Hey everyone! Just signed up!

Ill post myself here!

What i know:
Production Manager, Production Assistant, Production Services, Stage Manager, Guitar Tech, Backline Company, Rigging, Photography, Bodyguard/Security
Who Have I Worked With Before?
I have a HND (Higher National Diploma) in Popular Music (Irish rock school) & Performance In BCFE College in Dublin, Ireland.

Basically i know my stuff (a little too well) when it comes to audio equipment, stage management, mixing, rigging, guitar tech, improvisation & harmonization, vocal tech, song writing, record contracts & gig production from small gigs to large festivals. i have studied what is needed to succeed in the music industry as a professional, the laws and guidelines of what is required to set up a major festival.

I have been taught by many leading professionals in the irish industry who have worked on major productions within europe and the united states with countless professional musicians.

Im also a guitarist (playing 9 years) and in 2 diverse bands (hardcore metal band & indie/dance/rock band)

Hope i can bring some valuable contributions to the site and i'll tell others about it to try get the members up!

Its a great idea!

hey nice to see some more people signing up looks like you know what you're talking about hope to see more stuff from you

rcanpolat wrote:


Hope i can bring some valuable contributions to the site and i'll tell others about it to try get the members up!

Its a great idea!

Hey rcanpolat,

Delighted to have you on board. Definitely pass on the good word. It would be great to see a few good heads in here.

Go ahead and stir up some conversation on the boards or give us a shout if there is anything we can do for you.

Regards,
Harmonix.ie Admin

rcanpolat wrote:

Hope i can bring some valuable contributions to the site and i'll tell others about it to try get the members up!


Hey man,

Keep those members coming!!

will do - the more the merrier

Ha ha exactly! Would be such a great resource if we could get a few more active members.

By the way, you are automatically entered into our competition for the €100 Voucher!
www.harmonix.ie/index.php/forum?func=vie...;catid=24&id=495

what i feel is you really need to pull the community from gigsmart and boards.ie

gigsmart had its moments a few years back but after there site rebuild people got pretty pissed off. if you can find that community again your in business. also you need to pull the boards.ie community of musicians and get them on board in here.

other then that... print some stickers, hand them out to members and tell them to slap them up all over the country

Yeah stickers may be a good option! The "robbing" from boards is harder than you think... I got banned for just putting a link up there!!

It's very strange, people are registering, but just not posting. And there is an average of 95 visitors per day! I'm sure that once there are a few more very active members it will grow and grow, but its a hard slog to get past that point!

I will go pop a link onto Gigsmart now!

i know what you mean mate.

if you really to get this popping there are a few things you can do but its going to be tough going for a while and may become costly.

i've noticed your running adverts such as "www.iteurope.ie/"'s - and i presume this is either a friend or your on a commission basis (ie for every signup you receive a % of the profits)

does your site actually generate any profits what so ever?

Options to generate profits and advertise your site - some are free, some cost:

Social Bookmarking - I suggest you add the social bookmarking widget to your site on each page (in every part of your forums if you are able to) If someone finds a cool post they can immediately post it to example stumble, digg, facebook etc - i've done this on a few of my sites and when looking through my google analytics you can most defintly see a spike in your traffic. at that moment when your spike is there if you have great content you will get visitors staying. the link is here www.addthis.com/ - EDIT: i've seen ...e etc - more dynamic

Targeted Relevant Adverts: I suggest you create more room on your site for targeted advertisements such as google adsense or adbrites adverts. these will show the user adverts more in context with the text displayed on the screen that they are reading. they generally pay per impression and per click

Facebook: - Create a facebook page if you dont have one already and get your mates to join, this will allow for 2 options - 1: it is an easy way to get in contact with your members & 2: it itself is a free advertisement when the link is seen on peoples pages

Facebook Adverts: I personally do click the facebook adverts - sometimes there is something good in there to check out - i heard they can be pretty cheap and you can target them either to specific locations or globally - target yours towards the irish community

