The Biggest Website Mistakes You're Making - Pt. 1

Live website critique detailing some of the biggest mistakes made with websites, and how to correct them. (Part 1)

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• music
• business
• marketing
• promotion
• myspace
• website
• design
• internet
• sales
• direct
• musician
• band

[jeremiahjacobs]

Really innovative way of using YouTube as a consulting medium....good video. I'd resisted watching for weeks, but after a few minutes, have really come to like your comfortable, genuine, call-it-as-I-see-it approach.

Nicely done.

[MusiciansMastermind]

Thanks Jeremiah! Nice to meetcha - I'm in Northern CA too!

[bricktop11]

im a webdesigner and i get loads of people wanting flash based sites i decline to make them for the same reason you have said i want my clients to get the most visitors so i do basic

[MusiciansMastermind]

Thanks bricktop! I'm glad even a design pro "gets" what I'm saying. Design is wonderful, but design for the sake of design isn't necessarily the best when one is trying to showcase something other then the design...

[MusiciansMastermind]

Yes, I do know the artists syndrome well... Although it makes me wonder, if one wants to be anti-capitalists, anti-business, anti-selling, why one would watch this video in the first place! I think that's a great idea - tackling this idea head on in future videos. Glad you enjoyed it!

[TeamGopher]

What do you feel are the most important methods of buzz building for a band? How would you rank them in a scale of importance?

[MusiciansMastermind]

MySpace and YouTube are sites you've got to be a part of. Other then that, it depends on the genre of music. The biggest thing you want to do, other then make great music, it make it really really easy for a fan to tell their friends about you. That kind of word of mouth is where buss is really built. I'll talk about some methods to encourage this in a future video.

[herrinband]

Michelle, thank you. I just bought your YouTube guide and look forward to implementing as much of it as possible. You are encountering what I call the artists syndrome here. The apparent battle between the artist and the marketing. They are more worried about the colors than the communication. Perhaps it is something worth tacking head on in one of your future vids. Although it does leave more room for those that do get it.. ha ha. :-) keep em comin!

[Niosiss]

Yeah bro, you really took everything she said TOTALLY the wrong way. You posted an ART SITE to counter what she said about MUSIC sites???? She NEVER said flash as a whole was bad, just flash intros (which 90% of people skip, and the other 10% likely couldn't figure out how to do so). You turned it off because you "disagreed" with what she said when in reality you only heard what you wanted to.

[MusiciansMastermind]

Since you only watched 4.5 minutes of a 20 minte presentation, I'll let this go. But I went on to talk about tons of things this website is doing right - in fact, I chose it because it had a solid foundation, and the improvements I suggest are easily implemented. And I never said I was a web designer, I'm a marketing expert.