When I was a kid spam came in a can and you ate it in a sandwich. Now it’s a name used to describe a nasty Internet practice.

Spam is unsolicited advertising, ussually in the form of unwanted emails. Don’t do it, it’s illegal and it’s not nice. Most good affiliate programs will ask you to leave their program if you’re caught spaming ’cause they don’t want trouble with the law.

If you see an email address in a list that isn’t yours and you copy it to use in your marketing campagn that’s called harvesting. That’s not a nice thing to do either.

Watch out for ad blasters too. You want to be really sure that the recipients of the emails gave permission to the blaster. It’s not likely.

What about spam coming at you? You’re an online marketer and you’re trying to build a business right? You want your customers to know how to find you so you put your email address out there. So what can you do?

First, get a free gmail account, it’s the number one choice in Internet marketing. It has a good spam filter but you still get to see the email so you can decide if the email was spam or not. Gmail will also allow you to create filters so that repeated emails, even from sources you allowed to contact you, can be filed before they hit your inbox. Pretty handy.

Oh, and this is important. Use one email for personal emails and don’t let it get messed up with your business mail.

If a spam email is really offensive you can always report it as spam and the spammer’s email provider will be contacted by your email provider. They’ll get a cease and desist order.

Hmmm, I’ve gotten those and I wasn’t even spamming anyone. Like I said get a gmail account, lots of the other providers like to decide what’s spam without your input. Even if you wanted the email they’ll block it!

If the spammer happens to be another marketer I just love emailing them back with my program or offer. This sort of thing works well…

Hi So-and-so, thanks for this great offer. I just don’t have time to promote another program right now. Have you ever tried promoting your business using (put your favorite ad source here), it’s off the hook. I get qualified leads everyday!

Or how about this one…

Hey So-and-so, thanks for this amazing offer but I have to tell you, if I make any more money online I won’t know what to do with it! hehahe You should join me at the (put your biz here) it’s awesome. I can’t get over how much money I’m making.

You may be skeptical but I really do get leads this way.

Last but not least…hit delete and move onto the next email. Just don’t delete mine okay? )

Brian Downie

WeCanAllGet2.com

It’s pretty easy really.

Someone visits our team capture page.   If they like what they see they join our mailing list and they get an invite to our website, WeCanAllGet2.com.

Most of the programs that are featured on our website are advertising companies. Every online marketer needs advertising. So if they see a program they like and can use in their online business they’ll find easy to follow instructions asking them to send me an email that tells me they’d like to join. I send them the referral url that belongs to one of our team members that needs referrals. They join and send me their new referral url so I can include it as part of the team build.

There’s no guarantee that anyone will ever get a referral or if they do how long it will take but so far people are having good results and their downlines are growing.

For most people it sure beats going it alone. If you haven’t already joined our team why not join us right now? We can start building your downline right away.

Brian Downie

WeCanAllGet2.com

If we want to be good marketers and have success online we better think about changing some of our bad habits.

It takes time to build a good, profitable online business. There is no such thing as get rich quick. Sorry if you’ve been mislead but it’s time for the truth. If you don’t have what it takes to stick with it, it  just ain’t gonna happen for you.

One of the biggest mistakes we ALL make is program hopping. Program hopping is jumping from one program to the next hoping for a bit of good luck. Maybe it should be called program hoping?

You’re surfing for credits and you see an amazing opportunity that looks way better than the one you’re promoting. I mean, you’ve been running a whole bunch of ads and no one wants to join your stuff. This new one is way better, you should be able to get people to join it for sure.

Forget about it!

The problem isn’t the program you’re promoting, it’s the way you’re promoting it. Here’s a dose of reality for ya. If you can’t promote your program what makes you think you can promote the next one?

I’ve even been told by tons of people that they were scammed by this program or that because “it didn’t work” or they were cheated because everyone knows it’s only the “guy at the top” that’s gonna get anything out of it.

