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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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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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...

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

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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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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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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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