Starting an "Official" fan club

[PFOnline]

Hi, I want to start an official fan club for my favorite band. I've checked all over the web and there doesn't appear to be an "official" one yet...

But what makes a fan club "official". Anyone know? How do you make your fan club the "official one".

[lawman]

Stamp of approval from the band ought to do it.

[PFOnline]

Thanks lawman... Off to write an email to Pink Floyd's management. :)

[Chndru]

comfortably numbed to join da official club. Good Luck!

[korkus2000]

Pink Floyd has had a fan club. I doubt you will find any opertunity there. Fan clubs are starting to go extinct. Street teams are the way of the future.

[PFOnline]

I allready run a pretty big Pink Floyd fan site with a large member base. It's got it's own domain name and what not, and receives a pretty large number of visitors a day. So it's really actually got everything allready to go, except that "Official fan club" stamp. :)

I don't think there has ever been an "official" fan club though, korkus.

And what are street teams if I may ask! :)

[korkus2000]

Street teams are fans who go out and promote the band and get free fan club stuff in return. It is basically a fan club but you put the fans to work. :)

The reason I would assume they had one at one time is becuase fan clubs were huge marketing vehicals in the 70s and 80s. They may not have one anymore but I would bet that the record label had one at one time. Usually if the label had one then it would be pretty tricky restarting one. I would start with their label first before the band management. They are usually more receptive to inquiries like these.

Since you have your site I would suspect that you would have a much better chance, but I think the official status would also cost you money.

^{the site from the icons right? Thanks for the tabs BTW} :)

[edited by: korkus2000 at 2:38 am (utc) on July 5, 2003]

[PFOnline]

Hehe, yep... That's the site. ;)

Thanks for the tip to email Pink Floyd's record label rather than management too... Just emailed Capitol Records a second ago, hope it works out! :-)

[PFOnline]

Ohh, just caught that you added that official status might cost money... That might put a thorn in the whole thing... Well, we'll see what happens.

I bet Capitol Records doesn't even email me back... I'm sure they have "more important stuff" to do...

Well, my site is kind of in a way, promoting the band that makes them money....

Hmm, we'll see... :D

[korkus2000]

Good luck!

[vincevincevince]

officially I say your site is a Pink Floyd website.
and I never said that about another site before.
now it's THE OFFICIAL pink floyd website :-)

[AAnnAArchy]

One thing you might want to think about regarding being "official" is that the site is no longer yours do with exactly as you see fit. Official isn't all it's cracked up to be...unless you get some good freebies and info out of it.

[MrSpeed]

I agree with AAnnAArchy. About the only reason I would want to become an offical site is to maybe meet the band or hang around for some exclusive content.

In almost all cases the "unofficial" sites are the best ones. Usually the label or Networks own the official sites for artists/shows. And they always put some sort of marketing spin on the content and/or moderate the boards heavily.

There are exceptions of course. I can't think of the band at the moment but they approched one of the fan sites on the web and asked if they would become the offical band site.