16 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization
This is something.
I used to sit around trying to think of ways to use my music and band promotional skills to make money in other ways. I wish I would have thought of this about 4 years ago when my band was one of the top users of Myspace.
Needless to say, the article brings up […]
15 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Music Marketing
I spent the better part of the last decade in the music industry honing my marketing skills and when I switched over to web marketing, I wondered how many of my skills would transfer over. I was happy to see that promoting a blog is really no different than promoting an independent band. It takes […]
I understand the whole point of a content based website is to generate ad revenue. I understand that, really, I do. I put ads on my website dreaming of beach houses and cars galore. I target market my blogs. I work to build a readership and hope they like to hear what I have to […]
I know this has been debated before and I am sure it will be debated again. I have decided to switch from Blogger to Wordpress and I immediately thought of everything I had read from practically every single blogger:
Wordpress will smoke Blogger.
I agree. I love the features of Wordpress, I love the how easily it […]
The value of music is a complicated issue. Different music has a different personal value to people, and even then, different values at different points in a persons life. The personal value of a song varies. To a songwriter, a song’s value is not exclusively a paycheck. To perform in front of an audience, to have your song felt and understood, is often something less tangible than money.
02 Jan
Posted by Scott Sweeney as Blog Marketing, Blog Monetization, Blog Optimization, Music Marketing
I spent the better part of the last month evaluating my finances and future goals of my ‘cyber‘ business. I ran some simple tests with this blog over the past two months, to see if a blog could actually create revenue. Just by posting ‘relevant’ content to current events I was able to generate a […]