Actress, Model, Surfer, Singer = BOSS @TilleBlue

9 Mar

Talking about a woman with many talents….Sheesh. Iam very humbled at the opportunity to have the pleasure of promoting and doing business with upcoming R&B/Hip-Hop artist Tille Blue. She is a native of France, but now, starting to be a real  familiar face in the United States. Tille Blue is no stranger to the spotlight, former Victoria’s Secret model is a definition (in my opinion, the only one that matters) of a BOSS! I never networked with a more talented woman.

Tille Blue has been in films such as “Executive Decision,” “Nemesis,” “The Huntress,” “One Man Force,” and she played Jackie O in the European television film “JFK.” Worlds collide in the “Lose Control” music video, which is being filmed in Los Angeles in the next two weeks. The video will have cameos from featured guests from both the music and modeling world. Tille has appeared in TV shows also such as “Star Trek,” “Babylon 5,” to “Married With Children.” She is known for television commercials for Pepsi, Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Lipton Tea, Budweiser, Budlight, Coors Light, Chevrolet, Toyota, Mercedez Benz, Pontiac, UPS and the Gap. The list goes on. Tille Blue’s modeling contracts with recognizable names that include Adidas, Nike, O’Neill, Billabong, Quicksilver and Harley Davidson.

This BOSS Chick  has appeared in the Surfers Journal and Surfer Magazine as well. Other print adds include Bisou Bisou, BCBG, Laperla, Fredricks Of Hollywood, Dolce and Gabbana, and  Ralph Lauren.  Her sports history includes she is a World Class Athlete a Big Wave Surfer Champion, and she did a show for Redbull with the biggest name  surfers in the world.

Now to take it to a whole another level. Tille Blue is a new music sensation and the next Pop star to blow! Her hot new single is called, “Lose Control” Featuring the Bronx very own @FredTheGodSon and West Coast outlaw, @mopremeshakur, Tupac Shakur’s brother.  Definitely, in my opinion a “club banger”.

Parnell Gervais, @iamwhatspoppin,  Tille Blue’s representation stated in a recent interview that, “This record was a great way to bring together great artist from 2 different coasts and add a great international star to make a hit record.”

Now as I stated before, now that you’ve gotten familiar with my girl, follow her on twitter @TilleBlue, and stay tuned for whats about to get  poppin. Dont say I didnt tell you first.  2012 is going to be a phenomenal year!

 

Promoting music online–Just FYI and common sense

6 Feb

These are some simple ways, tips and tricks with promoting your mixtape online.
Getting started with mixtape promotion can be hard but with these simple ways you will be on the right track
when getting your music out there to the people that want to here it.
By promoting you mixtape you will build a strong and loyal fan base to start your music career.

YouTube- When using youtube to promote your mixtape the thing with youtube is that 90% of the people who look through are looking to find content thats all ready out. So you will have to blend into the mould of current songs by either free styles to popular tracks or remixes.

Place your mixtape download link under videos.Plus use the youtube tags to your video what ever is current at the moment and that is related to the conent of your mixtape. If you got a freestyle with one of kanyes new tracks put kanye west in the tags.

Get a online producer to remix a current song and you create your own verses and hook to the song.Like that fransico did with timbalands like you the way you are. This will also help you evade the youtube copywrite and your video might not be pulled.

People on youtube like to watch things so create some low budget videos to your original songs.Your personality can really shine through here get some of your friends to do a interview of how you got into music or find other channel to interview you about your new mixtape.

The youtube commuinity is all about working together so get at some singers to do the hooks on your songs or your friends to do a verse. Set up little competitions for the best verse on your song for a small prize this will have hundreds of people promoting your mixtape.

Talk to everyone who responds to mixtapes video songs and get them to sub your channel.Talk to you fans regularly respond to question update them on what your doing where your playing how the gigs are going.

Place you videos as a response, under the vevo channels of the artist that you like and have similar style to you this will get you a couple of hundred views a day depending how many time you up date them to current videos.

