This Week In Crazy: The ‘Obama Is A Muslim’ Song! by Sarah Palin

This Week In Crazy: The ‘Obama Is A Muslim’ Song!

Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks, conspiracy theories, and other loony behavior from the increasingly unhinged right wing. Starting with number five:

5. John McCain

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It hasn’t been a great week for Sarah Palin. The former half-term Alaska governor’s weekend speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit was so rambling and incoherent that even her erstwhile allies on the right are admitting that she may not be the sparkling, mesmerizing political tour de force that they once claimed.

But at least one prominent Republican is still on Team Palin: the man who unleashed her upon America in the first place, Senator John McCain (R-AZ).

On Wednesday, The Washington Post asked McCain if Palin could be a viable 2016 presidential candidate.

“She’s very interesting,” McCain replied. “And I’m sure she’d do great.”

I wonder if the senator writes Amazon reviews in his spare time?

It may be tempting to discount McCain’s optimistic view of Palin’s presidential prospects, given that his “illegitimate son,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is also planning a run. But keep in mind: McCain has literally never been wrong.

The Best of KT

KT

KT is new to the scene as a solo artist.  He started out as a Keyboard player, and backup vocalist.  He was a member of the duo, "Robert and Kenny," the singing group "The Casanovas," and was half of the songwriting team of "Tucker and Caswell."

After "Tucker and Caswell," disbanded, KT moved to California, where he was a founding member of "The Other Brothers.".

He now resides in the Valley Forge area of Pennsylvania.

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“The Best of KT”

Release Date: 11/01/2013 – Artist KT

Format: CD – Website:  www.blackcatkt.com

Email: ktuckersr@aol.com – Tele: (610) 415-9753

Singles: Adult Alt. (Trk4  Gangster Man, Trk2  U Dumped Me, Trk5  Freedom Fighters)

               Christian Contemporary (Trk7 Jesus My Lord)

The music of “KT,” is a unique blend of Retro-Pop, Rock, Soul, and Gospel. His debut album has a unified sound that harkens to the past, yet points to the future.  “KT’s,” influences include “Steely Dan,” “Allen Toussaint,” “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,” “Bill Withers,” and “Jim Croce.”  For marketing purposes, most cuts on this CD are categorized as “Adult Alternative.”

Adult Alternative (Uptempo)                           Soul Oriented Tracks

 *Track 4 – Gangster Man                             * Track  8 – Bachelor Days (Slow)

 *Track 2 – U Dumped Me                            * Track  10 – Moogajewga (Uptempo)

 *Track 1 – Rehabilitation

                                                              

Christian Contemporary                      Adult Alternative (Slow/Med Cuts)                 

*Track 7 – Jesus My Lord (Slow)                *Track 5 – Freedom Fighters            

                                                                           *Track 3 – My Grandparents Said         

                             Track 6 – I’m an Old Man

                             Track 9 – Mary Lou    

  

*Potential Singles                                           UPC Code: 8450197639

  Available at Retail Stores, Itunes,

  Amazon.com, and www.cdbaby.com/cd/kt11

How, Why, and When to Advertise Your Music

How, Why, and When to Advertise Your Music

The following is a guest post from Aaron Ford, digital advertising manager for online media distributor The Orchard. Aaron regularly helps recording artists advertise on various networks, so we feel like he probably knows what he’s talking about when it comes to advertising music. We hope this is of interest to recording artists and readers who are curious about the decisions artists face when contemplating how, why, and when to advertise their songs.

Deciding to spend money to increase awareness of your project is a big decision. You’ve probably already spent a ton of money creating your art and the idea of spending again may be anathema to you. You may have already gathered the funds for a large-scale media purchase and are ready to go. I don’t know this and have no supernatural powers. I’m just writing a blog post for The Daily Rind and trying to help.

Managing our clients’ and our internal advertising budgets, I’ve seen the gamut of situations in which advertising could be useful and have executed campaigns. I’ve found that a step-by-step thought-process prevents one from completely blowing it. Completely blowing it can mean wasted money or a project no one knows about. This is my process and the one I recommend to others.

1. Define your goals – What do you want to accomplish? Do you want to grow awareness, or drive those that are already aware to a place to purchase?

2. Define your message – What is the message you want to deliver? Go through the process of creating a simple sentence “Promote the new video duh!” is not good. Your message is something like “Watch this video and learn more about this artist.”

3. Research your fans and potential fans – Who should receive this message? You may not know who your fans are as much as you think you do. Even if you’re the label, you can lack perspective. You have no objectivity and that’s normal. Rely on data and numbers to combat your definite bias. Use tools such as Facebook Insights. Pay special attention to the “People” tab. Those are the ones who engage with your page. Some people are lazy and just Like pages they do not plan to engage with. The “People” tab shows you who the engagedfans are; the people who will buy your stuff. You may also find tools like Google Analytics, Beluga (free), Next Big Sound, Musicmetric, and others handy. Create useful names for the different segments: “18 – 24 year old bros in Arizona who love action sports” or “Hipsters that pirate your stuff in Silverlake.” All of this is valuable if you create segments that mean something to you.

