Official John Nagle Blog

The guitar player with the home page and the suspended e-mail list.

Add comment November 22nd, 2006

Well, I suppose it’s time for another little flourish of writing. With regard to this blog, I have to say when I get the opportunity to write I really enjoy it what I am really glad that one of my early posts outlined how I would probably write a few posts over a few days and then mysteriously disappear for a period of time!

While I suspect that I’m probably not psychic, you would have to agree that it turned out to be an uncannily accurate description of what has occurred here ever since.

Among all the things I have been working on, grappling with how e-mail filters are affecting the e-mail list has been one of the main headaches I have been dealing with from an Internet point of view. Almost everything that’s ever been written about promoting anything on the Internet (including some of my own posts) stresses the importance of growing and maintaining an e-mail list.

Unfortunately, spam has created a problem here as it has done with so many other things on the net. So in a moment of weakness and possibly madness I have decided to temporarily suspend the e-mail list and provide a useful page that people can set as their home page instead.

Basically, I have partnered with Google to provide a search engine and there are some other useful links on that page as well. To check out this search/start page please click here.

The idea is to provide a page that you can set as the home page in your browser. From there, it will keep you up-to-date with any news, downloads, and tutorials posted on the site.

That’s about it for now but if you are familiar with this blog you will know to probably expect a number of posts in the next few days and then, as usual, I’m likely to go little quiet for a while. At least if you are using the start/homepage you’ll have a nice clean functional page that works!

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Musicians-Succeed By Looking After Your Fans

Add comment October 28th, 2006

Following on from my last post, I thought I would mention another very common problem that seems to arise with band/Artists websites.

As was mentioned in passing yesterday, visitors to your website are not that easy to come by. It really is a crying shame to allow them to just visit you once and then just wander away into obscurity.

So, what is the solution to this problem?

I actually touched on the answer in my last post. The email list! Some of you may have one; someВ  of you may not. The really important thing is not just having a list but also using it well.

Okay, first things first:

If you don’t already maintain an email list, start one IMMEDIATELY! There are any number of tutorials freely available on the Net on how to do this.

For those among you who already have a list:

Offer things of interest and value. If you just use your list as a way to constantly hype your latest CD or gig people will just run away from you! Believe me it’s easy to do on the Net!

You can do many things to keep it interesting. You could offer a free mp3 exclusively to your list members. You could comment on events that will be of interest to your readers.

Obviously you will be promoting your CDs, shows etc. but don’t do it in every newsletter. If you offer info and freebies of value then your list is far more likely to be responsive when you are trying to sell them something.

Building relationships is what all business is about and while I completely understand that music is not a normal business the normal rules DO apply in this case.

When you boil it down, look after your fans and they will look after you.

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