While touring across country is likely the goal for many up-and-coming artists, it’s important to first build buzz in your local scene. Just because you’re playing locally though, doesn’t mean that you can’t turn your neighborhood show into a major event. _____________________________ Guest Post by David McMillin on the TuneCore…
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How The Share Button Is Ruining Social Media
If you’re anything like me, your social feeds are a mess right now. A quick sample of mine: festival flyers, ads for a CRM system, open letters to Donald Trump, a defense of Kim Kardashian, and ads to join Yahoo Mail. Even without the necessary evil of promoted posts clogging…
Music-Based Social Networks Are Doomed: Here’s Why [Cortney Harding]
In this piece, Cortney Harding looks at the struggles faced by music-based social networks like Crowdmix and Myspace, and why problems with scalability so often doom these networks to failure. By Cortney Harding A few months ago, when “The Music Startup Meltdown” first ran, I singled out Crowdmix and its…
Why Am I Doing This To Myself? Indie Hip Hop Powerhouse Jean Grae Asks And Answers
The life of the independent musician is challenging and requires massive amounts of work, with little to no guarantee of commiserate return. But such work can also be the most rewarding. Here, from the debut edition on the Cash Music blog WATT, indie hip hop artist Jean Grae looks at…
Entrepreneurial Muscle Building: A Musician’s Go-To Guide
Like it or not, a large part of the music business is just that: business. While musicality and creativity are certainly important, possessing solid entrepreneurial skills is also critical to getting your music to the largest audience possible. _________________________________ In this helpful go-to guide, recently shared on MusicThinkTank, Cherie Nelson…
Amazing Facebook Stats, Facts And Figures (INFOGRAPHIC)
Do you know that Facebook is available in 70 languages? This infographic covers dozens statistics and fascinating facts about Facebook of including data about usage, employment, growth and much more. _____________________________________________________________ via DB Web Solutions Related articles How to Improve Your Organic Reach on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook Starts Paying Video…
6 Ways To Boost Your YouTube Channel
UPDATED: While its become controversial within the industry, there’s no denying that YouTube remains one of the most important social media platforms for music. Here we go beyond the basics, and look at some more in-depth ways to promote your music and reach fans. ____________________________ Guest Post by Fiona Zweib…
The Musician’s Guide to Hiring a Publicist
My team and I at Cyber PR spend all our working hours (and many non-working hours) talking to musicians who want publicity for their art. What continues to baffle us is the fact that many of the artists who contact us have no idea what publicists do, or what to realistically expect from a publicity campaign.
#GoogleMath: No Idea What YouTube Is Paying You?
Despite an oft quoted figure of 3 billions dollars since 2005, it seems YouTube actually has has no idea what it’s paying artists, although the evidence seem to be fairly clear that it’s not enough, says Ted Kalo. _______________________________ Guest Post by Ted Kalo on Medium For one of the…
The Secret To Being A Successful Producer That No One Wants To Hear [Joey Sturgis, Asking Alexandria, Of Mice And Men]
While being a producer may be dream job of many, not everyone’s cut out for a career behind the console. Here Joey Sturgis offers some advice on what an aspiring producer/engineer should do in order to stand out and find success in the industry. _______________________________________ Guest Post by Joey Sturgis…