Top 5 New Rockstar Philosophy Posts of 2010^Some really cool music marketing information on here http://ping.fm/4JG4n
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The X Factor: Music Industry Friend Of Fiend?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://business.ezinemark.com/the-x-factor-music-industry-friend-of-fiend-31c686454c1.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAIoATAAOABA8Nyb6ARIAlAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=S32CdCdu2fM&usg=AFQjCNHn-3I4W_0KDkWbzRdBEOgsMi8ZAw
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
A way you music marketers can save time on twitter, only read important stuff.
Catch Important Tweets You May Have Missed with Cadmus
http://mashable.com/2010/09/10/cadmus/
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Buy other peoples websites to send money to your music website
Buy Your Organic Traffic
http://affiliateradio.com/1015/buy-your-organic-traffic/
Buy Your Organic Traffic
by Keith Baxter on September 7, 2010 If you’re new here, then I invite you to watch the 18min video which will show you how to drive insane amounts of traffic to your site! Watch the Stealth Traffic Secret video. Thanks for visiting!
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Article: 8 Rules: Marketing in the Music Industry | Green Buzz Agency
8 Rules: Marketing in the Music Industry | Green Buzz Agency
http://www.greenbuzzagency.com/8-rules-marketing-in-the-music-industry
So youʼve been doing the local open-mic night circuit for a while now, youʼve just recorded
your first EP or album and are ready to start getting the word out about your brand. Hereʼs
a quick music marketing check-list to help you get on your way:
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Article: Merch Table Essentials: 15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and Effeciency
Merch Table Essentials: 15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and Effeciency
http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/merch-table-essentials-15-ways-for-musicians-to-increase-sal.html
As album sales are becoming a less meaningful component in the overall success of an artist or band, the live performance sector, including ticket sales and merchandise sales, is becoming increasingly important. While the live show itself must be unique in order to encourage repeat customers and ultimately drive ticket sales, the merchandise table has the opportunity to drive significant revenue and first hand, artist-fan engagement. But just having a merch table is not enough, as there are essential elements that must be accounted for in order to make the effort worth while.
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Read the first point with care...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Article: Ten Ways to Get Gigs from Music Venue Promoters
Ten Ways to Get Gigs from Music Venue Promoters
http://www.themusiciansguide.co.uk/blog/04/ten-ways-to-get-gigs-from-music-venue-promoters/
1. Make it clear that you promote your gigs on high traffic localised areas – if you’re approaching a promoter in Leeds he will like to see that you can let thousands of people in Leeds know about his venue. Let the promoter know that you run local PPC or Facebook advertising campaigns for your gigs if you do and tell them that you will manually reach out to people in the area on Twitter if that’s what you plan to do, essentially you’re cutting the venues marketing costs.
Some good advice in here...
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Article: List of available internet services and tools for bands and ...
List of available internet services and tools for bands and ...
http://autonomousindustry.com/guide/ready-for-the-biggest-list-of-music-band-tools-available-online
Here at Autonomous Industy we are about to unveil the second largest update to our site since its birth. Through September we will be releasing over 150 services and tool websites that can help your band of which some are coverred in sections of the guide we wrote. From how to create your own website for free with WordPress and beyond.
This is cool...
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Article: Report: Expect Google Music By Christmas
Report: Expect Google Music By Christmas
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/09/report-expect-google-music-by-christmas.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FDqMf+%28hypebot%29
According to multiple sources, Google is in final stage talks with labels to open a download store and a cloud based song locker that would allow mobile users to play songs wherever they are. Google hopes to open its new music service before Christmas. Some label executives believe that Google Music will become the first real competitor to iTunes.
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Article: How to Promote Your Music Without Spamming! | The Beat-Play Experiment
How to Promote Your Music Without Spamming! | The Beat-Play Experiment
http://beatplay.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/musicindustry-muiscpromote-musicwithoutlabels/
What I’m not going to do in this post is give you a list of 10 things you can do today that you probably already know about, or that aren’t going to help you stand out at all. What I am going to do is give you a reality check.
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Article: 15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and Efficiency
Check this out there is some cool info...
15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and Efficiency
http://musicindustryreport.org/?p=25523
As album sales are becoming a less meaningful component in the overall success of an artist or band, the live performance sector, including ticket sales and merchandise sales, is becoming increasingly important. While the live show itself must be unique in order to encourage repeat customers and ultimately drive ticket sales, the merchandise tab
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Article: Musicmarketing.com has been valued $1397 - Music marketing [dot] com
Musicmarketing.com has been valued $1397 - Music marketing [dot] com
http://stimator.com/musicmarketing-com
musicmarketing.com is worth $1,397. This makes musicmarketing.com the 249,225 most valuable site on Stimator.com.
