Direct to Fan Marketing
Thoughts on open rates
So, a good friend of mine in the HR industry emailed me the other day with a question about open rates. Yes, that’s right, even my non-work, non-marketing friends think about these things. So my friend hits me up with the following scenario: She is responsible for a regular newsletter that her company sends out [...]
SXSW, CMJ, A2IM and Connections ’09
Just a heads up that today is the last day to use the SXSW panel picker to choose which panels you might want to see. Take 2 seconds and give the FanCentric Future panel a vote: http://tinyurl.com/lec5mh For those who missed it last year… check out the overview and the slide deck. ——— On October [...]
New Service – Live Capture (How To Grow Your List Fast)
The fun part is that everybody is carrying little computers around in their pockets which brings endless chances to interact with an artist, events or each other. The challenge for many direct music marketers is figuring out how to own the relationship. (ie having permission to contact a fan directly in the future). To that [...]
New Clients, New Features and our New Community
Well folks, things have been busy. I don’t mean just normal busy, but really busy. The winds of change are in effect and everywhere pundits and experts and music geeks are shouting, “but you’ve got to have a relationship with your fans!” and “email works!, social networking works!, Communicate, communicate, build a fanbase” We are [...]
Bringing Email, Social and the Power of Viral Together
Technology Brings Bands, Artists Closer to Fans Roadrunner Records Artists Among First to Integrate Email, Social Media INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Roadrunner Records artists Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman and Slipknot will be among the first artists in the country to use a new technology that will bring them closer to fans through email, Facebook, Twitter and more [...]
Five Clients in Five Minutes
Take five minutes to check out some of the progressive things which our clients are doing in their direct to fan marketing and Fan Relationship Management programs.
Make Friends Through Best Practices
This time next week I will be in sunny Austin, Texas at South by South-West with a couple thousand of my closest friends from independent artists to record company moguls. I know, my life is hard, but don’t worry about me. I put myself through such suffering for you. Fan marketing and FRM (fan relationship [...]
The Unique
One of the core tenants of the Fan-Centric philosophy is that each and every person is unique, different. . . an individual. Adopting this philosophy requires a fundamental shift in how marketing is conducted and how we communicate with fans so that respect and relevance are job number one. Our friends at subscribers rule pointed [...]
BLVD has “Music for People”
New FanMail client, BLVD, has a terrific new album out: Music for People. With the recent addition of skillful linguist MC Souleye and this livetronica three-piece, BLVD, has served up some new beats to fill out the group’s ever-evolving musical palette. Their fourth release, Music for People, finally catalogs this union of sounds that many [...]
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