25 Sep
2009
25 Sep
'09
7:49 p.m.
On Friday 25 September 2009 22:55:05 Garry Ogle wrote:
It makes me wonder what the problem is ( and am I
guilty myself? ):
In an off-list email Dave Philips commented on the lack of feedback he
receives about his music.
Bruce McCosar ( whose blog in included in PlanetLinuxMusicians ) once
wrote that despite having several albums on Jamendo with thousands of
downloads and tens of thousands of listens he'd received zero feedback.
I've seen over a thousand downloads from my site in the last year ( not
bad for an amateur-crap-artist who makes no effort to promote himself )
and I have a big fat contact tab there, but how many people have clicked
on it? two, and neither of them actually mailed me, not even to slag me
off!
So I understand why you may be a little dismayed; but as Arnold says,
checkout your download statistics, and take cold comfort from what is
written there!
My dad works in newspapers and from him I know: They have a rather specialised
paper for a distinguished and loyal target group. Readers how start sending
the cross-word results half an hour after the mail-man gave them their copy of
the paper.
And still if they get 1% of the regular readers to answer in a survey, they
are very lucky and high above the average rates.
So if you only get one feedback a year, don't worry (and look at the download
numbers!). But eventually you will get one feedback a year long after you
stopped doing that stuff. For example there are still people using C++2LaTeX
which I stopped using and developing in 2003...
Have fun,
Arnold