Monarch Music & Media - Update 28/01/2015

Monarch Music & Media

Update 28/01/2015

Website News

It's been a very busy start to the year here! On reviewing the website and content it was decided that things needed some reworking in order to provide more of a range of products along with better up to date news and reviews etc so that our blog readers hopefully become better entertained and informed.

The main part of this process took the best part of 10 days to complete but I thought it better to keep the site open during this time albeit with a limited amount of content.

Social Media News

The social media side continues to develop rapidly and yesterday the Twitter page twitter.com/MonarchMusicMed reached the 2000 follower point so thank you to everyone involved there. Facebook continues to be a great outlet for the business too and I'd like to thank everyone at the Facebook page facebook.com/monarchmusicmedia for following/giving it a like. I've also been looking into other social media sites such as Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest etc to see how best these could help spread the word also.

Hope everyone's year has started well and as always a big thanks to everyone for your continued support, any feedback and ideas for going forward are much appreciated!

DJM

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New Monarch Music & Media website goes live!

Monarch Music & Media is very pleased to announced that the new website is now up and running :-

www.monarchmusicmedia.blogspot.com

It's taken a few weeks to transfer all the relevant existing data and files off the old website, removing some of the outdated content and adding in new products and site features but hopefully the general look, feel and accessibility are now better than they were. Your feedback on this is of course much appreciated, in particular anyone viewing the site using mobile phones / smartphones / tablets etc. 

There is lots of totally new media content in the form of books (paperback, hardcover and kindle formats) and phones (accessories, chargers, mobile phones, smartphones) and also a computer hardware section where you can find graphics cards, hard drives, monitors, processors, RAM, ROM drives etc.

The new & used Vinyl Records and CDs for sale direct from Monarch Music & Media sections have been revamped and condensed into single listing pages so that it's now much easier to find all the items currently for sale in the one place as previously it was felt that they were a little too spread out and hard to locate, and that there were perhaps too many options on the drop down menus.

The Gaming section remains in a similar format featuring Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One games but items have now been broken down further into particular gaming genres.

The DJ Equipment section continues to feature Cartridges, Controllers, Headphones, Lights, Microphones, Mixers, PA Systems and Turntables.

DVDs have been moved to the media section and are categorised into genres such as Comedy, Drama, Family, Music etc and there is now also an age classification rating where applicable for the benefit of parents buying items for their children.

Many more CD's, MP3s and Vinyl Records can be found in the Music section and are broken down first into genre (the dance genre being yet more specific) and second into the format, album, single or compilation etc.

The Links section has also been simplified and categorised so it should be easier to find them than it was. As ever if you're a business or just have a personal page you want to promote and you would like a link to your website / blog / Facebook page / Twitter etc adding then just get in touch!

Social Media is a big player these days of course and the site features links to the Monarch Music & Media pages at Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn along with a contact email address. These buttons are to be found at the top of the right hand task bar. The beauty of a blogspot page is that it's very geared towards social media integration and site visitors can just post their comments instantly and directly rather than have to use the emailing system which at times can be slower if servers are temporarily down or the recipient is away etc, it also helps to encourage social interaction to give the whole place a more friendly feel.

Time seems to have flown and it's hard to believe Monarch Music & Media is almost a year old so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all your support, encouragement, joining the Facebook page etc. It's all very much appreciated!

Cheers, 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 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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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 30/11/2013

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update - 30/11/2013

It has been a rather eventful week of ups and downs, the last couple of days being rather a setback after having some computer issues which resulted in the reinstalling of Windows 7, luckily I managed to salvage all the important files so it was only time that was lost.

Earlier in the week was much better as there was good news back from eBay agreeing my application to be affiliate partners with them, meaning I can now place live RSS feed links to eBay auctions directly on www.monarchmusicmedia.com within their relevant music genre sections, this being particularly handy because there is a vast amount of vinyl records on eBay all the time!

Site content has remained the priority too and there are now a selection of Trance MP3 downloads on the Dance & Electronic MP3 page. The Pop MP3 and Rock MP3 pages have also been updated similarly with several links to downloads now available.

Now that the computer is up and running again the next immediate job is to add to the DVD content, most likely some thumbnail links to new content across the 4 existing genre sections of Comedy, Drama, Family & Music and possibly the creation of 1 or 2 new genre sections in future.

That's all for now, enjoy your weekend folks!

DJM

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