The fact is you weren’t scammed  (well sometimes you are) and the reason the guy at the top did well is because he knows how. That’s what’s stopping you form doing well, you just need to learn how and it takes time.

One of the real benefits to the Fa$tCa$h-System is the training videos. It’s worth every penny of the $12 it cost you to join the Fa$tfCa$h-System even if the only thing you ever do with it is watch the training videos. The first 3 videos are by a guy named Tim Sales. Watch them and if you don’t get what he’s telling you watch them as many times as you need to. Tim is about to tell you the truth that we all need to hear.

Please, for your own good, stop program hopping and learn to promote the program you already joined. You liked it when you joined so will a lot of other people. You just need to know where to find them.

Brian Downie

WeCanAllGet2.com

If you’re reading this blog you probably joined one or more of the affiliate programs listed on our team website at WeCanAllGet2.com… welcome to our team!

You’re wondering what to do next right?

You have choices. You can promote the programs you joined as stand alone programs  or you can promote our team. Promoting our team makes the team stronger and benefits all of the members, we always share new referrals as fairly as possible. That means if someone new joins us they may be placed in your downline even if you didn’t invite them to the team!

If you want to promote the team you can use these capture pages. Just copy and paste the url anywhere you need to use it. Just don’t spam please, it’s illegal and it’s just not nice.

http://1942165.webbizzoffers.com or

http://1942165.webbizzoffers.com/primarybusiness.html

When people put  their information into our capture page they’ll be invited to our autoresponder and I can email them about the team from time to time. That’s a really effective way to market our team and our affiliate programs.

You can join our team forum by following this link WeCanAllGet2 and you can even follow us on twitter by going here WeCanAllGet2. I’m looking forward to you joining us there.

If you got to this page and you haven’t enrolled in our mailing list at WeCanAllGet2 I recommend doing that now. It’s a great way to get updates about this team.

It doesn’t matter if  you promote your programs or this team or both… every new member that joins you in one of our affiliate programs is welcome to become a member of this team and we will gladly help them build their business. Just send them an invitation, we’re happy to help.

Brian Downie

WeCanAllGet2.com

I’m Brian Downie the creator of WeCanAllGet2.com

I’ve been a part time online marketer for a little over three years. I had some success as a marketer but not what I was hoping for. It seemed like no matter how hard I worked I just couldn’t get my head above water. I sure wasn’t seeing the mind numbing massive income that most affiliate programs claim is possible.

I worked hard, I tried to learn new skills, I figured I was making all the right moves, I even made it onto the leader board in a few different affiliate programs… so why wasn’t it working?  Lack of duplication!

I could do it but the people I introduced to the affiliate programs  just weren’t duplicating my efforts. Without duplication there was no progress and there never would be.

So I started a marketing team.

I created a website, WeCanAllGet2.com. I made capture pages that everyone on the team could use, I started a forum so we can all get together to share ideas and strategies and now I’m writing this blog so I can share marketing ideas with my team members.

I looked for people that want what I want. People that will put forth effort and have the drive to succeed. People that are willing to learn and are open to new ideas. People that know success doesn’t happen over night. People that want to help others and will work as a team.

This is WeCanAllGet2.com and it works!

Why don’t you join our team? We’d be happy to have you.

Brian Downie

WeCanAllGet2.com

Many would-be nonfiction authors make the mistake of not beginning to think about publicity for their book until after they have written it. In fact, they don’t even need to write the book until after it has been purchased by a publishing house, but they do need to begin working on publicity prior to ever submitting a proposal to an acquisitions editor. The proposal itself includes a section that details how the author plans on publicizing the book once published; these days, publishing houses do little to help an author in this vein. The publicity and promotion section, along with the author’s platform section, represents a vital part of the book proposal.

If nonfiction authors plan on self-publishing their books, then they also must have a strong, well-thought out publicity and promotion plan long before the manuscript is completed or printed.

