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What I am asking for is a different pricing mechanism for bands and artist. This is not an unreasonable ask considering that Music on Facebook is one of their biggest draws and they happily use that fact to sell advertising. They can give a break to the people providing valuable content.

Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately what you expect is not the reality. With Facebook's current algorithm ,to reach the amount of people (who have already Liked your page) in the hopes that they see your post and convert is far more than a couple of bucks. At the moment, Facebook is showing an average of 2-4% of the people who have liked your page without a boost. A $5 boost will jump that up to around 400-500 people. That is per day! When you are getting maybe $100 bucks a gig, and if you are lucky you don't have to split that too many ways, it adds up fairly quickly. YOU may not want to see every post from that band, but if that band wants to grow and get their music heard they need to expand to people who haven't Liked their page yet. The numbers don't make sense for artists starting out and trying to grow a fan base.

Don't forget to check out our crowd funding page. Thanks a million. http://www.rockethub.com/projects/34997-save-the-musicians-s...

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Hello guys. My name is J.R. Gentle and I am the Founder and Managing Director of GigDog. GigDog supports up-and-coming bands by providing them with much needed free marketing and promotion via Social Media and streaming radio stations. We have stations in Atlanta, Jacksonville, Nashville, Richmond, Charlottesville, and our newest addition, the NC Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill). In addition to our city stations, we've also set up stations for various music festivals throughout the year, like the 30A Songwriters Festival and the SXSW. Since January of 2013, GigDog has accumulated over 500 bands and has successfully promoted over 1,200 gigs.

At the moment we are running a crowdfunding campaign to help us expand and to make a mobile App. Please visit our page and support us if you can. Thanks. (http://www.rockethub.com/projects/34997-save-the-musicians-s...)

I just had a look at the website and the crowdfunding campaign. I really don't get the idea of a "middleman" between my phone and the cloud. I understand the concept of giving something physical to people, but wouldn't a simple card with the App info suffice? Perhaps with a list of features a person can access by downloading the App and submitting a code from the card.

Hello all. I just posted this because I believe that we have reached a point where tech and the real world are on a collision course regarding Music. This documentary that the article speaks about discusses the collapse of the music industry in large part because of the tech industry. There are good and bad points on both side of the argument, but I submit that no matter your point of view, we all have to agree that it is not working. I welcome some thought by any of you working in a music tech and wonder if you have any thoughts on how we will fix this growing dilemma. Thanks.(Disclaimer: I am the Founder of a streaming music start-up)