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Can The Internet Help Improve My Playing by Andrew Dubber PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 28 August 2008

From New Music Strategies:

Not everyone who reads this website is ready to record or release an album. I’m impressed by the number of emails I get from people who have stumbled across this site shortly after finding themselves in their first band. And not everyone plays everything as well as they’d like to be able to.

The best advice I could give is: log out of Facebook, switch off your computer, go and pick up your instrument and practice it for 8 hours or so. Do the same tomorrow. Repeat until fabulous.

But there are actually some things you can do on the internet that will help your playing - and even expand your musical horizons if you’re already pretty damn good.

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How To Use Twitter for Music Promotion by Heather McDonald PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 15 August 2008

From About.com:

Can you use Twitter to promote your band, or is it just one more distraction? That all depends on how you use it. Find out how to use Twitter for your music career in a way that wins you fans.

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Should I Use Auto Friend Adders by Andrew Dubber PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 25 July 2008

I get this question pretty much every time I go and speak somewhere. It’s generally about MySpace, but it also relates to anything like the automated friend adders, chat bots, scripts and automatic human being replacements in social networks.

Essentially this is about making decisions about the kind of conversations you want to be involved in.

I’m sure you can already guess that my answer to the title question is a resounding “No” - but this is not about making you do all the hard work so that you have to reap the benefit. Believe me - this is not my serious work ethic talking here.

Click here to read the full post from Andrew at New Music Strategies.

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Explode Your Music Videos by Luke Hudson PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
Recently I started to think about video strategies and rather or not to keep your videos up or take them down for other uses. Having music videos that are not available elsewhere gives them more value. Though in my last post on this subject I talked about the low viewed videos after 6 months could be taken down and used as exclusives. I also have to realize that if you were to make a DVD of 10 of your videos. With 2 of those being exclusives, even these 2 would eventually find their way to the internet. More to think about with the Video Strategy concept let me know if any of you have ideas along these lines.

Now to the point, Through Tube Mogul.com for free you can have a total of 150 video deployments. Each site you upload to counts as 1 deployment. Thus by uploading 1 video to all 17 sites you can almost upload 6 videos every month. Along with this are the following benefits you can get for free.

Cross-Site Analytics - Provide you with a powerful reporting dashboard to view, compare and contrast viewership information on your videos across video-sharing sites. Analytics include views, comments and ratings trended over time.

Email and Embed Charts & Widgets - Schedule any of your charts to be emailed to you for a quick look at your video trends. Email charts to colleagues or embed them on your own site to share your progress with others. In other words, show that boss or client of yours that you’re on top of it.

Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites - At the click of a button, submit your videos to social bookmarking sites and content recommendation engines such as StumbleUpon, Reddit, Spurl, and more.

Link Intelligence - See which blogs and websites are linking to your videos according to sites like Technorati and Google, and Digg. Know how remarkable your content really is!

Comment Manager - Manage your viewer’s comments across video-sharing sites from one central location… because being popular ain't easy.

Video Transcoding - Upload FLV files and they will transcode and compress them to the optimal specifications for each video-sharing site. They are happy to automate your burden!


So as you can see from the above list Tube Mogul is a site worth looking into if you handle videos and not necessarily just music videos either.
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Top 10 Indie Music Marketing Tools by Bruce Houghton PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 27 June 2008

From HypeBot :

Every week brings the launch of another online service to connect musicians and fans.  Beyond spending endless hours on MySpace and Facebook, what are the best affordable online tools to communicate with fans and monetize the relationship? Here are our picks in no particular order:

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How To Promote Your Band on MySpace from Wired's How-To Wiki PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 06 June 2008

From Wired.com:

Like it or not, MySpace is a vital promotional tool for the web-savvy musician. As a multimedia-rich environment, bands have unparalleled access to their fans on both a social and musical level. However, achieving a full-on marketing coup is tougher than it looks. Here are a few tips for using the site to promote your soon-to-be rockstar band.

Click here to view the wiki. Got extra advice? Log in and add it.

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10 Best Practices of Online Music Promotion by Nancy Baym PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 30 May 2008

Here is a list of practical tips for promoting your music online from the Online Fandom blog. The list lincludes important advice like "owning your own domain name" and "get to know the MP3 bloggers".

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Why You Must and How to Implement a Free Song Strategy by Bruce Warila PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 16 May 2008

From Bruce Warila's Unsprung Wisdom blog:

I read most of the music business blogs out there, and I read a lot of comments that readers post on many of these blogs.  I believe it’s a common misconception that new-music-business bloggers generally advise artists to give away all their music for free.  So, I am declaring my position here, along with guidelines for implementing a Free Song Strategy.

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Top 10 List of Music-Related Sites That Artists Need To Be On by Andrew Dubber PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 08 May 2008

From New Music Ideas:

There are many online sites, services and ideas that can be of use to independent music businesses, and we'll be covering as many of them as possible here on New Music Ideas. But here are the ones that we think are among the best, most indispensible and generally useful — in no particular order.

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Top 6 Facebook Apps For Musicians by Ariel Hyatt PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 11 April 2008

I am falling more in love with Facebook everyday. It never freezes up (like MySpace) and I can’t believe how many people who I NEVER saw online in MySpace are on Facebook. All of a sudden back in touch with my babysitter from grade school, a ton of college friends and high school friends and even some from high school who are not in the tech or the music business, which is very cool. Here are my favorite picks for Musicians when pimping out your Facebook profile!

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7 Tips to Writing a Crowd Drawing MySpace Blog from MaxLowe.Net PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 03 April 2008

So, you’ve decided to create a blog on MySpace - one of the single most effective ways to draw an audience to your profile. Before you get started, it is important that you know exactly what seven things you can do to ensure that crowd shows up though - otherwise, you will be left scratching your head at the lack of views:

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The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online by Andrew Dubber PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007

The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online by Andrew Dubber.

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