One of the books I purchased and read when I first began work on my books Jacqueline Deval’s Publicize Your Book, An Insider’s Guide to Getting Your Book the Attention it Deserves. When I contacted her about participating in this year’s WNFiN blog, she offered me information on how to get started publicizing a book.

There are three core areas of book marketing, according to Deval: advertising (paid ads), promotions (discounts, displays and co-op funds offered by publishers to booksellers) and publicity (getting your book mentioned in the media). The reason authors (and publishers) focus so much attention on  publicity is simple: it’s free and it works. As Deval writes, “Publicity—getting your book mentioned in any form of media—earns you the legitimacy of a third-party editorial endorsement, can reach large audiences, and requires relatively little spending. Publicity is where your greatest opportunity lies to contribute to the shape and scope of your campaign. The right media coverage for your book can stimulate measurable sales results that turn your book into a success.”

However, as with all business aspects of writing, we writers have to be coaxed into thinking of ourselves as anything other than writers. “We aren’t publicists,” we say. “We are writers.” But we can be publicists—and we must. “Learning to think like a marketer is a commonsense process that takes place over time,” explains Deval. “It is accomplished largely by paying attention to the media and to the marketplace and thinking about how your book fits in.”

And here’s how she suggest we writers begin:

How to Publicize your Book: Getting Started
by Jacqueline Deval
(From Publicize Your Book)

Look at what other writers have done successfully.

Before you set up a web site or blog, look at other authors’ sites to see what works. Start doing this a year before your book is out.

A site to look at: Jeff Carlson—jverse.com—to see how a site can provide one-stop shopping for readers and the press with press kits, photos, appearance schedules, contests.

Find out what your publisher is planning to do to launch your book.

Talk to your editor about what the house is planning for publicity 6-7 months before your book will be published. Then you can plan whether to hire a freelance publicist or supplement with your own efforts. Many books get a simple press release and review copy mailing. There’s much more to be done, but you may have to initiate it. Start by reading everything you can about book publicity. What to read? Here are four great resources:

1. PublicityHound.com, a publicity and marketing site run by a former journalist, offers many great ideas for publicity as well as plenty of advice about how to approach reporters—useful in the event you ever set up your own interviews.
2. Buzz Balls & Hype (mjroseblog.typepad.com/buzz_balls_hype)  Lots of smart publicity advice here from novelist MJ Rose.
3. Galleycat.com This site covers the business of publishing. Check out the frequent coverage of effective author promotions and videos.
4. Publishers Weekly (publishersweekly.com)  Learn about the publishing industry here. Search the word “promote,” and you’ll come up with tons of information about what authors and publishers are doing to market their books.

Build your tribe.

What is a tribe? The people who know and like you or take an interest in your work. Build a  mailing list of everyone you know, professionally and personally. You’ll market to this list through emails, postcards, press releases, and invitations to readings.  Then you’ll build on that list, particularly as you being to network through online marketing.

About the Author

Jacqueline Deval is vice president, publisher of Hearst Books, and publishes lifestyle books in association with Hearst Magazines including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine.  She is the author of two books: a novel called Reckless Appetites (Ecco Press, 1993) and Publicize Your Book: An Insider’s Guide to Getting Your Book the Publicity It Deserves (Perigee, 2003 and 2008, www.publicizeyourbook.com).  She has held associate publisher, marketing and publicity director positions at William Morrow, Villard Books/Random House, and Doubleday.

www.publicizeyourbook.com

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AMWC has been increasingly growing thanks to supportive readers and enthusiastic members, so I’ve decided to create TWO mailing lists to help our loyal readers keep in touch with AMWC.

The Juiciest Updates on AMWC:

This newsletter will contain updates on latest AMWC posts and happenings. Space will also be provided for advertising purposes at the head of the email so if you wish to explore advertising opportunities with AMWC’s newsletter, email me.

