Once you’ve poured the necessary blood, sweat, and tears into your event required to ensure your attendees will have a good time, how do you guarantee anyone will actually show up? Here we look at five key ways in which you can boost your next event to encourage maximum turnout….
Category archives: Live & Touring
Last Day To Vote On SXSW PanelPicker, Including Our Data Driven Touring Panel
Friday is the last day to cast your vote using the SXSW PanelPicker to help choose which panels should be presented at SXSW 2020. Check out all the great panels and consider giving our own SMART TOURING: GUIDE BOOKING + MARKETING WITH DATA a thumbs up. Sign up and vote…
Self-Care On Tour: Musician’s Guide
For most artists starting out, touring represents a dream come true, and the idea of life on the road carries with it a colossally romanticized appeal. The reality, however, is that the touring lifestyle can be incredibly hard, challenging both your physical and mental health. Here we look at some…
The Value Of Merch Sales In Today’s Music Economy [VIDEO]
As music streaming increasingly edges out traditional physical sales, pushing them further and further to the margins, artists are becoming increasingly reliant on merch sales – once a supplementary revenue stream – as a main source of income. ___________________ Guest post by James Shotwell of Haulix With streaming music replacing…
10 Reasons Its Smart For Musicians To Go To A Big Festival, Even If They’re Not Performing [Kosha Dillz]
As someone in the music game who usually goes on a mission to be on the list, I started something a few years back that has me fiscally supporting the (big or small) festival in hopes of playing it one day. I truly believe I am a good festival act,…
Sell More Tickets In A Single Month: Your Week 4 Plan
In this fourth segment of a four part series, we explore how to audit your event marketing in order to identify what’s working and what isn’t, and then double down on the aspects of your ticket selling strategy that are yielding results while jettisoning the tactics that aren’t. ________________________ Guest…
Spotify Launches Co.Lab Video How To Series For Artists
Spotify Co.Lab events are a coveted ticket for any artist actively involved in their own career growth; not just for the networking opportunities, but also for the real world, expert delivered knowledge. Now, Spotify is sharing portions of the later with all artists in a Co.Lab video series. "You experience…
We Need Your Vote! Help Us Present SMART TOURING: How To Guide Booking, Marketing With Data at SXSW 2020
The SXSW PanelPicker is open for just a few more days to help choose which panels should be presented at SXSW 2020 and we’d need your vote. Please consider giving our panel SMART TOURING: GUIDE BOOKING + MARKETING WITH DATA a thumbs up now. We’ve Got A Favor To Ask…
Can’t Tour? Give This A Shot Instead
While most artists would benefit from embarking on a tour, the financial, an inability to be away from home, or any other number of factors can make touring an impossibility for some. Luckily, there are other ways to promote your act in the music business. _____________________________ Guest post by Patrick…
Tour:Smart Bus Edition – Martin Atkins, Millikin University Offer The Ultimate Hands-On Experience
Musician, teacher, author and industry provocateur Martin Atkins has partnered with Millikin University for his most audacious project yet – Tour:Smart Bus Edition which embeds real live students on a real live rock tour. The program takes them on the road with Atkins’ band for five days of non-stop learning….