Sep 18th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #10 - Final

And this music publicity blog case study using Thirty Day Challenge methods is officially concluded!
My main take away lesson echoes what Ed Dale said in the Thirty Day Challenge: Market research is where 95% of internet marketing mistakes are made. My addendum to that lesson is: check out the competition.
So what’s next for this music [...]

Sep 16th

Thirty Day Challenge 2008 Task List & Action Plan

The Thirty Day Challenge is a great way to learn how to build a business online for FREE. Before I get into the meat of my Thirty Day Challenge case study for this music publicity blog, I’ll include this year’s task list:
Thirty Day Challenge 2008 Task List & Action Plan
Day 01 - Brainstorm niche ideas
Day [...]

Sep 12th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #3

Today was a was a light day at musicpublicityblog.com, since I traveled from NYC to Ithaca, NY this morning.
However, one thing I did do today was mail a new CD to Pandora.com so my CD Supernova can get added to their database. Pandora users can enter the name of their favorite song or artist and [...]

Sep 10th

Music Publicity and The Maximum Edge

While creating this music publicity blog during the Thirty Day Challenge, I learned that Ed Dale & Co’s internet marketing strategy is a specific testing process called “Maximum Edge”.
In an ideal Thirty Day Challenge world you’d want to create the following content for each of your chosen keywords:

YourPhrase.com Domain
YourPhrase Blog
YourPhrase Articles
YourPhrase Web 2.0 sites (Squidoo, [...]

Sep 10th

Music Publicity Blog Case Study - Entry #1

This music publicity blog here at musicpublicityblog.com has been debugged for unwanted links, and I’m up to speed on the tutorial videos. So let’s begin!

Here are the current statistics for musicpublicityblog.com:

Google Page Rank: #40 out of 35,000 competing pages for exact match

If the average Googler sees 10 results to a page, then musicpublicityblog.com appears as [...]

Sep 9th

Music Publicity Tip: Diversify!

When we think about music publicity, we often think of music websites like MySpace.com and Reverbnation.com as the best places to get music publicity.
While music sites are great for attracting music lovers, it’s also worth getting publicity on websites that have nothing to do with music at all. I call this The “Hit ‘Em Where [...]

Sep 9th

Music Publicity Case Study Using Thirty Day Challenge Techniques

Music Publicity = Attention pointed directly at you, your band, your music.
In this case study I seek to build an online music publicity strategy by optimizing this blog, musicpublicityblog.com for organic web traffic. After taking last month’s Thirty Day Challenge, my mind is still racing from new ideas after I understood the basic concepts.
My theory/hypothesis: [...]

Sep 8th

Music Publicity & The Thirty Day Challenge

Your online music publicity strategy can can get a serious supercharge by using internet marketing techniques used in the Thirty Day Challenge, so here’s today’s new idea!

Last month I participated in the Thirty Day Challenge which was organized by Ed Dale, an Australian internet marketer, and his merry global online marketing team. For each day [...]

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