Requests and Collaborations:

Since setting up AMWC, I’ve received countless requests from people who wish to collaborate with members in my club on projects like book cover art, bring a manga to written life etc. Hence I’ve decided to open a second mailing list for such a purpose. If you…

• are looking for an artist/illustrator to do illustration such as book cover art,
• are looking for a writer to work with you on your comic/manga, OR
• are available for (paid or unpaid) commissions (whether art or writing)

If you wish to join both or either of the lists, email me at aspiringmw[at]gmail.com.

To make your requests, please provide me with the following details:

• Name
• Email
• State whether you are available for requests/commissions OR you’ll like to make a request.
• If you’re offering your services, write a short paragraph about yourself and whether you accept unpaid commissions.
• If you’re making a request, describe what you’re looking for. E.g. an artist to do your book cover. Please provide as much detail about your project as possible.

Thanks ya all~!

NOTE: ALL MAILING LISTS WILL BE SENT OUT EVERY SUNDAY STARTING DECEMBER 09.

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One of my top priorities is putting power back in the hands of the people. As I run for State Representative, I want to make sure that I hear everyone’s voice, understand your concerns, and fight for your rights in the legislature.

I launched my email list today so that I can communicate about upcoming events, issues that are important to the people of Platte County, and ways that I am working for you. Please join and support my efforts!

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Oleh Shita Laksmi

(tulisan ini akan berkembang, karena ada bacaan baru yang lebih mencerahkan).

Selasa, 3 November 209, undangan “Jalan Sehat Singkirkan Korupsi” tersebar di facebook. Dalam waktu tidak lebih dari lima hari, sudah lebih dari 800 orang yang konfirmasi untuk hadir ke acara itu.

Sabtu, 7 November 2009 di sebuah mailing list yang membahas kebebasan informasi publik kembali diingatkan untuk datang ke acara “Indonesia Sehat Tanpa Korupsi” yang katanya akan dihadiri satu juta facebookers. Tidak peduli bahwa judulnya berbeda, tetapi pesannya jelas: bahwa pada hari Minggu 8 November adalah saatnya kita berkumpul secara fisik acara untuk melawan korupsi.

Facebook, sebuah jejaring sosial yang bermisi, “giving people the power to share in order to make the world more open and connected place” (terjemahan bebas: memberi kekuasaan bagi individu untuk berbagi untuk menjadikan dunia lebih terbuka dan tersambung), menjadi alat mobilisasi yang strategis. Situs jejaring sosial lain, seperti Twitter, juga berperan yang sama. Tidak heran karena pengguna Twitter di Indonesia termasuk lima pengguna terbesar diseluruh dunia, bersama dengan Inggris, Brazil, Spanyol dan Amerika Serikat (BlogTempo).

Kekuatan situs-situs jejaring sosial dan internet melawan korupsi tidak bisa lagi dibendung. Melihat ramainya forum diskusi, mailing list bahkan status pribadi di facebook terlihat jelas bahwa warga Indonesia yang punya akses internet, yang nuraninya masih ingin menegakkan keadilan, secara maksimal mempergunakan internet untuk mengeluarkan pendapat.

Saat ini di facebook, misalnya, sudah banyak sekali grup –kelompok yang dibentuk pengguna facebook – yang menyuarakan anti korupsi. Dalam catatan yang bisa saya rangkum, ada lebih dari sepuluh grup yang menyuarakan pendapat terkait dengan kasus KPK. Situs http://www.cicak.or.id juga terbentuk oleh gerakan masyarakat sipil. Situs dikelola oleh Yayasan Solidaritas Pelangi Cinta Indonesia dan diharapkan menjadi wadah diskusi dan pertukaran informasi yang digerakkan secara swadaya, dengan tujuan terwujudnya Indonesia yang terbebas dari korupsi.