4. Identify your targets – Who do you want to receive the message based on your research? Maybe you’ve found that your audience is “75 – 85 year old vagrants with an iPod touch and Starbucks WiFi.” This is not an audience that is worth your hard-earned, borrowed, or stolen ad dollars. If your goal is to create awareness for a video, even though most of your audience are these vagrants, you should target the small part of your audience that is of a demographic using the platform on which your video is published. If your budget is limited, you should focus first on the fans most likely to purchase and only go outside of that fan-base after you’ve given the core fan-base every opportunity to give you money. They can be best targeted through tracking pixels from third parties such as Google, Facebook, or The Trade Desk.

5. Devise your strategies – In what voice do you want to deliver your message? What’s your angle? Are you enticing people with a free track?

6. Decide which tactics you will use – What tactics will you employ to execute the strategy? Video? Search Ad? Retargeting Landing Page visitors with banners? Asking a question in a promoted post? Leveraging memes such as Doge (such link. so lol)?

7. Identify the platforms / technology you will use – Where will you deploy your tactics? Facebook? Google Search? Bing Search? LinkedIn? Banner inventory on the coolest sites? Video inventory?

8. Execute your campaign – Double-check everything. A misspelling or typo can be absolutely devastating to your cause. You don’t want that. We don’t want that. Deploy your campaign at hours of peak traffic for your audience, strategy, tactic, and platform. This may mean that you deploy each part at a different time.

9. Optimize your campaign – Don’t just let it sit there spending your money. Constantly optimize. What’s working? What’s not? Don’t be alarmed by lower click-through-rates (CTR) on banner ads than you see on Search ads. Banners are about impressions and you are billed per impression. Search is about clicks and you are billed per click.

10. Recap your campaign – Even if you are doing your own digital advertising, you should do this step. Create a document that is an overview of the campaign. You will find nuggets of information in this document that you will not find by just looking at numbers on the platforms.

11. Learn from your campaign – After you have created this document ask yourself if it was a success. Go back to your goals. Did your video get more views than they would have without it? Did your Facebook page see a higher rate of engagement? What would you do differently next time?

Spending money to promote your work is a big deal and it’s worth your time to go through this process to make sure you don’t completely blow it. I’d love to answer any questions (no centaur questions) or address any feedback so do not hesitate to comment.

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Mar 03, 2014
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Moore Oklahoma Police Kills Person on camera

MEMPHIS TN (IFS) -- Moore Oklahoma police kills Luis Rodriguerz for nothing right in front of his wife and children. The incident involved a domestic issue between the wife and the daughter. Mrs. Rodriguerz slapped her 19 year old daughter and the ploice was called.

 Instead of arresting Ms. Rodriguerz, they jumped on Mr. Rodriguerz instead and beat him to death without any reason. The chief of police calls this action justified.

What a bunch of stupid ass punks in Moore Oklahoma with badges. They are so self righteous and they know everything. Let's face it, today's younger police officers in rural America are not trained to well, if at all.  They have a "mob" mentality and they are just a chip off the old "lynch -em and high -em days" and their commanding officers uphold their actions.

Well they better know this, that they don't have enough money in the city and county treasure that's going to bankrupt them. Plus they have to deal with the Department of Justice.  There was this case in California called 'Rodney King", remember?  Not only did the City of Los Angeles have to pay upwards of millions of dollars, they lost millions in riots too.

They will end up in prison for excessive force. I hope each and everyone of them end up with some some crazy guy they arrested years before. As for as the smart ass 19 year old daughter, she just lost her father and destroyed her family forever, because she disrespected her family by lying to them. It was not a good idea for the mother to assault her daughter in the parking lot or any where else. And the most insulting thing of all, is the person that did all of the hitting was not even arrested. So, what's the morale of this story? Stay the hell out of Moore Oklahoma and avoid that place like it had the plaque, and it does. . .it's police officers jump to the wrong conclusions and lie like hell, even on camera!!

Bobby Smith

In the past on Bobbys' previous albums he had artists who have either toured with or recorded with Kim Fleming, Amy Grant, Patti Labelle, Michael Jackson, George Harrison (The Beatles), Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) Wynona Judd, Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, Henry Mancini, Paul Simon, Michael Bolton, Stevie Wonder, and Lee Greenwood.

Mostly involved in backup vocals at Nashville Studios as well as different instrumentalists at various recording studios in the southeast mostly CCM music that has been heard in over 100 countries with very positive reviews from several radio stations and journalists especially in England available for viewing on his website.

He has just finished his new album Storybook Diaries that just became available. The songs can be heard via a link or a page on his website. The lead song I Should Have Known is sure to be to your liking with an upbeat arrangement about having an affair. All 8 songs tell a different story including A Soldiers Heart, Your're Out Of Control and You Rescued Me, a song with the setting in London with a disposition likened to Rip Van Winkle...

The album sells for $10.99 and is available on his site. Bobby spent years in recording studios writing, recording, and arranging his own music and working with various producers before deciding to start performing as a live entertainer.

His specialty is in the studio which is a lot of work with proofreading arrangements, lyrics, and singing with just the right vocal touch which all have to be beyond perfect to get attention in New York or Los Angeles which are the major worldwide distributors. See website for more info.

Tonos TC8 Multitrack Recorder - Are You Looking for this?

MEMPHIS TN (IFS) -- This copy from the archives of Platinum Sound Recording Studios from 2001. This copy is already exploded. So you will need to copy the 'tonos.exe' files from the download folder to your desktop and use it from there. If not, you are going to get a lot of files saving all over your desktop en mass. This is a clean copy, no virses or any advertisments at all. To get your copy, send an email to the following address: sdcinternetics@msn.com -- in the Subject: TC8 Download