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By xdavid

 What are some ways you can benefit as a musician from music social networks? To begin with, music social networks are great ways for bands to connect with other bands. If you’re looking for a way to network with other musicians, either for collaboration purposes or for booking shows together, why not start by putting up a profile on a music social network site? If you find music you like, support your fellow artists and purchase a few tracks. If you want to, you can even buy the whole album when you’re really feeling it. When you support other musicians, they are likely to throw you a bone once in a while, too. Help your fellow musicians out by recommending them to potential fans or maybe even inviting them to play a show with you.

In addition to being able to connect with other people in the music community, imagine having a venue where you, the musician, have control over the price of your music, as well as the format in which it is sold and distributed. If you only want to sell your album in its entirety, then you can do just that. On the flip side, if you think it would be to both you and your fans’ benefit to sell your albums by its individual tracks, then that option is available to you as well. It’s great for up-and-coming musicians to have so many choices in this day and age.

The problem with relying on a record label for the production and marketing process is that once everything is said and done, it’s like your music went through an assembly line–the bits and pieces are arranged by many different people, resulting in a single product that must be marked up far beyond its physical value in order to accommodate the overhead. What this means is that the fans are stuck paying more for the physical value of the album than the intellectual value. Meanwhile, the musicians only receive, oh, about two percent of the profits per album–and that’s if they sell any at all.

Using a music social networking site to interact with musicians and fans is also great because you can post bulletins, blogs, photos, and announcements any time you want–maybe you want to announce some tour dates, the release of your live album, or any other news regarding the band. In fact, you can involve your fans in the process by offering them bonuses for “friending” you on your music social network site. You can offer them perks like exclusive ticket pre-sales, VIP passes, merchandise, etc. Interacting via music social networks is a wonderful way to stay in touch with your fan base as well as your community, whether you do it by posting photos, keeping a blog, or somehow engaging fans in a forum setting that really serves as a useful marketing tool.

Written by Melanie River. Music social networking site that provides a music social network site and store for artists and listeners. One of the hottest new music social networks on the internet at http://www.r4rmedia.biz

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By Musa Aykac

 We all know that the social media bubble is at its peak, Facebook is one of the most successful social networking sites ever and it has got a vast pool of celebrities using it. Since the sites launch it has grown to become a type of necessity in world culture. Most people that use the site are very active users and they obsessively check there profiles every day as well as browsing there friend’s profiles.

Twitter on the other hand is a simple micro blogging site where users can update there status bars and allow there followers to hear there shouts. The site is relatively new, but has recently had a lot of media coverage due to the rise in celebrity stars using the service.

It is rumored that Facebook offered Twitter over five hundred million dollars in Facebook stock for the site, but Twitter turned it down. But could this end up being a serious mistake made at there end?

A lot of people (mainly Facebook users) do not really understand the need for a service such as Twitter, as Facebook has its own status update section. What is more intriguing though, is the news that Facebook have opened up there API for the status bar section. Which is ultimately what in fact made Twitter the site that it currently is. There is currently a lot of talk about Facebook killing Twitter. So let’s take a quick glance at the reasons why Twitter may or may not last.

Social networking sites are just like search engines, one of the most important facts is how the site is built. Plenty of social networking sites do not stand the test of time simply because there technologies are not advanced enough.

An example of what I am trying to say is to turn our attention to Google. Google simply revolutionarised search with there technology. This is why over the past decade they have shrugged off any rival search engine and will continue to do so unless someone invents a better way of search. The site cannot be cloned or copied because it is just too advanced.

Ok social networking is not exactly the same, each site offers something different but it’s the same core principle, the reason that Facebook will be around for a long time is because it is very hard to duplicate and they have created a solid platform with a great business model in mind.

