The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118041   Message #2549058
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
25-Jan-09 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: Auto-Starting Your Music, on Myspace
Subject: RE: Auto-Starting Your Music, on Myspace
Hi Lizzie & other music lovers: Ya wanna know what I think? No? We'll I'm gonna tell you ANYWAY. Lizzie is 100% right on this one. Lemme tell ya why....Going on MySpace and not expecting to hear music on artist's pages is NUM NUM. 3 Stooges would nyack nyack you on that one. THINK of MySpace as one humongous RADIO STATION. You are dialing channels and not only do you get music, but unlike radio, you get a story, and pictures, and links...

Am I smarter than you, we'll uh, no...but I do KNOW this...I've been working non-stop for 3 YEARS on promoting my humble 2 tracks with the goal of doing a lot more, and in other genres. I have sent out nearly 50, 000 emails to EVERYBODY that would listen. The Indie Bible, College Radio, Mainstream Radio, Internet Radio, Satellite Radio, Low-Power Radio, Fashion Magazines, Models, Rap Stations, Music Execs, FilmMakers....EV-RE-FRNERK-ING BO-DY. Do you HEAR me?
See, I think Mudcat has a disease. I call it "The Mudcat Dis-Ease." Everybody talks, nobody LISTENS. They post and argue, post and argue, like it was some kind of BAR without the PINTS in Cyberspace. Do you think that God was STOOPID when he gave you one mouth and TWO ears? No, he wanted you to LISTEN more than talk.

So, right now, I've got 11,914 Friends/Fans on MySpace. God Bless every single one of them. 37,005 Profile Views, and thousands upon thousands of plays on my songs. Did ANYBODY Be-atch because of autoplaying? Hell, NO!

What they did do is ASK to be my friend. Mother's whose children have died. Reqs from every kind of Faith you can think of. My tunes are in nearly 100 COUNTRIES. Nashville Session Pros ask ME what I think of THEIR SONGS! Radio Stations ask ME if THEY can play my songs. As a former PolyGram Records Monkey, I can tell you THAT IS UNHEARD OF!
Especially for a "nobody" with a funny, unpronouceable Polish name.

MySpace is a Gift from God for musicians. Why you would want to hide from using it's full potential ASTOUNDS me.

It is a known fact that more MySpace Friends= more SALES in the digital shops, and CD's.
Anybody that tells you that MySpace doesn't do anything is an IDIOT. They sit on their AZZES and do NOTHING. So whatcha think the result, FOR THEM is. Yo, you got it. 0...

You CANNOT throw up a website, create a MySpace page, do a vid on YouTube and watch the money flow in. SURPRISE! You have to WORK. On PROMOTING yourself. On MAINTAINING THE COMMUNICATION. I've been a Director of Marketing for several companies, made them money, now I'm using the SAME techniques(upgraded for CyberSpace) and I'm Marketing MYSELF.

I could go on for DAYS telling you the positive things that have happened to me using Digital Media. If you are the type that wants another pint and play dunta dunta for the audience in some pub, GO FOR IT. I'll be sending out more emails while you do that...

And remember, you got that pause button on MySpace. AND, video capabilities, and photo ops. READ THE MANUAL!

I LOVE it when I go on YouTube and "Insight" tells me my vids are most popular in Peru, Honduras, Russia....Russia? Yes kids, as I've said before, THIS IS THE INTERNET, not a private club, or social tea...

Did anybody hear me? Don't much matter. I get up in the morning and do what I feel like doing...Glorious!

bob