Welcome to episode 48 of The Music Biz Weekly, a weekly podcast co-hosted by Michael Brandvold and Brian Thompson.
Each week Michael and Brian will discuss the latest events in the music business and music marketing events and techniques.
This week’s episode, March 2, 2012 – Facebook Launches Timeline for Pages.
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TechCrunch – How To Use Timeline for Pages.
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About Michael Brandvold:
Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online & social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.
Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael’s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com’s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.
Michael has also managed the online efforts for Motley Crüe, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.
About Brian Thompson:
Brian Thompson, Managing Partner for Thorny Bleeder Records, is a Vancouver based music industry entrepreneur, record label owner, artist manager, marketing consultant, radio promoter, publicist, web designer, blogger, and industry speaker.
Formerly the corporate head of music buying and marketing for a large national music retail chain, Brian has since moved on to become a well respected voice on the convergence of artist development, music marketing, social media, and technology.
This has to be the most topical episode I have seen of this podcast!
Newsjacking baby! LOL Right time, right place, jump all over the story.
This is the link to Facebook name change for a band: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact_us.php?id=262629790471076
I have two friends who wanted to change their names recently and I sent them the links as soon as I found they can do that now. One has over 1700 likes, and added some stupid shit after the name of the band, which he wanted to remove. The other also wanted to remove a part of his name, because he foolishly included something he doesn’t really want there.
The first friend is from UK, and he successfully and pretty quickly changed his band name to the desired one.
The other one is from Bulgaria. His band name, however, was not changed by Facebook. This is what he received in his inbox as a reply:
“Unfortunately, we do not support Page name change requests in your language at this time. We are working hard to start supporting this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Obviously, this works only for some selected territories and not everywhere. My guess is that this will be no problem for USA users though.
Thanks for sharing Emil.
I know of someone who will be extremely excited about the name change thing. I am sending him the link right now.