A band who's hired a touring agent and is pulling in a couple of grand a month might consider spending real money to get a decent site up and is more likely to use your service or a similar setup.

A band signed on with an indie label and selling records and making enough to pay their rent and work their music full time is definitely going to want to go to the higher-end and will likely hire a professional designer or team to put a site together for them and maintain it.

There are definitely different targets for this market and where Bandzoogle aims versus where Ebandlive is currently aiming are two different sectors. I have seen plenty of “cookie-cutter” sites that look good enough to be easily confused with the professional one-off designs of others. It's usually a matter of the skill of the person using the DIY in matching elements (color, flow, and photography). Anyone can do that without needing to know HTML or the rest.

Dan really isn't comparing “apples to apples”. He is comparing our DIY designs with his custom made sites. Clearly, a DIY website can't match having a designer custom build something. When they have a DIY system, then lets compare their sites to ours. I suggest people check out our “sample sites” page to see some examples of what bands have been able to build without any input from a designer.

In terms of “ease of use”, my Mom can build a Bandzoogle site in 10 minutes. Customers switch from our competitors because we are easy to use. Again, when they have their system done we should do a head to head comparison.

In the next 60 days, we'll be opening up our system so that anyone can make a design (something they are charging $395 for!), but you will still have access to our built in features like our music player and MP3 download store (both of which are missing on ebandLive).

I suggest bands who are interested in getting the facts try out other DIY site builders and see how they stack up themselves.

A band who's hired a touring agent and is pulling in a couple of grand a month might consider spending real money to get a decent site up and is more likely to use your service or a similar setup.

A band signed on with an indie label and selling records and making enough to pay their rent and work their music full time is definitely going to want to go to the higher-end and will likely hire a professional designer or team to put a site together for them and maintain it.

There are definitely different targets for this market and where Bandzoogle aims versus where Ebandlive is currently aiming are two different sectors. I have seen plenty of “cookie-cutter” sites that look good enough to be easily confused with the professional one-off designs of others. It's usually a matter of the skill of the person using the DIY in matching elements (color, flow, and photography). Anyone can do that without needing to know HTML or the rest.

Dan really isn't comparing “apples to apples”. He is comparing our DIY designs with his custom made sites. Clearly, a DIY website can't match having a designer custom build something. When they have a DIY system, then lets compare their sites to ours. I suggest people check out our “sample sites” page to see some examples of what bands have been able to build without any input from a designer.

In terms of “ease of use”, my Mom can build a Bandzoogle site in 10 minutes. Customers switch from our competitors because we are easy to use. Again, when they have their system done we should do a head to head comparison.

In the next 60 days, we'll be opening up our system so that anyone can make a design (something they are charging $395 for!), but you will still have access to our built in features like our music player and MP3 download store (both of which are missing on ebandLive).

I suggest bands who are interested in getting the facts try out other DIY site builders and see how they stack up themselves.