Kalau diperhatikan, gerakan ini menyesuaikan dengan perkembangan fakta kasus KPK. Terimakasih atas disahkannya UU Kebebasan Informasi Publik maka semua kejadian penting yang biasanya tidak bisa diakses menjadi terbuka. Rakyat tidak lagi menjadi penonton pasif tapi ikut berpendapat, ikut berkomentar dan bahkan bisa ikut caci maki. Misalnya, sesaat setelah warga Indonesia kecewa terhadap rapat dengar pendapat di Komisi III DPR, tidak lama kemudian sudah ada undangan “Gerakan Sejuta Facebookers Kecam Komisi III DPR RI yang Mendukung gerakan Buaya”. Atau respon kepada Evan Brimob yang status di facebook sangat provokatif sehingga dalam waktu tidak lebih dari tiga hari sudah dibanjiri dengan jutaan kecaman. Tidak hanya melalui facebook, tapi juga ke situs www.polri.go.id.

Ada satu hal yang penting yang menggarisbawahi fenomena ini. Pemahaman dan pengetahuan rakyat atas kasus KPK ini berkembang dan menjadi lebih sistematik. Grup-grup di facebook berkembang dari sekedar tidak setuju atau caci maki kepada Evan Brimob berkembang menjadi grup yang memberi saran, seperti “Gerakan 1.000.000 Facebookers Untuk Tempatkan Polri dibawah Depdagri”.

Chuan Yan Hsu, melalui allacademic.com di tahun 2003 pernah membandingkan gerakan tradisional dan gerakan virtual di Taiwan. Dia melakukan riset mengenai perlawanan warga Taiwan, terutama wartawan dan akademisi, yang tidak setuju dengan kebijakan penyiaran negara Taiwan yang monopolistik. Menurut dia, salah satu perbedaan mendasar dari dua gerakan itu adalah metode pengorganisasian. Di gerakan tradisional, pengorganisasian lebih tersentralistik dan menekankan pada penciptaan identitas. Sementara di gerakan virtual, informasi adalah ajang pengorganisasian. Di gerakan virtual lebih penting menjadikan pendukung itu sebagai konstituen yang aktif memberikan pendapat, sehingga gerakan ini perlu menciptakan unit yang mempunyai kapasitas untuk menyebarkan informasi kepada konsituen ketimbang memaksa pendukung patuh pada satu identitas. Identitas satu tidak lagi menjadi penting dan oleh karena itu semua orang berhak untuk masuk ke gerakan virtual apapun.

Melihat perkembangan yang sangat pesat ini sepertinya gerakan lawan korupsi bisa lebih efektif dilakukan melalui internet, melalui situs-situs jejaring sosial dan bukan di ruang-ruang komisi Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. (end)

Old books, fotografia di Tom Woodward, CC 2.0

Ebbene sì: da quando è stato pubblicato lo scorso 15 ottobre, Sopravvivenze è stato scaricato 100 volte, in neanche un mese di tempo. Darà del filo da torcere a Il pistolero, che è giunto in un anno e mezzo a quota 359 copie: il mio “bestseller”. Nell’editoria italiana la tiratura media di un libro è di 3.600 copie, cifra che comprende i vari “giallisti nordici”, saghe vampiresche, comici datisi a San Remo datisi alla scrittura datisi al cinema e, soprattutto, i testi scolastici.

Grazie quindi a tutti quelli che lo hanno scaricato, che lo hanno letto, che lo hanno consigliato, fatto girare e commentato qui, su Facebook, su aNobii, su Lulu.com, tramite mail, via SMS e vis-a-vis.

Un ringraziamento speciale va anche a chi lo ha finanziato: lo avete letto, lo avete giudicato, gli avete dato quello che credevate meritasse. La cifra media offerta è stata di 6 euro, parecchio superiore a quella consigliata (2 euro, ma il racconto è gratuito).

Qualcuno, poi, ha anche pensato di andare a leggere gli altri miei racconti, così che il loro download sta aumentando in maniera esponenziale.

Il vostro sostegno, di qualsiasi tipo sia stato, è fondamentale: senza mi sembrerebbe di scrivere sulla battigia durante un maremoto. Se volete seguirmi assiduamente ed essere certi di non perdere gli articoli di questo blog e le mie prossime pubblicazioni, iscrivetevi alla mailing list di Storie, narrazioni, sguardi obliqui: vi potrete cancellare in qualsiasi momento.

