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New Advertising Option at All About Jazz Leverages Amazon Store Widget
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has repurposed its Amazon store widget (see right) as an advertising vehicle to help musicians and record labels sell their music. “The Amazon store widget is nearly twice as tall as the 300x250 medium rectangle banner and includes the added benefit of promoting and selling multiple album titles in an interface designed to facilitate sales," said All About Jazz Founder, Michael Ricci. “In many ways it's superior to the banner: it's fixed location, it's persistent, and it ...
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Four Time-Saving Tips when adding your events at Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You improves regularly and we're particularly focused on improving ease of use. Here are three time-saving tips to consider when adding your next round of events: Add Recurring Events Did you know that you can add up to 16 recurring events at once on the Jazz Near You event submission form? Here's how: Click the first date in the calendar box, set the time, the price (if applicable), then click on the recurring dates. We've selected every Saturday ...
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Counting Down the Top 14 Jazz MP3s for 2014
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All About Jazz
We're counting down the top 14 MP3s featured at All About Jazz in 2014 starting with Drayen Labie's “Kissa i Lé." Readers can follow the countdown from our Download of the Day page where we'll announce the #1 downloaded track on January 2nd. Fiona Ord-Shrimpton, All About Jazz's Download of the Day editor stated, “Another year passes as we give thanks to so many musicians whose formidable musical outputs continue to excite, amuse and challenge us. Download of the Day ...
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2015 Jazz Birthday Calendar Now Available at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz, home to the largest database of jazz musician birthdays has launched a new calendar that allows users to view birthdays in a monthly calendar style format. The website will continue to offer a sequential list by day along with its new calendar that highlights its most popular musician profiles. The musician whose profile has received the most page views is highlighted with a thumbnail image for that particular day. So Happy Birthday, Chris Potter! Musician? To be ...
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Spread Good Cheer: Support All About Jazz and Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
Your friends at All About Jazz want to wish all our readers, especially our registered members, a joyous holiday season filled with family and fun. We have several big projects in store for 2015 including an upgraded and cross-platform version of the Jazz Near You app, a jazz wall, and a home concert initiative spanning the globe. Exciting stuff for sure, and all just around the corner. To keep All About Jazz and Jazz Near You humming along, we'll need ...
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All About Jazz Helps Musicians Promote their Crowdfunding Campaigns
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All About Jazz
Have an active crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter or Indiegogo? If so, All About Jazz can help you promote it. View the step-by-step here Simply add your crowdfunding campaign title, video embed code, widget embed code and end date to your musician profile admin page and we'll promote your crowdfunding campaign on your musician/band profile page and on the Jazz Musician Database page. So enter your crowdfunding campaign information and let All About Jazz help you reach your goal! Related Screens ...
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Improved Searching at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz and Jazz Near You readers can now conduct either a website database search or a Google relevancy search from one convenient location by clicking the magnifying glass icon to the left of “Home" directly under “all about jazz" (or “jazz near you") at the top of every page. In addition to fast access to multiple search options from one location, we also added more search criteria. For instance, users can now search for events by a specific ...
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