Music Success in Nine Weeks Blog Challenge Week 3: Optimizing your website

It's week three in the blog challenge and the habit of writing down 5 successes every day is really helping me focus on my goals. One of my non-music goals is to get in shape and today I woke up early (by accident) and decided to check out the 8am ballet class at the Y. If you know me, you know I'm not a morning person and need at least one cup of strong coffee to even get dressed -so the fact that I was attempting bar exercises in a ballet class at 8 am would probably be my biggest success of the week. I have to say though that just stretching and doing bar exercises is a really nice start to the day.

So the Chapter of the week (Chapter 3) is all about "Optimizing Your Website": how to Capture Fans who are landing on your site, making your websites consistent and making them something people will want to visit often.
Ariel suggests offering a giveaway to people who sign up for the monthly newsletter. Luckily Reverbnation makes this very easy with their widget, and so now...drum roll...when you go to our fiddleandguitar.com site and sign up for the newsletter, you will receive a free MP3 instantly. (and we will never sell or give out your name).

For the future, I'm thinking of giving fans some mp3s from live shows. There are some electric moments that only happen live and my Zoom recorder does a pretty decent job of capturing them. For now though, I chose a giveaway track from the Electric Green CD, and this one features Vita on the wah pedal. I think this track (Itchy Fingers electric) would be good in a cartoon.

I'm still trying to make ALL the websites consistent. The twitter/youtube/myspace are purple but I haven't found a purple option that works for me on the fiddleandguitar.com site. It's like when you look at bathing suits and they say, "This one is for people with hips, this one is for people with short legs, this one is for people who need a bust". Well sometimes the categories/choices don't exactly fit what you're doing (what if you need ALL that in a swimming suit?). So I'm thinking a little more on this.

Music Success in Nine Weeks