Pub trivia nights mix booze and brains, turning the rapid-fire recall of arcane facts into a raucous barroom sport enjoyed by infomaniacs around the world. Now, thanks to NerdTrivia, you can relish that sort of fun all day on Twitter (cocktails optional).
How can you get a band famous?
Text message marketing.
To begin a mobile marketing campaign with your band, you must 1st gotten a mobile program. My favorite is located here: mobile marketing Chicago. It is easy to operate, cheap & it allows the user to use the most recognized and also memorable five digit number on the planet, 90210.
The moment you have got a mobile system up and running, begin marketing it constantly.
The singer we work with performs by the group name of Alibaba. Taking advantage of the mobile message marketing program we made for him, all his followers need to do is message “thebandsname” to the number “90210″. If they text this, they’re automatically added to their cell phone database & they’re entered to win free seats to one of their concerts.
They put the phrase “Text bandname to 90210” on all of their marketing and advertising pieces, Facebook & YouTube videos. The band also asks followers to text it during the live concerts. Our program involves a good little feature that totally allows you to have an instant contest. So for instance during a concert, he will ask everyone to pull out their cell phones & message in to win a bunch of booze. Our system will randomly select one cell number & send them a mobile message telling them they have won! Band marketing will make you famous.
When you’re always getting followers to text your mobile database and also putting this information on all your advertising pieces, you should create a big following that you could message a few hours before your show. Come to our concert at 10pm to win free alcohol always seems to work extremely great. Very quickly, the band will be filling the littler bars & will not have to beg to play anymore.
Just as we’re wrapping up day one of Google I/O 2011, Forbes received an interesting piece of information regarding Chrome OS. According to an unnamed senior Google executive, tomorrow’s keynote will see the launch of a Chrome laptop sold as an attractive -per-month “student package.” If true, this will make a compelling option for laptop-seeking students bounded by a limited budget (booze before books, right?), and Forbes speculates that a similar enterprise offering will follow soon — makes sense considering Google’s already cosying up to businesses with its -a-year Google Apps suite. Anyhow, all will be unveiled soon enough — keep an eye out for our Google I/O day 2 liveblog tomorrow for the full monty.
Google to offer -a-month ‘student package’ for a Chrome laptop? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 May 2011 22:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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