Twitter on the other hand has none of this, although the site is great for connecting with people in the same niche, it has got nothing to keep a user there. I see twitter as a passing phase in the networking industry. That come this time next year will be saturated with clones. Heck! we are already starting to see the clones popping up left right and centre, simply because the site is too easy to replicate, it just has not got too much thought behind it, one of the main reasons that Digg is losing popularity is because it has just become over saturated with copycats and people are just getting fed up. Have you ever seen a copycat of Google? A search engine that is able to deliver such accurate results? Twitter just saw what other people have done and (Facebook status bar) and increased it a notch, I don’t know if Facebook status bar will wipe Twitter out, but Twitter will probably end up picking there own fate, just as a lot of other social sites have such as Digg.

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By Steve Selengut

 More than fifty years ago, LaVern Baker & The Gliders, brought Jim Dandy into the fray to lasso runaway horses, dry the tears in little girls’ eyes, and to save special mermaids from the hooks of villainous fishermen.

(Black Oak Arkansas’ rendition on You Tube will help you understand what your parents and grandparents survived.) Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

This generation’s “runaway train” is a slip sliding housing market victimized by lender’s greed, Wall Street’s creative dark side, and congressional tinkering with a process that worked well for centuries— and all by its lonesome, George.

Our little girls’ tears are those of small, vulnerable, main-street-residing investor’s whose retirement dreams have been shattered by securities markets that are little more than casinos, and instruments of mass financial destruction that even their creators cannot explain.

The mermaids? They are the taxpayers who have been victimized too long by the financial institutions, tax collectors at all levels of existence, and a congress that won’t rest until it regulates our democracy into oblivion.

Jim Dandy is in the house— The White House. Go, Jim Dandy!

Barack Obama captured the presidency, and brightened the political mood of America, with the promise of change— the economic mood continues to suffer. In some areas, we need simply to rollback recent change that has failed; in others, suggestions of change that have been ignored need to be given some big time media attention. Here are a few instant winners:

One: Get rid of SFAS (Statement of Financial Accounting Standards) Rule # 157, which works something like this: While my bank owns my mortgage, it’s worth full value. As part of a Ginny Mae— still full value. But once it crosses over into the ether of CDOs and other multi-level, Frankensteinesque monstrosities, my paid in advance mortgage becomes indistinguishable, and nearly worthless.

Fully paid to date loans cannot be deemed valueless because some other body part is delinquent. It is madness to mark the value of 95% of the mortgage debt in the country to near zero because a small minority of borrowers are in trouble; “underwater” on a property is more a function of the real estate cycle than it is of the foolish loans themselves.

Why aren’t the highways clogged with underwater SUVs? Which loan would you stop paying on first, home or auto? Most would answer: neither. Income securities cannot by valued as if they were common stocks, and all debt must remain clearly identifiable.

Roll back the toxic accounting rules; unwind the mad scientists’ creations and ban them from the planet; move back to realistic mortgage qualification standards; classify all multi-level derivatives as much too speculative, even for hedge funds— and think about getting rid of them as well.

Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Two: Income Tax and Social Security Reform legislation has been ignored by congress for years— possibly because most of the fat cats just don’t pay all that much anyway. Congress, you’ll recall, has a fully funded program for retirement and lobbyist dollars to cover their current expenses.

Change Social Security into a guaranteed fixed annuity program that is professionally managed within the private sector— a whole new sub-industry without worries of healthcare and a captive market for all forms of government securities. Employee contributions would be smaller and employer contributions gone forever.

SSRIAs would provide tax-free retirement income, and could become a viable alternative investment option for a portion of IRA, 401(k), and other corporate sponsored, private retirement programs. No retirement income from any source should ever be taxable.

At the same time, and about time, let’s recognize how little the very wealthy (tax attorney and off-shore-investment protected) actually contribute to the Treasury. Let’s appreciate as well that an underground, cash only, economy still flourishes in the heartland.

Why not boost the economy (and eliminate 50,000 pages of gibberish) right now by replacing the IRC with a Flat Tax of 7% on all non-retirement income— 10% max with the addition of state and local taxes. A year later, all taxation of investment income, including rents and royalties, is abolished at all levels of collection.

