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Promote Your Band at CultureMob
So, the Internet has this truth, like the physical world has gravity, the Internet has a never-ending list of web sites. In the last 5 years, music-oriented web sites that either review, share, and promote music have been joined by web sites that offer bands the ability to promote themselves; from Bands in Town to Eventful. The latest entrant should be shown to whoever helps your band with event promotion – your drummer perhaps.
CultureMob has launched exclusively, at first, to Seattle, Portland and Denver. It’s a fast, slick-looking site with familiar Web 2.0-ish technologies (widgets, comments, personalization, etc.). CultureMob helps people discover, promote and share local events, including movies, live music, theater, sports, educational events and more. There’s also tight integration with MySpace and Facebook, so your events populate your profile – ahh, nice, features for the lazy are the best features.
Here’s what I find interesting about this first launch: it reminds me a lot of Yelp – Yelp’s like crack for heavily-opinionated people that eat out all the time. CultureMob features a similar interface to Yelp, you login, rate venues, movies, etc. and others can contribute their 2 cents as well.
Here’s the initial problem with CultureMob: there isn’t much there. The site is nicely populated with movie times, but pretty vacant with music performances, but that’s the catch 22 for new web sites like this. Build the site and they will come is more like a question than a statement.
Take-away: your drummer is already updating your MySpace profile, coding widgets and posting YouTube videos. Why not buy him a Pabst tall boy and tell him to add your band’s events to CultureMob.
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