Tuesday, July 6, 2010

An M/I Moment with Mark Adkison, the President & Founder of HearItFirst.com

HearItFirst.com is a site that connects fans with artists in the contemporary Christian music genre. Our site specializes in hearing music before it’s available in stores as well as behind the scenes video interviews that we film and produce ourselves. We cover multiple Christian genres ROCK, POP, URBAN (Rap/Hip Hop, Traditional Black Gospel), WORSHIP and Independent bands and artists from around the country.

I founded the site in 1998 as part of EMI Christian Music Group’s ForeFront Records division. The site name came from when we were working with the group dc Talk and wanted to premiere/sneak preview their new record Supernatural to fans to help build anticipation for the record before it hit the store shelves. So we “streamed” the album online, two songs per week, six weeks before the CD was available in stores.

We believe that Christian music is a tool that Christ uses to draw us closer to Him. We work with artists and bands that impact lives by presenting the gospel to Christians that encourage them in their daily walk as well as draw those that don’t know him into relationship with him.

We are working to continue to get the word out about our site. Although many areas have Christian music radio stations, many times it doesn’t meet the needs of every musical taste. We pray that we continue to reach people and that they’re able to come to the site to discover, reengage in the music they love and that the Spirit would lead them into closer relationship with Christ. We will continue to produce better content and work with artists to deliver a great experience that is second to none.

If someone wrote a biography about me, it would be titled “Football, Music, Computers and Jesus!”

On a side note, I would love to become a really good stand-up comedian.

This has been an M/I Moment with Mark Adkison. M/I Promotions works to “Promote the Industry of Ministry with Kingdom Excellence." We specialize in custom marketing, eblasts, promoting, social media marketing, branding, design, virtual assistance and networking for churches, ministries, Christian music artists, faith-based non profit and Christian business owners. http://ping.fm/FBUdq 816.921.3633

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