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Nice to meet you, Chris. Thanks for the explanation.
This thread is an interesting case study on what to do and not do when using social media for marketing. As you and your staff found out, you can't just post your press release everywhere and anywhere and expect it to work.
To effectively use a forum like this for marketing, you'd find a subtle way to get others talking about your event. Maybe you'd become an active member yourself, learning the culture here and finding a way to fit in. Then when folks trust you and learn more about you, they'd start talking you up.
It sounds deceptive, but innovative marketers have been doing it for a while now. That's where the whole "viral" concept came from. Social media has great potential for building brand loyalty but it has to be genuine and it takes work.
Fiddlerman is in business and this forum supports his business but it wouldn't be as successful as it is if he were just a pitchman. He's genuine, personable and helpful, and, as you can tell, he's built a ton of brand loyalty. And if that helps to sell his stuff, that's just fine with everyone here because it will let him keep this good thing going.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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KindaScratchy said
Nice to meet you, Chris. Thanks for the explanation.This thread is an interesting case study on what to do and not do when using social media for marketing. As you and your staff found out, you can't just post your press release everywhere and anywhere and expect it to work.
To effectively use a forum like this for marketing, you'd find a subtle way to get others talking about your event. Maybe you'd become an active member yourself, learning the culture here and finding a way to fit in. Then when folks trust you and learn more about you, they'd start talking you up.
It sounds deceptive, but innovative marketers have been doing it for a while now. That's where the whole "viral" concept came from. Social media has great potential for building brand loyalty but it has to be genuine and it takes work.
Fiddlerman is in business and this forum supports his business but it wouldn't be as successful as it is if he were just a pitchman. He's genuine, personable and helpful, and, as you can tell, he's built a ton of brand loyalty. And if that helps to sell his stuff, that's just fine with everyone here because it will let him keep this good thing going.
Probably the best post on this topic.
Thanks Diane
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For everyones information, I would like you all to know that Christian wrote me a personal email apology for the situation and we are already talking about ways to collaborate.
As you all know, I highly support learning many different styles of music and I believe that Christian can add a lot of knowledge to our site and hopefully some of you will have the opportunity to go to one of his courses.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
I have been on Christian's mailing list for quite sometime now. We can learn from many sources.
Fiddlerman said
For everyones information, I would like you all to know that Christian wrote me a personal email apology for the situation and we are already talking about ways to collaborate.
As you all know, I highly support learning many different styles of music and I believe that Christian can add a lot of knowledge to our site and hopefully some of you will have the opportunity to go to one of his courses.
Yay, I knew in the beginning he could be an asset to this forum. 
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Thanks DanielB
For Stone Dog,LindaK, and Pierre in response to your requests to share tips that are relevant and useful to the forum, consider it agreed. I hereby make myself available to help, with no intention of stepping on Pierre's virtual toes!
re Stone Dog's request, "how to use loop pedals", I created a post on this subject recently here:
http://christianhowes.com/2013.....icianship/
If you have questions please let me know.
I hope it is appropriate to offer this relevant response via a link to my blog post on another site. If not, I will continue to explore the site to get to know more about the best ways to interface here.
best
Chris
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oh, I just saw page 2 of this thread, lol.....I really am so slow with this stuff sometimes...:)
thanks to ferret, kindascratchy, fiddlestix, and our gracious host and maestro as well for the input!!
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