I’m feeling stretched pretty thin this week, with a lot of work to do on the website, finishing my t-shirt, and trying to finish multiple songs and beats.  Sometimes I wish I could add about 10 hours to my day, but I realize I can’t.  These days it’s about prioritizing my time and making sure the most important things get done first.  My hard work is starting to pay off, as I am now getting a lot more traffic from search engines.  I rank number one for “Up and Coming Rap” and several similar variations, which is huge for me.

I started marketing myself on Twitter this last week, which has built me several new relationships and brought me some new wonderful fans, even a few that want to collaborate from across the world. I never thought Twitter could be as good as it has been.  My followers have jumped from 97 before marketing, to over 300 in just over a week.  A lot of which are from my target market, which is important as I build my brand locally first.  I’m still getting the hang of it, but I can see Twitter being a big part of my success in 2011.

Facebook is still my main traffic source thanks to advertising, and I have been working on tweaking my ads the past few days to make them more efficient.  In the two months I have been advertising, my ad has been shown over 3.5 million times, and clicked on over 1000 times, also from right here in my target market.  Today and yesterday has been spent trying to figure out how to get more for less on advertising, if all goes as planned I should be able to multiply my Facebook traffic by 5, while cutting my costs nearly in half.  That would be very nice, as it isn’t cheap to advertise online.

I am realizing more and more that I need to get out and start performing though.  Part of me wants to wait until i have some new music ready, but part of me wants to get it going and start performing with what I have.  Don’t get me wrong, I love every song I have put out, but I also know I can do a lot better.  My debut album is going to be nothing but the best that I can bring, and I can’t wait to get it out and start performing this year.  I’m a little nervous about being on stage as I have always had stage fright during presentations and speeches, but I know that once I get out there and the music drops; it’s on.  I visualize myself being a very good performer, and I can’t wait to show the world what I can do.

I should have a new song out by the end of the week, and I’m hoping to have the graphics done for the t-shirt as well.  My biggest priority is getting the ads going, getting a song done, and getting the graphics for my t-shirt done this next week.  Follow me on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated throughout the week, and don’t forget to sign up for my RSS feed, available by e-mail as well.  Thanks for reading this and all of the support, I appreciate every one of my fans and visitors.  -Jaime “J-Xile” Landers