has lead to them losing control of the perception their customers have of them and the product they are trying to sell. That’s bad marketing and no opinion of the facts matters after that.
Your paranoia was your downfall
You also have to look at the music industries reaction to the downloading they blame for their downfall. When Napster was the hottest thing on the internet, they tried to make deals with the record companies. These deals would have been way more profitable than the ones they are currently making with iTunes, Amazon, and Wal-Mart. All they could do was freak out and shut them down. Thus training the fans to adopt it. Not because they wanted to steal, but because they obviously wanted to have their music digitally. What if your local bar only served Budwiser quality and the majority made it clear they wanted Sierra Nevada? People would find a way to get that better beer and the local bar would be screwed. People will always find a way to get what they want. Get it to them and you can take their money. Ignore their desires and your business will be dead! Now about a decade later the music industry starts making deals to sell music online. Problem is that it is full of DRM that doesn’t allow people to play the music they buy on any device they want. People are quick to notice that the illegal version is a better product. It can be played on any device. So the great majority keeps downloading illegally. This cheapens the overall image of music even more. They now have an entire generation that they have trained to dismiss music as a totally disposable thing that should just be downloaded. Even as recent as this month they have tried to shut down The Pirate Bay. Have they ever stopped to ask how this will help them? Will it stop downloading? No, it only fuels innovation to find better ways to not get caught. Instead of wasting so many resources they should be trying to find a way to use this free marketing platform to their benefit. If you work for a label, now is the time to smack yourself in the forehead and say ‘DOH’ Homer Simpson style.
It’s not your fault
Now not all the reasons for the downfall of the music industry are the fault of the music industry. Have you noticed that each generations rock stars are a little less famous. When The Beatles came out there was only rock. Pretty much every ‘young person’ listened to that one style. No metal, no punk, no industrial, just rock. Then Led Zeppelin came around and we had a couple more options. There was “hard rock” people could grab on to! The next decade gave us the beginning of metal and punk. Now we had true sub-genres. Now we have so many sub-genres of sub-genres that a band can be the undisputed kings of an entire style of music and still not be able to fill a 500 seater club. So many record sales are not even big enough to be registered by the RIAA. It’s out of vans, mail order, and tiny record companies that are too small to be members of the great overlord known as the RIAA. So when they keep releasing lower and lower numbers, the numbers that are not accurate!
Anyone can have international distro in seconds
As part of music being so spread out with sub-genres of sub-genres is the growth of technology. I can belch into a microphone on this same laptop I am typing this article out on, upload the mp3 recording of that to a service like CD BABY, buy some adds through Ad Words, and give that “CD” international distribution and marketing. I can do all this within an hour! My sales figures will not be recorded by the RIAA. So the numbers they announce are starting to look totally worthless, right? Bands with half a braincell no longer need a label at all. This is also part of what is killing the industry. Now the artists can focus on art and not have business breathing down their neck. Think this is only previously established artists like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead? Think again! There are new artists like Jonathon Colton that give everything away without a thought but yet still make tons of cash. This kills music industry folks both figuratively and literally.
Now I could go on and on about this, but this article is already longer than 99% of my readers attention spans will tolerate. I haven’t even touched on the whole “loudness war” issue! Someday I can write a book on this and give more detail. But let me close with this. Please do your part in spreading the word. Downloading is only a tiny part of what is killing the music industry and misses the point of what the suits should be focusing on in the first place. If we do enough to get the word out maybe we can save the music industry? Or maybe we should just let them die and laugh at their ignorance?
So last Friday I sent out a “#FollowFriday” for one of my followers. Problem is that the person I sent it out for had no idea what “Follow Friday” was. She totally misunderstood. So I tried to find an article I could send her on “What is Follow Friday” to explain it all. Problem was I couldn’t find one. Google failed me. I ran into a bunch of blogs that tried to weave a weak and convoluted explanation in between their own agenda though. So I will use this blog to explain “What is Follow Friday” as simple and to the point as I possibly can.
