BBC Introducing (Sorted)

I emailed the BBC again today with regards to the uploader still not working on the BBC Introducing page and I actually got a decent reply with some nice simple instructions on how to get your account working if you're having problems. I carried these out myself and my account is once again up and running, so I can now get stuff to the BBC without the cost of material items and postage!

Just submitted the following 3 tracks:
Pain In My Heart
Garden Leave
Race Cars

I already have a lovely confirmation email saying that they've got Pain In My Heart, and these are the steps to carry out if you're having problems with your account:

1. Visit bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/uploader and make sure you are not already signed in - click "Sign Out" in the top right hand corner of the page.

2. Now click the blue Sign In button, and enter your username and your password.

3. You'll then be asked to update your BBC membership account to our new BBC iD system. This should only take a minute, and afterwards you'll be taken back to the BBC Introducing uploader page.

4. You should now see a link on the right hand side of the page which says "Your Artist Profile". Click this button or just copy this URL into your browser http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/artists/profile/edit

5. You should now be looking at your artist profile. You might find the info boxes on the page are blank - if so, please fill them back in. After making changes, click Update at the bottom of the page.

6. Once you've done that, it will take you to the Track Upload page. Here you can select an MP3 and upload it to us. You should then get a confirmation email within 15 mins or so.

Music Success In Nine Weeks #6

Well, we're coming to a close now with the old MSI9W challenge thing but it's been interesting, and I've definitely learnt a few things about online marketing that I wasn't previously aware of such as the value of a mailing list, which I now have along with incentives for people to join. For the first time ever I actually went round the room after a gig this weekend and asked people if they'd like to join my mailing list in return for a CD, and low and behold people were only too happy to do so, and one's actually unsubscribed yet!

Another useful tip was the use of Google Reader, which I'm now getting pretty addicted too and it's how I now start my mornings before leaving for work, it's like the ultimate newspaper that caters just for me ;-) Here's a handy hint too, why not pop a little star next to the articles you comment on, that way if you filter by your starred articles you can see where you've been spending most of your time "interacting" within the blogosphere, and this should act as a fairly good indicator as to who may be more likely to write about your own musical antics.

Podsafe has also worked out to be a great little resource, and I've been played on a couple of shows already, I have the feeling that podcasters tend to mainly look at the new uploads on this site though, so if you have a multiple song you want to upload then don't put them all on there at once, ration them out slowly in order to make sure you have something on there that's amongst the new stuff for as long as possible.

Anyhow, I'm gonna sign out now as I'm pretty short on time as write this, it's Thursday, which means I'm gonna have get my latest Song A Week song out for tomorrow!