Email Marketing- As your following grows you may want to set up a mailing list. The mailing list will up date your fans who have signed up to your website mailing list via their email address.

Constant contact is good email mailing list builder but will cost you. So if you feel you following isnt as big yet wait a little for you get this one. But the mailing list is a very powerfull tool and will get your downloads up very fast and will give your fans instant notice of your new mixtape and download it.

MySpace- Many will say myspace is dead, and to a certain extent it has dropped of the radar compared to 3 years ago but myspace is still the main music social network site in the world. Even if people have dropped off myspace this is more to your addvantage.

Continue to use myspace as people are still discovered everyday from here and you would be a fool not to use it.Myspace still has a very active forum on there and even though most rappers singer have left you can find it more easy to promote you mixtape here in the forums and the charts have them linked back to the mixtape your promoting.

Facebook- It was estimated that facebook has 750 million memembers. Facebook is the second biggest site in the world and its great place for you to get fans by posting your mixtapes and videos here and talking to fans.

Get fans to hit like button when ever you the chance. The best way promote you mixtape here is to start following people every day with simliar taste in music.

Follow people every day. Then once you have following start build hype and buzz rather than posting videos every day. Tell them that you in the studio today and you working on new song or just killed a beat today.

Tell them about who your working with at moment and competition that you have entered or are hosting. Facebook is a great way to build a rapport with fans and show them your personality give out merchandice like t-shirts with your logo and brand as a prize.

Take pictures of friends wearing your merchandice and show them links of where your sell your t-shirts….This will show that you have a following and are worth the listen for new listeners

You can set up campagins on the side for you mixtape but I would only do this 2-3 days before the mixtape comes out because it is very costly but you can reach a target audience.

After a sucessfull campagin its good to drop of the facebook promotion of music for a little while like a month or two, to give fans a chance to digest your music you dont want to keep fans to turn on you for over promotion after you mixtape has dropped and become annoyed

Mixtape Hosting- This something your just going have dig throught the internet for and network with djs on twitter and linkdin and ask them to host your mixtape. coast 2 coast mixtapes.com is a site that charges a fee to host your mixtape and distribute to radio stations and other djs.

This will really get you out there but do your homwork on the djs out there before you pay any one some many will charge you but dont have a slight clue what there doing so be careful.

 

Just know everything you do in order to master your craft takes time and preparation.

Leave a comment if this helps you!

What Some are saying about ‘Watch the Throne” album

15 Aug

IT’S OVERPRODUCED

‘Watch The Throne’ sounds very overproduced. What do I mean? Look at “Lift Off” for example. Between the clips of real shuttle launches, auto-tune style voice effects, an overuse of Beyonce’s hook, Jay and Kanye’s mish mash vocals and dropped in background ad libs, there is just way too much going on. Many other songs suffer the same fate. You get the feeling that Jay and Ye were aiming for that big, stadium sound on most songs and had crowd participation in mind while crafting the music. This is fine and all but it hurts the overall product.

SWIZZ BEATZ

Did someone forget to tell Swizz Beatz he was producing for the biggest album of 2011? Swizzy’s mailed in contribution is just brutal on “Welcome To The Jungle.” One could argue that it’s the same beat Swizz has been making since the 90s. Still though, there isn’t a drop of creativity in the production. It’s that recycled stutter step sound. Maybe the blame shouldn’t lie on Swizz ’cause Ye and Jay obviously accepted the beat. Sidebar: Swizz did deliver on “Murder To Excellence.”

THE LYRICS

Jay-Z has referenced his drug dealing past many times previously but it has never sounded as forced as it does on ‘Watch The Throne.’ When Hov says “‘Cause I’m richer, and prior to this shit was movin’ freebase” on “Gotta Have It” you bop your head but also think “geez-us Jay…we know…you used to sell drugs.” You see, when Jay references his drug dealing past now it’s starting to feel like how when 50 still spit raps about killing people even though he lived in a sprawling mansion with hundreds of millions of dollars. It almost comes across as cheesy…almost as if Jay is trying to convince us that he’s still credible. He doesn’t need to do this. He still has credibility in Hip-Hop…and always will.