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This is a load of rubbish, how can the top ranked music marketing site not be worth more than $2000...
Chris Rockett
Monday, September 6, 2010
Article: Are You Thinking Like Google in you music marketing?
Are You Thinking Like Google? | SEO Book.com
http://www.seobook.com/are-you-thinking-google
No, not like that, but in the good way! :D
The following is a guest post by Jim Kukral highlighting one of the most fundamental tips to succeeding online. Have you ever really taken a step back from all the technical SEO stuff and thought about why Google wins? The real reasons why they have mass-market share and why they continue to dominate? It’s time you should, because once you understand how to start thinking like Google, you can finally begin to go beyond just ranking better, but also how to be a master Internet marketer so you can get more sales, leads and publicity.
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Article: Ten Ways to Get Gigs from Music Venue Promoters
Ten Ways to Get Gigs from Music Venue Promoters
http://www.themusiciansguide.co.uk/blog/04/ten-ways-to-get-gigs-from-music-venue-promoters/
When I used to play drums in a band I wrongly assumed that to get gigs I have to send demos out – the better my music, the high the acceptance rate. It seems sensible right? My thinking was basically that if I send more demos and make better music then I will get more gigs, which is true, but a bad way of thinking (IMO).
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Article: The 15 Musformation Reads You Shouldn't Have Missed This Week 8/20/10 - Musformation
The 15 Musformation Reads You Shouldn't Have Missed This Week 8/20/10 - Musformation
http://musformation.com/2010/08/the-15-musformation-reads-you-shouldnt-have-missed-this-week-82010.html
Selling Out Shows Every Time You Play
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Article: Affiliate Marketing Tips- Information On Marketing Online ...
Affiliate Marketing Tips- Information On Marketing Online ...
http://www.webdevcoach.com/2010/08/affiliate-marketing-tips-information-on-marketing-online/
It’s difficult to provide accurate affiliate marketing tips information, but we have gone through the rigor of putting together as many affiliate marketing tips related information as possible. Even if you are searching for information somehow related to internet marketing jobs, gift for mom, affiliate marketing secret or business marketing news this article should help a great deal.
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<A HREF="www.promoteyourmusic.net">Promote Your Music</A>
Article: 18 Finalists Named In Billboard’s Music App Awards
18 Finalists Named In Billboard’s Music App Awards
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/09/18-finalists-named-in-billboards-music-app-awards.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FDqMf+%28hypebot%29
Billboard has named the 18 finalists for their first ever Music App Awards at Mobile Entertainment Live!: The Music App Summit. Those listed have been recognized as the most innovative music-focused apps created for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android and Nokia platforms. They include:
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Some really great apps in here love this stuff.
Chris Rockett
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Clear System for How to Get a Recording Contract?
You're about to discover how to get a recording contract with all of the hype and bull removed. The reality is that if your music is really good it should be comparatively easy to get a deal or music artist contract, so before going through this 5 day plan spend a large amount of time making sure your music is way better than all the other bands you play with...
Be honest with yourself and do not rest till you can safely say you merit the big bucks and promoting smarts a major label contract can offer.
I'm simply a standard guy doing music and placing it out there but I've read a complete heap of books on this subject and I wanted to share this method as it works and folks with real talent are using it each day to get a nice record company advance...
(Bear with me if you notice some typos :- )
*Insider Secret* If you would like to grasp a method for making it in the music business without a music recording contract and even if your music isn't the best then please click the link at the bottom of the current page.
A few years back the most important thing that most musicians where attempting to find on google was "how it is possible to get a recording contract". But nowadays the more savvy musicians realize that you don't need the tons of money a big label can offer to make music your job. All you actually need is some killer tunes and the ability to put up a simple web site.
The problem I see now with the one hundred percent independent approach is that these new acts are absolutely ignoring the structure already set up in the music business and trying to do too much themselves.
Let the marketing experts market and let the chiefs manage, your job as a musician is to spend all your time making the best music out there. Use these new social media channels to build a stir so that you will start to work with the gigantic hitters and get signed to those major recording contracts that may put you on the next level.
My 5 Day How to Get a Recording Contract Plan = >
Lets begin...
Day 1 - Go to your local record shop and look up bands that you like most and that you think you sound similar too. Music business big-wigs who will be offering you the chance to get a recording contract like to stay with what they have signed before.
Day 2 - Look under the album jacket for the labels these band are signed to.
