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Relaxing weekend without Jibber Jabber

Howdy! Miss me. Me too. hehe ;)

Great weekend. Nice and relaxing watching wayyy too many movies, but somewhat productive. I did a lot o'work on the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. I started adding individual pages to all my Featured Celtic Bands. I still have a LOT of bands to add, but hey, at least I got started at long last, eh?

Oh, and I also FINALLY sent out my Celtic ezine which I haven't done in a month or so. Even started preparing the next few weeks issues.

You'd think it'd be pretty easy, since they're just features. For the most part, it's not like I'm really reviewing bands. I'm just featuring. All I have to do is find bio info. But then, you'd be surprised at how difficult that can be. Bands are horrible at providing useful info in bios. Really gives you a decent perspective publishing a newsletter like this. I need to go back through my own bios and rewrite. One day...

Also, published my latest Bards Crier music marketing tip for promoting through Amazon.com.

Then last night, I got some non-web stuff done. Started compiling reviews and what not for a book I'm putting together. It's a book of reviews for Things Celtic. I'm hoping offering a book of reviews AT Things Celtic will help them sell more CDs, since a lot of the bands are local bands and not too well-known. Course, FINDING reviews for a lot of these bands ain't the easiest thing either.

But I figure people might be able to submit their own reviews too... Maybe I can setup a webpage for that? Or just direct them to the Austin Celtic Association website to do it in the forums. That's probably a wiser move.

And the Final thing I did this weekend was something I've been wanting to do for a while. I'm gonna publish my Bards Crier articles and distribute them around Austin. The hope is to help educate Austin-area bands on music promotion, and I've a lot of great articles. Plus, mayhaps I'll be able to garner more traffic and build up a greater local rep as one of the top key people in the music industry of Austin.

I thought it was kinda funny that my sister didn't realize a bit about my success. A couple years ago, one of the top Indie music websites online, Indie-Music.com published an article that listed me as one of the top 15 people to know in the music business. That's all because of the work I've done with the Bards Crier Music Marketing and Promotion Ezine. Never been to good at tooting my own horn.

Okay, enough jibber jabbering. Slainte!

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