Speakerheart

Gavin Mikhail and Firepit Friday meetings

On Friday we met with Gavin Mikhail and Chad Provonsha at the Factory.  Gavin is a popular Nashville based artist and Chad is his manager.  We featured Gavin early and wanted to get caught up on what he and his team are planning.  Look for a November show here in Nashville. 

Yesterday we met at the Factory outside the Frisky Berry Coffee with Colleen "CC" Curtis and Jim Stelluto from Firepit Friday Podcasts.  It was a chance for us to brainstorm on cross promoting some Speakerheart artists on their popular podcasts.  They have a November show at the Rutledge.  More info to follow.

   

It's Monday

It's Monday!

We are working through an issue on the listener side right now with Adobe.  We are noticing some browser problems while navigating from a search page to an artist storefront.  We have not had a ticket opened up on it but we are noticing the problem internally.   

We finally got some more flex talent on board, Justin joins us on Wednesday.  Cherie is working on the new bios page which should be up in the next week or so.

We had another fun evening on Wednesday.  Half the team was at Christopher's for our regular show and a few team members then headed over to the Stephen Marley show at Exit Inn where we sponsored the VIP Packages.   A couple of pics for ya.

Lee Pepper

Speakerheart

Back in Nashville

We made it back from a successful trip to LA.  David and I met with Nashville artist Cheyenne Medders for lunch yesterday.  We brainstormed on the service and future events in Nashville and Little Rock, AR. If you are in the Little Rock area, send us an email so we can hook up. Cheyenne had a great comment about Speakerheart helping create the "music middle class."  I thought that was insightful because it really speaks to the new music business models evolving.  Artists are looking for  opportunities to write, perform, sell and make a living first.  If they sell a million units great but what about the folks selling 5K, 10K, 50K.  Exciting opportunities continue to evolve as artists set their own prices (or like Radiohead let the fans set the price), control their own merchandising, own their publishing etc.

Here are some pics from the Nettwerk showcase.

Lee Pepper

Speakerheart

quick update on forum and Nettwerk showcase

OK, we are here at Nettwerk's LA offices and what a great job they have done building out the space. We are getting ready for our demo to their digital team and Josh is doing a sound check. The team back in Nashville pushed some changes today that improved the speed of the application. We expect continued improvement of the app load to continue over the next week.

Thanks to everyone who is providing us much needed feedback on response times and behavior of the application. We couldn't do it without your help.

Lee Pepper

Digital Music Forum West and Nettwerk Showcase

We are rolling to Digital Music Forum West today.  David Wright will be a panel moderator.  Jozef and Brad left Monday for a series of meetings.  The conference should be stellar. 

Showcase will feature Nettwerk artist Sara Melson and Speakerheart fan Josh Doyle. Check them out.

We pushed the new homepage out this afternoon.  It's all wide open now.  We are going to keep it in beta mode while we monitor the app and infrastructure for a few days more.  Let us know if  you are having any issues.  If you are posting on Facebook be sure to turn on Advanced Walls within Facebook and post the shelves there.   Friendster, Facebook and MySpace all look good so far.  It takes a decent speed connection.

Lee Pepper

Speakerheart

Soft Launch of Listener and Storefronts

This morning we pulled the trigger on our Artist side.  Shelves, storefronts, artist's search etc. are all live.  We have not updated our storefront yet.   We will probably swap that in a few days.  We want to have a few days more for artists to use the app.  Listeners can access it but have to go through an artist's storefront or shelf.  They cannot hit it through speakerheart.com. 

Christopher's Continues to Rock

Another blow out Wednesday night had Christopher's packed with a great blend of music.  Matthew Perryman Jones, k.s.rhoads, Justin Caldwell, Tyler & Kyle and the night started with a great set by Zach Casebolt who was accompanied by renowned percussionist Pino Squillace for the last two songs.

Look for Shanna Crooks, Brooke Annibale, Britten, Kyle Tallman, Jody Raffoul this Wednesday night.

Lee Pepper

Speakerheart