Producer web presence | Company website or personal site?

[ssl_ambition]

I would like to hear your opinions on this.

As a producer, would you prefer a website which is setup as a company site (your production company) or do you like more personal sites where the company is just mentioned?

The reason why I`m asking this is, that with each way you can build a certain reputation/brand.

Advantages/disadvantages, your experience....

Thx

[conquest]

I have been going over this same issue in my head for awhile. I decided to take the personal route and build it around myself alone and not a production company alias. I feel there is no wiser investment then investing in your own name. You will have it forever so you better start now and get all the exposure you can muster. Taking the personal approach will allow people to get to know what your about, which I feel is very important especially for indie projects. Im going to include an RSS from my blog on the main page and kind of make it a home for all the things I have produced engineered or worked on Once your banking start a production company site.

[dafe]

Nearly impossibly opinable without intended market/s.


The mighty adverb chain master.....

[ssl_ambition]

Originally Posted by conquest

I have been going over this same issue in my head for awhile. I decided to take the personal route and build it around myself alone and not a production company alias. I feel there is no wiser investment then investing in your own name. You will have it forever so you better start now and get all the exposure you can muster. Taking the personal approach will allow people to get to know what your about, which I feel is very important especially for indie projects. Im going to include an RSS from my blog on the main page and kind of make it a home for all the things I have produced engineered or worked on Once your banking start a production company site.

I already got a company and I`m fed up with setting up two sites. I kinda stopped to update it and that`s why I wanna keep only one way. As I work as a producer/songwriter/mixer. I think it could be nice to embed the company into the personal site with a shop too and run the main company "more on paper".
What I also like about the personal way is the blog style which makes the site more attractive for surfers to come back for updates.

Originally Posted by dafe

Nearly impossibly opinable without intended market/s.
The mighty adverb chain master.....

??? intended market as a production company/ producer|songwriter?

[ssl_ambition]

I also think of a way where you can integrate all that blog stuff into mypsace, facebook, etc. Otherwise there is too much work and to me the web work should be as effective as possible but still updated and modern. Cause my main job is in the studio .... y`all know how time consuming all the internet presences can be. Don`t get me wrong. Most of the music business is to do business and it`s not all up to the studio but I just think about ways to optimize the time effort.

[dafe]

Originally Posted by ssl_ambition

??? intended market as a production company/ producer|songwriter?

Wrong term coz B2B (but leastly...). I mean, which ilk are your addressees aimed at? Wanna change or modify? Wanna be broad or sharply focused?

[ssl_ambition]

Originally Posted by dafe

Wrong term coz B2B (but leastly...). I mean, which ilk are your addressees aimed at? Wanna change or modify? Wanna be broad or sharply focused?

Sharply or broad?
Broad and sharply!
The site is representative for you as a person/producer.

B2B is another thing but what I mean is: If I go blog-style I want to integrate my blog updates and everything in other sites like (myspace, etc.) to minimize the work for the biggest benefit. These thoughts, because dealing with webdesign troubles can be very time consuming.

[dafe]

Originally Posted by ssl_ambition

Sharply or broad?
Broad and sharply!
The site is representative for you as a person/producer.

B2B is another thing but what I mean is: If I go blog-style I want to integrate my blog updates and everything in other sites like (myspace, etc.) to minimize the work for the biggest benefit. These thoughts, because dealing with webdesign troubles can be very time consuming.

I'll keep it straight broaply...erm, straightly broap, no, shard..

Think I see your aim. Isn't a preformatted fashion available, that allows you placing the straight facts in focus and integrate blog...maybe, headers, links whatever accessible in a side bar? So anybody checking out for business with you quickly gets a first picture in the first place without skimming through loads of blogs (not to offend you, these are massive and time consuming by nature) and have a closer look later if interest establishes?
Just me, but taking into consideration not only your time required but also the respective amount of the future recipient may forward your goals.

[In Tune Audio]

Great discussion. I've been wrestling with some of the same ideas.

I have to ask though. Are there lots of audio guys with blogs? I've been searching and had very little success finding many. So that makes me wonder, (for marketing reasons) why am I unable to find them? Are people not using them because they aren't working for this industry? Or are they just marketed poorly?


I do some photography as a hobby and there are an insane number of photography blogs and I've learned a tonne from them.
I'd like to do the same thing with audio and gear blogs.

[ssl_ambition]

First of all, thanks for your answer.

Originally Posted by dafe

Just me, but taking into consideration not only your time required but also the respective amount of the future recipient may forward your goals.

That's what I meant with the words "as EFFECTIVE as possible" but still fitting my needs.

Originally Posted by dafe

Isn't a preformatted fashion available, that allows you placing the straight facts in focus and integrate blog...maybe, headers, links whatever accessible in a side bar? So anybody checking out for business with you quickly gets a first picture in the first place without skimming through loads of blogs (not to offend you, these are massive and time consuming by nature) and have a closer look later if interest establishes?

It's all cool, no offence. Dude, I like your thoughts & the discussion with me

What you wrote is the main point. Sometimes you think you got a lot of preformatted stuff, but then you find out that this or that has to be remade cause it just don' t fit. There's no problem with text but I do care about design

With blog I meant more the very simple blog. Header, pic 4 links under the pic and here you go. The blog part would be just on the front page, something like the news page. I`m not talking about these blogs where you feel like your lost in a forest of links and buttons :-D

I think I`m ending up doing both. The blog is more personal and the company site covers all the business aspecsts and don't need to be changed a lot. Only the news.

I think proper design and thinking a lot about how each piece of the puzzle has to be will save me a lot of time later.

[dafe]

Thx. Obviously I was not too incomprehensible (not always like that, muttermutter..)

Had a similar issue recently, so was a bit into it. Freestyle though (dreamweaver), I guess the myspace preformat options are to squeeze pretty much til you ge something original. Backdrop design and "zoning", fitting to the content in the foreground, may help. Dunno.

Greetz.