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5 Fan List Best Practices for Indie Musicians
Most indie musicians maintain multiple fan lists across email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, their blog and perhaps several more sources. Successfully growing your various fan lists and building fan relationships is extremely important to a musician’s career. However, trying to consistently be active with too many fan lists can be overwhelming and difficult to do well. I always recommend focusing on successfully maintaining an email list, Facebook fan page, Twitter feed, YouTube Channel and blog before moving … Read entire article »
Music Sharing = Music Marketing: This Is My Jam, Herd.fm & Cred.fm
by Clyde Smith for Hypebot: Music sharing sites have a lot of potential for marketing and the following sites are worth considering if that’s part of your approach. This Is My Jam is currently getting a lot of attention for its requirement to feature just one track at a time which seems to appeal to overloaded music fans. Herd.fm is focused on making mobile music sharing an easy process and is another way to have a mobile presence. Cred.fm is a Facebook … Read entire article »
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Why I Still Use Jango
Jango offers free Pandora-style internet radio. Type in an artist’s name and it generates a playlist of related songs. Jango Airplay lets artists buy their way into the recommendation engine, promising guaranteed airplay alongside your pick of big names. I’ve been running Jango campaigns pretty much continuously since the service launched in March of 2009. My songs have been played 270,000 times, 23% of which were unpaid “organic” plays. It cost me $1841.50 out of my … Read entire article »
The Musicians’ Guide To Google – Hot Tips To Maximize Your Google Experience
From Ariel Hyatt’s SoundAdvice Blog: Google, in my humble opinion, is the most amazing invention since anything else I can really think of. And Google is not just a big search engine, although it would still be awesome if that’s all it did. Google has been offering a suite of incredibly powerful tools for years; way before ‘in the clouds’ become the next big thing for companies like Apple and Microsoft. And to make it even better, … Read entire article »
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