Day 3 - Get you manager to contact the A&R dept of the label and ask for a scout to come down and watch your show. ( Ensure the gig is nice and close to their offices and try and book it on a Thursday night as music folks don't like to go to gigs on the weekend for some unknown reason. )
You might need to do a little bit of chase up as these men get many calls a day from new bands trying hard to get signed. If you keep at it and your stuff is good they will make the effort to attend your show.
Day 4 - Get a killer set together that may impress the scout, make sure you practice every day leading up to the gig although not on the day. ( You don't want to leave a great performance in the practice room )
Day 5 - Do not think just because the AR guy is keen on your gig there'll be a free music contract waiting in your dressing room!!!
First he'll want to set up a thing by the name of a "showcase " which is generally a private gig where the top record company bosses will show up to inspect your act before getting the bank book out.
These things are customarily a bit mortifying, because it's rather peculiar playing infront of only nine folk all looking menacing and urgent ; just try your best and play your heart out.
If all goes well they are going to offer you a preliminary deal and then it'll be up to your manager to be sure that you get what you're worth. You really want to be certain you have a lot of liberty to make your music the way that you need. Some music business contracts can be very restrictive and kill your talent, so look out.
*Note* I would recommend that you use this technique with second tier record companies initially and then try your luck with he bigger boys when you have a few singles and a good sales previous record under your belt. Perhaps even try and get a music publishing contract first.
Most famous labels would like to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the risk and offering you a massive advance.
But to be completely truthful with you for an instant, the idea of getting a record deal for me is a real turn off these days. I have discovered a simple system to build a list of fans and sell my music that is fully new to the music industry.
This stuff is actually cool and you should definitely examine it below.
With that said I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have got any feedback or questions please let me know. You will be getting loads more free music selling guides form me over the coming months.
*Note* Chris Rocket is a singer tunesmith and online music marketer. You can read his favourite step-by-step guide to music promoting here : Promote Your Music or Music Marketing Secrets
Promote Your Music on Myspace
MySpace has been the heart and soul of most indie music marketing campaigns over the past 5 years or so. Some bands have even "made it " just about exclusively as a consequence of MySpace promoting. The truth however is that for the main part, at least in my opinion, bands and musicians have been using MySpace the wrong way all this time.
The quick answer to the question is that yes, I do think pushing your band on MySpace is still applicable but I think an adjustment of the perspective is necessary to truly make it worth your while. Because in the end, any traffic creating methodology is relevant, be it MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or just good old fashion live shows, as long as you are making that traffic count by capturing it in some form so that you can develop a liaison with the people and at last market you music to them again and again again down the road.
Tip : Scroll down to the page and there is a link for a free report that is brim-full of some pretty great techniques.
How to pimp your Band Or Music on Twitter
Twitter is like every other social media site in that it could be a amazing way to push traffic to your music. However if you are just sending that traffic to your internet site in the hopes that somebody will see how great you are and get your album you are likely going to be pretty dejected.
If you're planning on ditching MySpace and using Twitter to pump your band or music, then i recommend you set up a squeeze page and ensure you are capturing the contact information of those potential fans so you can market your music later and, with a little luck, actually sell some albums.
The basic way that I use Twitter to sell albums and popularize my music is by including my URL to my capture page in my profile. I use a twitter bot to grow my follow count by about a hundred everyday a good share of these folks wind up clicking on my URL and at last signing up for my contact list. Once there, they are in my sales funnel and in time, the album sales start rolling in.
It is also necessary to communicate with the people that are following you and to a certain amount, the more posts you make the more folk are inclined to check out your profile and obviously your URL. In the end it is like anything, the more that you put in to it the more that you will get out of it. But like in the early days of MySpace, I believe Twitter is a still mostly unexploited traffic generating tool that is great for pushing your band or music on the web.
*Tip* For more sound advice on Music selling go to Promote Your Music and get your Music Marketing lessons
Rather then simply adding many thousands of pals in the hope that they are going to listen to your tunes and be so impressed that they casually run out and buy your album, it is much more advantageous to view MySpace as a way to make primary contact with a potential fan, the goal being to send them to your squeeze page so you might eventually make them enroll in your list, as email selling is a far better system of creating album sales then comments and messages that actually don't amount to far more than Spam.The quick answer to the question is that yes, I do think pushing your band on MySpace is still applicable but I think an adjustment of the perspective is necessary to truly make it worth your while. Because in the end, any traffic creating methodology is relevant, be it MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or just good old fashion live shows, as long as you are making that traffic count by capturing it in some form so that you can develop a liaison with the people and at last market you music to them again and again again down the road.
Tip : Scroll down to the page and there is a link for a free report that is brim-full of some pretty great techniques.
