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Amanda Palmer earned $19,000 in 10 hours with Twitter

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Amanda Palmer, from the Dresden Dolls and solo artist in conflict with her label, earned $19,000 in 10 hours via Twitter (Warning: Offensive language). Amanda Palmer is a self-promoter and has managed to create a genuine brand as a solo artist. She has 34.000 followers on Twitter and is one of the more active music artists on the network. Around a month ago she spend several hours on Twitter, both with friends and fans, and earned as a result more than $19.000 in less than a day. How did she manage this?

1. FRIDAY NIGHT LOSERS T-SHIRT, $11,000

by the end of the night, we’d sold 200 shirts off the quickie site (paypal only) that sean had set up. i blogged the whole story the next day and in total, in the matter of a few days, we sold over 400 shirts, for $25/ea.
we ended up grossing OVER $11,000 on the shirts.

2. WEBCAST AUCTION, $6000

a few nights after that, i blogged and twittered, announcing a “webcast auction” from my apartment. it went from 6 pm – 9 pm, my assitant beth sat at my side and kept her eyes on incoming bids and twitter feed.

total made on twitter in 3 hours, including the postcards, was over $6000.

3. TWITTER DONATION-ONLY GIG, $1800

a few days later, i twittered a guest-list only event in a recording studio in boston, to take place a week later.
total made at last-minute secret twitter gig, in about 5 hours = $2000

Amanda concludes in her typical style, hitting out at her label Roadrunner:

TOTAL MADE THIS MONTH USING TWITTER = $19,000
TOTAL MADE FROM 30,000 RECORD SALES = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

You can read the complete entry, inclusive offensive language, here.

Comments

  1. Amanda Palmer is a t-shirt of the week. She can’t sell a record and no one wants to listen to her whining so now she’s twittering naked pictures. Please stop moronic hacks like Palmer crap up the internet and waste everyone’s time.

  2. I’m actually starting to feel sorry for Roadrunner Records having to put up with this idiot. Is Amanda Palmer a Republican? All she does is blather on about money and sells herself the same way any plastic barbie doll does.