Day 12 - Presales

Facebook members: 238

The question is, are we going to make 5oo members by the end of January? There are nearly 2,000 unreplied invitation which is the major problem. So many people just ignore Facebook Groups (my missus being the prime example). We clearly need to do a bit more on the promotion front. As soon as we hit 300 I will send out another begging email for everyone to a big invite of their address book. Let's hope that the Burger King campaign to persuade everyone to start culling their friends in return for a free burger doesn't work:

Lose friends, gain weight

We got a little further in terms of distribution today. There is every chance that the CD will be a physical product that is distributed to proper shops (but like I said, that relies on their being music shops left by then) and also pushed to the front of iTunes. We were also discussing the possibilities of pre-ordering the CD. There may be a way in which we sell the CD on pre-order but set the official release date to the Christmas week so that all the pre-order sales count during that week. This could be a very practical solution although clearly it won't work until we have an actual product to sell on pre-order. I haven't really started thinking about writing the song (I am still writing other songs so that we can keep renewing our set) but I guess now would be a good time to think about it. I have exams coming up soon so this would be ideal procrastination material!

Step 8 - Snow

Did I do this one already? I just had a read through and I don't think I have. Oh yes, scrub that, I have, but not in the ten steps. So yes, let's include it in the ten steps. Snow is the one thing that our Christmases lack lately. I can't remember the last time we had a prolonged period of snow since I was a wee lad. We definitely had periods of weeks where there would be snow that we could go and sledge in. Anyway, what would a Christmas song be without referencing the white stuff (not Colombian marching powder)? Visually we need snow, lyrically we need snow. We all need snow. Funnily enough, an FOTG song already mentions snow. It's called Obsessive Compulsive and the line is 'The snow stops with the worrying'. It relates to a reoccurring dream I have before we go skiing that there will be no snow. Very odd it is I tell you. But the snow won't stop this Christmas, that's for sure.

Actually, it would be quite nice if it snowed in St Foy a bit! Ta ta for now.