How to pimp your Band Or Music on Twitter
Twitter is like every other social media site in that it could be a amazing way to push traffic to your music. However if you are just sending that traffic to your internet site in the hopes that somebody will see how great you are and get your album you are likely going to be pretty dejected.
If you're planning on ditching MySpace and using Twitter to pump your band or music, then i recommend you set up a squeeze page and ensure you are capturing the contact information of those potential fans so you can market your music later and, with a little luck, actually sell some albums.
The basic way that I use Twitter to sell albums and popularize my music is by including my URL to my capture page in my profile. I use a twitter bot to grow my follow count by about a hundred everyday a good share of these folks wind up clicking on my URL and at last signing up for my contact list. Once there, they are in my sales funnel and in time, the album sales start rolling in.
It is also necessary to communicate with the people that are following you and to a certain amount, the more posts you make the more folk are inclined to check out your profile and obviously your URL. In the end it is like anything, the more that you put in to it the more that you will get out of it. But like in the early days of MySpace, I believe Twitter is a still mostly unexploited traffic generating tool that is great for pushing your band or music on the web.
The best way to pimp your music on YouTube
While there is actually nothing wrong with making your own videos and releasing them on YouTube - actually I utterly recommend that you do - there is a really strong technique to get thousands of visitors, either to your own videos, your band's website, or even better a promotional offer such as "sign on to our mailing list to get our new single for free", or some other such thing, by simply paying other YouTube users to include a link to your site inside their description box.
*Tip* For more great tips on marketing go to Promote Your Music Online or my Promote Your Music Squidoo page.
If you don't quite know what I am talking about go to Youtube and search the most viewed videos. You need to find a few examples of videos with the link within the description box.
To the right of the video you must see a link. This is an instance of what I'm talking about.
To try this you simply take the following steps.
Search YouTube with keywords that relate in some form to your song or your band. For example, if you had done a cover of smells like teen Spirit you may search words like Nirvana, smells similar to teen Spirit, Grunge, and so on.
Next, sort the results by "view count". You're on the lookout for videos with hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions of perspectives. Disregard any videos that are posted by the artist themselves or any videos that already have a link in the outline box.
Then all you've got to do is send the users of relevant videos a message explaining that you want to pay them on a once per month bases to place your link in there outline box.
You'll possibly only find that one in every ten or twenty people have an interest in your offer, but if even one link on a highly viewed video can imply thousands of new visitors, and potential new fans every month.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
*Note* I would recommend that you use this technique with second tier record companies initially and then try your hand with he larger boys once you have some singles and a good sales track record under your belt. Perhaps even attempt to get a music publishing contract first.
Most large labels wish to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the danger and offering you a huge advance.
But to be absolutely fair with you for an instant, the concept of getting a record deal for me is a genuine turn off today. I have discovered an easy system to create a list of fans and sell my music that is fully new to the music business.
This stuff is really cool and you should definitely examine it below.
With that said I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have got any feedback or questions please tell me. You'll be getting lots more free music promoting guides form me over the approaching months.
*Tip* For more great tips on marketing go to Promote Your Music Online or my Promote Your Music Squidoo page.
If you don't quite know what I am talking about go to Youtube and search the most viewed videos. You need to find a few examples of videos with the link within the description box.
To the right of the video you must see a link. This is an instance of what I'm talking about.
To try this you simply take the following steps.
Search YouTube with keywords that relate in some form to your song or your band. For example, if you had done a cover of smells like teen Spirit you may search words like Nirvana, smells similar to teen Spirit, Grunge, and so on.
Next, sort the results by "view count". You're on the lookout for videos with hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions of perspectives. Disregard any videos that are posted by the artist themselves or any videos that already have a link in the outline box.
Then all you've got to do is send the users of relevant videos a message explaining that you want to pay them on a once per month bases to place your link in there outline box.
You'll possibly only find that one in every ten or twenty people have an interest in your offer, but if even one link on a highly viewed video can imply thousands of new visitors, and potential new fans every month.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
*Note* I would recommend that you use this technique with second tier record companies initially and then try your hand with he larger boys once you have some singles and a good sales track record under your belt. Perhaps even attempt to get a music publishing contract first.
Most large labels wish to see that you have had some success on your own before taking the danger and offering you a huge advance.
But to be absolutely fair with you for an instant, the concept of getting a record deal for me is a genuine turn off today. I have discovered an easy system to create a list of fans and sell my music that is fully new to the music business.
This stuff is really cool and you should definitely examine it below.
With that said I do hope you enjoyed learning how to get a recording contract and if you have got any feedback or questions please tell me. You'll be getting lots more free music promoting guides form me over the approaching months.
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