Relax— we create a Federal Sales tax of 10% on consumption of every thing except food, shelter, and clothing (and possibly health care and higher education). Yeah, we’ll have to create a few thousand APE (Audit Police Everywhere) jobs to enforce the intent of the new rules, but it’s a start. Also, minimum wage earners would pay no federal or state income taxes.

Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Three: The corporate form of organization, at all levels and sizes, is a force of growth, productivity, and prosperity. It must be encouraged to employ more people at fairer salaries while it contributes wealth to society in an eco-friendly manner. We need to nourish business, not browbeat it into submission.

The elimination of all forms of taxation and fees could be engineered to require additional jobs and to lower prices. But it is essential that corporate boards of directors play a more pro-active role in monitoring and controlling the excesses of higher-level managers, executives, and bonus recipients.

There are more corporate stockholders in the trenches of organizations and in the factories than there are in executive suites. They control fewer shares and wield less influence, its true, but more 401(k) participants than CEOs were crushed by the congressional murders of Lehman and WaMu. Give them more of the corporate compensation pie— the wizards can make due on much less than 10 million per year.

It is essential, with regard to all business enterprise, that corporations are protected from the axis of economic terrorism: over zealous regulators, ambulance chasing class action attorneys, crybaby shareholders, and protectionist trade agreements— theirs and ours.

Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!

Steve Selengut

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Author: “The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read” and “A Millionaire’s Secret Investment Strategy”.

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By Marc Ilgen

 As you know, traffic to your website is the lifeblood of your business. You need to have visitors come to your website, especially visitors who are predisposed to purchase your products and services. But getting traffic to your site can be a real challenge especially for fairly new websites.

There are several ways to get more website traffic. The quickest way is to use pay per click advertising, but that can get expensive very quickly and you must track your conversions to be successful. Article marketing is also a good way to get traffic over the long term, but that can take a great deal of work and some patience. Unfortunately there is no magic bullet solution to getting more traffic. You simply must use a combination of approaches to make it happen.

The good news is that there are some new and/or often overlooked methods of getting traffic that can indeed be quite effective especially when used in combination with the more established techniques like paid advertising and article marketing. One of the best such techniques is using social bookmarking websites.

Social bookmarking is a web phenomenon that has come into existence over the past couple of years. The basic idea is that instead of a user saving his or her bookmarked website links on their home computer, instead the user saves them in an online account. Bookmark links in this online account exist in public pages on the website, so a link to your website on a social bookmarking site counts as a backlink to your website. Furthermore, social bookmarking websites usually have high pagerank in Google so a backlink can have a good amount of link value. While it is rumored that Google has been decreasing the value it assigns to these links over the past year, it is still true that a large set of social bookmarking links can help increase the web site rankings of your website.

It is also true that social bookmarking sites were set up so that people can share their bookmarks. As a result, people can often arrive at your bookmarked website simply through exploring other people’s bookmarked links on these sites. So your site can achieve a certain amount of social verification by being listed on these bookmarking sites and can get some direct traffic that way.

So how do you get these social bookmarking links. There are dozen or perhaps hundreds of such sites, although the most common ones include Delicious, Furl, and StumpbleUpon. Usually you just sign up on these sites and download and install a social bookmarking toolbar in your browser. Then when you find a site you like, such as the site you wish to promote, simply click a toolbar icon and it will create a bookmark link for you. In some cases you may be prompted to add some written information about the site.

The main problem with social bookmarking your own sites is that there is only one of you, so you can get only one link to your site. It is helpful to find ways to get other people to help you out. There are forums where you can work with other people to share social bookmarking tasks or even pay a fee to get someone to do some social bookmarking for you.

The best approach is to work together with a large number of people where everyone does social bookmarking for each other. This way everyone shares the work but everyone shares the reward of lots of backlinks.

Learn how you can save a ton of time and money by automating your traffic generation strategies at Marc Ilgen’s website http://www.neurolinker.com. His Neurolinker system helps your website get more backlinks for better search engine rankings.

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