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 [...]

It’s no secret that the Internet is filled with music fans who are starting to figure out how to navigate in the wild waters of web 2.0 and social media.  But what about off-line fans?  Concert goers are actually your #1 BEST FANS for 2 reasons:  They actually are willing to leave their house to [...]

Was talking to a buddy the other day and got me thinking how some bands are harder to SEO than others.  METRIC for example, is incredibly hard to buy AdWords for or play with the search engines. If you do a search for the word “METRIC”, you will likely get a huge amount of Math [...]

This is a problem that many bands and people in general are encountering.  How to make a Twitter BG fit! With all the many resolutions and different laptop screens, it’s difficult to build a Twitter BG that everyone will see – or is it? After much searching for templates, I finally found a truly useful [...]

Just recently, the lead singer of the Dresden Dolls Amanda Palmer made $11,000 on Twitter in just 2 hours connecting with fans on and off line.
Through her driving personality, she has developed a very impressive fan base on her blog, MySpace page (75,000 friends), Facebook fan page (20,000 fans) and Twitter feed (40,000 followers).

Some highlights [...]

When YouTube launched YouTube Insight this Summer all the fake views marketers and advertisers freaked out because now the stats go beyond comments and views.  Up-loaders are encouraged to display the complete statistics of their video views and those who don’t will be investigated by  and be giving off a pretty sketchy vibe in general. [...]