As for Kanye, he’s always spit lyrics that celebrated riches and were somewhat ignorant in nature. We love him for it…but we also appreciate Kanye when he gets introspective or makes us think. There just isn’t enough of that on the album (Yes…there is “New Day” and “Made In America”). “Who’s Gonna Stop Me” is a dope track but much like “N*ggas In Paris”, “Gotta Have It”, “Otis”, etc…Ye just isn’t saying much. Does that make it not dope? No…but it leaves the listener looking for a little more.

ALBUM THEME

The marketing behind ‘Watch The Throne’ was incredible…from the lack of leaks to the positioning of the album as the saving grace of Hip-Hop, it was awesome. But when it came time to listen to the album, what was it about? No, not every album release needs a concept but this one did. I was anticipating introspective, powerful music that shunned commercialism, was political, aggressive and timeless…instead we got a lot of songs with Jay and Kanye telling us how rich they were and how many women they’ve been with. The whole ‘Throne’ aspect of the album had me feeling like this was Jay-Z and Kanye stepping up to say “hey, we are taking back Hip-Hop…it’s ours.” And sure, they did this from a sales standpoint…but a lot of the album ideas could be found on a Gucci Mane album.

THE VERSES

This could be looked at as a positive (and business minded folks would say it is) but the album leaves the listener wanting so much more. Not necessarily because of how incredible it is (although again…it’s a solid album), but because Kanye and Jay’s verses are so short. Take “Made In America” for example. It’s one of the better songs on the album but it just ends with so much more to say. It doesn’t even the scratch the surface of the song’s vibe about Jay-Z and Kanye talking about their come-up. What about a verse going back and forth? What about additional verses? It seems like the album’s best stuff gives us the least. You can really understand when listening to the album how this was originally an EP.

THE MUSIC ISN’T TIMELESS

Look…regardless of how you feel about Jay-Z and Kanye as solo artists, they ALWAYS give us SOME timeless music each time out. Do you not still bump “U Don’t Know” or “Good Life” or “Through The Wire” or “Ain’t No N*gga” or nod your head when “Empire State of Mind” comes on? Of course you do. The songs that come closest to “timeless” material on this album for me are “No Church In The Wild”, “New Day” and “Murder To Excellence.” But even these songs just don’t have that “it” factor that Jay and Ye’s classics do. It’s not that the album seems rushed but to me it seems a little forced.

TOO MANY PRODUCERS

There are just way too many hands in the mix on this album. ‘Watch The Throne’ could have benefited from Kanye handling 90% of the work but instead there are a total of 16 hands in the mix and it just makes for a fractured listen. Too many different vibes, no cohesiveness from track to track. I personally would have liked the album to hold that “New Day” and “Made In America” type of vibe but instead were jumpin’ in the club and heading back to the 80s with all sorts of quirky sounds tossed in the mix. Too many cooks in the kitchen.

 

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What are your thoughts? Make sure u leave a comment and I will respond accordingly.

There are very valid reasons on why I didnt listen to your music.

15 Aug

If your trying to get someone like me to listen to your music, there are several things you must do.. I call them “Rules for posting music on my timeline” lol.

Rule #1 You must be following me. (why would i just listen to some random person’s music if you don’t even take the initiative to even follow me. Just know you will be blocked and spammed)

Rule #2 Speak before u try to post. (who wants to have links just blasted on your mentions. Try speaking then asking me if I would like to hear your music)

Rule #3 You must have something other than my @ name and a link. (Why would I just click on ya link with no type of description, or song title? that’s just silly)

Rule #4 Stop mentioning all of ya followers with the same link over and over again.( I look at bios and time lines. And If I see that your mentioning everyone with the same link and the same promo. That’s going to make me NOT wanna listen to your track/album.)

