I posted the following at http://The-Singers.com (I’m re-posting this entry on all of my sites in the HART-Empire Network)

I’m looking for BANDS, PROMOTERS, REVIEWERS, and ANY MUSIC RELATED SITE that offers subscriptions via email … to provide me and this blog with periodic content updates via email.

This could be …

* news of up and coming concert dates ..
* reviews of bands and their music
* interest stories about the music industry and people in it
* I’m open to suggests for other stuff ..

What I am looking for is something like this …

* Bands, promoters, and webmasters would be able to email this blog directly to post articles, reviews and other music related content immediately
* I would like to find ezines articles that is music related .. the email address would be directly to this blog and get posted immediately
* Royalty free (i.e. I do not want to pay for any services to receive the content) – content becomes content of this blog but can contain as many links to as many blogs, sites, affiliate products, or to sites that you want to promote (email receipts of content, generally will not be modified). The public will be seeing the content, RSS feeds will be available, and there is monetization on this blog.

I hope that was obvious … even if you are a local band and send out a monthly newsletter .. I hope you consider the above.

If you are interested .. drop me a line .. to:
hart (at) PetLvr (dot) com

with the subject line:
The-Singers.com / Sign Me Up!

And I will provide you with the special email address to use.

Take care
HART (1-800-HART)

PS: http://the-singers.com is currently a PR6 ,, if that matters ,, although as you know – that can always change.

I should mention that I look for templates all the time for my blogs. I just can’t afford to “pay” a designer or professional blog template developer to create a unique template for me and my network of blogs. A lot of the times, I go to the “usual” places, search engines, Emily Robbins, Alex King, WordPress .. etc etc ..

Not this time .. This time – I was participating in a community net-party like this one, Tuesday Night Mike Night, a few weeks ago .. and I saw this theme on the AdviceLibrary.com Blog.

By the way .. AdviceLibrary.com is an online article directory for both publishers and authors .. Check it out!

The theme is called … AdsMindedWide by Brian Sapiens of the Hi-Tech.

While I was “1-800-HART’icizing” this blog, adding my little bits here and there and started to play with the header graphic, CSS and more … my friend, the famous Joe Yanuzzi helped me out and created the above header (and about a dozen other choices too! I’d link his blog, but it’s in flux right now

HART (1-800-HART)

This is how I described the new look on HART-Empire – June 7, 2006

I was bored .. and decided that the 1-800-HART’s Picks blog deserved a new look, since it has not had a facelift since its inception.

This is an experiment in progress. Based on my statistics, only 4% of its readers were using browsers with screen views less than 1000 pixels, so I have selected one that is quite wider and more suitable for showcasing products, and for monetization.

Naturally, it just made sense to try the Ads Minded Wide Version Theme by Hi-Tech

NEW LOOK – Version 2.0

Currently, it is a work-in-progress as I tweak the code and color schemes and ads and really “1-800-HART’ize” it like I normally do for all of my websites.

OLD LOOK – Version 1.0

I have switched themes …

How do you like it?

There are a few tweaks and adjustments still to be made, however most will likely be in the monetization area .. colors and placement of ads, and the update of the “blog” stuff section and links.