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Blogs

Cool music related blogs and sites! I admit to being a blogaholic. These are some of the coolest and most useful blogs I’ve found in the blogosphere. MTT- Music Think Tank Blog Author: Various Blog Focus: This is an open submission blog collective where mostly Indie musicians and Indie music professionals post helpful articles and commentary. Website: http://www.musicthinktank.com/ New Music...

Outrageous Music Marketing Ideas

by Bob Baker I’m not sure exactly what triggered it, but recently my mind started popping with creative, off-the-wall ways to promote your music. So I jotted down some notes and am sharing them with you in this article. I’ll let you determine whether these are truly “outrageous” ideas. But one thing is for sure: They certainly aren’t the traditional things that most musicians think...

Marketing Lessons From an 8-Year-Old Girl

by Bob Baker One morning not long ago, when my daughter was 8, I was driving her to school when she asked me to cue up a very familiar song on the CD player. If you have kids, you know that children often love repeated exposure to stuff they like. They’ll contently watch a favorite movie over and over again, driving the adults in the house batty from the repetition. Well, one of her favorite songs is...

Formulating Your Best Music Promotion Plan

by Bob Baker A lot of people who subscribe to my Buzz Factor e-zine, read my books, and attend my workshops tell me that once they shift into a brainstorming mode, the self-promotion ideas come faster than Billy Joel behind the wheel of a Mazarotti. My first piece of advice regarding this fantastic state of mind is: Buy a notebook or journal and capture these thoughts by writing them down. Don’t expect to...

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...
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