I have always had problems with getting my band the exposure that it needs. I would pay people to promo me all the time locally and it never ended up working out for me. It would cost me thousands so after a while, I realized that I needed to find another solution to my exposure. The stress of paying all of this money for promoting myself was very frustrating and often made it difficult for me to get a good nights rest.
I decided it would be a cool idea to check online.
Not a good idea. This is when my career really took a turn for the worse. I hired an agency to build me a website and do all of the branding. It was nice. New site that showed our brand along with a lot of hope that our following would find us and give us some love.
We would publish our stuff on all avenues. We would do Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and even classified sites. Nothing was left behind when it came to pursuing our dreams.
I hired a guy named Alex Novaes to build the website and do the entire design and promo work. He was a solid dude. Got everything setup in a small amount of time and it was very straight forward.
I hired a guy from Wyoming named Andrew Santisteven that managed all of our gigs and helped us get more shows. Very good stuff to have online.
It was good but I needed more exposure. Got more followers and fans. But we needed to be big. Hired Euri Morvix in Europe to mess with our Google plus account to give us authorship. Had a really bad experience hiring a guy that went by vikas3445 to get us more Facebook and Twitter fans. Got us exposure for only a week and then the followers fell off. No refund or anything.
After we lost all of our followers, we then got our Twitter account banned. We had 6k followers and growing before hiring him for this service. We had to rebuild and rebrand from the dramatic fan loss. It took some time but we eventually regained most of our lost fans.
Growth is a very slow process but its very much worth it if you proceed and push forward. I'm very grateful that I stumbled and went through all of the ups and downs in my career. Being in a band is a sore ass thing to deal with. The rewards are great only if you can endure the long path along with the work.
God bless us for doing this. Its amazing to see all of this going into light after working my ass off to the very edge of my life.
