Do you sit around thinking about Alizee...I do. I enjoy the psychology of marketing and business, I like certain personalities, sociology...Alizee is all that wrapped up in one package. She is just SO intriguing.
Let's talk a bit about Shakira. I really like Shakira, I admire her, singing, writing, entertaining, humanitarian efforts....but...no intrigue. She just came out with a new thing called DUST. It does everything we all want to do for Alizee. It's nice that they have fun with it, talking about secret handshakes and joking along those lines. Well DUST takes you to fan manager, there you can find items to help support and promote Shakira. All different sized banners for her upcoming album, code is there to pick the one you like, copy and paste it on your site.
Here is a sample of what they have going on: "tools which will aid you in your quest to spread the word of Shakira and She Wolf around the world wide web. Grab the codes and stick them somewhere online (your Facebook, MySpace etc page might be a good place to start, but if you have access to the front page of Perez Hilton’s blog, that would be great too)."
"Once you have performed some DUST duties, you can report them to us here at DUST HQ. To do this, click the “Report Your Work” button above. You will be taken to a SECRET form, where you can upload your photos, report your work and earn points to win THINGS."
They are throwing some big boy money at that. Interesting to note that this is all for a new album coming out in October 2009, which the first single has already been released. Television appearances have already started, Oprah and the like. There is a store where you can buy clothing and you can also pre order the album.
I told you that story to get to this point. Alizee has a new album coming out about the same time...right. So...what are we expecting??? UH OH...is it hitting you yet...OH NO...hurry up, we better go get our reality hats...where is it, come on, where is it...oh yeah, we are Alizee fans, we don't have reality hats. Grab our brown paper bags...breath slowly, and another....(you know, I maybe able to market Alizee brown paper bags, they seem to be in demand)
Are you OK? Whether it is Jive, Sony, RCA, BMG, ABC OR XYZ does it matter? We know relatively nothing about the new album. They may have a slamming promotional coming up...who knows? All I am saying is be prepared. You may need to go to the big warehouse store and buy the economy case of paper bags!
Frankly, with me, I am just happy to have some new songs. Just love watching and waiting for her next move, that should be fun. In the mean time I am just trying to help the rest of you out...better start emailing Jive or whom ever...
I think it would be cool to have a banner available to post on websites. Just copy and paste the new Alizee promotional ad regarding the new album. HINT - we don't need to reinvent the wheel here!!!!
Alizee is all about the internet. Shakira I can catch on the television, on the radio, in papers and magazines...with Alizee, if it was not for the internet...I shudder to think. As Winston Churchill once said "Give us the tools" and the rest of the quote is "and we will finish the job"
Alizee promoters did you hear that? Give us "official" banners and we will post them. Have them available on a website that is already up, Alizee's official website, myspace...possibly different languages. We can have someone design them for free if you just tell us what you want them to say/promote. We are not even asking for TV appearances or even a concert, just let us do our thing!
As far as a concert...how about something like an 'internet concert'? one song, 'the' promotional song, now get this, live online from Alizee and Jeremy's home studio or record it and broadcast it at a specific time. How easy and how cool would that be. Have a 60 second tour of the studio too. Then post it on the official Alizee YouTube site.
So far here Alizee has not had to leave her home. Come on promotional guys...I'm just throwing out crazy ideas as I am typing and you're getting paid to do this. Someone think outside the box.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Alizee, give us the tools...
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You've hit the nail on the head, AW. When handing out Alizee fliers in NYC, we were repeatedly asked if we worked for her. We'd have to respond, "no, we're just fans." We do the best we can but are given, well, nothing. Not even information. Half the time I'm not exactly sure what we're trying to sell. Imagine how much easier promoting would be if we didn't have to design and make everything ourselves from scratch. But then again, they pulled it off in Mexico, so...
what to do, what to do, thinking hard on this subject
Well, first of all, it might be worthwhile if a bunch of us from the Twitter army organized and tweeted Jive/Epic France with a link to this very post? They may not even be aware that we're looking for something like this from them, and if enough of us do it, they may take notice.