How to do a #Followfriday
Say I have someone I connect with through Twitter and think that the person is a member of the Twitter community I want to recommend to everyone following me. So I send a ‘tweet’ that says, “#followfriday@isewdollies because she is a great source of entertainment” to let everyone that follows me that they should follow her as well.
Why include #followfriday?
Although it doesn’t matter where you put this “hash tag” in the message, it is important you include it. Not only are there many Twitter apps that allow people to track specific hash tags, Twitter themselves have their own search people use to track the hash tags as well. Of course you can get the same result by just using the term Follow Friday, but this won’t get the attention of the people using apps to track hash tags instead of key words. Using the hash tag covers both. So in short, it gets your message out to more than just the people that follow you. It’s the kind of back scratching karma that will really help you in the long run.
Why do a #FollowFriday?
It’s all about being social. You help a person and they have a much greater chance of helping you out as well. Plus it helps get you people of similar interests. Which of course is way better than just blind following a ton of random people.
Feel free to ask questions.
I hope this clears things up. I also hope I kept it short and simple as promised. If not feel free to send me a Twitter message and ask any questions. In closing, please send this around all day every Friday so people know “What is Follow Friday.”
Top five reasons why this decades Battlestar Galatica sucked
Also could be titled Top 5 reasons Caprica will suck too. Or maybe top five things I hope they fix with Caprica? An extended version of the pilot will have its world premiere exclusively on DVD on April 21, 2009 so I thought I would piss in some people’s Cheerios in celebration. I hope you fanboys enjoy!
5. Human Cylons totally changed the entire concept and story of the show. They might as well have just used a different title. The robots they did have looked cool as hell! They should have made those a bigger part of the show.
4. Over use of the word “Frak”. Yes, I know this was used in the original. It just wasn’t so over used. They beat that dead horse until it was a ozzing pile of mush. I’m also pretty sick of everyone saying “So say we all” every chance they can. Get over it. The show wasn’t THAT great.
3. Can you say pretentious? The show took it’s self way too seriously. The original was a drama too, but there was some humor. Firefly was a space drama too, but it also made me laugh more than most comedies. Even Shakespeare knew to make the audience laugh in between pummeling them with dark brooding drama. Even the new show Kings knows to keep that balance.
2. Plot holes! The plot had more holes than the local put put golf course. It made the whole thing impossible to follow. Was Kara a ghost, a figment of some peoples imagination, or yet another cylon? I could write a daily blog for months just picking apart every plot hole this show had. I just don’t care enough.
1. Canon VS Re-Imagining! Ok, let me get this straight. Even though the original “Hand Of God” episode clearly was set after the Apollo 11 moon landing in July of 1969, this newest version of the series tries to say that they kicked off humanity for this planet thousands of years before modern day? Was this latest version of BSG supposed to be a prequel then? I understand Re-Imagining, but this might as well have been titled as an entirely different show.
Now let me be clear about a few things. I did watch every single episode of this abortion they called Battlestar Galactica. At first it was because I was such a fan of the original and every week I hoped against hope that things would pick up. I wanted so badly for it to be good. By the time I was going to give up and remove it from my DVR schedule, they announced it was the last season. So don’t even try to say I didn’t give it a chance. I saw every episode!
Some may try to defend their beloved show by saying that this was a modernization and that is why style was made such an important element. I just wish they didn’t put style over substance. I think Firefly was a perfect example of how to do a modern style space drama without being so damn pretentious. Maybe if they would have chilled out a little and didn’t take themselves so seriously it would have been able to last the standard 100 episodes. Yes, I know my precious Firefly was canceled after only one season. On a future blog post I will blast Joss Wedon for sticking with Fox when Sci-Fi channel would have been a way better home for his stuff. Firefly would have lasted for decades on Sci-Fi. This I am sure of.
We have all laughed at the commercials for the Jitterbug. The phone for old people that are afraid of technology. The fact is that they have made insane amounts of money because of catering to a niche that everyone was ignoring. Well I am part of a nice that the mobile phone industry is still ignoring. The working man! I am a proud card carrying member of the Teamsters union (local 252). I have done blue collar work all my life and will probably do this until i die. I can tell you all my co-workers hate their phones. It is always for pretty much the same reasons. Size being the main one.The phones are too small to be functional. I used to be able to use one device for podcasts, mobile web surfing, texting, taking calls, checking email, and even notes for reviews of concerts I go to. Now my phone sits in my backpack for emergency use only. I am spending less and less all the time. You are becoming less and less of a priority.
