A) Standard, Every-Month Section

 

If you're new to a yahoogroups mailing list, try checking out the GWRN area at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gwrn -- there, you can read past monthly updates.  In the "Files" area, I've uploaded all the advertising rate and deadline information.  I've also put all of the pertinent Renegade website links in the links area.  And I have placed a few upcoming dates of interest on the calendar.

 

As always, thanks again for reading our monthly mailing.  This monthly update ensures that, once a month, you'll always have the latest Geoff Wilbur's Renegade Newsletter information at your fingertips.  And if your e-mailbox is as full as mine, you'll be glad we only send the update once a month rather than more often.

 

B) New Section

 

Computer Woes:  Well, we’re back.  Our GWRN computer was out of commission for a couple weeks.  Nothing serious – just a power supply – but it’s an odd-shaped power supply, so it wasn’t as easy to replace as I thought it would be.  Anyway, we’re back.  The main ways this affects GWRN are delays:  1) This monthly update is late.  2) The Country Music Industry Edition is very late.  Sorry, guys.  3) I’m going to be late getting started contact Industry Edition advertisers.  So if you’re interested, please contact me directly.  (Info is at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/ie_adrates.html.)  When I get enough to cover expenses, I can focus on getting the issue out hopefully not too late.  4) To those people whose discs I liked enough to review myself – those CD reviews probably won’t be ready for the Spring Country Music Industry Edition or the May Industry Edition.  5) I didn’t send e-mail confirmations to as many people whose CDs arrived for review.  Of course, I don’t always get time to do that anyway.  6) The Spring Online Edition isn’t laid out.

 

Thanks for your patience.  We continue to focus on what we do well, which is to get unsigned and indie bands’ CDs reviewed and into the

 

Promotion Idea:  Would your fans be interested in reading Geoff Wilbur’s Renegade Newsletter?  We can put together a web page for you (that will look similar to http://www.geoffwilbur.com/renegade/suboffer_mailinglist.html but with your band’s name on it), and we’ll also send you a Word file with a one-page form you can print out.  (If you reduce the form we send you to 50% at Kinko’s, you’ll be able to fit 4 on a page.)  Then, you can direct your fans to the web page and hand out the forms at shows and other events.  (Most effectively, you can collect cash from your fans at the show and send the forms and a check to me through the mail – you know how people can be interested at the moment, but by the next morning, they won’t fill out the form and send the check.)  If you have been reviewed or interviewed in a previous issue and if we still have copies of that issue in our files here, we will offer that issue as your fans’ “bonus.”  Otherwise, we’ll do something similar to the “mailing list” offer I referred you to as a sample.

 

What do you get in exchange?  Well… we’ll offer you 50% ad credit – meaning, for every $10 subscription, we’ll give you $5 toward advertising in GWRN.  You can find ad rates for the Industry Edition at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/ie_adrates.html and for the Country Music Industry Edition at http://www.geoffwilbur.com/cmie_adrates.html.  Please zip me an e-mail if you’re interested, and we’ll get you up and rolling.

 

Anyway, thanks again for reading your monthly update.  As always, keep in touch.