Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 31/12/2013

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update 31/12/2013

Welcome to the final update of 2013, a year which for myself started out very quietly but became really busy in the final couple of months due to the launch of the Monarch Music & Media venture!

Personally it has been a real roller coaster of a year, losing several good friends way before their time has been difficult and indeed forces one to rethink their outlook on life in many ways, perhaps persuading us in some cases to take more chances and opportunities if and when they come our way. On the positive side I have been very much impressed with the coverage the website has enjoyed in its first 6 weeks or so, having only a minimal budget for advertising and marketing available it was always a concern but social media such as Facebook and Twitter seemed to have worked well.

The Facebook advertising in particular has proved to be the highlight of the last couple of weeks, reaching more new visitors than ever before and across several countries, this had started off rather slowly but now seems to be gathering momentum nicely. Also the Amazon aStore pages have been showing an increased interest of late, I guess not too surprising with it being the holiday period but still nice to see.

Looking ahead to the New Year I hope to further improve the range and choice of music and media items for sale on the website and hopefully if time permits I would like to add more content to the DJing side of Monarch Music & Media with maybe some more mixes and/or production products added to Mixcloud and SoundCloud respectively...

It just now remains for me to wish you all a Happy New Year and a healthy and prosperous 2014, if you're out partying have a great night!

DJM

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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 22/12/2013

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update - 22/12/2013

The past week seems to have really flown by and as usual for myself thoughts have turned to some last-minute shopping in preparation for the holidays. The major website news is that earlier in the week I took a good look at all the content and while I am reasonably happy with the amount of items available I did feel the general look and feel of the web pages could be improved. This of course is a longer and more drawn out task now than when the website was created only a month ago with around 85 pages to edit!

There has also been some positive news on the marketing front after a good friend kindly provided me with some advertising space on one of the virtual worlds programs which gets quite high visitor traffic so it's nice to see Monarch Music & Media now has a presence in cyberspace.

Hopefully the site now looks more linear and uniform that it did previously and this should make it quicker and easier when adding new content and replacing existing content in the future but as ever feedback is much appreciated so any comments, thoughts or ideas can be posted up on the site forum or you can contact me via Facebook, Twitter and email or simply reply directly to the site update blog.

As we approach the year end I think the next steps will be to add some more live eBay auction links to some of the pages that currently do not have them and possibly a little more content on the mp3 front.

There is still plenty of space for reciprocal linking so if you would like a link to your business or personal website, Facebook page, blog etc please get in touch and a banner ad or logo can be created.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to those celebrating!

DJM

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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 14/12/2013

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update 14/12/2013

Welcome to the latest update which I guess is unofficially becoming a weekly update at the moment but the plan really is to add these when there is new news, content and site updates and not just because a certain time limit might be reached etc.

I've been concentrating mainly on the advertising and marketing side of things during the last week, looking into places I can promote the site with some real diversity ranging from the more obvious music and social media forums and sites to the more obscure ones such as virtual worlds. I also took a closer look at Facebook advertising which is probably going to take a deal of experimentation and some degree of trial and error as you can set various parameters when creating the adverts to produce some very different results each time.

Having found the eBay live RSS feeds to be useful in that they provide constantly updated information with links to live auctions I have increased their presence on the website with the intention of focussing on specific genres to make them as relevant as possible to what the customer is searching for.

That's all for this time, once again thanks to everyone for reading and I hope you are all well!

DJM

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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 07/12/2013

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update - 07/12/2013

Into December and Monarch Music & Media is already 3 weeks old!

On reviewing some of the media content again I noticed that some of the CD pages were a little sparse compared to the Vinyl and DVD areas so this week I have been focussing on adding links in the House, Jazz, Pop, R&B and Trance CD sections, 60 in total and covering a wide range of musical tastes with lots of them being bestsellers and current chart toppers.

I'd like to be really flexible with the site regarding content so again visitor feedback and opinion is very much encouraged and appreciated, if there are any music genres or artists, tv or movie categories etc in particular that you would like to see more of for sale then you can either leave a message on the website forum, send an email to contact@monarchmusicmedia.com or find me via Facebook or Twitter.

I've not had much time at all to turn my attentions to my own Christmas shopping this week but I hope it isn't stressing everyone out so far!

That's about all from me for now so enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone :)

DJM

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