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QuoteStory time.
For about a week, my funnel has been completely 'ready' in terms of functionality and content. But it still had the default style, so last night, pre-launch, I decided to dig in and do some customization to get it more 'on-brand' so to speak.
As is typical with this kind of endeavour, I made some improvements, broke a bunch of things in the process, and went to bed at 3AM feeling like it had been a decent effort and that I'd iron out the wrinkles as soon as I had a chance. No big deal, it's not like I'd been advertising the site on Facebook yet or anything.
Except ... I got up this morning to an alert that told me I had my very first 'real' subscriber.
Oops. Well, I guess I'd better fix all those little problems with the site ASAP. And after a few manic hours flipping back and forth between Wordpress, Photoshop and Paypal, it was 'done' enough that I felt OK about it going quasi-public.
So ... what the hell happened? Had my subscriber Googled my band? Had it been posted somewhere? I thought I'd better ask him to clear it up.
Turns out - someone sent him the link. Which means there's pretty much 99.9% odds it was someone here.
Now - it's no big deal, at all. And considering my site was about 97% ready, I appreciate the share. But I thought it was worth mentioning to the group - people are sharing stuff here that is in various states of readiness, so you *really* ought to give a heads-up (or ask) before you take someone else's work public.
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Spinning off from this ... if people want to help my site, maybe they could go and leave a nice comment on the two key subscriber blog posts. I'd be happy to do the same- perhaps we could start a dedicated thread and help build the social proof up a bit before we pull in our initial subscribers.
Here they are:
http://www.doubleeyelidmusic.c.....our-world/
http://www.doubleeyelidmusic.c.....invention/
Cheers all
Ian
9:01 pm
June 7, 2011
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Hey Ian,
While it's certainly possible, my gut is telling me that it did not come from the forum. Purely because people here are typically much more focused on their own issues and you just don't see that level of excitement about other people's music, to the extent where people would be grabbing links of work in progress to turn their friends onto it.
That said, if it did come from the forum, it could be a musician who just wanted to see what you were doing and didn't feel like saying that it the email. But who knows. I'm just guessing. At the end of the day, it's a subscriber and if the person liked what they saw enough to sign up, I'd say that's a positive.
The blog comment share and share alike idea is a great one. Hopefully you'll get a few takers. I've moved this to the networking forum in the hope that it gets a few more eyes on it.
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