Rule # 5 Your music must be poppin. I will not listen to anything that’s wack or waste my time. (How Do I know? Well your tweet says. This is the HOTTEST track of 2011, but you have only 100 followers. I cant trust that. I also look at your bio and see that You’ve been on twitter for more than 6 months. I cant trust that either. if Its hot, then your followers will be up, and I would of seen some Retweets by other followers.)

With almost 40,000 followers I find it impossible to listen to everyone’s music that I get mentioned with on a daily basis. So if your really serious about getting your craft promoted by myself of even acknowledging it at all. Try sending me an email or DM’n me and it will make both of ur twitter experiences more enjoyable.

Sell your knowledge

7 Jul

No matter what market or industry you are in, as a small business owner you possess a wealth of knowledge. That knowledge is valuable to those who do not have it. If you have an established internet presence, you can turn your knowledge into a marketable product.

The beauty of this type of product is that you invest a small amount of time or money once to create the product and then it generates ongoing residual income that requires little or no work to maintain. In other words, do the work once and then get paid for it over and over again.

How serious are you about your music?

6 Jul

It seems like more and more artists today have a false sense of accomplishment. It’s not about what you did ten, five or even a year ago. It’s about what you’re doing right now.

I must stress the importance of investing in yourselves along with promoting yourself. It’s important for artists to be aggressive with their careers. What I  get most of the time is artists who spend a whole lot of time talking about the past, but then when you ask about the present there’s normally some type of politically BS response to the question.

You have to be honest with yourself, if you have to give someone a political answer or get into some long ass story about what you did in the past you’re probably not doing much currently. The goals in the hip hop industry have changed for some. At one point in your career you wanted to be rich and famous with a big time contract from a major label.

With the changing of the times a big time major label contract is not the ideal situation for many. I completely understand that, I been there done that. My grandma used to tell me when I was younger “if you’re going to do something, make sure you do right.” That’s the message I want these young up and coming artists to get in there head.

If you’re going to be an artist make sure your serious about your craft. If you don’t respect or take your career serious no one else will. I’ve said time and time again, every true artist should have something in their home that compliments their craft. That goes for any type artist whether we’re talking about a painter, poet, or an architect. If you’re a rapper there’s no reason for you not to have some type of recording equipment in your home.

I understand that money is an issue, but if some of you can spend 300.00 om some jeans, or thousands of dollars on some rims, then there is no excuse on why you cant spend a lil bit of money to get some recording equipment.  If you have access to a studio on a regular, in which most of you do. There should be no reason why your not dropping mix tapes or even singles every two weeks.

In 2011 there’s no excuses, Period. I have given you artist every opportunity to be heard. Not only that, I have even give you tips to help your everyday hustle for Free. Key word Free. I can only give the opportunity I can’t execute nor play the game for you. Its in your hands. If your not serious about your craft, then move out the way for the next hard worker to get through. Everyone wants to be successful, you must do your part in order to make that happen.

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How important is branding to your marketing strategy?

6 Jul

The term brand is a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers.

Therefore it makes sense to understand that branding is not about getting your target market to choose you over the competition, but it is about getting your prospects to see you as the only one that provides a solution to their problem.

The objectives that a good brand will achieve include:

  • Delivers the message clearly
  • Confirms your credibility
  • Connects your target prospects emotionally
  • Motivates the buyer
  • Concretes User Loyalty

To succeed in branding you must understand the needs and wants of your customers and prospects. You do this by integrating your brand strategies through your company at every point of public contact.

Your brand resides within the hearts and minds of customers, clients, and prospects. It is the sum total of their experiences and perceptions, some of which you can influence, and some that you cannot.

A strong brand is invaluable as the battle for customers intensifies day by day. It’s important to spend time investing in researching, defining, and building your brand. After all your brand is the source of a promise to your consumer. It’s a foundational piece in your marketing communication and one you do not want to be without.

Know your brand, and your marketing strategy! Every successful business or an artist must have a marketing plan. Period!

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