American Veteran Productions Coupon idea

For my business American Veteran Productions I had never really thought about using a coupon

because I am trying to sell songs to movie directors and movie owners and people that place

songs into TV shows or I am trying to find the right singer for the song.

Music publishers that I am trying to sell the song to don't work on a coupon basis, and quite 

frankly they don't care about a coupon because all they want from a song-writer is a quality song

that they know is worth advertising and promoting.

For a lot of business groups including restaurant owners coupons do work.

For a business owner that owns a music song-writing company like me coupons are not the focal point of the business.

If I had merchandising that I did sell I could use a coupon that could be linked to an album of my songs

but I don't have any merchandising right now to sell.

Here is where '"SOLDIERS DO CRY" is for sale at the following link:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/nedgray2

I have uploaded the song for free on you-tube and many other sites, and the song is for sale

at the above CDBABY link for .99 cents.

A coupon on a .99 cent download most likely will not work especially since I already have

the song able to be downloaded for free so that music publishers can quickly hear the song for free.

What could work for me rather than a coupon is to offer a percentage of my sales to the following:

1. http://www.wish.org

2. http://www.feedthechildren.org

Coupons are a great idea for most business groups; and if I ever get merchandising to sell

and an entire album of songs I will think about the idea of using some type of coupon.

If I sell one of my songs that I did write to a music publisher their company at that point will

make an advertising campaign for the song because that is how part of the music industry does work.

Once I sell one of my songs I lose a lot of rights to the song so using a coupon for me right now

doesn't make a lot of sense but like I said I can use the idea of making sure a certain amount

of the profits I make go to a worth charity group.

AMERICAN VETERAN PRODUCTIONS

As I have said before for people trying to break into the music industry there are a lot of sites
that we have not reviewed in-depthly up to this point; and the music business has been around
for over 40 years that I can remember.
Here are some of the major sites in regards to music and the business of promoting music
that we have not touched on thus far:
1. www.myspace.com
2. www.reverbnation.com
3. www.sonicbids.com
4. http://www.livenation.com

Every business is unique and different and so a lot of the sites we have reviewed are not
the type of sites music business owners think about but for the most part that is okay.
Music business owners use a lot of different sites and some of those sites only deal with
people that are:
record label owners, song-writers, engineers, music producers, singers and other people that are
involved with the music industry.
The above sites that I have mentioned help me promote for free; and I can view my activity or lack
of activity as long as I pay my internet bill of about $85.00 a month with Verizon.
If one of the above sites where I have my songs posted ever had the right person with business
connections and music connections view my songs and like them my life
would change drastically here in the year of 2013.
All of the above mentioned sites deal only with music for the most part and that is the sites I use at times
because I am the owner of:
American Veteran Productions.
One of my songs as you know called "SOLDIERS DO CRY" is posted on most major music
sites and if the right person ever loved one of my songs and wanted to place the song in
a movie or a TV show I would cry and thank:
Almighty GOD and Jesus Christ!

FREE ADVERTISING FOR AMERICAN VETERAN PRODUCTIONS (AVP)

Many business groups have outlets where they can use free advertising, and my business is no different as the owner of American Veteran Productions.

For musical song-writers and musical singers in these times in the year of 2013 all you have to do

is upload your song to the sites for free and make an e-mail list sending out information to the

people you are tying to contact and here are a few sites that I use:

1. www.myspace.com/kevinmichaelferguson

2. www.reverbnation.com/brainmenders

3. Craigslist

I use myspace and reverb-nation myself because in regards to musical websites myspace was one of the first company's to really help musical song-writers and musical singers.

Every business is different and for some business groups myspace is useless to them but for

musical singers and musical performers myspace is one of the most power-full free advertising 

business tools that we can use.

If you ever type in the musical section of Craigslist you would be amazed at the amount of musical ads that are placed for free in most every city so if you are trying to enter into the music business it is a wise idea to check out Craigslist under their musical section.

If you have never tried to use Craigslist as a musician you are making a mistake because Craigslist lets you post ads for free if they are not offensive but they have a terrible flaw in their system  where some idiot can flag your advertisement because they are being stupid and childish.

If you have not checked out reverb-nation and you are trying to get into the music business

you should because reverb-nation lets you post your musical songs and musical videos up for 

free and I keep mentioning them in these posts because reverb-nation only deals with music

where some of these sites you go to have all kinds of business groups they are into.

Google's purchase of You-Tube about seven years ago for about 1.7 billion dollars was one of

the most brilliant business moves in the history of America and a lot of company' that were

more power-full than Google at the time are wishing they did buy you-tube.

I use the You-Tube site to upload my videos and musical songs for free and as I have stated

before all I have to do at that point is run a e-mail advertising free newsletter monthly

directing music publishers and singers and other writers and producers

where my links are because links in an e-mail are a power-full business idea that one should use.

It all depends what type of business you are going to try but for my business

if I need free advertising I will use the combination of all the sites where my music is posted for

free and a free e-mail advertising monthly newsletter.
As you know I don't use Face-book because I don't respect them nor do I agree with
their company morals and values because they are arrogant and sin-full non-veteran
scum-bags but they do have ways for a business owner to use free advertising
because first of all your entire page link on Face-book is free advertising
and you can make events and adjust your page to send out a call to action by letting others
know what you are working on or what new event or promotion you are running.

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  American Veteran Productions

  If you are a movie director or a music publisher I will make you a one-time offer to buy 100% of the rights to a song
  I own that I did write and the song is called:
  "SOLDIERS DO CRY"
  Here is the video link with the lyrics in the song that I am
  willing to sell to you:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM01u66mT6U

  

  Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:00am GMT-5 · 

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BLOGS I DID ANALYZE AND COMMENT ON

BLOGS I DID ANALYZE AND COMMENT ON:
1.http://anne-ec-dotes.blogspot.com
2. http://melaniessocialmediajourney.blogspot.com
3.http://clcsit155.blogspot.com

SOLDIERS DO CRY ADVERTISING

I hope this works my advertising plan for my song called "SOLDIERS DO CRY" so you all can take a listen to a song that I do own that can be placed into a movie like I said before and the movie examples are:
Pearl Harbor
Born On The 4th Of July
The Green Zone
The Hurt Locker 
Jar-head
Zero Dark Thirty
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning Vietnam
Lions For Lambs

Face-book is not my first choice for advertising my song because I don't respect Face-book, and also because they are not the industry leaders for musicians.
I have plenty of ways that I can advertise "Soldiers Do Cry" through myspace or www.reverbnation.com but as most of you know their advertising is not free.
One of my best routes of advertising right now is through You-Tube because You-Tube is recognized as the industry leader for brand new musicians and established musicians to post their work and my song can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM01u66mT6U
If I could afford a side ad or a banner ad I would place them on You-Tube or another site that only deals with music but as for right now we are paying the wages of all of our sold-out politicians who don't deserve their pay so placing an ad on the Internet is at least right now out of the question for the project that I am working on.
You-Tube and Myspace let's you post your work for free on their web-site, and so now I need to find a way to drive web traffic to my site that is on You-Tube and Myspace and ReverbNation.
Really for this project I actually don't need a lot of web-site traffic because all I need is one music publisher to like the song that I own, and they will pay for the advertising so here is one of the music publishers that I will make aware of the project that I am working on:
http://www.bluewatermusic.com
I did contact the above music publisher and they won't listen to my songs so another one of my plans is to try and find a singer that is not established yet that needs their first hit song and thankfully music sites are filled with singers who have no hit song of their own.
If I can convince a music publisher to take a listen to the song I own that is already finished and posted on You-Tube and Reverb-Nation and Myspace that is more power-full than placing a side-ad or a banner ad on Face-book or most any other site but the problem is most of the time music publishers are extremely busy people and extremely arrogant people.
Face-book in regards to my project would not help out as much as the following site below that deals with trying to help out the American Troops and if I could convince them to promote the song it would help out tremendously:
http://www.operationgratitude.com
If I could convince operation-gratitute to place my song on their web-site it might be a more power-full advertising tool then trying to pay for Face-Book ads or You-Tube ads because I am not sure some people are aware how expensive certain internet advertising is.
Banner ads or other ads being placed on Twitter or Face-Book or You-Tube are a swell idea but like most of you I don't make about $318,000 a year like the scum-bags Biden and Obama make so banner style ads right now for the most part are out of the question.
An e-mail advertising plan can work right now so I will continue using this site below or another site below:
www.constantcontact.com
Some people that have never tried to run a music business do not understand the music industry so I have to explain it to them.
Rather than placing banner ads on Twitter or Facebook or You-Tube or other sites it at times is better to try and run an e-mail advertising plan that directly links you with record labels or record producers or singers or music publishers.
Constant-Contact or other sites that deal with e-mail advertising is one of the directions I need to head because each person I send an e-mail to is in the music industry and their only job is to find the next hit song that America will love.
A lot of people that have never tried to be a musical song-writer do not understand the process of trying to get your song noticed, and they don't understand that finding the right singer or the right publisher is one of the most critical steps in the entire advertising process.
If I can convince an established singer to sing my song called "Soldiers Do Cry" their music label would be more than happy to pay for all the advertising to promote the song that their singer loves.
As far as Face-Book is concerned they have a few different ways that you or I can pay to advertise on their site and here is a quote from their site:
"Yes, it costs money to run ads and sponsored stories on Facebook, just as it does to run ads in your local newspaper. Advertisers are in control of how much they spend by setting a daily or lifetime budget".
Here is another quote off of the Face-Book website:
"Paying for optimized impressions is the best way to achieve your goal if you’re advertising a Page, event or app. It ensures your ad and sponsored stories will show to the people who are more likely to take the action you want".
Face-Book has a few different plans you can choose from and here is another plan they have:
"The only way to pay for clicks is to select See Advanced Options in the goal section. This setting for experienced advertisers lets you configure your ad and sponsored stories, including setting a maximum bid per click".
Here is an ad that I could run if I wanted to pay for it on Face-Book.

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Soldiers Do Cry

If you are a music publisher or singer looking for a new song I have it. "Soldiers Do Cry"

Ad Name:

Audience:

This ad targets users:

• who live in the United States
• age 18 and older
• who like music publisher

Campaign:

http://www.youtub...-Clicks-US-18-65 (New Campaign)

Bid Type:

CPM in Ad Space

Bid:

$0.14 USD per thousand impressions.

Daily Budget:

$10.00 USD per day

Duration:

This ad campaign will run indefinitely

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SOLDIERS DO CRY

Soldiers Do Cry

Ad Name:

Audience:

This ad targets users:

• who live in the United States
• age 18 and older
• who like honoring american troops

Campaign:

http://www.youtub...-Clicks-US-18-65 (New Campaign)

Bid Type:

CPM in Ad Space

Bid:

$0.10 USD per thousand impressions.

Daily Budget:

$10.00 USD per day

Duration:

This ad campaign will run indefinitely

Place OrderEdit Ad

Online Advertising like I did forget you were there oh wait I did not forget your company exists I don't buy from you because it is this horrible economy we live in of 2013 that the Democrats and Republicans ruined!

Every company from IBM to Dell to Nike to Ford and Chevy try advertising online and they are by no means annoying to me because I respect most business owners but what a lot of company's are not dealing with is this economy we live here in the year of 2013.
The Democrats and the Republicans destroyed the American way of life and American buying power by sin-fully allowing imports into America so for the most part a company can advertise all they want online but company's at times fail to realize that many Americans do not have the buying power or the extra cash to spend on certain products.
Online advertisers don't really attract my attention because I am 41 years old and I was 18 years old in 1989 over 21 years ago so I could care less about most online advertising because I know when I wake up what I want to buy and what I can afford to buy.
Ford and Chevy and Dodge can run ads all day and all night online but that does not equate to sales because the Car and Truck manufactures are out of their minds living in sin in regards to how much cars and trucks cost for decent working tax-paying Americans.
I know the best advertising that works online is for one-time events like:
a game, a concert, the rodeo, a musical, circus and other events that might only be in your town or near your city once a year.
Online advertising that promotes products to adults I don't know why they bother quite frankly because American tax-payers did not forget Home Depot and Lowe's and Orchard Supply exists but Americans can't afford many times to visit outstanding stores that are expensive.
A company that wants to advertise online like Best Buy that is having a huge blow-out sale for example on computers needs to understand when to advertise, and when they should not waste their time because America did not forget that Best Buy and Fry's exists but the fact remains that the politicians have ruined the American way of life and people have less spending power.
I don't worry or even think about online advertising and I don't concentrate on how to use them effectively because I know they exist and if I ever get a pay raise and make as much as the scum-bags biden and obama at about $318,000 a year then I will start spending cash, and until then bluntly I don't even think about online advertising.
I understand why certain places and company's advertise online like movie company's that want to promote new movies that are about to come out as a new release, and they are trying to promote their movie because it is only going to be in the movie theatre for weeks or a month so the movie company's chooses to go on all out media blitz and they should after spending $200 million to make the movie.
I don't think bigger company's and huge corporations quite get it here in the year of 2013 of how devastated the American economy is because their executives are mostly non-veteran ivy league types that have no real friends in America, and they have no life or no idea about what is happening throughout the American economy or they choose to close both eyes and live their vain little pathetic lives.
For certain company's online advertising works because they want to remind a person of an event or a music company is trying to promote a new song from their singer or singers.
For many company's online advertising is a waste of their time because Americans did not forget that they wanted to buy a house and a truck and a boat and many other things but sadly Americans wake up to the economy that a bunch of thugs and sold-out politicians designed and did write into law because of their weakness in character and their arrogance.
Each company is different and there are many ways to advertise for free in America and many ways to promote your product so each company should size up how effective is online advertising, and how effective is a pop-up ad or a side window ad on the internet.

BLOG FEED-BACK FROM ME TO OTHERS

HERE A FEW LINKS THAT I DID COMMENT ON:
http://mccstudent05.blogspot.com
http://clcsit155.blogspot.com
http://socialmediamilieu.blogspot.com

AMERICAN VETERAN PRODUCTIONS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

As the owner of American Veteran Productions I do see a certain benefit of having a monthly newsletter. 
I could let music publishers and let music engineers know and let musical singers know what projects I have completed.
No person likes to be bothered with a daily newsletter and a weekly newsletter is pushing the envelope of bothering an American; and for my business a monthly newsletter would work out.
Every song that I write can go into a movie or a TV show or on the radio so having a monthly newsletter with the musical songs that I have finished would work out for my business American Veteran Productions.
As far as content ideas for my newsletter the content for a musical song-writer is extremely simple because you are reminding some-one of a project that is finished or you are introducing the person to a brand new project that is completed. 
As I have mentioned before my song called 
"Soldiers Do Cry" is ready for a movie or a TV show or to be placed on the radio so part of my monthly newsletter would of course highlight that song because we never know when Hollywood will make another movie like:
Pearl Harbor
Born On The 4th Of July
The Green Zone
The Hurt Locker 
Jar-head
Zero Dark Thirty
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning Vietnam
Lions For Lambs

I see a value in having a monthly newsletter and now that my 8 year United States Army contract is over with I see no reason why I should not make a monthly newsletter.
Again here is a link to "Soldiers Do Cry" and if you know of a contact that could help me get it placed into a movie or a TV show or on the radio I would pay you a finders fee:

VOTER REFORM IS NEEDED FOR U BRAND NEW BEER-PONG PLAYING 21 YEAR OLD PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!

Under my main business group American Veteran Productions I own a few different company's and making a new blog is some-thing that I enjoy doing; and I use word-press a lot to make new blogs because their site is incredible for beginners like myself.
My main company is a music-publishing company and right now I don't need or want a blog related to music publishing because writing new songs and making new song-lyrics is not some-thing I want to blog about.
I am working on a new blog that will deal with 
Voter-Reform Laws that are needed in America. It is my obligation as an American Veteran to help out the generation behind me to let them know specifically who it is that has ruined America by allowing sickening and sadly the following into America over the last 40 years since 1970:

sin-full legalized prostitution, disgusting and sin-full strip-clubs, foreign imports that have ruined the lives of decent working Americans, pensions, and non-veteran authorities.

My proposed business site and blog site will be tailored to the 18 year old crowd and the 21 year old crowd of all different parties here in the year of 2013.
What categories would be appropriate and helpful in reaching my audience?
I have so many different categories that I could use and they are as follows:
1. Who really is a Republican?
2. Who really is a Democrat?
3. Why are you not an Independent Voter?
4. Why are elections held in private and not in public?
5. Who is it that defines your party?
6. Your platform represents u so be care-full what platform you say you belong to!
7. You deserve a better America so vote every politician out of power in the year of 2013!
8. Republicans are really communists!
9. Democrats in 2013 are the Anti-Christ!
10. Don't worry your Mom and Dad won't take away your inheritance  if you tell them you are an independent voter so think for yourself because one of the last things you want is a sold-out scumbag politician thinking for you and voting for you!

Organizing my blog posts will not be a problem and the above category-types will help me stay focused on the task at hand and the task at hand is to vote every career politician out of power in the year of 2013 so the generation behind me does not live under the regime that my generation lived under!
I agree with the comment I think you made about not having blogs that deal with specific times that the blog will go out like a Monday-morning blog for example.

Here is a site that I will use as a model that I recently did find:
http://www.electionreformproject.org

Who-ever it is young voters that made marijuana possession a felony and who-ever it is that allowed foreign-imports into America and who-ever it is that legalized sickening and sin-full and disgusting strip-clubs it is them that you need to embarrass and humiliate and mock and chant against in big elections like who gets to be your Senator or your Congress Representative or your President!!
Democrats and Republicans are fodder on your plates you the MTV and You-Tube generation so get the job done and vote these thugs out of power!

On a lighter note here are three blogs I did comment on this week:
1. http://socialmediamilieu.blogspot.com
2. http://briantbenham.blogspot.com
3. http://krimsongames.blogspot.com

MY BLOGS LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! ASK ME IF I CARE?

For many business owners in America their blog or blogs represent their business and who they are so not getting personal or showing character can be a tremendous mistake because going along with the bland status-quo here in America in on the worst times in the history of times in the year of 2013 is a major business mistake.
No American in this year of 2013 wants to read a blog that has no character or no feeling but I can see where certain business owners do not want to get personal because their blog is about:
1. How to bake certain goods like Rachel Ray or Martha Stewart.
2. How to trick out and design a car or a truck like Chip Foose.
3. How to whiten your teeth
4. How to re-design your house
For the how to do or how to fix things bloggers I am almost positive your character and knowledge and sense of humor is extremely important but getting personal can be a dangerous business move that might lead people to follow another site and not you.
For Rachel Ray to get personal it would be an unwise an idea unless it was her getting personal for her causes in life what-ever they are:
Breast Cancer Awareness or The Make A Wish Foundation
For Rachel Ray to lose her character would be a sad day for America because as we wait to go to Heaven or Hell we need people like Rachel Ray, and her character to try to cheer us up. For those us living with the scum-bags that the Republicans and Democrats are we need people like Rachel Ray to try and cheer us up so for her to lose her character on her blogs would not be what America is looking for!!

Yes, I can see and understand why certain business owners and people do not want to get personal on their blogs because the business they run is all about how to fix some-thing or how to do some-thing at an exceptional level, and it is their best business interests to not get personal.
For bloggers who write about politics and laws and religion or music like myself and many others it is a wise move to get emotional on your blogs and extremely personal on your blogs because it is then and only then that America will see what you stand for.
If you think Obama and Biden are scum-bags like I do then it is extremely important on your blogs to get personal and mention to America that you think Obama and Biden are scum-bags.
If you don't like a certain LAW and that is what your blog is about it is extremely important to get personal otherwise Americans will think your a sold-out fool like most of our Non-Veteran scum-bag politicians here in America in the year of 2013.
You or I can get as personal as we want while following the LAWS in America because of our right by LAW to free speech and for many bloggers they feel as do I it is our obligation and duty to the generation behind us to remind them of just who it is that ruined America by allowing imports into America.