{"id":1906,"date":"2010-10-26T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:00:24","slug":"the-online-landscape-is-very-confusing-for-bands-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-online-landscape-is-very-confusing-for-bands-and-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Online Landscape is Very Confusing for Bands and Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discussed this before; how difficult it can be for a band to manage their online presence and how difficult it can be for a fan to find music and bands online. Always, always have your own official website before you begin to tackle all these other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from personal experience; as a very active music fan I look for a artist website first, then I do a Google search and look on Facebook and MySpace. Do I take the time to start looking on all these other sites, nope. If you have no official site your chances of being found go down dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video, how many of these sites have you heard of?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c7ANYvXP1hY\">YouTube &#8211; Mgmt in the New Digital World.m4v<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c7ANYvXP1hY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discussed this before; how difficult it can be for a band to manage their online presence and how difficult it can be for a fan to find music and bands online. Always, always have your own official website before you begin to tackle all these other sites. Speaking from personal experience; as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,51],"tags":[150,143,9],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music","tag-bands","tag-fans","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}