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Concert Promoters, Bookers and Agents: What is the Difference?
By Heather McDonald for About.com Music Careers Booking and promoting concerts involves a lot of moving parts, so it’s pretty easy for confusion to enter the picture. If you’re new to playing live, just starting to cut your teeth on the live music circuit, then that confusion can go through the roof for a lot of reasons. In fact, this can be a tough time for a lot of musicians, not only because the whole process … Read entire article »
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The DIY Musician’s Complete Guide to Touring
From CD Baby’s DIY Musician Blog: Over the years, CD Baby’s DIY Musician Blog has posted a thing or two about touring. Here are our favorite touring tips, bits of advice, and shared wisdom, organized below by category, and compiled as The DIY Musician’s Complete Guide to Touring. Whether you hit the road for 3 months at a time or only gig regionally, there is something here for you. Click here to view the The DIY Musician’s Complete Guide … Read entire article »
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How to Promote a Show: Don’t Rely on Anyone Else
from the BandZoogle blog: After having a poorly attended show, it’s easy to point the fingers at everyone else. The bottom line: the turn-out is entirely your responsibility. When trying to promote your show, you would expect there to be a team of people to help out: the club, the booker, the other bands, and the promoter. And, yes, they sometimes do help out. However, more times than not, that level of support just isn’t there. In this … Read entire article »
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The Music Biz Has Gotten Bigger—Why You Should Get Smaller
It’s been a boon for a lot of independent musicians—the deregulation (for lack of a better word) of the music business from a handful of mega-labels to a sea of cottage industries. The hopes and dreams of the creative set that once rested in the hands of a few key record executives can now be realized on a personal level thanks to the wide variety of outlets, both in the form of digital marketplaces as … Read entire article »
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The 4 Reasons Fans Buy Your Merch
From blog.Reverbnation.com: The following illustration is an attempt to visualize four types of fans that buy for different reasons. Any given Artist may have fans in any or all of the buckets, depending on where they are at in their career. You’ll notice that I added a ‘value’ arrow that increases as you go up the illustration. This value arrow is based on a combination of the price each type of fan is willing to pay … Read entire article »
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Band merch 101: What to make, how to make it, how to sell it
From MusicThinkTank.com: Music merchandise has always been important to bands, both as a source of revenue and to help raise awareness of your ‘brand’. Fans love buying merch too – the music we like is closely tied in with our identity, and wearing a band’s t-shirt is a way of showing off that identity to others. Now, merch is more important than ever as a way of making money. For many independent artists, the music itself is … Read entire article »
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How Should I Pick the Cities for My Tour?
From About.com Music Careers: Let’s say you’ve decided to bite the bullet and book your own tour. So, you pull out a map and, uh, what now? The world is a big place, so where exactly should you focus your hunt for the perfect gig? Consider the following when you’re picking your short list of cities to hit up on your tour: Your first choices should be cities in which you already have a following, or at … Read entire article »
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