I found Alizee on the You Tube 2 years ago and that is what hooked me. I think most of her fans follow her on internet and I hope she gets a good quality video on You Tube to promote her new album.
ya know, I took a look at Jive/Epic twitter and I noticed they actually responded to some twitter conversations which really surprised me. That is pretty Jive/Epic on their part...so let's do it
nice reading as always, Aw.
You have very good points there. We as fans should promote Alizée and make our biggest efforts to get noticed by Alizée.
As I understand it, we would be asking Jive Epic to give us the "tools".
I was speaking to RondasX (owner of Alizee Latino) about this, and he told me that they do get these "tools" from Sony. And they get them a lot of times. They actually ask Alize Latino and all the offical forums to promote Alizée, and they provide them with banners, etc. And eventually they would ask them to promote other artist from Sony, even if they are not fans.
Honestly I don't think Jive Epic will give us the tools right away, unless we are an official site linked to them. Of course we can always try =). It actually doesn't take much time to do what Ruro says, and it is totally worthy.
anyway, lets see what happens!
I'm curious if Jive/Epic will answer something...
edgarrrrrrrr is back. Edgar has a knack at being at the leading edge of information.
Jennnnnny I am curious too.
I may make this a post but am concerned it maybe too boring.
Interesting information Edgar. Let's look at this in a purely business format, non emotional. Does the business plan include expanding into North America (dont take it personal readers). Why "give us the tools" if that is not in the plans. As opposed to giving them the tools... because it was in the plans. No matter what the business plan is I would hope Jive/Epic would understand that we would help promote Alizee no matter what, no matter what countries she visits. Jive/Epic...did you get that, no matter what! If Alizee has a concert in Mexico...did you think we would not support it? Stop regionalizing us. More concerts are more videos for ALL of us. You give us the tools I bet you see more of us at a concert in Mexico. What, you thought if there is concert in Mexico, lets exclude North American fans just because the concert is not there? Of course we will beg and cry for a concert near us, but we do that anyway dont we, so whats the downside? Only upside. It would lead me to a question I do not want to ponder, why wouldnt you want our help? We are not asking for Alizee to come her, just let us help promote. I prefer not to think about that one.
Now, Jenny
I am impressed with Jive/Epic's Twitter. Ruroshen suggested the idea of twittering them and I jumped the guy because I saw that Jive/Epic had just posted some tweets and I wanted to catch them before the weekend started. They tweet on a regular basis during the week. Check the July 23rd tweets, they responded to tweets!!! I have a healthy respect for that. I would like to think that they may respond with a broad general tweet to Alizee fans or maybe to a few select forums that posted to them. Keep in mind that we started this on the weekend. The dont seem to tweet on weekends, Monday morning they will be finding this posts. Might be interesting, they have responded to fans previously.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing--we started this on a weekend, so whoever maintains Jive/Epic's Twitter probably hasn't seen it yet, and it's possible some Alizée fans haven't seen the call go out, either (or have been too busy this weekend to respond). We should definitely keep it up through Monday, and see if we can't get more of a response.
Good point about us being willing to support Lili regardless of where she is or where she goes, AW. While we'd naturally love to raise awareness of Alizée here in North America to the point where a concert here could happen, we Lilly Town People will be happy to help regardless.
[quote=AW]why wouldnt you want our help?[/quote]
Well, that question has always made me think about Alizee and the US. Sometimes I'm afraid that she is not even interested in the US market. I mean, she could have done pretty well in the US back in the MCE or Gourmandises days. Maybe it wasn't her time.
Or maybe we haven't done "enough" to get that. I don't think so.
Anyway, AW, don't you have a post about Alizee and the US ? I think I missed it. I'd love to read it!
Let's just wait for some answers ..
Heh, it took awhile, but it looks like Jive/Epic has noticed us, gang!
http://twitter.com/Jive_Epic/status/3203422155
Now let's see what they do with it! =D
cool, I had not noticed it, thank you brother for pointing that out.
an acknowledgment
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