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If you’re a musician and don’t have your very own website hosted on a domain name you own, and hosted on a server you pay for, you risk losing everything.
Many artists still rely on MySpace as their only website, which is just asking for trouble. What’s the problem with that you ask? Most importantly, you don’t own it. MySpace could and quite possibly will shut down one of these days. You risk losing all of the connections you’ve made with your fans on that social network.
You need to brand yourself more professionally with your own website, which can open up many possibilities for deeper connections with your fans, enabling you to then monetize that relationship.
I’ve been warning artists MySpace for a couple of years now, and today the end to this popular social network drew even closer yet. Look what just appeared in today’s news.
The article below is reprinted as originally published on Hypebot here.
“News Corp Gives MySpace Just Months To Improve”
Just as the new MySpace logo dropped the word “space, MySpace execs saw their own space to improve the social network evaporate yesterday as News Corp executives put them on notice during an investors call. MySpace was given less than a year to turn the newly redesigned ship around as Chase Carey, News Corp’s president, declared MySpace “a problem”. “The current losses are not acceptable or sustainable. Our current management did not create these losses but they know we have to address them,” he stated. Quarterly losses at MySpace have jumped by $30 million to $156 million.
If you don’t have a website for your music yet, there’s no better time than now. Drop us a line on our Get A Quote page and let’s put something cool together for you and your band, yeah?
–Brian Thompson