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One way to build up your client list is to offer a Free Give Away!

Give people a reason to sign up for your mailing list, email list or newsletter.  The reason you want to build up your mailing list, is because you want to remind people of your business.  Research shows, most people need to see, or hear about your business 13 times before they become a customer.  Send out a monthly email with your specials, or share some educational information ( or both ).

Your give away can be anything.  For example a Free coupon!  Sign up for monthly E mail and receive $20.00 of your next service

If you have a coaching business.  Sign up for monthly newsletter and receive a Free game on how to discover what  you really want?  (make up a fun worksheet, then email to all new sign ups)

You can make up anything to give away.  Give people an incentive to receive information about your business.  Business can be all about the timing, you never know when they are going to need your service.  Keep your name in their minds, so when the timing is right, you will be the one to receive the business!!

Come spiegato in MCBlog, creare una buona mailing list, con le tecniche esistenti oggi, è veramente alla portata di tutti, ma quello che risulta essere più difficile è sicuramente il mantenere una lista sempre attiva e con contenuti validi ogni mese.

Ma dopo avere creato una valida mailing list ed inviate le prime 5- 10 mail si può incorrere nella dimenticanza del nostro iscritto se non abbiamo dei buoni contenuti, e spesso le successive mail non vengono neanche aperte.

Per ovviare al problema di mantene la nostra lista sempre attiva, esistono alcune tecniche gratuite come quella di fornire ogni mese un nuovo contenuto Gratuito.

Da qui l’idea di creare una MemberShip dedicata ai soli iscritti con un “Area Riservata” dove è possibile avere Gratis contenuti per il Business.

Ecco allora nascere “Business Member Free” ovvero una MemberShip con accesso ad una “Area Riservata” tramite un link inviato mensilmente, dove ogni mese viene aggiunto un contenuto alla lista.

Per aderire ovviamente non si deve pagare nulla, almeno per la parte Free, visto che sono previste anche MemberShip  a pagamento con diversi contenuti.

Prova questa nuova opportunità di creare il tuo Business Online.

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This past week was a busy one with two big shows. The first, at R Bar, was my first show with my live band in four months, so it was great to get everyone back together and rock the house. Problem was, the house was pretty small. I was glad to have a few new faces there, and everyone enjoyed the show, but the problem is, when your show is late on a weeknight with a $10 cover charge and your friends are either broke and available or have some money because they’re working past 10pm on a weeknight, that doesn’t make for a big audience. That will be my last weeknight, high-cover-charge gig for the forseeable future. I wish these small venues and bookers would be more flexible about door charges because they really hurt draws for small bands/artists just starting out. Thank god there are some venues that will do shows with no cover where you can pass a tip jar so the musicians still get paid. That makes more sense to me since the venue makes more money off the bar than anything else, and more people in the venue means more money for the bar! Oh well, at least some venue owners understand that. The other option we have is to do gigs at house parties and other spaces where we can control the audience’s experience. So, to that end, our next show will be Saturday, December 19th at a friend’s loft in SoHo, which means no door charge, prime timeslot, free drinks, food, relaxed atmosphere, and good times. Plus we’ll be playing with the amazing Comandante Zero, an excellent electro-funk band out of Brooklyn who are friends of mine, so there’ll be not one but two awesome shows in one spot! I’m really looking forward to that show. If it’s still hard to get a good crowd at a free show on a weekend night with six weeks advance notice, then, to be honest, I’m not really sure what I need to do, haha.

"I don't care what you think, gonna flip my hair and sip my drink!"