My current phone is the LG Voyager™ in Titanium. The good news is that the keyboard is the best keyboard I have ever had on a phone. Great for texting, but that is about it. Other than that it really sucks. Keep in mind that I am talking about a phone with the working man in mind. This is not a phone for the 20 something people with desk jockey jobs. Those douches can shove their iHypes up their collective backsides!
Here are the biggest things that would get me to buy a more expensive phone again:
Screen should be bigger than 2.81″ Between half an inch to a full inch bigger would be great.
Get rid of the “Say a command” lady or give option to disable until it’s ‘ready for prime time’. I have stopped using my phone for media partly because podcasts are constantly interrupted by that annoying voice that I have grown to hate more than anything.
Offer option where user could pay extra to avoid Rhapsody so free podcasts can be played for free without being tricked into charges. You have sold out your customers with Rhapsody and let them scam your customers out of their money. This has lead people to leave you and is bad for business. Dump Rhapsody! They are about as corrupt as it gets and they don’t seem to care about your customers at all. They are the other reason I no longer use my phone for media.
Full SD cards since the working man doesn’t have the tweezers or the time for MicoSD
Any scroll bars should be at least the width of an index finger to avoid hitting unwanted buttons more often than scrolling (this is the main reason for the bigger screen…functionality)
Getting to a browser should be one click and I should be able to default to the non-cached version.
Just as with the LG Voyager™ in Titanium , the working man phone should be lateral-clamshell design that hides the full QWERTY keyboard.
Remember with the working man you need to keep it simple. Fancy makes us frustrated and increases tech support calls and online chats like the one below…
Please wait for a Verizon Wireless sales representative to assist you with your order. Thank you for your patience!
Chat InformationA Verizon Wireless online pre-sales specialist has joined the chat. You are now chatting with Delysia
Delysia: Hello. Thank you for visiting our chat service. May I help you with your order today?
You: Wondering if you have any decent sized PDAs yet or if they are all still too tiny to be functional?
Delysia: I’d be happy to help you with that.
Delysia: Hello. Thank you for visiting our chat service. May I help you with your order today?
Delysia: Are you an existing Verizon Wireless customer?
You: yes
You: I have hated my phones for several years because they are too tiny.
Delysia: Excellent!
Delysia: I completely understand.
You: Excellent that I have hated my phones?
Delysia: Are you logged into “My Verizon” with your username and password?
You: NO
You: Never had a reason to. It always ticks me off when I try.
You: Logs me out when I’m trying to look at things.
Delysia: Ok, in order to possible upgrade discounts you be logged in.
You: Good, so no reason to log in then.
You: Now do you have a respectable sized phone?
You: Why would I upgrade if the phones are still tiny?
Delysia: This will give you an opportunity to view all the possible phones.
Delysia: To your liking.
You: Isn’t that what you are there for? You can’t tell me if Verizon has a phone with a screen bigger than 3 inches?
You: You may not know this but customers can view phones without logging in. Just to let you know. ;0
Delysia: Please hold.
Delysia: Please hold on while I check that information.
Delysia: I recommend the Blackberry Curve. The Curve delivers on the BlackBerry® promise with no compromises. BlackBerry push technology is designed to deliver emails to your smartphone as they arrive so you read and respond to them. Its applications work together so you can email a web page to one of your contacts while you’re browsing the web, or listen to music as you read and respond to your emails. VZ Navigator, BroadbandAccess Connect and a 2 megapixel camera round out the total package that the sleek and elegantly-designed Curve offers. This is an awesome smart phone! What do you think about this Blackberry?
You: I have yet to find a good review of that phone. Plus it is even smaller than the phone I have. Are you a robot? You don’t seem to have a clue about your products?
