Chris,

both your site and the landing page look really great. You are very talented. I like the blog and the videos.

MMM3 should give us it good system to get more people involved and coming for more. I would imagine that your site isn't converting people for the same reason ours is not, because all of the content is there and people get all of their fix at once without having to buy anything.  Otherwise I think the music is great and all of the pieces are there, blog, videos, etc. Do you have t-shirts for sale?  

Why are you giving away 3 songs 

for free and not 1?  

Stacy

Ah, got it. I will know more as we watch more videos.

http://www.finerband.com is our regular site and http://www.finerband.net is our landing page site.  We'll have it full done when the new EP is

done which should be in a few weeks.  

thanks! 

Thanks!  no that is not me on the guitar...it's actually Ethan on the bass! I wrote the song and the arrangement and play all the guitars minus the kick ass solo. You can see the solo on the video at http://www.youtube.com/finerband123

As far as touring we sold our house to tour so have that money and mapped out a 2 year plan. We worked for a long time to save the money to do this and work on the music full time.We sold almost everything we own minus instruments and kitchen stuff you wouldn't buy twice like blenders etc.   We are being strategic about where we play and what we can afford. We stay with friends and family in various cities as we build our audience.  

For downloads on the squeeze we only give a song if they give their email address. We're dragging our feet with the site until the album done. 

Good stuff! 

Thanks! It's been a great experience so far.  The people in our travels have been awesome and we're learning a lot.  

We're not at the rv point yet, car...has been much better for gas

That's pretty great about you and your wife.  I think the online marketing mixed with the touring will have a good benefit in the long term but your way of the local events and online marketing has also worked for a lot of people.  We're focusing more on the on line stuff right now as it gives us more time to write and release music.

Have a great Thanksgiving! 

Stacy

Ah, got it.  The internet has so many powerful tools.   Once we get the album done we're going to kick it in to high gear with the marketing efforts. 

Thanks for the compliment on the good work. You too!  Have a great weekend.

Stacy

All is well! We've been agressive with youtube videos…making them which as been great, but we're still working on the album so have not put the squeeze page into effect do to that. But the album is almost there. We got added to MTV's music library via Tinderbox Music because we did a college radio campaign with them last spring.  Now they have to actually play it, but it's a start. 

how are you?