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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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 27/02/2014

Monarch Music & Media

Site Update 27/02/2014

Hi again from Monarch Music & Media, it's hard to believe it has been a month since the last update blog but a much-welcomed increase in Amazon sales, our first eBay auction sales and continued promotion of the site / distribution of the business cards I have been kept rather busy of late!

Looking at the site and where to go next it's still clear that more content needs to be added to some of the sections, the excellent website monitoring application from StatCounter gives lots of useful information on where the website visitors are coming from and which are the most popular page visits etc so it is a case of collating all this data and updating the site accordingly, giving more choice and content in the most visited areas etc.

It is very encouraging to see the commission sales side of the business steadily growing but I feel that can only be maintained or improved upon by keeping the promotion side going. The trial Facebook advertising campaign has just recently come to an end and has been useful both in that it has brought new people to the Monarch Music & Media Facebook page and also directly to the website's homepage. Of course it is a fine line with the promotion as nobody wants to be constantly spammed with repetitive information so I am bearing that in mind all the time too when posting any content or links up on the Facebook page.

That's it from me for now so I hope you're all doing well and that 2014 has been good to you so far!

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 25/11/2013

Hi again everybody,

The last few days I have been kept very busy adding more content to the website and generally tidying up and improving the look, feel and navigation so that hopefully it is even more user friendly now.

Latest changes and additions to the website :-

1. The growing number of Amazon aStores now total as follows, UK 6, Canada 5, USA 5, France 4, Germany 4 (France and Germany being new additions.)

2. Much more content has now been added to the PC & Video Games section with pages being created for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3 and PC formats. On these pages you will find game descriptions and direct links to Amazon where they can be purchased.

3. Some of my music and craft beer friends have kindly allowed me permission to link to their websites / Facebook pages so those now appear in the Links section under the Music and Food & Drink subheadings respectively. I'm looking to grow this links section so if any of you are interested in having a link to your Facebook page, blog or website please get in touch as it is a great way of publicising your venture.

4. There is now a direct link to the Monarch Music & Media blog updates on the website, not surprisingly this can be found under the Blog heading and is a useful reference when wanting to check out the latest site news.

That's about all for now, thank you all again for your continuing support!

DJM

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Monarch Music & Media - Site Update 22/11/2013

With the site just a few days old I have to first thank everyone for their support and interest as the response on Facebook in particular has been fantastic!

I would also like to thank several people for giving me some general feedback, reporting any errors or broken links etc and as a result I have been doing a few minor alterations and adding some content in between some site promotion via various search engines and publishing websites.

The main changes in the last couple of days are that I have now added 4 Amazon aStores each for the UK, Canada and the USA, making it easier for our visitors to go directly to their own local version of Amazon rather than have to go to the default UK version then have to log out and back in again if you're not in the UK. I've also tidied up the CD Home section of the Storefront as I felt there were rather a few too many genre categories in the drop down menu so have moved some of the content and condensed it a little so that the navigation looks better.

As always thank you for your continued support and any feedback is appreciated, either by posting on the website forum or contacting me at Facebook or Twitter.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Neil

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DJ Monarch Launches A New Music And Media Website

DJ Monarch now has a web presence after launching Monarch Music & Media where you can find home page links to a selection of his online mixes at Mixcloud and some of his music production ventures at SoundCloud. There is also a two-part DJ biography and the facility to hire his DJ services for your bar or club night, family get together, house party etc.

Vinyl is still very much the order of the day for DJ Monarch who plays an eclectic range of dance music styles including oldskool, drum & bass, techno, house, trance, hip hop, soul, trip hop and downtempo. His mixes tend to focus either on particular genres or specific years as this has proved to have gone down well with listeners who appreciate the variety, both in the early days
playing out and about in the bars and clubs and then more recently via internet radio.

The idea for starting a music and media website stemmed from a combination of the DJ's previous experience within the financial accounting industry which he worked in for many years learning much about good business practice along the way while the musical experience goes back to the late 1990s when a good friend and fellow DJ handed him a lucky local break with a regular warm up set at a local Northwich wine bar of a Friday night playing oldskool house which ended up running for 18 months. From there DJ Monarch went on to internet radio where his Monday night show on Ineffect Radio lasted for 7 years, the longest running show on that station.

Further opportunities to DJ outside the local area were provided during the time at Ineffect Radio, one memorable occasion being the party event put on by the station and held at The Venue in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire. DJ Monarch's 90 minute set actually became a 3 hour set after one of the other DJs could not attend the event and it was a memorable evening with a great line up including DJ Hixxy who as usual was spinning some happy hardcore. DJ Monarch got his first overseas gig in 2006 when invited to a birthday party event for a girlfriend of one of the Ineffect Radio DJs, this was held in Zurich, Switzerland and once again a great time was had by all.

At the Monarch Music & Media store you'll also find new and used Vinyl Records, CDs, MP3s, TV & Film DVDs, PC & Video Games and other forms of electronic media which are available either directly from the website using PayPal's Buy Now buttons or via links to larger stores such as Amazon and iTunes who offer the customer a huge range of both choice and value.

Visitor interaction is very much encouraged on the website where there is a Guestbook, Guest Map, Forum, Live Chat Room and Blog, the aim being to build a friendly community spirit and a feeling of unity similar to that you find at the better live music events!

In order to aid the future growth and reputation of the website a reciprocal linking scheme is in place whereby other businesses, social network page owners and bloggers can register their interest and then submit their company logos, ad banners and page links etc.

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