The First Question You Must Answer When Promoting Your Music

This article is excerpted from Bob Baker’s Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook. I’m going to use up this entire article dealing with one subject, because I think it’s vital to the success of your music promotion efforts. Every day I see the same mistakes being made in this area and feel I owe it to you to drive this crucial point home. Suppose you walked into your local record store and one of the...

10 Ways to Make Your Project More Attractive to Sponsors

© copyright 2007 Jeremy Rwakaara In today’s unpredictable economy, it’s not just the major labels that are having a hard time selling records and filling concert venues. Most independent/unsigned artists struggle to get rid of the boxes of shrink-wrapped CD’s stashed in their basement/garage/spare room, and most of their tours make very little money. Many artists acknowledge that the main problem standing in...

Non-Conformity In The Independent Music Business

Independent Music Business Consultant Kavit Haria shares some pointers on marketing. Non-Conformity In The Independent Music Business How to Design Your Music Business for Greater Direction and Success This video covers the following: How to effectively engage in Music Promotion 3 Rules of New Music Promotion Creating Tribes Music Business Plan Check out Kavit’s company Inner Rhythm He also has a free e-book...

1,000 True Fans

by Kevin Kelly The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators. Individual artists, producers, inventors and makers are overlooked in the equation. The long tail does...

The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines

by Brian Clark Twitter has become the place for sharing content links. If your content catches attention on Twitter and spreads, suddenly you’re getting significant traffic from people who may have never visited your site before. But don’t forget to share other people’s quality content on Twitter. This helps you build up a Twitter audience that values your editorial judgment, which in turns helps you when you...

3 Steps To Making Guaranteed Music Sales On iTunes Using Twitter

This article originally from http://www.mymusicsuccess.com So you have delivered your track to the iTunes stores, and your music is on their virtual shelves. Are you happy with the revenue you are generating from your downloads? Want to know how to guarantee sales of your track atiTunes using just Twitter as a lead generation source? Then read on… Putting your track into the iTunes store through an aggregator...