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My @SproutSocial Experiment: Setting Boundaries on Social Media

March 9, 2011 Joe Taylor Jr. 1 Comment

I’ve been teaching some workshops on social media lately, and one of the questions that comes up very often involves how to keep Twitter and Facebook status updates from taking over your life. In the new edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience, I updated my advice about staying accessible and available. To stay focused on […]

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Using zone strategy with your mailing list

June 15, 2006 Scott Andrew Leave a Comment

If you’re a practitioner of Joe’s zone strategy for booking gigs, here’s a tip that’s served me well: incorporate your zones into your mailing list for more accurate mailings. It occurred to me that it doesn’t always make sense to email everyone in the state of Washington that I’m playing a show in Seattle. I […]

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Ready for the road?

May 18, 2006 Scott Andrew 1 Comment

We’re having an early summer heat wave here in Seattle, and the sunny weather always turns my thoughts to…touring! Roadtripping , playing in different cities to new audiences, living on fast food and floor crashing at the homes of host bands and/or brave and generous superfans. Alas, as gas prices continue their seasonal skyward climb, […]

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Preparing your Flash website for IE7

May 11, 2006 Scott Andrew 3 Comments

(This post contains more web-geekery; if you’re unfamiliar with things like HTML and JavaScript, you’ll want to get your webmaster or a web-savvy friend to help you out.) I was messing around with my website a few days ago when I noticed something strange about the Flash audio player I was using. Specifically I had […]

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More on Flash players and visitors without Flash

May 9, 2006 Scott Andrew 1 Comment

(Warning: this post gets a bit geeky, so make sure you involve your webmaster if you’re unclear or uncomfortable making changes to your music website.) Yesterday I mentioned that if you’re using a Flash music player on your music website, you should always offer your visitors a way to download the free Flash plug-in. This […]

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