Musician Taps into Twitter and Makes $19k in 2 Days
Composer and musician Amanda Palmer stayed home Friday night a few weeks ago. She tapped into her large Twitter fanbase, online auctions and live video and generated $19,000 in two days from her world-wide audience.
Read her email about what happened: How an Indie Musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using Twitter. Also, read her post, twitter & the beautiful losers: #LOFNOTC.
Essentially from her apartment with no planning whatsoever, she sold $11,000 in T-shirts and raised $6,000 through a web auction.
The question I have is the following: If an artist does not have the same built-in fan base as Palmer (she has 37,000+ followers on Twitter), can you still create a similar type of momentum and success with real-time events and fundraising efforts - even if the numbers are smaller?
My hunch is yes. I think there are many ways to use Twitter, live video streaming, PayPal and other inexpensive and free apps to engage audiences in fun and innovative online events. And, most important, there are ways to structure these events, whether planned or spontaneous, so that online users will make donations, purchase merchandise and participate in auctions. If you'd like to discuss such projects, please email me.
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Doug Fox on July 8, 2009 6:05 AM
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Internet has made many millionaires I heard, but this is the first musician / dancer doing it big I guess. Congrats.
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