You: You also don’t seem to be even paying attention to what I am asking.
Delysia: I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Delysia: That is the largest screen that we offer at this time.
You: Still only tiny phones then. Getting that question answered was like pulling teeth.
This entire blog post can be shortened to one sentence though. “I want a bigger phone!” It doesn’t need to be some huge brick either. Just big enough to be functional please. I would love to offer my consulting services to any company for free to get a decent phone that works! Contact me.
Saturday I was downtown and was reminded that I hadn’t talked to my aunt in years. I heard she was having some minor tech issues with her business, so I figured I would stop by and see if I could help her. Well, we started talking and I was shocked to find out that she was picking this stuff up faster than most high school kids! I was thrilled to find out that there wasn’t a ton I could teach her. She had recently went to some tech conference and had that moment where the magic light bulb goes off. As she is telling me about this conference, the only thing I could think of was how much I wish every music industry contact I work with could go to this conference.
The music industry seems to take three steps forward, two steps back, and four steps to the left somehow. It makes me want to jump for joy that they are trying, but then land on their head when doing stupid things with these great tools they have finally opened up to. Now I will almost never name names on this blog, because I love the people I deal with in the industry. They are great people who are just making mistakes. So when about a year ago a worldwide label announced that they would no longer work with online publications my head just about exploded! Let me make it clear that I love this label, love the band’s they have, and think very highly of my contact for said label. My contact has zero to do with this decision, so this is not about the person I work with. That being said, why would a label cut off online publications at a time where print magazines are dying quicker then the cd sales they try to blame on downloading?
So recently this honestly outstanding label leaps into the truly wise decision to stop sending physical promos. This can make life more simple for not only the label, but also for writers. They even have it set up so I can just toss it into an RSS feed so it downloads their new releases without me even thinking. So what’s the problem? They tell me that my writers can’t get separate accounts, can’t log in with my account, and I can’t give them files I download. Instead they have some system where for each release (and each writer) I have to specifically request a 24 hour account. The writer has 24 hours to download the file or we have to start all over again. Can you see how they took this great tool and crippled it?
This is how the music industry adopts technology. It’s like paying to hire a top model and putting her in a potato sack and a pigs mask. It’s like taking an amazing ice skater and whacking her in the knees. It’s like having Yo-Yo Ma play your inauguration ceremony and having him lip sync to a tape. I could go on, but you get the idea. It’s like they want to use technology to bring things forward, but instead of listening to the people who know about such things, they are getting their info from their spam folder. Why do they keep falling for scams and listening to the wrong advice? How can we get them to use technology more efficiently? I’m serious. Please someone tell me! My aunt can grasp this stuff to sell womens’ shoes I think they can…right?
One of the biggest things I see bands mess up on is trying to get people to check out their stuff. I just saw a guy on Twitter ask people to download his band’s cd for free. I doubt he will get any reaction. Why not? What do they sound like? I understand you only have 140 characters, but you need to maximize the amount of information you give when you do that. Instead say something like “free download of my oldschool thrash band at http://unknownband.com rt?” That is only 69 characters so it gives enough room for people like me to re-tweet your message. It also tells way more information that just saying that you are metal.
Metal has not been a decent description for well over a decade. Not saying you should deny your metal love. In fact metalheads are the type that will react more if you raise the flag high with pride. What I am saying is that you should pick something that is more specific. Is it metalcore, thrash, traditional metal, power metal, death metal, black metal, progressive metal, crust, grind, glam, or folk metal? The general public are so jaded that even to take a free download of a band they need to make sure you at least fit the style of metal (or music) that they like the best.
Metalheads are some of the most radical zealots that ever walked the earth. That passion also makes them dismiss the “poser” without even listening to you. Without that specific information most of them will just assume you are a style they think sucks. Think about what it takes to get you to go download a cd. There are a billion bands out there begging for peoples ears. To stand out from the crowd you have to do just a tiny bit more than what 99% of them are doing. This doesn’t take much to be honest.
Make sure and follow me too, because i will re-tweet if you phrase it in a way that gives people the information that will enticed them into clicking.
