[Dixielandjazz] Exposure: - was musicians get what they deserve.

[Stephen G Barbone]

Dear Listmates

How many times have we heard, "But think of the exposure." Wowee, if  
we old folks get any more exposure, our skin will fall off.

Want to mentor the kid bands about exposure? Here are 14 websites that  
will get them more exposure than 1000 free gigs. While we old folks  
are not hip to using the web, except for a few, it is truly amazing  
that today's kids would not be hip to networking on the internet. Must  
be that right brain dominance. (All creative and no business sense)

BTW, list mate band leaders/musos may want to take advantage of some  
of the below too. They are where EXPOSURE is.

Yeah it will take a little effort to strut your stuff but it sure as  
hell beats bitching about no gigs, free gigs, no audience, etc. There  
is a large, brave new world out there. Carpe Diem.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestrteetjazzband

1. Myspace.com - we've said enough about that on the DJML

2. Facebook.com - Facebook is a social utility that connects you with
the people around you. Upload photos • get the latest news from your
friends • post videos on your profile • tag your friends • use privacy
settings to control who sees your info • join a network to see people  
who
live, study, or work around you, promote your shows.

3. 15secondpitch.com helps you define your 15-second marketing pitch
and makes you found in Google searches.You can also make your own
business cards customized with your pitch and photo.

4. Flickr.com is almost certainly the best online photo management and
sharing application in the world. Their 3 main goals: 1. to help folkd  
make
photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. to enable new  
ways of organizing photos. Start a page and link to others using their  
social networking tools.

5. Upcoming.com is a directory of all events that are going on  
nationwide with connections to Yahoo groups and Flickr. This site,  
visited by millions is owned by Yahoo.

6. iLike.com - Music of the people, by the people. They invite every
music lover to participate in a more democratic music industry. By  
rating,
recommending, or just listening to music, you'll have an impact on  
what gets
recommended in the marketplace. Also works with Facebook.

7. JamBase.com - A web portal for all things related to seeing live  
music
featuring reviews and touring schedules for thousands of artists. Sign  
up,  post your schedule.

8. ReverbNation.com - Designed for musicians. Stats and information
on your fan base help you make decisions on where to tour and how  
effectively you are growing your business. Keep your schedule current  
and export  it to your other sites - imagine only having to enter  
shows one time for all your web locations!

9. Ning.com is an Internet service that allows you to create a social  
network for anything. Ning was founded by Marc Andreesen (Netscape  
founder) and Gina Bianchini (Harmonix founder).  75,000+ social  
networks run on Ning. Start your own.

10. imeem.com is an online community where musicians, & fans can
promote everything, Photos, Albums, Videos, Music, Blogs, Groups,
People, and playlists.

11. linkedin.com is a business-oriented networking site mainly used for
professional networking. Get on this site because, as a professional  
artists, we need to be making serious contacts to advance our careers.  
It has over 16 million registered users, spanning 150 industries.

12. Twitter.com – a micro blogging site that answers one simple  
question:
What Are You Doing?  You post your answers to it.

13. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website that is a collection  
of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to  
keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews,etc. Share  
favorites with anyone, and the del.icio.us community. And they've  
already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of  
bookmarks about technology, entertainment, and more. You can use tags  
to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible  
system than folders.

14. Amazon.com -  Create a profile in one of the most visited sites on  
the net and get found by search engines like Google. Make lists of  
your favorite, music (include your own CD and review yourself!), and  
much more.