Everybody's Crazy in New York

Me post-show

The show on Saturday in Central Park had a much better draw because it was Central Park on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, with a mammoth sound system. I had so much fun! I’ve always wanted to perform at the Bandshell and indeed it was a great time. I had a guest spot between house music DJ’s as part of Art for Progress’ Sunset Jam in Central Park, and sang “Anything You Want,” “Dance Dance Dance,” and “Everybody’s Crazy in New York.” Now, if you frequent the Bandshell area of the park, you know the regular crazy people who are always there, and they were there in full force! There’s the guy with the green ‘fro wearing brightly colored women’s clothes with a poodle and a parrot that he dyes crazy colors who skips around as people frantically take his photograph, and then there’s the old guy who either leaps and spins in circles continuously for about ten minutes at a time and never gets tired, or he stands in one spot and shakes his chest up and down as if he were an old, male, crazy Shakira in sweatpants. It’s a sight to see. I go to that area of Central Park all the time and I’ve seen those guys a lot, so it was pretty surreal to have them dancing to my music as I performed it. And it went absolutely perfectly with “Everybody’s Crazy in New York,” LOLOLOLOL. I wrote that song because it’s true, and they’re the perfect evidence of it!

Posin' with a parrot on my head

Breakin' it down NYC style. That parrot has a great sense of balance.

The show was also great because a lot of little kids were there who really liked my music, and it always makes me happy when kids like my music. One little girl came right up to the stage and watched my set and would wave back to me and smile when I waved to her. Then later, she was like “I really liked your songs,” and SANG “Everybody’s Crazy in New York” BACK TO ME! SO CUTE AND AMAZING! Then this tween boy asked me for a hug and to have a dance-off, and this group of tween girls really liked my stuff as well. And another tween girl came up to me and was like “Did you go to Spence?” I swear, I cannot go anywhere or do anything outside without a Spence girl coming up to me! They’re everywhere! And I’d never know it if I weren’t always doing weird things outside! One lady asked if I’d come sing at her Christmas party. Not Christmas songs, my music. Everybody’s crazy in New York…

Me and my new favorite little fan! (in the pink jacket)

...and from her perspective!

One thing that drives me crazy is that no matter how much people like your music and want to take your info to look you up online after a show, people are SO hesitant to sign up for the mailing list, which everyone in the indie music world says is the one thing you HAVE to get people to do. I totally get it because even when I’ve gotten on people’s email lists, I often don’t have time or desire to read the emails, I’ve never bought their music, and I’ve never been to their shows, and I often don’t get on the email list in the first place because of all that. But it’s just hard to have people say they love your music or your show and then decline to ever hear about your shows in the future. You just have to hope they’ll remember to look you up later, which is where getting a song stuck in their heads comes in. But that’s why it’s ALL about getting publicity. If I were getting publicity and people were seeing my name over and over again, they’d start looking me up and having a context in which to think of me. When I hear of something once, I forget about it, but if I keep hearing about it, eventually I check it out. So I’m excited to start pushing for publicity once the album’s done so I can see if it helps the way I hope/think it will.

In New York City we dance to house music.

In New York City we dance to house music with babies and crazy people.

See you at that show on December 19th!

Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/jccassis

All photos by Berette Macaulay except the fourth, ninth and tenth, which are by Kenny Bae. Thank you Berette and Kenny and Art for Progress!

Hi there!

So we’ve got some preview copies (exclusively for band members and Alfie’s Nan) of our debut E.P to have, hold and cherish finally. They look the part, and feature exclusive artwork by the one and only Alex Mahood. It’s a fantastic feeling to actually hold it, and know that this is our first foot on the musical ladder.

Also, we’ve got some wonderful new Gaoler’s Daughter logo badges. So if you see us at a gig, harass one of us and we might just give you one. It’s exciting to see things moving along at a good pace, and everything seems to be falling into place ready for our E.P release. It feels like only yesterday we were working on our first songs in the toilet factory in Elephant and Castle…Oh, how time flies.

The launch partaaay: It’s at Pure groove Record shop on the 1st of December; you’re all coming right? Good, I thought so, see you there!

