Wednesday, July 16, 2008

John Reese’s Traffic Secrets: A music industry perspective on internet marketing

“Finally.


The time has come.


4+ years in the making.


A small fortune spent.


Thousands of tests conducted.


A valuable system made even better.


“Traffic Secrets 2.0″ gets officially released
today at Noon EST!


If you’re serious about making money
online and growing an online business
then this is the course for you.


And I’ll stake my reputation on this… this may
very well be one of the last traffic-generation
courses you’ll ever need to buy.”


 


 


 


So today is the launch of John Reese’s “Traffic Secrets 2” and it is a big event in internet marketing.


This should be a great post because not only can we learn from John Reese in regards to applying online promotion ideas from his amazing free video material . . .


. . . but we can reflect on how John was able to create such a huge buzz for his product in an already overhyped and oversaturated market.



I understand the reason a lot of musicians come to me is because they understand the importance of promoting themselves and engaging fans online, but they’re not really interested in learning and practicing “IM” or internet marketing themselves, they wanna do their music.


Which is cool, that gives me a job to do, especially as there seems to be so very few music industry people interested in IM.


Which seems pretty strange to me, I mean call me crazy but if you were say in the recording industry and you kinda figured your whole industry was shifting to a digital, web enabled environment and you were wondering how to make money . . .


 


You’d probably start by looking at people who were already making money in a digital web enabled environment.


And I don’t mean like bill gates. I mean like garden variety twenty something geeks with a handful of computer skills (who me? haha), who to which the idea of not having to leave their bedroom to make money appeals.


You see no one who is involved in IM is interested in the music business because these kids are just trying to make quick bucks and there are no quick bucks in music.


Quick bucks are in diets and porn and peddling get rich schemes, and don’t forget the cornerstone of IM, the ebook. And when people are focused on one thing such as making fast, easy money selling whatever they can online, they begin to get very good at it. And a whole economic ecosystem has sprung up to support those who either work full time as a professional or part time or as a hobby earning extra cash as an internet marketer, and the industry has become ever more streamlined.



And it’s true that a lot more people are interested in miraculous weight loss cures than they are your music, but given that people make so much money out of weight loss online and anything else you can think of probably with a lot less resources then you have - while you’re still thinking about how to quit your day job - kinda suggests there’s some things we can learn.


And so that’s what I’ve been doing. Watching and learning from the ways that marketing is carried out on the web for RESULTS.


As in money results.


And I don’t mean results for Bill gates or Radiohead or anyone who doesn’t need my help.


 


I mean for you, at the arse end of the music industry, in a sinking ship with the rest of us, working out how to turn a crust.


 


So you can focus on your music, and I will focus on getting you to the best place online to get paid for it.



Lets get back to John Reese’s traffic secrets. I think the thing about Traffic Secrets is that it’s done a radiohead. Or is it a led zep reunion? The point is, within the internet marketing and blogging world people are hyped up about his product.


People that are masters of hype are hyped. Why?


Well the whole point of this post was to highlight his Free videos.


He has 3 free videos totalling almost an hour of free material where he discusses several in depth online promotion strategies and techniques.


You should watch them because theyre great, they’ll teach you a lot . . .


But - If you want direct access to these free videos then you have to jump into our new artist community.



http://newmusicmarketing.com


 


It’s free to join, (currently the whole site is free but there’s not much happening just yet, early days – by August should be a different story)


So back to this massive launch campaign. The first thing I noticed when I heard about this was that a lot of top IM people were blogging about the free videos from their friend John.


 


What if you had a dozen top bands all telling their fans you had a new album coming out?


 


But it wasn’t just talking about the videos it was what they were saying. Needless to say the free videos were packed with info and insight, they were distinctly authentic and valuable in content. In fact its only in the last half of the last video he even starts talking about the product itself.


 


But it wasn’t just the content. These bloggers and IM gurus couldn’t stop talking about the quality of the presentation, as although video has been growing in IM for the last 18 months, the general consensus was that he had risen the bar in promotional videos for internet products with the standard of his presentation.


And this is what many of the marketers touched on: They were personally excited about the product.


What they had seen and been given free was of such high standard they couldn’t help but be connected with the product and feel confident about purchasing it.



And this is the world we’re now living in. In order to stand out, you have to demonstrate superior value in a way that is accessible before you even create the opportunity to realise significant revenue.



Interesting aside:


I saw an ad emblazoned “John Reese is a scammer and owes me $30,000” I clicked through to a sale page for . . .


 


Traffic secrets . . .



I guess that’s one way of advertising. I don’t see myself running a “Matt Turner is a scammer and Kurb ripped me off” campaign . . .

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