TweetThrough the guide you have been setting up many different accounts for your band, using many different services and tools. The following accounts should give you a quick insight in to what your band should be routinely utilizing and keeping up to date with.
Your email although set up at your hosting account has been directed to Google where you can take advantage of other services they have to offer, not forgetting the free 7GB storage.
Email.Google.com/a/yourdomain.com
This will be for the following accounts;
admin@ Where you have registered your band or website presence with other services online
info/contact@ When people wish to just know more. Here you can include personal emails too.
Support@ For your paypal account as your setting up your online enterprise which can be seen as a business
book@ If anywhere or anyone may wish to book your services live then they can through this email.
You should have each of them set up with their own bookmarks links within your bands main routine folder or a folder called email.
Hosting
You may have to do some quick updates or upload new versions of software, either way, checking your hosting is a part of the routine, it’s where your first set of analytics come from.
Domain
If you want to, you can always check your domains popularity, pagerank, backlink status, age, etc with firefox addons or the many website services out there such as dnscoop.com
Music Services
To see how many plays you have had from the people that have visited your profiles, as well as number of interactions between your profile and fans including comments.
Photo/Image Services
There are stats for imagery too, so don’t forget to keep a database of image views and anything else your photo hosting service shows you.
Video Services
Any of them virals been working? If so, your video stats, such as the ones provided with Youtube will show you much more than video views. You can record the number of profile views, country of origin and even how they found your content.
Sharing News to Social Networks
Facebook fan pages, Myspace blog post and any other social network be it image/video or for groups of people to just talk will be the first place you add your content to wherever your fans may interact away from your bands site.
Facebook Groups get more important news posted to them because you can message all the members at once unlike fan pages.
Forums you run and other communities you have set up, such as Ning, may have ways of evaluating the work you are putting in. Number of registered community members is a good place to start. Recording such information will then help future evaluations of what is working and what is not with your main and sub marketing strategies.
Finally, Twitter and any other service you have set your band up on, whether to push your main website content or interact with the community can have information which your band could use to help stream your potential fans to your bands main point of focus, your website.
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