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March 30, 2017
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Hey Brian,

So there's a bit of bad news. It turns out that the problem is that VMP is a flash player. Browsers are starting to push out flash so some of them don't display it by default anymore. This is why Steve saw it as displaying correctly but you and I did not. The way the player is set up is that in the event the browser doesn't display flash it displays the browser's default audio player. So while the player and functionality still work, the look of the player will not be right in some browsers.

VMP originally came to market in 2012 and as you know, it;s been off the market for a few years now. Because the only fix would be to create a brand new player, this unfortunately signals the end of VMP's relevance. 

While it's not the same thing, the closest thing I can recommend would be the tactic layed out in this lesson: https://www.mmmanifesto.com/in.....-for-2016/

Sorry I can't be more help with this one.

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March 30, 2017
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Thanks for getting back to me on this one John. No worries at all, time marches on! I will check out the '16 Viral Rewards Machine

April 3, 2017
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Thanks for understanding.

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April 11, 2017
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Absolutely no worries man. BTW like 4 friends have texted, messaged or tagged me in the last 20 minutes about the MMM video ad, which is awesome. One friend in particular is very excitedSmile

April 12, 2017
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Brian Rogers - Internet sensation!!!  🙂

-Steve

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April 12, 2017
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Hahaaa, at the very least one of my musician friends feels more empowered to make some more dough since seeing the MMM testimonial ad. There's a solid chance there may be a new MMM member from Sacramento in the near future 🙂

April 12, 2017
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That's awesome man. Thanks again for making the video.

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April 12, 2017
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You're welcome man, my pleasure! This sounds random but I was driving today and i have this mix tape, and Baby Bye Bye is on it. I was particularly appreciating that slide guitar, badass tone and he's playing along with your lyrics pretty perfectly.

April 18, 2017
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Hey Brian,

Thanks man. I really appreciate that you listen to my music. That means a lot. I dig that guitar part as well. It's played by my producer David Darling. He's a bad ass guitar player and used to be signed to Atlantic with a band called the Boxing Gandhis.

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April 18, 2017
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Hell yeah man, Dave's slide tone has more testosterone and grit to it than I'm used to hearing, plus he uses it wisely - meaning he's certainly right there but he doesn't fill the house. He instead seems to have big ears, and he knows he's working with a real lyrical craftsman and respects that by playing in the spaces. Not to go on and on but I like appreciating these kinds of details, because in addition to simply enjoying the music it also help me highlight my own tastes as well. Its rare when I come across a band or artist who can do that, cheers.

Haha Boxing Gandhis is a great name, I'll see if I can find anything out there on them, thanks man.

April 21, 2017
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Yeah, that's what makes Dave such a great producer. He really serves the song and never gets bogged down by a single element of it. I've done three albums with him and a number of one-off tracks. He's the best. Thanks again.

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April 27, 2017
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You bet man, great music.

On a different note, I'm wanting to ask about the best way to post things to FB. For example, video - would you try to put every video in a blog first? My hunch is that you wouldn't put a music video on a blog first becasue we're typically aiming to create a lookalike audience from those 25% watchers, and adding a second click to go to a blog page might reduce views.

But on the other hand, I have some recent footage of me playing on the news and I feel like I should put that on a blog page first and then post that to my FB page, for retargeting purposes. Is that the right thinking in terms of taking a different approach to posting that kind of video, as opposed to a regular music video?

And along those lines, would you ever post any text to your FB page without it being in a blog or it pointing to a link? Seems kind of pointless for business purposes, because you can never pixel anyone that way, but still wanted to see what you thought. 

April 30, 2017
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Hey Brian,

It all just depends what the purpose of the content is. If my goal is to target people who watched a percentage of the people I would just post the video to FB. If it's to be used as part of my funnel I would probably embed it in a blog post. If it was a short video that was powerful and might make the conversion (lets say a web cam video from the artist telling people their album has just come out), I might just embed that on FB. It all comes down to what action I want next and what approach is more likely to inspire that action.

I'm not completely following your question about adding text to a FB page vs a blog. Can you rephrase that?

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May 4, 2017
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Hey John,

Totally, that all makes sense, thanks man. As far as "text" I was just referring to simply saying something on your artist page without it pointing to a link or a video. Can't even remember why I asked that, read it back and it sounds confusing lol. So pleases disregard that question.

I noticed a new feature (new to me) in the ads manager called a conversion window. I read the description but still unclear how it would be applied. For ad optimization, it gives a  default range of a 7 day window after someone clicks on the add until they take the desired action. I'm imagining for our purposes we'd just choose 1 day click instead of a 7 day window?

May 4, 2017
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Hey Brian,

If I am understanding the thing about posting without a link correctly, then yes... Posting on your page just for the sake of posting is completely fine. Great in fact. Just be a real person and be interesting. Everything doesn't need to be a link/offer/call to action.

And yeah, FB is rolling out features faster than I can keep up right now. The conversion window more applies to people that are working on longer form conversions. Like, lets say you were creating content, promoting that content, then retargeting the people that engaged with that content with your squeeze page, but you wanted to track the conversion costs of the original post you promoted. That is the kind of situation where the 7 day conversion window would help. 

For almost all of us the 1 day setting is all you need to worry about.

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