Wally Is Listening
So tonight I was driving home from taking the boys to the movies and I flipped on the radio. Typically when I listen to the radio I have it on the Christian station here in town for a couple reasons. First, if I am driving in the mornings my friend Brant is on there and it’s cool to hear him, and second, if I am driving at night, I know Wally is on there and he loves to talk about blogs. In fact, Wally even has a blog, though it’s really hard to find if you don’t know it’s there.
So anyway, tonight I’m driving home and they start talking about this cruise thing coming up that MercyMe is going on. Wally starts talking about the MercyMe guys and how, no doubt, they will be running around on the cruise filming things for their blog. ”Daddy are they talking about your blog?”, Blue asked from the back seat. I told him it was one of the ones I work on, and told him that was pretty cool they were talking about it.
About five minutes later they started talking about a blog thing that they do every Friday, and first up they start talking about Phil’s blog and how he’s giving away a record on it. Now, he got a few of the details wrong about how the album was uploaded on there but awesome none the less that they were talking about it.
Almost instantly after talking about Phil’s blog they went into a story that was blogged about on the Fee guys blog. What the heck? Not to bad to have three blogs that I work with mentioned on the radio in a matter of ten minutes. All we needed was them to start talking about Natalie and it would have been a commercial for SkörInc. And you know what’s awesome about it all? All of these blogs are getting noticed because all of these guys are blogging well. The Industry is listening folks, and I think it’s pretty cool. Well, at least Wally is listening, and I’ll take it.
So Wally, I know you are going to see this eventually, and when you do do me a favor. Check out all those blogs you talked about tonight, and go down to the bottom and look for a common logo. Then let’s go grab coffee.
It’s Working
It’s working! And let me tell you why.
I have had the opportunity to work with some amazingly talented people that are totally believing in what I am doing, and jumping in with both feet. Today was a day that proved to me that what we are doing is working, and I am totally excited about it.
A couple things I would like to point out that I am really excited about is first, see the yellow writing on that picture over there? Phil made an amazing video the other day while we were sitting in his hotel room talking about blog ideas. So far in the past two and a half days the video has been viewed almost two thousand times, and was ranked number ninety of the most viewed musicians on YouTube. What the crap?! In all of Youtube! You know… in the entire world and stuff. I love it. Also, Phil made an announcement on his blog tonight that will, I believe, will revolutionize and solidify his “presence” in the Christian music industry, and I love that I get to be a part of it.
Secondly, Natalie who took home the Dove Award for “Female Vocalist Of The Year”, reached a new high on her blog today, totaling over four-thousand people. Four-Thousand. Amazing talent and I love that I am allowed to be involved in a small part of her career this way. It’s amazing to see this stuff working.
And third, my father-in-law called me on the way home from Blue’s baseball game and told me that MercyMe’s blog was being featured and talked about on Total Axxess. Now for those of you that don’t know, Total Axxess, from what I understand, isn’t just a Nashville thing. It’s broadcast from here, but is all over the country and that’s a big deal I think. I’m not sure all that was said but I would have loved to have heard it. Any of you hear it? And what’s cool to see is even all the industry folks coming to their blog including other artists. Today Aaron Shust even commented.
So anyway, I just love to see things working and I love to be a part of helping these amazingly talented people get out into the world wide internets a little better. It’s been a good day and now I am off to bed.
