Countdown: 1799 days left

Blog members: 15

Facebook friends: 184

# of "Likes" of Claudie Larouche's Page on Facebook: 12
Youtube video views: 214
Myspace friends: 2

Yahoo!! Somebody listened to me and clicked on Play next to my second song on Myspace!! Whoever you are, you're awesome and I love you, thank you!! :) It makes me feel much better now that I have a total of 2 plays on Myspace haha. Better than 1, better than 0. Gotta see the bright side of things of course!

Very important day today, as I mentionned yesterday, because we're now 1799 days to my deadline. I'm a last minute kind of person so I'm sure I'm going to become famous only when there's about 3-4 days left. One of my friends was asking me to actually define what "famous" is for me. Good question... I think I will call it a success the day I have 1 000 000 views on Youtube AND once I have been interviewed by at least a major newspaper/periodic, a major radio station or a major TV channel. I don't want to count my success with number of songs sold on iTunes or something similar because I don't want to sell my music. It's free, go ahead, take it. Which reminds me, I don't think I've set up Myspace to enable users to download mp3 of my songs, that will need to be arranged, remind me in a few weeks if I still haven't done it ok?

Today I've been invited to a fast-breaking dinner by a Turkish family (we're in the middle of Ramadan in case you guys didn't know, hmmm maybe I should write a song about Ramadan sometime!) I don't know the family at all but I left my e-mail address at a Turkish cooking class a few weeks ago so I'm assuming they're part of the same group of people. Anyways I'm really looking forward to it (it's 7 o'clock right now, I've been asked to be there at 7:45). Maybe I will manage to convince them to come to my concert in October who knows!

Have a great weekend everyone, talk to you next week!

Countdown: 1806 days left

Blog members: 15

Facebook friends: 183

# of "Likes" of Claudie Larouche's Page on Facebook: 12
Youtube video views: 213
Myspace friends: 2


Improvement since yesterday, I have not gained any Facebook friends but I also haven't lost any today! All is well! I was planning on having a very quiet evening with lots of work being done on my brand new Myspace profile, but one of my friends called and I ended up spending the evening with her, eating Lebanese food at the beach. Sometimes it's better to enjoy the sun instead of spending the evening glued on the computer.

So even though I was outside enjoying the nice weather for most of the evening, I still managed to get some work done on Myspace when I came back home. I am very pleased to announce that I improved the look and feel of my profile and I even added 2 songs for you to listen to so please dear friends, go ahead and listen to my music here and feel free to give me any comments you may have! Constructive comments are welcome too of course, I know I'm far from being perfect...

I also want to spend a few minutes to let you know a bit more details about setting up the websites www.claudielarouche.com and www.claudielarouche.ca. If you're not intested in those technical details you can stop reading this post now :)

Like I mentionned yesterday, one of my friends helped me set the websites up and if you try to access them, they will both redirect you automatically to Myspace. The reasonning is that using Myspace is much quicker and cheaper as opposed to creating my own website from scratch. And now that I bought claudielarouche.ca and claudielarouche.com, I'm sure nobody will steal them from me when I start becoming hugely famous. So it's an investment for the future :) Notice how justinbieber.com does not belong to the Justin Bieber we all know... I didn't want anything similar happen to me.

If anybody is interested in setting up a website, here is how I personally did it (actually all I did is type my credit card number when necessary, my friend did all of the work). I'm not saying this is the way everyone should do it, but it worked for me so I'm sharing the method with you. First of all we accessed the following website that enables you to buy a domain: http://www.domainsatcost.ca/

We set up my account there and following the instructions, I bought my two websites. It's good for two years, and it costed me $63 total. On the same domainsatcost website, there is a way to redirect the website you bought to another address, although the change may take a few hours (up to 24 I think) to complete successfully. I don't want to make this post too long so if you want more details about how to redirect, just send me a quick message and I'll help you the best I can. So that's it! This ended up being much simpler than I thought, and if I do want to have a really fancy website built from scratch one day, I can use these two addresses. 

Countdown: 1824 days left

Blog members: 7

I was so excited this morning! My blog had 4 members when I woke up, thumbs up for Facebook! We're at 7 now, awesome! So I would like to welcome the new members, and I also have a special mention for Maxime Paquet, my very first blog subscriber. You're the best!

So Maxime being an amazing friend, he actually forwarded the link of my blog to his friends, and one of them pointed out that I should create an artist page on Facebook, which I could link to my blog. I thought that was a very good idea, so I spent a few hours at Starbucks tonight creating my artist page. I also took some time to write up a biography with my friend's help, I'm so happy with it, sounds super professional :)

Claudie Larouche was born in Jonquière, Québec, where she spent all her youth. Following in her father's footsteps, she picked up the guitar at age 17 and started writing her own songs early on. She has participated in several contests and open mic nights, winning second place at the regional contest "Université en Spectacle" in Chicoutimi, Québec, in 2008. Claudie is constantly looking for opportunities to perform, whether it is at local BBQs, for a group of friends or for a good cause. Among other things, she organized, in December 2011, a fundraising event in which she and several of her friends performed, raising close to $600 for Ten Oaks Projects, a non-profit organization whose goal is to help children and youth from LGBTQ communities. Now living in Ottawa since 2008, Claudie is slowly building her fan base in the country's capital region, performing in coffee shops and at local events.

 

So all this time spent on doing not that much after all... It's going to take lots more effort than I thought to expand my presence on the web and become famous!

Introduction

Hello my name is Claudie Larouche! One night on July 24th 2011, I couldn't sleep and decided to create this blog. Here is the idea: Right now, I'm a nobody, but in 1825 days, I will be famous. This blog will keep track of all the steps I am taking in order to make this goal reality. I am a singer-songwriter, I play the guitar and write my own songs, and that's how I intend on becoming famous!

So here is the situation. I'm 25 years old, and I have a permanent position at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa. I have performed in the past (both in Ottawa and in Jonquière, where I'm from) although not in front of huge crowds so I'm pretty much starting from scratch in my famous-ness. Here is a picture of me:

Not the prettiest girl in the world, as you can see, so I cannot use my amazing beauty to become scandalously famous, but that is definitely not gonna stop me! Right now this blog has zero members, and I have two Youtube videos, this one which is a cover of Father and Son by Cats Stevens (45 views as of July 24, 2011) and this one which is a song I wrote for a contest at work (90 views as of July 24, 2011). Hopefully when my quest for becoming famous is over, my videos will have millions of views and my blog will have hundreds of thousands of users!!

For now, I'm going to post the new address of my post on my facebook profile and go to bed. Maybe tomorrow when I wake up my blog will have one member, who knows? Fame is just around the corner, I can feel it!! ;)