In the midst of angst around getting the last of our merchant account/payment processing set up we were given the chance to help out with the promotion of a movie.

Not just any movie – but the new one from the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Both much enjoyed in dbTwang HQ.  Scott Pilgrim V The World has a guitar connection

as does the competition with the chance to attend an indie-rock festival: To celebrate the release of SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, Universal are offering an epic holiday to Toronto, Canada, where the movie was shot on location. One winner and friend will be attending Toronto’s hottest Indie-Rock music festival (June 13-19, 2011) and visiting the locations of Scott Pilgrim.

Enter here: http://apps.facebook.com/spxchallenge/

Good luck – and now back to work. Here is the movie poster btw.

Keith

Protect your guitars from theft or loss with www.dbtwang.com

We sent out one of our regular email newsletters yesterday and through the stats on Mailchimp we can see where in the world the members who open the newsletter live.

The following countries are represented on the reports for that email and the one we did on the 31st May:

South America:
* Columbia
* Brazil

Europe:
* Ireland
* UK
* Portugal
* Spain
* France
* Belgium
* Netherlands
* Germany
* Italy
* Greece
* Latvia
* Poland
* Denmark
* Sweden
* Norway
* Luxembourg
* Switzerland
* Bulgaria
* Cyprus

Asia:
* China
* Thailand
* India

* Israel

* Hong Kong

Australasia:
* Australia
* New Zealand

North America:
* USA
* Canada
* Mexico

Great spread which shows the global appeal of the guitar – and despite our content and marketing only being presented in English. For those of you who are interested this is what a drill down onto the USA looks like – with the light grey being States we are not represented in (taken from 31st May report).

keith

Remember if you want to get your guitar back you need to record the details – join dbTwang.com and help protect your guitars from loss.

We ran a quick poll across both dbTwang members and also out into twitter and facebook yesterday – asking how people prefer to set up a new online account if given the choice. Here is the result of that:

Nearly 80% were evenly divided between starting from scratch and using their Facebook account while an additional 14% would use their Google account.

That suggests a service like RPX from Janrain would be useful – it manages the integration of multiple login options.

Thanks to everyone who took part.

keith

www.dbtwang.com Protect and Share your guitars

We are working on some improvements to dbTwang and your answer to the following will help us with that.

thanks, keith

www.dbtwang.com Protect and Share your guitars

With Charles Campbell happily looking forward to having his i-Tab in his hands we want to share some more out with you.From the iheartguitar review “it was really cool to see just how easily this handy little device can be operated. It’s also super handy that it can be easily stowed in a gig bag or guitar case for whipping out when the singalong mood takes you”

Invite a Friend
One of the great results of the recent member survey for us was the large number of you whom have invited friends into dbTwang – thanks so much for doing that. It is a great way for us to grow and we want to reward the most active of you for helping us to spread the word.

In the top menu under dbTwang there is an Invite a Friend function:

Using that allows us to track how many people you have invited – and how many of those invites have been taken up.

For the next 2 months we are going to run a competition where the person each month who invites the most friends in will win an i-Tab and a €100 voucher to spend on Tabs to use with it.

Only 2 conditions (small ones!).

* They have to respond to the invite and actually become a member
* They have to put up a guitar.

Thats it – we are looking forward to giving away a couple more of those wonderful guitar gadgets

Fintan

We are running a member survey next Monday and wanted a small something to say thanks to anyone who completed it.

The guys in i-Tab, who are based in Ireland and whom we caught up with most recently during their very successful launch at NAMM, graciously gave us one of their upcoming i-Tabs to give away.

Fintan got to try one when we visited the i-Tab HQ in November last year and he wants one – a lot. He can’t have this one though

keith

www.dbtwang.com – Protect and Share your guitars

Matt is a graphic artist based in Portland, Maine and works across disciplines from colorful digital illustrations in his signature “Vectorfunk” style, to freeform watercolor paintings, and massive aerosol murals.

A couple of years ago we were lucky enough to be able to commission a guitar based piece from him and since then he has gone on to work with companies like Diesel, Nike, Adidas, Burton, Etnies, Google and Wired Mag! You can see more on Matt here.

This is what he came up with:

We loved it and use it in the background on our home page and also on our twitter page.

Now you can share it with us – our very first T-Shirt features Matt’s illustration on the front and the dbTwang logo on the arm. It is available here: http://dbtwang.spreadshirt.ie/

Welcome your feedback on this – we would love to develop more products using some marvelous guitar based work that we have come across.

keith

www.dbtwang.com Protect and Share Your Guitars