‘If I can make it there…..’
– Support me on my trip to New York!
From september 7th till september 30th, I will be in New York City! New York is ‘the’ city to go for a (jazz)musician, so I am very excited to go. I will visit fellow musicians over there and attending concerts. I will also attend sessions and open podia to play and sing along with the musicians over there. My primary goal is to have fun hanging out in the music scene, learning from other musicians how they manage to make a living in a though city like NY.
But I also have another goal to fulfill while I am over there…..
As you may, or may not know, I like to write about my experiences/inspirations/ideas on my weblog Dromerdiedoet. Since I have been writing on my blog, a lot of great things happened to me. I got to know a whole lot of new, interesting people, fellow bloggers, who write about all kinds of subjects. Moreover, I was invited to give a speech about blogging on the Dutch Business Blog Meeting. Inspired by the power of networking and meeting people, I’ve started, in collaboration with Muziekpartners, our own Musicians Meeting.
Being a person who believes in sharing of knowledge, information and ideas which led to the succesfull first edition of The Beautiful Song Contest, I believe, more than ever, in the enormous power of networkdynamics, and that’s main the reason I have started this weblog.
Almost all of the people I’ve met on- and offline, at Naamlooz for instance, write about modern entrepeneurship: How to motivate yourself and others, Lifehacking, Acquisition, Interactive Marketing and Blogging.
Along the way, doing ‘my thing’, I got to be very interested in what is called Web 2.0. Web 2.0 are (internet) tools which are developed in the recent years to make interaction and communication with others on the internet more possible and more easy. With my accounts on Web-Log, MySpace, Facebook, Hyves and in recent months, Twitter, Pownce and Plaxo I got in touch with other people and share news, information and personal things with eachother (To view my profile in Facebook, you have to become a member). There are also tools like Delicious, DIGG and Ekudos , applications to value news and information on the net. I strongly believe that these tools are very useful promoting yourself and your product on the internet. Moreover, it is a great deal of fun once you get a grip on these tools.
To Blog or Not to Blog
For example, when I released my video TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG on YouTube, I used Twitter to notify my ‘friends’, now followers, that this video was put on the net. Almost all of my Twitterfriends are bloggers, so they put my video and the news on their blogs. Within a day, honderds of bloggers had put my video on their weblog. With this huge amount of attention, the news about my blogvideo was put on the homepage of Technorati (search engine for weblogs). At the moment, over 10.000 people have seen the video on YouTube.
So, because I have a blog and therefore got to know a lot of other bloggers, and being on Twitter, my video got a lot of attention (and I got some gigs too!).
Besides online, the song was aired a couple of times on Radio 1, Omroep Zeeland, Gelderland and Omroep Eindhoven.
New York Plan: Blogging
During my three-weeks-stay in NY, I will be writing everyday on this NewYorkStateofMind Weblog.
On topics like:
*How is it like to be a musician in NY?
*How do you survive?
*How do you promote yourself?
*Do you use Web2.0? And how do you use it?
*What does it take more besides talent and ambition nowadays?
I will be talking to many musicians, singers, instrumentalist and other people in the music business to hear their points of view about the life as a musician in the 21th century. Lessons, of which I think, can be of great value to anyone, anywhere in the music business.
My own TV Channel: Video Posts
These interviews will be recorded on camera and I will post my video’s everyday on Kyte Channel. Kyte Channel is a TV channel you can start yourself. For an example, look at this video by Robert Scoble.
The video’s will also be posted here.
What I wanted to ask you…
Will you support me on my trip to New York? I have come to the following idea:
I have already payed for the ticket. But some extra money will be very welcome, so I can do what I am planning to accomplish over there. This is my plan:
You can support me by sponsoring my videoposts! How is this going to work? Well,
Every videopost (one every day) will be sponsored, by You! On the screen, there will be a subtitle: This videopost is made possible by ‘Your Name’ or ‘Your Website’. Furthermore, at the end of every post, I will mention ‘Your Name’ or ‘Your Website’ as being the sponsor of that particular videopost. And, last but not least, Your Name or Your Website will be put on this weblog as a official sponsor.
What do you think? You like it? You want to join? You’re very welcome!
You will be a sponsor if you make a donation. It’s up to you what you like to donate. It may be €1,- , it may be more, that’s totally up to you. Every € is welcome and it won’t make a difference for me if you’re a so called big sponsor, or a little one, every donation is of equal value to me.
If you want to support me, you can make a donation by making a payment to Postbank Giro 8613727 t.n.v. M.J.C. Fondse, Arnhem, o.v.v. ‘NY gift’.
Ok, I am not sure if this is going to work, but I hope it will. Remember, I will be meeting lots of people over there, and I will be attending sessions and open podia too. And… let’s say I attract maybe 1000 viewers, then 1000 viewers will see Your Name or Website on the screen, it’s pure advertisement for you!
And on top of that, I’ll be wearing a T-shirt with all the names of the sponsors too!
I’d very thankful if you make a donation. This is what I can do in return for your money. I hope you like my plan and want to join. Any questions? Make a comment at the bottom of this article. Let me know what you think!
Thanks for reading. Keep you posted! Maurits
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