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...

Rejection is just an invitation to resubmit. Always RSVP

By Marc Blatte, Author of Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed: A Novel I started writing songs when I was seventeen. This was in the Sixties when life seemed like one opportunity after another, waiting to be fulfilled. I played in a band, and we did original songs, inspired by Dylan, The Beatles, etc. I wanted to record, found a studio through an ad at the back of the Village Voice. I had $600 saved from caddying that bought...

When You Make A Mistake – How Fascinating!

Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, treated the Pop!Tech audience (and Nikolai, his lucky student) to a transformative music lesson. Now you can view the Pop!Cast and watch as Ben coaxes the magic out of his student, who before our eyes infuses his playing with more passion and joyous emotion then you would think possible from a fifteen-year old. Zander, a long-time advocate for...

How Do You ‘Unleash’ Your Talents?

by Bob Baker Let’s talk about artist empowerment — one of my favorite topics lately … Not long ago I presented one of my first Unleash the Artist Within workshops. While promoting the event, I discovered that different people have different interpretations of what it means to “unleash” themselves as an artist. Many people assumed at first that the workshop was about developing your...

Be Committed! You’ll Never Be Famous If You Don’t Show Up!

By Sheena Metal Everyone wants to be famous: live in a mansion, drive a sports car, tour the world in your private plane, date a model, float around in the pool while collecting royalties for CD sales, and drink beer right out of your private tap. But not everyone is aware that, with any career that has the potential to end in a bounty of riches and beautiful babes, climbing your way to rock stardom is very hard...

A Secret to My Success

by Bob Baker Would you like to know one of the secrets to my success? I learned long ago that positive, successful, empowered people do certain things a little differently than the majority of people. One of these things I started doing years ago, before I even knew it was a secret to success. I just naturally (and accidentally) gravitated toward doing it. It’s a powerful thing. In fact, I believe it is one of...

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...

The Difference Between You & an American Idol

by Kevin English I speak to musicians everyday who desperately want to become famous, sell millions of records and pack arenas. Once in awhile I have a chance to chat with entertainers who have been to the mountain top only to look down at how far they had to fall. The space in between is reserved for those who live a “normal” life, but I’ve always been curious to know what it feels like after the crowd has...