Comments on: Engaging with your fans http://www.takingyourmusiconline.com/engaging-with-your-fans/ Giving independent musicians the skills to succeed online Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jeffrey Siegfried http://www.takingyourmusiconline.com/engaging-with-your-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Jeffrey Siegfried Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:38:31 +0000 http://www.takingyourmusiconline.com/?p=656#comment-169 Most musicians seem to think that when the show is over, they're finished for the night. That just isn't true. Here in Nashville what happens most is the following: You play a date with a group of acts. The first act gets set up before the night begins, and they play to the group that came for them, usually girlfriends and band friends. During the next act, they're carrying gear out to the car and are gone before the next band is even finished with song number two. It is at about this stage that the third band for the night shows up and begins loading their gear into the club. This list seems consistent here ... each band plays for it's people and leaves. MY band however, gets there for the first band set up, no matter our play time, and stays for the entire night. The only times we disappear are to put on our make up and show clothes and to move our things for the other bands ... until those times, we're there rooting for the other bands and talking to people. The show doesn't stop just because you're not on stage. It ends when the last fan goes home. THAT'S how you engage the fans in my opinion. Most musicians seem to think that when the show is over, they’re finished for the night. That just isn’t true. Here in Nashville what happens most is the following:

You play a date with a group of acts. The first act gets set up before the night begins, and they play to the group that came for them, usually girlfriends and band friends. During the next act, they’re carrying gear out to the car and are gone before the next band is even finished with song number two. It is at about this stage that the third band for the night shows up and begins loading their gear into the club. This list seems consistent here … each band plays for it’s people and leaves. MY band however, gets there for the first band set up, no matter our play time, and stays for the entire night. The only times we disappear are to put on our make up and show clothes and to move our things for the other bands … until those times, we’re there rooting for the other bands and talking to people.

The show doesn’t stop just because you’re not on stage. It ends when the last fan goes home. THAT’S how you engage the fans in my opinion.

]]> By: David Wiebe http://www.takingyourmusiconline.com/engaging-with-your-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-168 David Wiebe Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:26:59 +0000 http://www.takingyourmusiconline.com/?p=656#comment-168 I've found that it helps to start exactly where you are. When I first heard stuff like "engage" and "talk to people" it sounded like work. But now I understand that I have my own appeal. If I try too hard or think about it too much, things don't go that great. When I'm natural, and when I feel like myself, that's when I make connections, even if it's just a couple of people. I know people out there that are great at meeting and greeting everyone in the room, but I've always been more about personal, in-depth interactions with fewer people. I’ve found that it helps to start exactly where you are. When I first heard stuff like “engage” and “talk to people” it sounded like work. But now I understand that I have my own appeal. If I try too hard or think about it too much, things don’t go that great. When I’m natural, and when I feel like myself, that’s when I make connections, even if it’s just a couple of people. I know people out there that are great at meeting and greeting everyone in the room, but I’ve always been more about personal, in-depth interactions with fewer people.

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