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Old 01-26-2012, 08:15 AM   #4 (permalink)
VEGANGELICA
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Originally Posted by Il Duce View Post
yeah i agree with VEGANGELICA about Muzic Forums

but be warned, the promotion thread there is under scrutiny by a lot of hardened well-worn musicians so expect some really rough criticism on your recordings
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A warning? ^ This is exactly what I think an up-and-coming musician would want from a forum! You just gave MuzicForums the best promotion possible, Duce! (Plus, they have the games!)

I actually haven't looked at MuzicForums' promotion section, other than to note it exists, but I do know that at least one of the MuzicForums moderators is a professional musician who earns his living playing and teaching music, which I learned from my conversations with him. He's very knowledgeable about music.

EDIT: Okay, I just took a look at the MuzicForums website and read this about their promotion section:

"Forum Title: Promotional Material
Forum Description: Promote your band, music website, or anything related to music. No spamming please!
Sub-Forums: Promote Your Bands Myspace, Articles, News, Concert Information"


Surprisingly, there actually doesn't seem to be a lot of activity in this section of MuzicForums' site. For example, most of the promotional threads that people started on the first page have only 15 views and no replies/comments. And the thread designated "Promote Your Bands Myspace" currently only has 481 threads and 920 posts.

So this shows what happens when you have a bunch of people together each of whom wants to promote herself or himself: not much conversation!

Yet it also shows that allowing promotion of bands on a forum doesn't seem to cause a massive influx of musicians aimed at self-promotion. Of course, MuzicForums is a smaller forum than MusicBanter; if *we* had a promotion section, perhaps more musicians and those who want to promote bands would flock here, drawn by the lure of our small horde of devoted music listeners.
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