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Do you have a website that isn't MySpace? Where is it hosted?

#21
Jehos said:
We're already on MySpace but that just screams "amateur".
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Really? I don't want to hijack the thread.... but I think it is just one of those things that we may not like but sort of have to do.

I think it is more "pro" to have a "fan" run the myspace site. Then it looks like your too professional and too busy to run the Myspace yourself... and you still tap into the myspace audience. Definitely get a webpage though.

Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.... they aren't going to go away... and if you want to get paid to make music....
 
#28
I kept a site going for my son's band with GoDaddy, but MySpace is where they hang, and where their friends and fans expect to find them. Now the GoDaddy site is used as a gateway to their MySpace, which is something they now have complete control over.
 
#30
Jehos said:
You mean this Pat Metheny?

http://www.patmetheny.com/

Yeah, looks like it's all about the MySpace. :rollno:
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?????

Re-read my post, Jehos. :rollno: The point is that even pros have MySpace pages AND that you can make yours look less amateurish. Where's the argument? There is none. :scowl:

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It seems professional to me: pro sound and music, pro players, pro venues, pro pictures, etc... Does this site look absolutely cutting edge, and does it maximize the design possibilities available on MySpace? I don't think so. But that's not the point or even the question.

But, there's opportunity for you yet- make your page better and then you can advertize that your page is more hip than Pat's. :rollno:
 
#31
Lots of pros have MySpace pages. You might to make yours better and less amateur-ish?
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As soon as my band mates and I decide on a name I'm going to build us a real a site as well as a myspace...

I can build a professional website like this one Invalid Link Removed that I just finished for a friend faster than I can make a myspace look good. The code is so shotty and hacked together that it is a nightmare to make a professional looking myspace.

Also that site is hosted on bluehost.com just to give you an idea of the speed ext.
 
#32
godaddy.com is really an easy site to deal with and the fees/rates are minimal, IMO. You can be a complete knucklehead (like me :rolleyes:) with nearly zero web page experience and get a fairly decent page set up quickly, including mp3 clips, pics, etc. There are some restrictions for the basic templates they provide, but you do have a lot of options.

Prior to godaddy I was using the old AOL Hometown service which was free with an AOL account but really restrictive. Godaddy is simple, I've had a great experience with the customer service people .... :cool:

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#33
it doesnt matter if myspace makes you look like an amateur or not chances are if your unsigned and someone likes your music at a gig the 1st place they'll look when they get home is myspace

case in point we have a myspace and a .com and .co.uk address the last two recieved 126 hits between them while our myspace recked up well over a thousand hits
eventually we closed the .com and .co.uk addresses and just concentrated on making our myspace look as proffesional as we could
 
#34
dreadheadbass said:
it doesnt matter if myspace makes you look like an amateur or not chances are if your unsigned and someone likes your music at a gig the 1st place they'll look when they get home is myspace
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If you are playing to a 20-something/30-something audience that's probably right ... that age bracket is very tuned into myspace. We're old bastadges and most of our audience are the rapidly advancing baby boomer generation who don't really pay that much attention to myspace. A lot is dependent on who your target audience is ... :cool:
 
#35
If you are playing to a 20-something/30-something audience that's probably right ... that age bracket is very tuned into myspace. We're old bastadges and most of our audience are the rapidly advancing baby boomer generation who don't really pay that much attention to myspace. A lot is dependent on who your target audience is ...
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This is very true... Really you should have both and they should be linked to each other...high myspace hits will lead to better search engine status on your real site. Also there is just so much you can do with a real site that you can't with myspace....event calendars, press kits, FLASH ext. but people will search myspace if they can't remember your URL and people will friend you on myspace because its the thing to do.
 
#36
jdwinva said:
I second the BlueHost.com recommendation if you have some web savvy. If you are a novice try bandzoogle.com.
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I third the motion that unless you have a professional web designer with the right tools/abilities, you look at BandZoogle.
We have a .com HTML site that's run by a prior member (who does other websties as well). The problem there is that this former member owns the domain name..(eg, Link Removed) messy...though not a major issue.
 
#38
seanm said:
Why did you decide to avoid online promotion? How can more promotion hurt?
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It was a decision we made after seeing that some of our musically inclined friends would get together to jam once, and then come up with a lousy name and make a web page about them, even if it was only a slightly different configuration from another 'pretend' band of theirs. That made me question many myspace and garageband pages I had seen; If I knew of maybe a dozen that were what I can only call pretend bands with no real music, it called our integrity into question.

After that, we wanted everyone that knows us to understand that while our band may never make any money or ever go anywhere, we still take the music seriously. We saw that myspace could cheapen what we wanted to represent.
 
#39
Thunderthumbs73 said:
?????

Re-read my post, Jehos. :rollno: The point is that even pros have MySpace pages AND that you can make yours look less amateurish. Where's the argument? There is none. :scowl:
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I'm sorry, I totally misunderstood you.

MySpace + the new website is definitely the plan.

For the record, I signed up for a trial of both of these:
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http://www.bandzoogle.com

I'm a programmer by day, but whatever we go with has to be simple enough for my singer to update content whenever she wants. Whichever of these is more user-friendly while still being powerful enough to do what I want will probably get the cash.
 

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