WEBSITE: up n' R U N N I N G

HOPE.COM

I have my very own website, wow.

I've actually had it for over 8 months... BUT I was terrible about getting it finished. I've been very slow at doing my own website and myspacemusic page because I was intimidated and lost at where to start BUT... I've done it.

It feels more real now because you all can see it, and share it with me!

http://hopeleigh.webs.com/

THE HOME PAGE

What is even cooler is that I am able to have Site Stats where I can see how many people are looking at it at a time, what times of day are more popular, how often I have first time viewers...how long people spend in each Tab...EVEN THE AVERAGE TIME SPENT! ( which right now is like... 10 minutes and 46 seconds) So cool, why did this take me forever to do?

MY SITE STATS

At this point, i am down for some SERIOUS feedback. I am brand new at all of this, and I am trying to keep up with a lot online on my own, and it is sort of overwhelming, but so worth it! There is also a leave love section... so please do, leave love.

I built my site using webs.com because it is free, and because my dad used it to make our annual Fantasy Baseball site with it so I was familiar with it. (and yes, I won Fantasy Baseball this year!Woop Woop!)

So what are you still doing sitting here reading my blog?
GO CHECK OUT THE SITE!
You will be able to buy the album through here NEXTMONTH....

Hello from: F L O R I D A

What a Y E A R it's been.

So I've had a lot of posts lately about progress...and I am hoping other new artists can see this as a marking point... like if you do this ____ you'll get this ______ in this amount of time _____.

After all, a big part of this blog is for other people going down this same crazy path.

STORY TIME: One year ago I was just learning how to play guitar really .... I went to a party at my friends house. All of the members of our school's comedy improv team were hanging out along with some of their friends. My friend Zach raved that I was a singer, and had a good sound. I strummed on someone's guitar a bit, but really was not too great at the time... This night was one of those one's I'll sort of always remember.

I strummed the guitar with a penny because I didn't have a pick.

Some of the more business savvy people in the room sat me down and gave me advice on all of things I should do to use the internet to boost my career in music. Music used to only be sold in stores-hard copies- and you needed to be signed, to have your music heard. With the internet as it is now, that is no longer true- you can make yourself be heard.

They went on and on. I didn't even know what Twitter was, and they raved. I was so stubborn not to go back to Myspace ( i thought it was soo middleschool....) but they assured me it was true that it is no longer the coolest social network but it is for music.

Well It's been a year, so i thought i would re count my progress based solely on my personal activeness on the internet and it's results over the past ONE YEAR.

Youtube account: made
Views: 25, 723
Subscribers: 248

Twitter account: made
Tweets:821
followers:142

Facebook Group: Made
members: 817

Blog: Made ( less than one month ago)
Posts: 25
Followers 5

Myspace Music page: made ( 4 days ago)
Fans: 129

Personal Website [ with paypal shop for CD purchase ]: done
Launch date: february 1st 09

Live Shows [2009 tally]: 29

Full Length Album: Done
All originals written and recorded in one year
release date: 2.14.2009


.Although it is exaughsting to keep up with it all it makes me proud to know that I did this in a year... and it grows exponentiolly... I wonder where I will be today next year?

Tech H E L P ?

I just got my Myspace Music page, [as most of you know] and I am waiting to post my songs until I get them back from the studio balanced and done. I wanted to already have a Myspace Page with friends and all sorts of fun gadgets... so I started a month early. ( I am not the best with technology)

I decided to fill my music page with Mp3's of covers I have recorded over the last few months just playing around in D.C. Then I rememberd I have a live Mp3 of Can't Forget- which Myspace says is too large of a file...

So for now, you can download it to your itunes from here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/7084811899e869a6/

and sometimes this website has dirty ad's... don't say i didn't warn ya ;)

So the tech help is:

for any of you with the know-how, is there a free program or site online where you can shrink the size of an Mp3?

On a totally unrelated side note I am expierimenting with my creativity while on Vacation in florida (hehe) I am quilting for the first time AND I died my little sisters hair blonde ... I've ben doodling with greysons markers while I sleep in his bunk bed and of course photography because this weather is b e a u t i f u l . Pictures to ensue.

To my S U P P O R T E R S

It has been a few months since I started my Hope Makes Music group on facebook. Oh the internet and it's wonders. When I first started it, i was TERRIFIED. I wondered if my dad and sisters would be the only ones to join, ( I would say gramaw but she hasn't quite figured out Facebook....)

And look- 817 people as of today. And there is quite a chunk of these people I have never met and thanks to the wonders of the internet, they are able to keep up too!

So this is to you. number 1...number 24....number 367....NUMBER 817! let's keep em comin! invite your friends.... spread the word.... HOPE MAKES MUSIC.


Hopefully one day I'll have a bajillion friends in this group and say remember when I was thankful for #817? and now...

Get to know me V I D E O

GET TO KNOW ME VIDEO:

This was a video that I made a few months ago for my you-tube account. The main reason that I made it was to get rid of tons of video files on my computer before it exploded, but also...as a get to know me video.
E N J O Y

United State of P O P

HAPPY NEW YEAR LOVEYS!

I tend to start new years by setting goals and wrapping up the year before... Musically thats what this post is. Maybe one day a Hope song will end up in the POP-MIX-OF-THE-YEAR ....

check out 2009's some great catchy one's in here.... l o v e
by DJ EarWorm




If you've not been in the loop about this like i havent.... be sure to check out last years