http://www.jocelynarsenault.com Internet & Digital Media Consultant Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:47:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The MySpace homepage has a higher 18-34 composition than any other portal 25% of Americans are on MySpace 40% of all moms in the US are on MySpace. MySpace is the most trafficked website in the US 12% of all online minutes are spent on MySpace 13.6% of all Internet users in the world are ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/who-said-myspace-is-dead Think about it. An economy slows down and heads towards a recession. Why? Because we stop spending due to a fear of losing our jobs and livelihood...  Jobs are lost because we stop spending. You see the cycle? A recession is just an illusion that we create out of fear feed to us by ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/maybe-we-the-people-are-to-blame-for-our-current-economic-woes I know this steps away from my usual topics but I just could not resist. Earlier this week, just like the week before and the week before and before…  a paper brochure came in the mail from the Bloc Québecois.  The latest brochure states that the Bloc is here for the ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/%e2%80%9cle-bloc-quebecois%e2%80%9d-and-their-hypocrisy About 85% of all business related meetings are useless and a waste of time. Meetings and complex organizational processes are killing our productivity. Before you accept or schedule a meeting, ask yourself; is this meeting really necessary? If it gets canceled by any means, would that meeting fade away, or ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/how-to-kill-office-productivity Here's a quick video that explains the essence of Twitter. Is it for everyone? Like anything else, no. But Twitter has a real use for media companies and social-media-savvy brands. According to Jeremiah Owyang in his article on MarketingProfs, Twitter is a tool through which subscribers can further reach their audiences, ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/should-you-twitter I guess you could say that Montreal has extreme seasonal weather. From minus 35 degrees Celsius in the dead of winter and now, on this 9th day of June, it's a humid 35 degrees. The 3 photos below where taking just outside my apartment, one month apart... 1) March 10, 2008: ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/three-seasons-within-3-months In today’s environment, you need to be everywhere. There is no excuse for not having your band and your songs on every Social Network there is. The reason, your fans, current and future, are on every site there is. If they look for you on Facebook and you are not ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/music-social-networking-you-need-to-be-everywhere Here's a link of all the top “Web 2.0″ sites out there. http://movers20.esnips.com/TableStatAction.ns?reportId=100 These are the sites that are defining our current state of the Internet, the sites that are responsible for giving every single person in the entire world the opportunity to promote themselves online. Start using them yourselves, as they ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/the-top-100-web-20-sites Social media marketing is complicated for two reasons: no one has created a structure to work from yet, and there’s so much overlap in functionality of different sites, that it can be quite confusing as to a site’s single purpose because there usually isn’t a single purpose. This said, don’t ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/the-five-pillars-of-social-media-marketing There are many online destinations that independent music businesses and musicians can use to help promote there music and products online. Although I always say that you should be everywhere online, I'm the first one to admit that maintaining, promoting and constantly updating multiple sites is labor intensive and ... http://www.jocelynarsenault.com/top-5-sites-for-musicians-and-bands