News — Monday, November 16, 2009 14:15
One year later
Bloodline blog design
Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:21
I’ve just realigned the blog design here at ashleymorgan.com. The palette is intended to represent the bloodline theme of the current album, using reds and flesh tones to highlight areas of the layout against a muted off white background.
Enjoy the new design.
The truth about record labels
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:27
They don’t work. A record label exists only to syphon money from the public into the pockets of the men in the ill fitting suits. Independent musicians don’t need them and never will again. Those days are, thankfully, gone.
That is why Big Arena Records has today relaunched as a blog for independent musicians. Running an [...]
Announcing the title of the Ashley Morgan 2009 album
Saturday, April 4, 2009 16:04
The Ashley Morgan 2009 album is entitled Eden, after my wonderful and very beautiful daughter who turned two years old today.
Blogging rhythm
Monday, February 2, 2009 9:07
With ashleymorgan.com fully launched, traffic rising and record sales increasing steadily, now is the time to settle into the day to day, or week to week, business of maintaining this blog’s success and upward trajectory.
Given the nature of this blog, it’s purpose being to act as a focal point for my jazz career, documenting it’s [...]
Boom
Sunday, December 28, 2008 13:37
We did it. With the sale of two limited edition 2009 albums today the $1,000 target had been reached 28 days into the project. I say we because you and I did this together. This blog would not have grown without the support of everyone out there in the blogosphere who linked to it, blogged [...]
Stay on target
Monday, December 22, 2008 13:27
This was always going to be the tricky part. Keeping interest and traffic nice and high to help push this project through the $1,000 barrier with enough momentum to slingshot it hard into 2009. If you’re scratching your head wondering what on earth is going on here take a quick look at my introduction and [...]
Milestones
Thursday, December 18, 2008 14:00
The $500 mark has been reached. Break out the champagne and tell your friends. Today I am one big step further towards the $1,000 in 30 days target.
Limited edition
Monday, December 15, 2008 16:30
A few moments ago I received a paypal donation of $100 for one of the limited edition versions of the 2009 album. This may not seem like a huge deal but for a project that has only been online for 15 days and is still very much under construction this is big news.
The original target [...]
Traffic report
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 13:11
After just 10 short days traffic to ashleymorgan.com is up to a very encouraging 400 unique visitors per day. The majority of this is still from a couple of blog posts I wrote at Upstart Blogger, proving just how effective getting mentioned on a high traffic blog can be, but Micropatronage links are also starting [...]