{"id":1773,"date":"2013-05-16T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-05-16T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T00:03:22","slug":"bits-about-earbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"Bits About Earbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There is a marketing vehicle for musicians called Earbits<\/a>. I started using it in December. Especially like the fact that\u00a0 there aren’t a whack of advertisements polluting the pages where the work of interesting artists wait to be heard.<\/p>\n

Sure am sick of advertisements everywhere, blocking street signs or trying to scan your retina enabling a talking poster to greet you a la Stephen Spielberg\u2019s brilliant Minority Report<\/a> (see picture of Peter Stormare). Isn’t it amazing a great film can exist despite Tom Cruise acting in it?<\/p>\n

Also very\u00a0 pleasing that the people who made Earbits regard Sonic Bids about as useful as this humble blogger does. In my inner scale of good and bad, Sonic bids occupies the space between \u201ccar just towed away\u201d and \u201cfood poisoning\u201d.<\/p>\n

(from the interview with Earbits navigator J. Flores)<\/p>\n

What are the benefits of using Earbits for an independent musician?<\/strong>
\nI think the big benefit is that, say on Facebook, you can put up a page, but there\u2019s not much you can do to drive exposure to yourself on those pages other than putting in a lot of hours networking on Facebook and asking people to refer friends to you. It\u2019s not that novel to give a band a nice profile page, but what we\u2019re doing is creating a place where consumers will listen to hundreds of bands in a month, making that audience available to bands without them having to do a lot of work. My experience with Facebook has been that you\u2019re paying 30 cents for a click and the person doesn\u2019t even know what you sound like yet. On Earbits, you\u2019re paying 2 cents for someone to listen to you and they have the ability to act on that by going to your Facebook Page and things like that. It\u2019s taking that step out of the middle of making someone guess what you sound like. We\u2019re creating an environment that\u2019s so compelling for users that they\u2019re going to want to spend their time there. And we\u2019re making that available for sale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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