After hitting a few snags while contacting bands for the One Night Stand campaign through Reverbnation and Facebook we needed to try and find a way around their messaging systems. In order to message a band directly through Reverbnation you must first become a "fan" and wait for them to accept your fanship. Facebook will just straight up block your account as a spam profile if you send too many direct messages too quickly. I was put in a group to find a solution for Reverbnation. We discovered that you could ask the band a question in a Twitter style format with a limited amount of characters but without having to become a fan. The only problem with this is that it really lends itself to spamming and after reading a few articles about RN online I noticed that users are wary of this and might be hesitant to react and abrasive if they do respond. There were other services set up by the site designed to contact and manage bands, but you must download apps to do it and fan the bands anyway. So really in the end the site gets in the way of itself and getting bands noticed and on stage.
The rest of the afternoon I started work on a new social media banner for the OnPoint BizBuzz. It is almost done just needing a couple tweaks to make it look just right.
Today leads have been going pretty slow. I think part of it might have to do with listening to sports talk radio after every Boston sports team got obliterated. I'm just trying to keep plugging away so hopefully I can get my numbers up for the day.
Tim Pietrasik
Graphics Intern
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