Conduit Toolbar - This is a simple to build toolbar relevant on whatever you want (ie your site) you get paid per usage and per download of this. I strongly recommend you make one BUT do not sign up yet. Wait until you have a few thousand members, do a mass email and request that you need "BETA TESTERS" for your toolbar. You have i think 30 days to make money on it until they put the price per download down to around 1 or 2 cent. so dont make one until you have a large enough community, otherwise you wont pull in any revenue - link here http://www.conduit.com/

Dont spam other sites - just spam your signature on other sites and stay active - in time your link will become so tempting to others they will click it and if they like that they see your made

Local Freebies I dont know about other areas but in celbridge there are a few magazines and crap full of free adverts - you could add yourself to this, try tapping into local newspapers too, adverts can be cheap and these papers can be read by up to 50 or 60,000 people a week

Get in with others: Find other small sites and offer to advertise them free if they advertise you free - you never know, if they suddenly become big you could have a sudden mass of 100,000 members one day! Stay in with people and other sites, get to know the admins and ask for tips etc

Physically doing something:

Pending on your location (example if your from dublin) target the surrounding colleges and musical stores. print off business cards with your websites details on it and what you do, go to example my college (balleyfermot rock school) and leave a bunch lying around - i seen this go on for 2 years when i was in there. you can tap into a serious amount of people by doing this. its painful slow work but it can potentially work. you have balleyfermot college, DIT, TIT, Maynooth College and so many more. Do the same to music stores such as walons, perfect pitch etc - get posters up

A mass sticker sticking street team can work in favor of you but it can also lead to a fine. So long as your stickers are not littering areas or you are seen as destroying public property you'll be safe. I suggest tapping into the "emo" area of dublin at central bank at the weekends and handing out cards, flyers etc, do the same to the hotspots such as temple bar, asha shop, tambuli (i think thats how you spell it) etc - general place where large communities hang out - in that case the rocker / emo community

Finally make sure you get google analytics up in your source code on your site. I had a quick look through your code and i couldn't see it, maybe i missed it on this page - theres a lot of code in there

Looking at the top of your site there is a large potential area for secondary content such as adverts - i suggest you check out the tuts sites for good tips etc on building more "web2.0" looking sites - these are a great way to show the general trend of the websites being built today and whats working for people http://tutsplus.com/ - also dont be afraid of using .png's - they can always make a site look more dynamic when the standard jpeg images which cant generate a transparent background

Hope that can help you out some bit

Im now going to go drop dead from exhaustion for a few minutes

Hey man,

Cheers for that. Really appreciate that. Will get on to all them ASAP.

I suggest you add the social bookmarking widget to your site on each page

On the bottom of the page, there is a share button on the toolbar. You can instantly share anything on Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon.. You can share it on absolutely everything!

I suggest you create more room on your site for targeted advertisements such as google adsense or adbrites adverts.

Part of our policiy is that we wont use adwords or anything. We will only let companies who have a real interest and can benefit the Irish Music Industry. The site is not here to make money, the advertising is just to cover costs.

Create a facebook page if you dont have one already and get your mates to join

Again on the toolbar there is a Facebook Fan Page link, and you can become a fan without ever leaving Harmonix.ie. There are nearly 200 fans at the moment, and any post on the forum gets sent straight to Twitter and that fan page where it appears on everyone's wall.

Facebook Adverts

Something that will certainly be done in the next few months.

Im now going to go drop dead from exhaustion for a few minutes

You really are a star for giving up all that time! There are quite a lot of things there that I will certainly have a shot at.

Would you become a fan of the Facebook page and click Suggest to Friends for me? www.facebook.com/pages/Harmonixie/252606963290?ref=ts

That seems like the best possible promotion, as it appears on everybody's walls. Having said that, there were 2,000 suggestions made to people, and there are now only 200 fans!!