Get A Band/Artist Website For Under $100

I have always felt very strongly that an artist or band should have a web site and lately have been very impressed by the Wordpress platform. So many bands will just point their domain to MySpace, Purevolume or ReverbNation and this is just not good enough as you want to build YOUR brand, not help some other company build theirs. Sure, use these sites and the tools they provide, but ALWAYS direct your fans to your...

Fan Email Marketing Made Easy

Using emails for online music marketing proves to be a very difficult task to master, but a very important one that every artist must master. Fan club newsletters allow fans to stay connected with the artists without the added effort of returning to the artist’s site. I have simplified it into three key areas for a successful fan club email newsletter. Perking Interest One of the hardest parts in compiling a music...

Holiday Promotion Guide – Free eBook

Make the Most of the Holidays with CD Baby’s Holiday Promotion Guide Whether you have a week or an hour to devote to a Holiday promotional campaign, CD Baby’s Holiday Promo Guide is full of tips from artists who’ve had historical seasonal successes on how to seriously increase your holiday sales. Click HERE to download the Holiday Promo Guide for free . For those artists who aren’t...

Online Promotion Widgets and Gadgets

Gadgets and Widgets and Thingies galore! I’m working hard to build up this section of the site. I have included widgets that you can post on your web site, MySpace and other Social networking sites that help you spread the word to your fans and encourage your list building. Voki Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to...

MySpace Marketing

MySpace Marketing It’s an awesome place to be if you use it right! You don’t have time to hand comment every fan on your MySpace page and you also probably don’t have time to send out requests yourself! You are an artist, in a band and you are busy making music (so you should be!). Take advantage of FriendBlaster Pro to semi-automate the processes you use to keep in touch with fans. This is much...

Twitter Marketing

Twitter is a very useful place to engage in conversation with existing fans and to introduce your music to new fans. Here are links to some useful tools and sites you can use to market your music on Twitter, track your stats and automoate some account function to save you time! TweetAdder Increase Twitter and Site Traffic to your event, charity, service, business, band, or website Find Like Minded Twitter...

A Data-Driven Artist and Fan Perspective

By james.lamberti I was fortunate to attend the Digital Music Forum West conference this week and help set the table for 2-days of discussion with Eric Garland from Big Champagne and Russ Crupnick from The NPD Group.  In only my second speaking gig with Topspin, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Frankly, the industry has an appropriate fascination with what we are up to, but an unrealistic view on how quickly our...

10 Things to Do Before You Release Your Album

Copyright 2007 Jeremy Rwakaara Following are, in no particular order, 10 important things you should do before you release your album: 1. If you are hiring musicians (background singers, instrumentalists, etc.) to play on your album, you will need to make sure they fill out a musicians_release_agreement or talent release form. This agreement is not necessary for musicians that own their own record label, are...