This week’s mission: A beginner’s rundown of four major Internet music streaming services: LAST.FM, GROOVESHARK, SLACKER and PANDORA.
Without further ado…
1. LAST.FM
Going in, I was already a big fan of last.fm, and that’s because I scrobble. No, it’s not as filthy as it sounds. To scrobble means that you let the last.fm service track the [...]

Remember the craze of vanity urls where everyone was able to reserve their own name instead of a long string of id numbers! Well a lot of people didn’t realize you can add a custom url (vanity) name to your facebook pages too.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-original-name-you-chose-for-your-page/the-id-facebook-gave-you
wouldn’t it be better to have
http://www.facebook.com/onepagename
3 easy steps and you will be able [...]

So now that you have a  Facebook fan page you want it to be popular. You want MORE fans and you want MORE  likes. Well, there are many ways to grow this database but before we get into that, let’s first make sure you aren’t doing anything to scare your potential fans away with these [...]

Hits and visits and views? Oh my…Start talking about web traffic and people’s eye glaze over.  Everyone knows traffic is important, but why exactly? And who wants to do the nerdy work of understanding it?
“It’s all a numbers game,” says Lisa Mac, Social Media Strategist for BandMark. “The more visitors you have, the more fans you [...]

Forget all the rumors about Myspace being dead: until we find a real replacement, Myspace is still the go-to site for fans and bands to connect. Unfortunately we have all seen our share of ugly myspace pages…you know, the ones where people try to cram EVERYTHING into a single page – AND make [...]

The bad news first… So you’re freaking out cause you went to your handy TWITTER mass unfollow API TRS (twitter related site) and found out that in 2010, Twitter banned automatic mass Unfollow and mass following in an attempt to slow down the Spam complaints and junk in Twitter accounts (Porn, Gambling, Affiliate programs…)
Not only [...]

Hey there! Sorry about the delay in Cool wave vids… our January was a lot to handle! A lot of new business and some interesting old business too. BandMark really feels good about 2010 and is in the process of signing some interesting partnership agreements and testing out some new social media services.
While we were [...]

O.k been reading up a ton on the music industry predictions for 2010 and have come up with a few, if I dare take a crack at this and by all means feel free to share your predictions or POV in the comments Thanks to the resources that have helped some of my [...]