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The MusicBiz Week In Review 9/21/12
Hey guys, hello again from the College of Charleston! We’ve been busy scouring the internet for the best music news for you this week. Check out the highlights we found: A serious change in how unclaimed royalties are being distributed is coming in October. Find out where your hard earned money could be going now, and how PRS for Music plans to change this. Will this change help or hurt musician? Check out this article from … Read entire article »
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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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12 Ways to Increase Your Fan Base for 2012
From Ariel Hyatt via the Cyber PR blog: As you look to the future you may be getting in the mode to set goals for your career. I am always surprised when musicians I work for at Cyber PR®, are frantically trying to reach more and more potential fans without really focusing on the fans that they already have. These fans don’t need to be found, because they are already your fans. Studies have proven that it is … Read entire article »
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Use StumbleUpon to Get Exposure for Your Music
From CD Baby’s The DIY Musician blog: I’m a stumbler. I’m a stumble addict. I’ve got a stumble habit. I’m a stumbleholic, stumblelover, and a stumblemaniac. I can’t help it. Stumbleupon is a music discovery tool, and thus it can help you get discovered. You can submit your music videos, web pages, blog posts, streaming tracks and more to StumbleUpon. Any content that lives on a live webpage can be stumbled. When you submit a page, there … 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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What Artists Should Know About SoundOut by Brian Hazard
You know your song is great, but is it a hit? Will it inspire listeners to share it with their friends, hand over their email address, or maybe even open their wallets? You need feedback from average music fans who have nothing to lose by being honest. SoundOut compares your song to 50,000 others from both major labels and indies. They promise to tell you how good your track is with guaranteed 95% accuracy (I’m still … Read entire article »
