Important Announcement: Changes to Our Guides Section

We are informing you about an important decision regarding our Guides section.

Effective immediately, we will no longer be publishing new guides specifically tailored for Christian artists.

As you may recall, in June 2021, we embarked on an additional mission to provide valuable resources and insights to Christian artists in response to the numerous questions we received from this vibrant part of our community. Over the past two years, we have dedicated significant time and effort to research and writing guides that we believed would be beneficial to our readers / Christian artists.

However, after careful evaluation of the results and an extensive analysis of the reader statistics, we have come to the conclusion that the posts within our Guides section have not garnered the expected level of engagement / views to justify our investment in research and writing. While we deeply appreciate the support and feedback from our existing readers, we believe it is in the best interest of our organization to redirect our resources toward our core activities.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who have shown interest in our guides. Your enthusiasm and valuable input have been invaluable to us. We have cherished the opportunity to connect with you and assist you on your artistic journey. Although we will no longer be adding new guides specifically for Christian artists, rest assured that the existing guides will remain accessible on our website. We are removing the link from the menu bar and ending the 'guides' subdomain. You can continue to access the existing guides using the following link:

https://guides4musicians.blogspot.com/

Moving forward, we remain committed to providing valuable content and services to our readers and community. We will focus on enhancing our core music review activities and exploring new avenues to better serve your needs. We appreciate your understanding and trust that you will support our decision to reallocate our resources for maximum impact.

Thank you once again for your continued support and for being part of our community.

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