Music Arsenal Blog

Hey everyone! We're staying busy here but wanted to give you a quick update on whats going on...

We've just made a big update to the Music Arsenal directory by adding more than 900 new contacts. This includes 500 new venues to play shows at and more than 350 new record stores to carry your releases. These contacts were all carefully researched and gathered so you know you're getting the most up-to-date and accurate information.

Beyond that we also redesign the dashboard page to help you quickly get started with the features available in Music Arsenal. A little deeper in the program you'll also see we've added guides to nearly every page of the site. These will help you easily understand how each section of Music Arsenal can benefit your band or company.

Thanks for reading and keep checking back for updates!

Its only been a week since rolling out Music Arsenal and we're already making updates! We're going to be making these improvements pretty consistently so keep an eye on the blog.

First, we've added an Activity Feed to the Music Arsenal Dashboard. With this activity feed you can now see at a glance the 15 most recent activities in your Music Arsenal account. You can see who created what contacts, who called what stores and lots more. Check out the screenshot for a visual.

Second, we redesigned the search results page. It was OK before, but its great now! Instead of just displaying a contacts name, location and type we're also displaying phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Now you can find the information you need even faster.

Thats it for now but we're working on even more stuff for the next couple of weeks.

As you can tell we've publicly launched the brand new Music Arsenal site. We are very happy with the response so far and we'd like to highlight a couple of key features.

Contact Directories - We've launched with over 2000 hand collected music industry contacts. You can now find all types of useful contacts in nearly every major U.S. city. We're starting with venues, radio, retail and press and will be adding more contact directories in the near future. (Thanks Jill, Brandy and Jessica for your help in researching these contacts!)

Scene Searches - Using our new advanced search feature you can now find contacts not only within a city but within 30 miles of that city. For example, if you have a show coming up in Nashville, TN you can search Music Arsenal and not only find contacts to promote your show there but also in Lebanon, TN, Brentwood, TN, Hermitage, TN and more!

More Coming...

Music Arsenal is going to be growing very quickly over the next few weeks. We will be adding more features to the program as well as augmenting our contact directories so stay tuned for updates!

We're happy to announce we've just launched the all new version of Music Arsenal! Not only that, but a new front site as well. Its been a grueling couple of weeks and we're very pleased with the results. We'd love to hear what you think.

More details tomorrow!

Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up on the new version of Music Arsenal and our progress. The private beta is going great and we'll be opening up some more invites very soon so make sure you signup.

We have over 1000 hand gathered, quality contacts in the Music Arsenal directory now. There are a variety of magazines, blogs, record stores, college radio stations and more. This directory is growing very fast so check back often for updates.

We're also working on redesigning a couple of the contact pages to make them easier to navigate as well as adding functionality for advanced searches and mailing label printing.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions so far, you've helped us a lot!