September is Musicians Month
September is Musicians Month at OurChurch.Com. Music has an amazing way of helping us worship God and express our deepest emotions. All this month we're focusing on helping Christian bands, musicians, and gospel groups advance their ministries by making better use of technology. Here are some of the discounts, marketing opportunities, and free stuff we're providing this month (Updated Sept. 12 with three more initiatives!):
1) Save on Silver
2) Music = Free Links
3) Free iPod Nano Giveaway
4) Newsletter Features
5) Special Offer on Marketing Services
6) Website and Marketing Secrets for Musicians
7) Musicians - What do you want and need?
8) Uploading Music in Beacon
9) Personalized Assistance
10) Featured Music Sites
1) Save on Silver
If you’re operating a website for a musician or band you’ve GOT to put samples of your music on your website. You can do that with a Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze hosting package at OurChurch.Com. To help make it possible for those of you with free sites or the Domain Package to upgrade, we’re offering a year of the Silver Package and a year of the Ad-free Option for just $219 – a savings of $141. If you were thinking of upgrading to or renewing the Bronze package, with this special you can go Silver and Ad-free for less than the Bronze package and Ad-free Option.
This special offer is open to everyone (not just musicians), but it’s only available this month. If you don’t have a site at OCC, go to the hosting section of our site and click the “Build a Site” link in the menu to get started. If you’ve already got a site, click the “Order & Renew Premium Options” link on your webmaster page to take advantage of this special discount.
2) Music = Free Links
We believe having music on a musician/band site is so important that we are recognizing and rewarding every musician/band hosted at OurChurch.Com that has recorded audio on their site with a link on this page to their site. If your musician/band site includes recorded audio, drop us a note in our help desk and we'll add a link to your site to the list featured music sites below within a few days. The sooner you contact us the higher up on the list your site will appear. (Please include your website title and URL)
3) Free iPod Nano Giveaway
In addition to adding a link on this page to your site, OurChurch.Com will also enter you in a drawing for a free iPod Nano. The 1 GB iPod Nano holds about 250 songs or 15,000 photos, weighs less than 2 ounces, and is valued at $150. To be eligible, musicians/bands must host their site at OCC, have recorded audio of their original music on their site, and notify us through the help desk by September 30, 2006. The drawing will be held October 1, 2006 and the winners name will be disclosed in an announcement later that day.
4) Newsletter Feature
As if the free links and iPod Nano giveaway were not enough, we will also feature this page in our bi-monthly Search Newsletter scheduled for distribution September 7. Plus we'll feature this page and one of the band/musician sites listed on it in our monthly Webmaster Newsletter scheduled for distribution September 20. Of course, you've got to send us a link to your site so we can add it to this page before those newsletters go out if they are to have any benefit to your site.
5) Special Offer on Marketing Services
To help bands and musicians get the word out about their websites, we're offering our Christian Search Engine Registration and Guaranteed Search Ranking services together for only $299, savings of $89 off our regular prices. Not a musician? No problem. This special offer is available to everyone. Your site doesn't even have to be hosted by OurChurch.Com. If your site is hosted by OCC, click the "Order & Renew Premium Options" link on your Webmaster page. If your site is not hosted by OCC, click the Order Now option in the menu of our Marketing Services site.
For additional savings check out our Website Services Bundles which includes hosting, the ad-free option, and search engine marketing services.
6) Website and Marketing Secrets for Musicians
We are also turning our attention to musicians in our Christian Web Trends Blog this month. Find out key to building a successful band/musician website. Read about the secrets to building an online audience for your music. Learn about a great, free way to broaden your audience.
7) Musicians - what do you want and need?
We’ve started a discussion in our forums for musicians so we can hear more about what you need for your ministry and to exchange ideas with each other. What are the biggest challenges you face? What topics would you like to read more about? What insight do you have to share with other musicians? Join the conversation.
8) Uploading Music in Beacon
We’ve made it easier than ever for musician to put recorded music on their website with our Beacon web builder. We’ve increased the size of files that can be uploaded using the “Upload Graphics and MIDIs” function to 5 MB, so you should be able to upload most MP3 files through this page rather than using FTP or the cPanel file manager. If you have any questions or need any help with this, let us know through our help desk.
9) Personalized Assistance
If you have a site for a Christian musician or band and have yet to add audio to your site, what are you waiting for? Check out our help pages for step by step instructions on how to add music to your site. If you have any trouble at all our friendly, patient support staff would be happy to provide you with additional assistance via our help desk or over the phone.
10) Featured Music Sites
Check out these band/musician sites hosted at OurChurch.Com that each feature original recorded music. Listen to their music - maybe you'll find your next favorite CD. If you're a musician, check out other band/musician sites for ideas.
Send us a link through our help desk (Please include your website title and URL)
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