Bandmix certainly has a much bigger membership than some of the smaller regional services that are free, but, it seems very unproductive.
Not only can you, as a band not contact a possible musician without joining, but the musician also has to join in order to view their 'email' to even know that someone has tried to contact them. It'd ludicrous.
Compounding the problem, is after a few weeks, it seems people stop logging in and their posts are stale, since they realize that they have to shell out money fo' nothing.
What MIGHT help here bandmix.... is if you would send an alert to the account holders real email address (whether free or paid) that someone has tried to contact them about their post. As of now, a person has no idea if someone is trying to contact them, and i proved this out by logging in and "emailing" one of my own posts... I have yet to receive any notice to advise me to log into my account to see who is trying to make contact.
Musicians, at least in my neck of the woods (pro level aside) don't have a lot of disposable fundage, and frankly if they wanted to work really hard for a minimal result they'd be happy with a factory job.
You need to make this more friendly to the musicians and bands, (read that as productive and useful).... and worry less about getting money out of the very musicians who need it most.
I responded to a dozen people yesterday and none of them even know it. They are all local to me, and would probably jump into our band if given the chance since we are one of the top tribute acts, but alas... they don't even know to log in.
I got so frustrated, I decided to post to the forum, but I guess that post violated the rules and was removed since I cant seem to locate it today.
OK, well thanks for giving me space to rant. Back to fruitlessly trying to find a bassist who sings, within 25m of me, who is aware that I am trying to contact them!
Vick
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