Week 4: Music Success in Nine Weeks - Web 2.0

Hey Sexy People!

It's week 4 of the Music Success In Nine Weeks blogging contest held by Ariel Publicity Cyber PR. In this chapter, it's all Web 2.0, or social. You need to be where your fans are.  So, of course, we have to maintain our connections with our fans via several communities - and be active in each. Or, as Ariel says, it's like watering our garden of Rock Sexiness.

Ariel gives her essential list of the most popular social tools to be on, and also really finding the communities that work for your genre. There's no need for us hanging out in the GOP forums.  Although... that may garner some good material...

It took about 6 months of consistency to build up to where we are now.  Our MySpace page was the primary point of interaction, then we joined the other communities as we were able to manage each one.  We began with Twitter and Facebook, then added Afro-Punk and our Blog (you're here).  It's a lot of trial and error before we found the right mix.

The two things that really worked for us was joining the Podsafe Music Network and commenting on blogs.  The first got our song "Vampires In The Sun" on Dancing Mattress Productions's podcast.  The second was simply being a part of the Afro-Punk community, we landed an interview on Sierra's I Write. You Should Read. blog. This was a direct result of following MSi9W - thanks y'all!

The only place we're not on yet is Flickr.  However, we shooting new photos next week, so we'll start then...


Rock Hard! Rock Sexy!
- MDLS


Purchase "In Your Mouth"
CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mamasdls

iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-your-mouth/id339466720


Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret
Twitter.com/MDLStweet

MySpace.com/MamasDirtyLilSecret

Facebook.com/MamasDirtyLilSecret

AfroPunk.com/profile/MamasDirtyLilSecret

YouTube.com/user/mdlstrio

©2010 Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret

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Week 3: Music Success in Nine Weeks - Optimizing Your Website

Hey Sexy People!

It's week 3 of the Music Success In Nine Weeks blogging contest held by Ariel Publicity Cyber PR. In this chapter, you have make sure your site is optimized to better communicate with your fans.

MDLS web sie optimized: check.

Our pitch is present, our site loads quickly and we have no animated intro.  The music player on the home page is Flash, but it's small, so it comes in quickly.  There's a random image display on the home page, so every time you come back, you'll see a different image.  It gives the feeling of the site being active.  Fortunately, we have a relationship with a professional Web team, so our site was already in good shape (it's also SEO-friendly).

We have a consistent look throughout all of our spaces and we've customized where we can.  You can't do much with Facebook and just a little with AfroPunk, but you know it's MDLS!  Our colors are White & Black (a white base with black accents) which we carry through down to our instruments!

The one thing we needed to add was a free MP3 when fans sign up for Mama's Dirty Li'l Newsletter.  The goal with that is to change the song every month... maybe.


Rock Hard! Rock Sexy!
- MDLS


Purchase "In Your Mouth"
CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mamasdls

iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-your-mouth/id339466720


Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret
Twitter.com/MDLStweet

MySpace.com/MamasDirtyLilSecret

Facebook.com/people/Mamas_Dls/559468962

AfroPunk.com/profile/MamasDirtyLilSecret

YouTube.com/user/mdlstrio

©2010 Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret

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Week 2: Music Success in Nine Weeks - Our Pitch

Hey Sexy People!

This is week 2 of the MSi9W blogging contest!  The assignment is basically to create an answer to the question "what do you sound like?"  We gotta give folks some sort of context so they kind of understand our sound without having heard the Rock Sexy sound of Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret.  Yes, of course, their life will change forever once they've entered into the world of Mama's Dirty Li'l Secret.  (They're just not privy to that fact yet.)

We've actually been using our pitch for a while.  But it did take a while to come up with the right one.  The long version is "the bastard lovechild born of the torrid affair between Soul and Punk."  Descriptive?  It looks good in print, but when talk with folks we simply use "Soul punk" because folks seem to think they understand right away.  The usual response is "oh, yeah, I get it, that's cool!"  Well, that's exactly what the fuck we want.

As an example of the branding we've established, our current postcard (4x6) is to the left. <----  The front of the card simply has our name, a sexy photo, and our pitch.

...and the back of card has our name, urls and our tag line.  We place a sticker in the extra space for whatever we're promoting at the time: "In Your Mouth" download, show date, etc. (see second example below).

Let us know what you think.  Is it sexy enough for you?

Rock Hard! Rock Sexy!
- MDLS

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