My wife and I went to a wedding and like all weddings, the women need to get their hair and make up done. With that, the husbands drive their wives right?
Good thing the make up artist was a friend so she felt I'd be really bored doing nothing while waiting so she said, "why don't you check out the guitars in the next room?"
The rest is history.
AWESOME collection there if I may say....Cy
My wife and I went to a wedding and like all weddings, the women need to get their hair and make up done. With that, the husbands drive their wives right?
Good thing the make up artist was a friend so she felt I'd be really bored doing nothing while waiting so she said, "why don't you check out the guitars in the next room?"
The rest is history.
AWESOME collection there if I may say....Cy
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
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
It's funny how timely it is for this post since these days, a hug percentage of the music loving population download music instead but for us collectors, it's not simply about owning the piece of music. The joy in finding and searching is part of it. It's very different now how we can just type an album or artist on google to search and download their tracks compared to going into a store hoping to find some gem stuck in one of those racks. I find joy in that and I thoroughly miss form time to time that I need to get out and look for new music I can get my hands on literally. Problem is, with the spread of piracy all over, I can't find quality electronic music CDs to buy because the local record stores simply don't bring it in anymore. Sad. For people who knew me from way back, you'd find me EVERY single week in a record shop making it a point to leave with a CD in hand. These days, I'd be lucky to find myself in one once a month :(
So when we went to Hongkong just last week, that was my only "to-do" for the visit. I wasn't there to get new clothes or buy some new gear or anything. My heart was set on getting music I've always wanted to buy but never got to because it wasn't available here. I was like a kid in a candy store and how I loved checking out the music there. If I only had more money to spend, I would've gone home with TONS of CDs.
But then again, this is what I ended up getting...
Cy
