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Prescreen Your Future Fans with Twitter
Two months ago, I began implementing Ariel Hyatt and Carla Lynne Hall’s strategy to increase my Twitter following, as laid out in their book Musician’s Roadmap to Facebook and Twitter. The basic idea is to follow potential fans in the hope that they will follow back. I discovered that the more selective I am in choosing who to follow, the more likely I am to connect with people who may become genuine fans. I’ll share my process … Read entire article »
How To Make A Music Video For YouTube
From IndependentMusicAdvice.com: Today we’re going to look at how to make a music video for Youtube. I will be looking at some of the options available to you, as well as introducing you to my favourite tool for the job: Animoto. There are two main ways to make good quality Youtube music videos: By recording footage with a video camera and editing it on your computer, or by using Animoto to make a video based … Read entire article »
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10 Best Practices for Bands on Facebook
From Mashable: Hey, bands, Facebook isn’t just for laughing at formerly popular kids (“Ah, that dude teaches English at our old high school now? Sad.”) whilst swilling whiskey in your tour bus anymore. It’s slowly becoming a hub for fan outreach, marketing your tunes and collaboration. Mashable reached out to a cadre of music industry experts to put together the following list of best practices for using Facebook to promote your music. … Read entire article »
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How I Got 96 Album Cover Designs for $145 (and why I’ll never do it again)
Quality graphic design is expensive. I paid $500 just to license the cover image for my last album, plus $600 for the rest of the design. That’s fine every couple of years, but now that I’m releasing songs individually, I need a cover design every month or two. I decided to give 99designs a try, and the results far exceeded my expectations. For $145, I got 96 custom designs from 33 different designers. Sure, some … Read entire article »
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Ask…The Agent
From Sentricmusic.com: I get asked ‘how can I get on the bill for festivals?’ astonishingly often with many artists believing if you don’t have an agent you haven’t got a chance. This is usually followed with the question ‘how can I get an agent?’ and then shortly after that the artist either cries out of utter despair or laughs manically whilst ever so slightly foaming at the mouth. So I requested you … Read entire article »
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