There are more details, as ever, on our website, and our myspace. And don’t forget to sign up to our mailing list to receive your FREE track…

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Gaoler’s Daughter

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We made much ballyhoo here last month about a $25 iTunes giveaway for joining our mailing list. Earlier this week, amid much secrecy, we drew four names off of our mailing list and figured all that remained was to make four members of the Appy Army happy with their gift cards.

Simple, right?

Ah, but as Carl von Clausewitz told us, “Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.”

For the above quote, substitute “software development” for war … or in this specific case, substitute “marketing of software development” for war.

von Clausewitz

We’re babbling.

OK, here’s what’s going on.

Our winners came from Brazil, Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom. Awesome! We love our international players. But … Apple apparently doesn’t allow us to purchase iTunes Gift Cards or codes for any store but the one where we’re registered (the United States). So, getting codes to our international winners has been one of those simple things that has accumulated von Clausewitz’s inconceivable friction.

And it is not just the major issue of international payments that is vexing us. Turns out that for on-line certificates, Apple only permits denominations divisible by ten … so we can’t actually award a $25 certificate. Instead, it just became $30 USD. Ah, well, more love for our players, that’s fine. But only two of the four winners have actually contacted us to verify their email addresses! So to our German and British winners … write us back! We have a prize for you (provided we can figure how to send it out of the country).

All of which is our problem, and not yours, and we sincerely apologize for the delay in awarding prizes. We’ll get it dialed in one way or the other!

But there will be some changes for the December drawing:

1. The drawing will be for a $20 USD iTunes gift code.
2. The recipient must accept a U.S. code (many of our overseas friends have already set up accounts in the U.S. iTunes store).
3. We will draw five names, rather than four, for the December drawing.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience this will cause our international players, but at this hour we really don’t see a way around the way Apple handles international iTunes gifts. If anyone out there has any insight or work-arounds for us, we’re all ears!

Thanks!

(And if you want to sign up for our goofy list, click HERE … but please be a resident of our solar system, it is so much easier that way).

It’s only a start, i think, but i’ve made another Googledoc to keep a record of what tasks we need to do and their timescales.  Imaginatively titled ‘list of tasks with dates’.  How we will manage our project is another matter i’m concerned about because i don’t think we have been doing so very effectively.  I’ll bring this up either when we are all together or by e-mail if i must, or maybe i’ll set up a mailing list.

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When you graduate from college, your circle of friends will inevitably do two things: #1 – Promise to visit each other and stay friends forever and ever and ever, and #2 – Create a mailing list with a clever title, like “She Wolves” or “Homies Sweet Homies.”  Really, #2 is for when you realize that #1 won’t work out, especially if your friends are bankers.

The friends’ mailing list is sacred: within its archives, you will find serious discussions, biting arguments, soliloquies, confessions, rambles, insults, and of course, gossip.  On my mailing list, some recent topics of conversation included: Halloween costumes, celebrity baby names, spelling, becoming fat because your friends are fat, thoughts on academic freedom/torture, and Miley Cyrus.  Naturally.

Of course, besides heated discussion about talentless seventeen year-olds, the main purpose of the mailing list is to share absurd links with your friends.  So, here are some obscure links from my industrious group of procrastinating friends.

• Ad for “Georgetown sophomore seeking a personal assistant“:   Apparently, the sophomore is looking for a fellow undergrad to be his bitch: to “organize closet / make bed / and do laundry” for him, amongst other tasks.  He’ll pay $12/hour, plus “bonus” opportunities.  This has got to be the most blatant case of sex-soliciting in DC since Larry Craig.
• Profile of Ashley Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: With the message, “What would an ‘Ashley Tellis’ look like to you? I think: white, mid-40s, hippie parents with a questionable taste in first names.”  See the picture above, from the link to Carnegie’s website.  Yes, that is Ashley Tellis.  Viva assimilation!
• The Cat Game: Okay, I have to admit that my mom actually sent this to me.  But then a college friend sent it as well, so I suppose my mom is just that cool (or, my friends are just that lame).  This may ruin a good half-hour of your time, but it’s worth it when you finally corral that stupid black cat.

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