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      <![CDATA[Most of the tips in here are pretty spot on, and should be pretty obvious to any musician who lives in the city and has played at least a handful of gigs.<br>
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With that said, there are a couple of tips that contradict other tips you make.<br>
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1 - "play as many shows as possible every day of the week." The fact is unless you're on a decent bill with bands that are in a "scene" you are trying to get in, and there's actually going to be people there, most likely you're not going to get any real "exposure."
        
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      <![CDATA[This is a bunch of bullshit:<br>
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<a href="http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/lifestyle/the-guide/big-interview/brighter_days_for_tom_1_3459001" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/lifestyle/the-&hellip;</a><br>
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Check that guy, ask him if MySpace didn't help.<br>
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MySpace is still in the top 10 Social networking sites, beating out Google+, according to Nielsen:<br>
<a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/nielsens-tops-of-2011-digital/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online&hellip;</a> <br>
(Scroll down to the chart were MySpace is mentioned.)<br>
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MySpace is #16 on Seomoz:<br>
<a href="http://www.seomoz.org/top500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.seomoz.org/top500</a> <br>
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And is in the Top 7 trending brands on Twitter:<br>
<a href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/10/the-top-15-trending-brands-on-twitter-according-to-hootsuite-infographic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/10/t&hellip;</a> <br>
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According to Google's own stats, MySpace is still in the top 100 sites worldwide, ahead of Tumblr & HuffPo. Surprisingly, Reddit is nowhere in sight:<br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top&hellip;</a><br>
Just looking at that list and counting Social networking sites, MySpace comes in at number 5.<br>
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And it's still beating out Tumblr & Google+ according to CommScore:<br>
<a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/myspace-more-unique-visitors-than-google-and-tumblr-1054456#form-wrap-commentform" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/mys&hellip;</a> <br>
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MySpace TV is also mentioned postively in these articles:<br>
<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/18/the-view-from-ces-the-top-trends-in-technology-for-2012/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/18/the-view&hellip;</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.v-net.tv/myspace-unveils-soctv-and-second-screen-sync/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.v-net.tv/myspace-unveils-soctv-&hellip;</a> <br>
        
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      <![CDATA[@Doug Kresse: I am willing to bet that asking the crowd how it sounds will not in 90% of shows make the sound any better. If the sound-person hasn't figured the bands' sound out on their own, they probably won't and just aren't that good at their job and/or are having technical problems.
        
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      <![CDATA[As someone who does PR work for one of the venues in town (as well as freelance for a lot of musicians) I can not tell you how dead on this article is.  Heck, I even learned a new thing or two. Thank you for this!
        
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      <![CDATA[It seems like the "advice" from Captured Tracks really only applies to them.
        
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      <![CDATA[@Ninths: As per #57, yes, t-shirts are still a-ok by us. And postering!
        
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      <![CDATA[@Natural: Whoa, whoa, whoa, there's certainly *some* snark and ironic posturing in there! Thanks for the nice words, and for reading, obviously.
        
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