Comments on: How We Got Over 14,000 Downloads In 48 Hours

By: Moe Arora

Moe Arora — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:31:34 +0000

Comments to this post are now closed. If you wish to leave a comment, please refer to the follow-up post - Response To The Power Of Twitter. Thanks.

By: Talking With Music Producer Jeremy Harding // MakingTheMogul.com

Talking With Music Producer Jeremy Harding // MakingTheMogul.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:14:30 +0000

[...] webpage. I have my own online game on lock. I got my boy Moe blasting out my song, getting it retweeted for me, we’re getting more downloads ourselves than the record company can do for [...]

By: Moe Arora

Moe Arora — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:28:55 +0000

@jon - Thanks! I'm happy to connect with you and look forward to building further.

By: jon vanhala

jon vanhala — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:21:21 +0000

thanks for the quick response – loving your blog, your style, and your POV. i am def guilty of jumping in a conversation without realizing the full context avail to me – i hadn’t even seen it was posted first Dec 1 2008 or yet read your follow up post for example – it was new to me and I reacted :)

looking forward to more

By: Moe Arora

Moe Arora — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:14:17 +0000

@jon - My statement about having a great network was referring to my network as opposed to Lil Wayne or Mack Maine. My role was to get attention for the song, so had I been someone who didn't have a strong connection to my online network on Twitter, my experiment would not have received the amount of participation from others RT'ing it. Keep in mind, this experiment was done in November 2008; before Twitter hit the mainstream appeal it has now, and when retweeting was still a relatively new concept to those who actually were on at the time (hence, why I had to explain the concept of RT'ing before I tweeted the download link). You're right, had it not had Lil Wayne's name attached, it most likely would not have had this many downloads, however, that's exactly why I did it - because Lil Wayne's name was attached. As I mentioned in my follow-up post, Response To The Power Of Twitter, this was not done from the perspective of an indie artist - this was done from a marketing perspective. I wanted to try a new way of releasing promotional music and measure the results. After all, it's more effective to try new strategies with a project that people are actually interested in, rather than one nobody cares about, right? When I'm thinking of new strategies, I try not to focus on whether a strategy is scalable or whether it can be used as a general template for other projects - I'm primarily focused on one goal; making it work for the project at hand. Thanks for your comment Jon. I hope my reply clarifies my intent.

By: jon vanhala

jon vanhala — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:35:00 +0000

devil’s advocate:
doen’t this really say a lot more about the power of lil Wayne and his brand more than your following statement: “This just goes to show the true power of not only social networking but also of a great network.” ?

if you did this again with “unknown name artist X” and generated over 10k downloads that would be huge and I’d def stand corrected . . .

By: Moe Arora

Moe Arora — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:40:45 +0000

@abd1969 - I invite you to read the follow-up I posted which addresses your comment - http://moearora.com/blog/2009/01/response-to-the-power-of-twitter/

By: adb1969

adb1969 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:21:06 +0000

So as long as you’re already famous… this’ll work great!

By: 1 or 8 Faction

1 or 8 Faction — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:43:34 +0000

@monkeyking1or8 http://bit.ly/kCAam http://bit.ly/7PGEZ http://bit.ly/wNsKf http://bit.ly/9HztH http://bit.ly/l6s7N http://bit.ly/4eifT

By: 1 or 8 Faction

1 or 8 Faction — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:43:34 +0000

@monkeyking1or8 http://bit.ly/kCAam http://bit.ly/7PGEZ http://bit.ly/wNsKf http://bit.ly/9HztH http://bit.ly/l6s7N http://bit.ly/4eifT

By: jeremy condomina

jeremy condomina — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:35:09 +0000

RT @bgsounds 14,000 downloads in 48hrs, the power of a good network http://ow.ly/477N

By: Brian Gallino

Brian Gallino — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:21:28 +0000

14,000 downloads in 48hrs, the power of a good network. http://moearora.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-get-over-14000-downloads-in-48-hours/

By: steven

steven — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:11:38 +0000

Great work!

By: Ty Cohen

Ty Cohen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:15:16 +0000

@djdublee Thanks for the re tweet my dude! – Proof that Twitter can be massively successful as a marketing tool http://tinyurl.com/6d6abp

By: djdublee

djdublee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:08:39 +0000

@MusicBizCenter http://tinyurl.com/6d6abp – Proof that Twitter can be massively successful as a marketing tool

By: How They Got Over 14,000 Downloads In 48 Hours | The Music Biz Center - Music Industry Resource Blog

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:48:43 +0000

[...] Now onto the blog post, which was originally posted on the blog site Making The Mogul… [...]

By: Allan Wolinski

Allan Wolinski — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:15:01 +0000

@jtomlin http://tinyurl.com/6xv3z9 and http://tinyurl.com/6d6abp

By: Andrew Justin Alt

Andrew Justin Alt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:28:17 +0000

‘nother Twitter call-to-action case study:: http://tinyurl.com/6d6abp The word ‘disingenuous’ is being tossed around re: tactics. Uthinkso?

By: Viktoria Trosien

Viktoria Trosien — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:25:24 +0000

RT @guykawasaki Power of Twitter: 14,000 downloads in 48 hours http://adjix.com/352 – great article, also featuring @soundcloud !! :) @ericw

By: Moe Arora

Moe Arora — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:08:20 +0000

Thanks for all the comments! I've written a post to address all the questions asked in the comments here. Please check my post, Response To The Power of Twitter.