Bln.kr - Great Tool For the Promoting Musician

I've been in contact with the great guys over at Bln.kr throwing in some ideas and suggestions on improving their ALREADY AWESOME service. If you actually do a research on these guys, what they're doing has already made heads turn toward them and there's a lot of reasons to do so. 

I won't go into the history of it but go straight to the point...

Bln.kr is a great way to share your music to the world and your networks. 

It allows you to upload your track and be able to share it automatically in a lot of your networks, blogs, emails, etc. Perhaps it's close to how Ping.fm works by sending out the update in a blast but for music. That's just one side of it. It then gets you feedback from all over so you get to monitor if people are actually listening, downloading or sharing your tunes!

From the site "Every time we post a status update, blog post, photo, or video, we are doing so because we want to share a piece of ourselves with the world. And when we share, we seek a response.

As artists, we experience a little thrill every time we get a new comment on YouTube, or a "like" on Facebook, or a "retweet" on Twitter. And we feel anxious, annoyed, disappointed when our hard work goes unnoticed- especially after we pour ourselves into our music and struggle to perfect our songs.

The creative spark is a rare gift, easily encouraged, but just as easily extinguished. All artists need engagement from an audience to energize and accelerate their creativity. Creativity needs feedback. bln.kr is the best way to get it."

As I mentioned earlier, it sends it out to the networks you with to hook up with the service and from there, it's a one click affair in sharing your tune to all of them.

One feature that I LOVE about it is how it uses YouTube to promote your tune. I've always wanted to tap YouTube in promoting my music but I found the hassles of getting music into a video editing software, adding a photo, dragging it for the length of the song, rendering, etc... too tedious. With the YouTube feature, it's included already in the shared networks so it's SO EASY! This is one of the main reasons I'd push you guys to sign up.

What's nice once you sign up, is that they give you an automatic PRO account to try out for free so you can get a feel of how easy it is and how it can help your promotions.

Just type in bln.kr in your browsers address bar to go the site and sign up! The Pro account is also very tempting if you look at it so you might also want to consider that. 

With the PRO account, you get the YouTube videos, you get to upload multiple formats, you can also run FB/Twitter download campaigns, Host remix competitions, use custom images, protected tracks, QR codes, and more!

But don't feel the PRO account takes away the good stuff, the free account is more than capable to make signing up worth the time. Try it :)

Promote away!!!

Cy

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Bln.kr - Great Tool For the Promoting Musician

I've been in contact with the great guys over at Bln.kr throwing in some ideas and suggestions on improving their ALREADY AWESOME service. If you actually do a research on these guys, what they're doing has already made heads turn toward them and there's a lot of reasons to do so. 

I won't go into the history of it but go straight to the point...

Bln.kr is a great way to share your music to the world and your networks. 

It allows you to upload your track and be able to share it automatically in a lot of your networks, blogs, emails, etc. Perhaps it's close to how Ping.fm works by sending out the update in a blast but for music. That's just one side of it. It then gets you feedback from all over so you get to monitor if people are actually listening, downloading or sharing your tunes!

From the site "Every time we post a status update, blog post, photo, or video, we are doing so because we want to share a piece of ourselves with the world. And when we share, we seek a response.

As artists, we experience a little thrill every time we get a new comment on YouTube, or a "like" on Facebook, or a "retweet" on Twitter. And we feel anxious, annoyed, disappointed when our hard work goes unnoticed- especially after we pour ourselves into our music and struggle to perfect our songs.

The creative spark is a rare gift, easily encouraged, but just as easily extinguished. All artists need engagement from an audience to energize and accelerate their creativity. Creativity needs feedback. bln.kr is the best way to get it."

As I mentioned earlier, it sends it out to the networks you with to hook up with the service and from there, it's a one click affair in sharing your tune to all of them.

One feature that I LOVE about it is how it uses YouTube to promote your tune. I've always wanted to tap YouTube in promoting my music but I found the hassles of getting music into a video editing software, adding a photo, dragging it for the length of the song, rendering, etc... too tedious. With the YouTube feature, it's included already in the shared networks so it's SO EASY! This is one of the main reasons I'd push you guys to sign up.

What's nice once you sign up, is that they give you an automatic PRO account to try out for free so you can get a feel of how easy it is and how it can help your promotions.

Just type in bln.kr in your browsers address bar to go the site and sign up! The Pro account is also very tempting if you look at it so you might also want to consider that. 

With the PRO account, you get the YouTube videos, you get to upload multiple formats, you can also run FB/Twitter download campaigns, Host remix competitions, use custom images, protected tracks, QR codes, and more!

But don't feel the PRO account takes away the good stuff, the free account is more than capable to make signing up worth the time. Try it :)

Promote away!!!

Cy

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Unfollow Dead Twitter Accounts

Let's face it. There are serious people into social networking, and there are those who just join because they were told to or because it's a fad. It's really sad for those who join for the latter reason. But it's a reality and you may have followed some people who simply gave up with the whole twitter thing and it just clutters your following list on your account. 

In comes untweeps.com. This site presents you a list of people you follow who have abandoned their twitter accounts and gives you the option to unfollow them. You have the choice to fill in how may days YOU consider a twitter account may be considered abandoned or dead. It's really up to you. You can also keep a list of people you still want to follow. Everything's up to you. You decide who to unfollow. All the site does is help you sort it out. 

Why would you want to do this? Well, some people might say they'd just keep them in the list for the sake of it or possibly because they're just too lazy to go through them one by one. The benefit however of cleaning your twitter following list is that people who follow so many "may" be considered spammers and we don't want that. It's a long shot to be considered one but some articles written about Twitter hint at how people with so many people followed are sometimes considered spammers.

So there. Just another thing to help you sort out your twitter account :)

Enjoy!

Cy

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Twitter and People No Longer Interested

I remember a few years back, some famous DJ followed me back after I followed him. At that time, I was ecstatic! He was even tweeting back initially but then as some twitter communications go, it stopped. Fast forward to today, I wonder if some people who decided to follow me still do because if you read some Twitter "rules" some people will say that you should automatically follow back anyone who does. But I'm guessing some just do it then unfollow after some time. And so this lead me to find out who still has me on their twitterfeeds. In comes http://www.doesfollow.com and their service. All it is is it has 2 boxes and you just need to fill in the usernames for you to find out if someone is still following either you or someone else. This helps save time than actually making you go through the whole list of followers you have looking for someone. This one only takes a click after typing in the usernames.

If you're the chismosa/o type or you just like to get in on things, you can also just put other usernames like if you wanna find out if an actor follows a particular actress or a singer follows so and so... you get the picture I'm sure. 

Twitter is about building an online relationship and if someone does unfollow you, I'm guessing that he/she may not be no longer interested in you and since it ends up with you just following them, it seems like a one way street and may just be adding to the clutter of users you need to go through daily. For me, that's where this site proves useful. It's better to keep a good list of people you follow who are also genuine in their desire to build a relationship with you. But of course if you're following a famous pop star, then that's a different topic altogether. 

Give it a try and get your twitter cleansed :)

Cy

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