The Social Freelancer: Media, Music, TV & Film

New track added! “Tell Me What’s the Reason” by Trace Relations with special guest, Dallas’ blues maestro Hash Brown Calway.

This Youtube playlist streams four music videos from the debut release “Prosperity Street” from Trace Relations Band. A smokin’ Dallas based rhythm section combines with soulful guitar from San Antonio, ending up in Texas Blues, and Americana groove territory. Vocalist Tracy Ready funnels 20+ years of bouncing between these two iconic Texas cities, personally and musically into an eclectic debut release, guaranteed to improve your mood.

Click “play” arrow here to see all 4 videos, back to back, with a :10 second introduction. Read more…

Seasons Greetings Friends and Kind Blog Readers,
My Social Media Tips related posts will continue next week, I have several articles in the works. Today I have a favor to ask (yes, there is a purpose here)…

Take a look around…
You’ll find little in the way of advertisement on this blog. I make my living in television production and have for the past 23 years, this blog is an outlet for me, and hopefully a valued resource for you.

What do I want?
I have launched this crowd funding campaign to help me continue work on “South Texas Soul” documentary film. Contributors get our CD, or house concerts, or full corporate sponsorship.
CLICK HERE: TRACE RELATIONS MUSIC GIFT SUPPORTS DOCUMENTARY

It’s tough for me to admit, but its been a tough year all the way around – and its hard to get anyone to support indie creative efforts, to cut through the haze of so much distraction in our lives these days.

I need your help.
Would you please click the link here? Contribute or just share on your page, send emails to anyone you think may have an interest… any or all will seriously help me reach this little goal.
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Please click this link and check out our Indiegogo campaign in support of the MUSIC and DOCUMENTARY “South Texas Soul”. Contributions as low as 10 bucks help immensely, and you get new music for the holidays. Heck, just clicking this link and checking it out helps.
CLICK HERE: TRACE RELATIONS MUSIC GIFT SUPPORTS DOCUMENTARY

What’s it all about? Here’s a quick video about the projects:

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Independently creative people from all around the world are turning to crowd funding this season to fuel their creative ventures and for good reasons.
READ LATEST POST: Personal from Trace: Please Buy, Share and Support Indie Music and Film this Christmas

Indie Artists thrive when you buy

Secondly, if you are self funded or self employed at your business, you know the old adage is true: “Time IS Money.” It is a struggle for people to devote time, mental energy and limited financial resources to creative projects when its tough to just keep groceries on the table and gas in the car.

CLICK HERE: TRACE RELATIONS MUSIC GIFT SUPPORTS DOCUMENTARY

Support Indie. Donate. Share.

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Here’s the simple truth about the development of creative or ambitious projects: People don’t pay much attention to what you say, all that matters is What You DO. I wrote this post originally as a follow up to this one: Focus on What You CAN Do, Not What You CAN’T, and since then the message has been pounded into my head again and again by personal experience.

Less talk, more action is what we would most like to see from many people in public and in our personal lives.

Lauren's Flowers, Photo by Tracy Ready

Want to be a writer?
Start writing.
Want to be a painter?
Start painting.
Want to be a photographer?
Start Shooting

Now you are one.
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Inbound Now has created an impressive tool that takes your Youtube videos and wraps them with subscription and sharing buttons for all the “biggies” of Social Media: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Pinterest and Buffer.

In my stumbles across the web, I am always on the lookout for tips and tools that may be helpful to freelancers in music and media (like myself) and other self-employed individuals. Today I found a very impressive site, seemingly loaded with useful tools called Inbound Now. This post is my first experiment using Inbound Now’s Social Media Optimized Youtube Player. I have no affiliation with Inbound Now, my thoughts here are my own.

Reviewing: InboundNow.com

First Impression: Very Cool. Easy to use. After about 15 minutes of experimentation, I was able to create Youtube players for this post, using two of our music videos from Trace Relations debut CD Release “Prosperity Street”.

Inbound Now: Socializing YouTube

Check these out, play the videos and give the buttons a test spin, if you please. Subscribe and share, much appreciated! Plus, I want to know how these players are actually performing beyond my own desktop. Please comment below. Thanks!

Read ON > Testing the Inbound Now Youtube Players here.

Prosperity Street – Title track of Trace Relations Debut CD: Mp3 and CD available now at Trace Relations ™ Music

See the rest of the review below this video> Read more…