What we do. ( Besides being your fifth Beatle ).

5thbeatle.net offers the following services:

*Social Media Network analysis, network authoring, strategy consulting, redesign, execution, and maintenance
*Facebook Fan Page creation and maintenance, ad buys, custom fan page tabs
*Twitter Custom Page creation and use strategy
*Myspace friending, custom page design, and commenting campaigns
*Additional Social Network seeding for SEO
*Website Production ( hand coded, FourFour, or WordPress ), and maintenance.
*Total Web site content migration to CMS system ( Want to blog / update yourself? )
*Basic Sysadmin projects ( moving Websites, e-mail creation i.e. you@yourband.com )
*iPhone app execution and launching, maintenance
*iTunes Digital Booklet Production
*Entertainment PR
*Physical and Digital Distribution
*Special Project Management
*Graphic Design

Curious? Check out the About Page.

Want some free DIY advise? Click the top images ( WEBSITE – MYSPACE – FACEBOOK – TWITTER – WEB RADIO – PR ) for informative tidbits on using the Web and Social Media to market your music on-line.

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twt.fm & how to stay on top of Web Music Technology

These days our bandwidth can be so low from working and maintaining relationships with family and friends how do you keep up with the latest and greatest? Easy; use Twitter to follow the people that actually create the technology. That brings us to Lee Martin; he takes care of Them Crooked Vultures and Beck’s Web needs, and he is also a developer within the Web Music Technology community. I am a little late on being completely blown away by his Twitter app to stream music twt.fm. To be exact I am up and over 1.7m users late!

Within maybe 30mins I had uploaded links to 3 songs of my band Life Love Misery, including links to purchase from iTunes and it was played almost 200 times. Imagine if you band is popular; watch your bandwidth! Once you log in and start an account this is what your twt.fm page looks like.

This app enables you to find certain song streams from a currently unknown source and Tweet to your friends, or you can upload links to mp3s, YouTube videos, and Soundcloud song files.

An advantage to using twt.fm is you can only stream the file, you cannot download it as far as I can tell. A good attribute for those whom do not want to just give away their music downloads for free.

You ask, “well how to I keep track of find these talented developers that are hacking the future of Web Music Technology?” I suggest keeping tabs on this Website and following those whom attend the “Music Hack-days events” that are organized by Soundcloud.com’s own David Haynes.

Another good example of finding a gem of an app or “hack-of” is included on this list. Which one do you think is a gem? Which one is bound to not fade away with the constant 6-month technology tide that washes away someones great idea? Well, I’ll be hacking away at my fav and I will debut my case-use of this hack very soon. Stay tuned to 5thbeatle.net!

We are LIVE! BillOrtiz.com on FourFour.com CMS

Bill had lots of content so FourFour.com was the right choice. He will be Blogging and Video Blogging from the road with Santana, so again this self publishing platform was perfect choice for Bill to be able to keep his fans up to date with ease. Check it out at www.billortiz.com . 5thbeatle.net can work with a range of budgets to help your band achieve such Web presence.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! Wanted to take the the time to thank all those who where a big support in 2009! Looking forward to 2010 with all of you!

Brian and Shoshana Zisk – SF Music Tech Summit
Christopher Buttner – PRThatRocks
Steffen Franz and everyone at IDC!
Mario Previti & Terry Morton Renegade Studios
Kenny Stavropolous – Bay Street Studios
My team and ( hopefuls ) at Super Secret Underpants, LLC – Curtis, Jaemin and everyone at Ropers, Majeski, Bentley, and Kohn, Buzzmakers, Inc., @toxic, Secret Weapon Dude, Brenda Walker / Rebel Content, Kara Murphy, Shannon Clark, Design About Town, & Secret Mobile Guy.
David/David and Ashli at Musica Tecnomica. The best and longest running *monthly* Music Technology Mixer right here in SF!

My 5thbeatle clients! That you for making the music you do and letting me help you with your Web and Social Media Presence for Music Marketing and Fan Engagement. I provide the platform; you provide the inspiration for fandom.

Alright let’s make some music and get it out there with the technology.

Best to everyone in this new year of 2010.

All the best!

Todd

Music Marketing via Web Radio

There are a number of sites to which bands can upload their tunes so friends, family, and fans can stream their music for free to spread the word and get additional exposure in the musical Web sphere. Some say to not provide a constant radio stream of your music or “people will not buy your music, they will simply listen to your streams constantly and you’ll never get paid.”

Well that could be true.  But you can sign-up with Sound Exchange to get royalties from online streams. Just fill out the stacks of paperwork involved. Read about them here and here and see if you wanna fill out all this stuff and send it in. Then you can go through the processes of trying to get on Web radio.  Some are just a sign-up procedure and others will be screening your music and/or have requirements.

It would also be cool at this point to have your UPC Code for your CD, your IFRC ISRC codes for each song, and all your work copyrighted ( which you can do all online now ), if you still believe in such a thing.

Web Radio

Set-up without being screened:

1) Last.fm Simply make an account, and decide if you want your royalties direct from them or through Sound Exchange. Bingo you will be on Last.fm .

2) Imeem.com Simply make an account, very similar to Myspace.

Get screened, get added to great online Radio:

1) Pandora Radio – You must have a CD to sell. It must be available through Amazon. This is more than likely the best Internet Radio station with “DNA coded” music recommendations. They pay out an estimated $27 million in royalties annually. Go here to see the list of requirements and how to get two songs screened for acceptance.

2) Lala.com “Home of the .10 stream”. If you want to be on Lala you have to go through a digital distributor like Tunecore or CD Baby Digital. Pay the man and within 2 months your music will appear.

3) You want to get added to as many Web Radio stations as possible? Better get organized; that is a whole ‘nuther ballgame, very similar to getting “adds” on College Radio. Hire a specialist. I have recommendations based upon your needs, location, and budget.  Hit me up.

Does copyright, submitting material to digital distribution companies like Tunecore, and setting up Web Radio stations sound like a pain? I may be of some assistance if I am available. Let’s continue this conversation if need be.

Most of the information on this site is painstakingly formatted in this PDF file below so you can print it on white paper with easy to read black text. Or you can print for FREE by subscribing to the RSS feed at the top of the page, and also be in tune with any and all updates. Try Google Reader, its’ pretty cool. Also many hyperlinks will take you into the Web and show you the examples given. In some cases better then the Website! Ha!

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