Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 191 pages
- Published by: MTV Press April 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 157687446X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1576874462
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 8 ounces
Reader Reviews
This review is from: MySpace Music Profit Monster: And All Proven Online Music Marketing Strategies! (Paperback)
I'm extremely suspicious of this book getting 17 5-star ratings. It was alright! Seriously though, any more than 3 stars is generous. THE BAD: It's quite basic, explaining how to set up a myspace page, etc. Now, maybe I'm biased because I was not new to MySpace when I purchased the book. I already knew about bulletins and blogs and messages and how things work on MySpace. I was more interested in getting more traffic to my band's page. Certain things about the book were frustrating. For instance, there is a subheading in one of the chapters titled "Getting on the Front Page." Well, in that section it talks about what a great opportunity it is to get on MySpace's homepage. (Duh.) However, it does NOT tell you how to accomplish this. Instead, it states how unlikely it is, but that it's a "wild dream for everybody." Useless. Basically, the book tended to tell you which things would be good things for you to do but then left you clueless as to how to go about it. There was a type-o probably every 5th or 6th page, and that REALLY irritated me. It was hard to take the book seriously when it clearly had not been edited. THE GOOD: It is a quick read. You could go through the whole book in a day. It talked a good deal about promotions for your band. Although, most of it involved writing or hiring a writer rather than flyers or other traditional techniques I assumed would be the most proficient. Nicky Kalliongis obviously has a lot of contacts and has done some great stuff in his musical career. ... but I would not by any means consider him a good author. Anyway, yeah, 3 stars, no more.
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