Barnes and Noble In-Store Promotion

MySpace for Musicians will be included in a nationwide Barnes and Noble promotion starting June 30th! Wooohooo! I'm really thrilled about this. They are doing a promo of books about social networking and MFM is going to be one of the books featured on an end-cap or on one of those special tables you see in the front of the stores. This is going to be in major markets only, which means definitely in the big coastal cities. For those of you not in a major market, I encourage you to call your local BN and ask if they are carrying the book, and if not to special order it for you. Otherwise, you can pick it up at Amazon.com.

New Site Coming Soon!

It's in the works, complete with sample chapters and other goodies =).

Call MySpace and Facebook Peeps with One Click

So I heard that click-to-call ccube.com users can embed their ccube.com icons on their MySpace and Facebook profiles. If you have a ccube.com account and I have a ccube.com account then I can call you and you can call me by just clicking our ccube.com icons. It's free for up to 60 minutes of talk time. In terms of music marketing, you could use this as a promotional tool whereby you, the artist, are available for click-and-chats with fans on a certain day and time and only to peeps on your friends list. You can easily restrict this to "friends only" by posting a bulletin to friends with your ccube.com ID, or if you want to be really exclusive, make your profile private during your promotional call time, with your headline noting "We're having a private chat. Only Friends Allowed. Add us!" First 10 callers win t-shirts. Use Total Recorder to record some of the conversations and post them on your profile. Promote before-hand through blogs/bulletins, and a notice on your page etc.

Of course the question is, if you've got a computer mic and a set of speakers, why not just use Skype or AIM's voice call function? They're both free and you can talk as long as you like (for Skype-in country at least). You might not need ccube.com after all. Heh.

MySpace Chief Marketing Officer to Keynote Miami Ad:Tech

Miami Ad:Tech, an Interactive Marketing Conference targeted toward the burgeoning Hispanic and international Latin markets announced that MySpace Senior VP of Marketing and Content Shawn Gold will interviewed by CNN anchor Alberto Padilla as part of the conference's keynote presentation. Gold will discuss the marvel of social networking, the launch of MySpace Espanol, and what the service has in store for the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets.