I’m back! Was that a meat dress?

Has it really almost been 8 months since you have heard from me? Well, my life has certainly been a whirlwind, with a new 9-5, renovating my house, and… another baby on the way. Can you say my life has been extremely busy? I am so ready to get back to my music and living my passion. I actually got back into the studio with a new vocal producer during the time you didn’t hear from me, but he is 30 miles from me so it’s been way to difficult to make it out to his studio.

But, I have ben writing new songs, lots of lyrics, and I am so ready to sing, sing, sing.  I have also been brushing up on the keyboards. I’ve gotta say that I’m not yet ready to play in front of crowds but working on it, so that I don’t have to search for someone to accompany for me when you want me to sing for you.

You are going to start seeing some new things (at least that’s what I’m anticipating), with this website, my newsletter, and I vow to be more active on facebook, as my APS (“accountability partner sista”) keeps inspiring me to do so, so that I can really keep in better touch with my friends and fans.

So, I’m going to call this a new beginning. I’m scheduled to be welcoming my new little bundle of joy at the beginnign of March, all the while enjoying my current bundle of joy, my little rambunctious, 2 year old daughter, who just amazes me everyday.  She’s got quite the personality, and she is a non-stop ball of energy.  She is already trying bang out tunes on the keyboard and singing her own songs as she does, lol. Man, I hope she can sing when she gets older, but I know she is going to be able to play an instrument.  Music is in her blood. I guess that’s it for now.

No, no,…wait, I have to comment on Lady Gaga’s meat dress. I guess that answers the question “Where’s the beef?”  I know that was corny, lol!!!!

Putting your music artist or band website together

I was just thinking about how I first started this blog. I wanted to share some of the things I was learning on my journey back into the music world, that can asist other artists like me in getting thier music out there to be heard by the world. At first I was blogging like I was giving a class, but I want you to know that as I am learning you are following me on my journey.

So here are the steps I took to put my website together:

1. I looked at several other websites to find a few format that I liked. I actually liked the design of a couple of templates on template monster but wanted to include some features that I found on other artists websites that I thought were nice.

2. I decided on the color of the website that would fit the mood and the image I wanted the world to see as far as my artist site was concerned

3. I figured out the pages that should be in the site from what the other sites that I like and I looked at had…they were of course a Home Page, Music, Videos, Bio Tour Dates Contact Us

4. Some other links that I wanted on my site that I hadn’t really thought about were links to my social network pages on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. (Even though I am a singer/songwriter…I really have gotten into facebook more than myspace…it seems so much more personal and less spammish).

5. I wanted to make it really easy for my friends and fans to be able to access and buy their favorite music of mine so I definitely am putting a link or links to the individual songs that they can download on Tunecore.com or buy the whole CD off of CDBaby.com.

6. I wanted to also do the merchandising of some of my songs, so I am incorporating a cafepress.com store.

7. Start a blog or two.

8. Make sure you have a place where your fans can sign up to receive notices or become part of your VIP list so that they can be invited to your upcoming shows. You can do this with a ConstantContact.com newsletter.

Ok…I think that’s it. If I think of anything else, you’ll see it on my website. Got any suggestions?