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TGIF
Hanging on a thread... of water droplets. That's the only thing that seems to keep awake this morning. Thank God it's Friday!
Course, I went to bed late. Watched Happenstance last night. Stars the girl from Amelie. This one wasn't as much a winner as Amelie. It was interesting, mind ye, but also a bit on the boring side. Took the view point that nothing happens by chance. A butterfly beating its wings in South America will cause hurricanes on the other side of a globe, and it showed how this happened. So that part was interesting, it was just getting there that was pretty boring.
Then I read another chapter of Harry Potter. It really does speed along, it seems.
Course, earlier in the evening we had a live performance on KVRX radio in Austin--Nummy Muffin Cocoa Butter. Big name... like ours. Had fun, but I should've ate first, that'll often affect how well I remember songs.
Oh for a brief bit, I worked on "Buttercup's Lament". Seems on a second listen there was a bunch of static from the recording. I'm really kicking myself now. So if you bought the CD, please contact me and I'll get ye a replacement. Course, I'm gonna have to re-record the vocals this weekend. Meanwhile, the CD is offline. Again, my apologies.
Story of my life really. Overanxious. Try to get stuff done and forget to check my work. Heck even the Irish Pub Songs for Cat Fanciers, I jumped on really quick w/o thinking through. Course I haven't recorded any of that, just writing right now. But still...
Oh, I did tell Andrew the idea. You can imagine the look on his face... He doesn't like animals. So I told him he can play backup and we'd never sing the songs in public. :)
Okay, that's not entirely true. If any of the songs come off really good, then great. Right now, I've had a lotta great comments for "Wild Kitty", so who knows I might slip it in occasionally. ;)
How to Publish Newsletters
Two or three years ago, I published a series of articles on how to publish a band newsletter. Man, was I ticked off though cuz I forgot to keep copies of the articles. So they disappeared from existance, maybe saved on a musicians computer or two, but I'll never know.
Kinda sad really. As they were pretty good. So I figured I'd share a few newsletter publishing tips.
Stick with Text Newsletters
There are a growing number of people out there who are praising HTML newsletters. I tried those once, but failed miserably. Then the huge slaughter of SPAM that's been hitting my email, I'm not sorry I did fail.
While you can boast the benefits of HTML newsletters with catchy graphics and hidden affiliate URLs, quite honestly HTML ezines are not nearly as good as Text. Why? Well, lets start with me.
I get only a few HTML ezines. I read none of them at home. Why? HTML in newsletters is a horribly easy way for a publisher to add cookies or spyware into your computer. Plus, they are much more prominent when it comes to carrying viruses. Thus, I convert ALL HTML ezines that come to me to text to prevent the spread of viruses.
I also block all attachments. And since most HTML ezines include graphics, you're ezine is gonna look pretty crappy and distracting to me if I can read it at all.
This is probably the reason why Text ezines are known to be much more profitable at selling products and sevices than HTML ezines and also why all the best marketers stick with text.
To be continued...
Bread and butter come to supper
BTW, if you missed our live performance on Nummy Muffin Cocoa Butter, stay tuned to his website. You'll find a copy available for download in the very near future.
Oh, and speaking of free downloads, did you see me Free MP3 Music Download of the Month. I kinda threw this page together to feature some of the MP3s I have available. Most are on MP3.com, but not all...
Look for more in the future.
Posted by Marc Gunn on Friday, September 26, 2003 |
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