Members saberry Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 My, almost 15 year old, daughter is becoming a pretty accomplished performer, doing live shows and is now working in the studio on a professional demo. In helping her try to get her music out there and open more doors, I've helped her create a ReverbNation page. I'm curious how many people use ReverbNation and how good a resource do you think it is? It it the sort of thing that's mostly used by artists, but not seen by many others or is it a good tool for getting your music out there and getting gigs? Here is her page so far: www.ReverbNation.com/SavannahBerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members underground66 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 My band is on their as well but we rarely if ever use it. Myspace is our main source of networking on the web. Reverb does seems pretty good, lottsa widgets and bells and whistles and so forth. The one thing they don't have that Myspace has is a whole lotta artists. The club and bar owners (although you won't be worried about that yet) all check myspace first. Have an account with both seems to be the best bet.As you stated, these websites are just a tool in the arsenal of the musician to getting the music out there. They certainly won't do the hard work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members underground66 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Although, I'm going to assume, since she since a presence on both sites, you know all the info I just stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hegmatronicon Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 We're on it - but dont really use it. We're a cover band tho so it might be different. The thing i DO use it for is it's widgets that you can embed on your facebook, myspace, and band websites. Things like gig lists so you only have to update ONE, maps to the venues, times/dates, facebook updates/wall posts for upcoming shows, embed demo tracks on your pages etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saberry Posted November 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Although, I'm going to assume, since she since a presence on both sites, you know all the info I just stated. Yah, she has MySpace as well although it's in need of a revamp. She's also been getting a lot of subscribers on her YouTube page - about 10 a day lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkwire Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 We use it...I should say I use it. I started using it as a Facebook app. I haven't really explored it all that much, mostly I use the Fan Reach tool to maintain the mailing list and put out our e-mail shouts. It puts it in a good looking template and makes it easy to put it together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members backtoblue Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 Yup, if nothing else use it for the widgets and email tools. They're great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarsjb Posted November 7, 2009 Members Share Posted November 7, 2009 We kind of use it. When I remember too...myspace is still our main source of networking etc. It has some cool features, but the great ones you have to pay for..so, we don't use those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pjrake Posted November 7, 2009 Members Share Posted November 7, 2009 we use it for our mailing list, and some of their widgets. it's good to have a presence on Reverbnation. they're really good and always looking for ways to improve. -PJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members qcb79 Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I use it for posting demos and the widgets. I use the interactive show map widget on our website and the demo widgets on facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saberry Posted November 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 FYI Found something useful on Reverb...an abbreviated e-book version of "The Indie Band Survival Guide." It has some great tips- course the full book version has a lot more detail...I'm reading it now - very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Small Stone Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 FYI Found something useful on Reverb...an abbreviated e-book version of "The Indie Band Survival Guide." It has some great tips- course the full book version has a lot more detail...I'm reading it now - very helpful. +1, I read it too! We have a Reverbnation account (http://www.reverbnation.com/days ), and what I can say it that it doesn't have alot of trafic like our myspace page http://www.myspace.com/daysqc). But then, I haven't started to promote the hell out of my band (we have no promo pics yet and just old demos). BUT: there are alot of great tools with Reverbnation, and I haven't got to use a third of it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saberry Posted November 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 Yeah, I don't think it's liky that you are going to get discovered or make a lot of new fans with Reverb at this point since the traffic is not there and it's primary an artists site BUT if you were sending out an email to promote yourself I think Reverb is probably the best site you could link back to. Their EPK (they all them RPK) service is ver professional looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members QuinnsTunes Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 ReverbNation is great, possibly the best I've seen, tool for collecting fans and maintaining a mailing list. Since the free service is capped at 500, I'd encourage anyone to pony up the 10 bucks per month to get access to the unlimited email/FanReach program as it is a tremendous value when you consider the contact it allows you to maintain with your fans. When driving through Raleigh one day I dropped in on their headquarters and met a couple of the promotions and operations people and they were extremely helpful and interested in finding ways to help out me as a performer and working musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikalena Posted November 22, 2009 Members Share Posted November 22, 2009 What is going on with this forum, Suirebit did you gave up?!Common people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wesg Posted March 3, 2014 Members Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi! Thanks for letting me know not to bother with Tunenest. My time is at a premium, so every minute you save me is a real bonus. Eliminating all sites who think astroturfing is a legitimate way to boost traffic tends to be an extremely efficient way for me to filter out crap. Wes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted March 4, 2014 Members Share Posted March 4, 2014 Useless idiocy. It cracks me up when people come on Facebook touting their ReverbNation chart success...LOL...Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wesg Posted March 4, 2014 Members Share Posted March 4, 2014 If you make "Featured Artist of the Month" on ReverbNation, you can bet you don't suck. I have seen some pretty good acts that way. On the other hand, I've been #1 in an obscure genre on there....it's easy to be the big fish if you make the pond small enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MaseMan Posted March 8, 2014 Members Share Posted March 8, 2014 <P>Useless idiocy. It cracks me up when people come on Facebook touting their ReverbNation chart success...LOL...Seriously?</P> I admit to doing that. We're "#1" in our town, whatever that means. I find Reverbnation's gig scheduling and email list tools are really streamlined and useful. I like that you can coordinate different widgets (like the event schedule) with your Facebook page. "Useless idiocy?" I don't think so. Just like any networking website, it is what you make of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted March 8, 2014 Members Share Posted March 8, 2014 Its a handy place to put up some music online so people can go give a listen quickly with little hassle. Handing out a CD just aint what it used to be.Also the widgits/links to Facebook, Twitter, etc. are quite handy for posting updates, gigs, maintaining a fan databass, and things like that.Rankings and all that is pretty useless and meaningless, just mutual like each other masterbation IMO. We're #1 in Americana in out town, but theres only 2 bands in that category:). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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