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How to Get Your Music Listened To (via Email)
As you'll know if you've read my book, Six-Figure Musician, I am constantly analyzing product packaging, stage banter, email copy, and other marketing material for great examples of what works. Today,...
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Marketing Checklist for Musicians
This is a guest post (submit your guest post) by Brian Morris, writes for the PsPrint Design & Printing Blog. If you're in a local band, or even a touring one, you know you have tons of other bands...
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Music Marketing Podcast #6 - How to Promote Yourself In 3 Easy Steps
This episode of the Music Marketing [dot] com Podcast is a followup to How To Promote Your New Album (Or Anything) In 7 Easy Steps and it will help you to watch the video on that page before...
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How I Finally Became Self Disciplined (and You Can Too!)
This is a guest post (submit your guest post) by Laurel Staples, who blogs about how creative people can quit their dayjobs and go fulltime at TheDayIQuit.com. This article will discuss three methods I...
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How to Get 200% More People at Your Next Gig
New movie coming out June 7... It has absolutely nothing to do with the music business, but one of the ways they're promoting it will help you double your show attendance... Yesterday, I was at the...
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Want to Sell More Music? Forget the Music!
This video which quickly summarizes an important topic I've talked about for years. The topic is so important, and so neglected, that I have an entire section about it in my book, Six-Figure Musician....
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Music Marketing Podcast #7 - How to Find (and Keep) Your Ideal Fan
This episode of the Music Marketing [dot] com Podcast is a response to an email we received from musician Jack Speer. Is changing your music so that it appeals to a specific type of person selling...
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Help For Your Music ($15,342 Worth)
I thought this might help with your music... Disc Makers is giving away $15.342 worth of recording equipment, CD pressing, music distribution services, and more. It's literally everything you need to...
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Behind the Scenes of Music Business Radio
I get a lot of questions regarding Music Business Radio and there is a lot of "behind the scenes" stuff that never makes the final edit of the show, so I decided to start up a special podcast to better...
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6 Reasons DJs Make More Money Than Musicians
First of all, to clarify on the title above, know that I think DJs are musicians. When I was transitioning from musician to my career in music marketing, I worked as a DJ and know first-hand what they...
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Music Marketing Podcast #8 - How to Deal With Criticism
"You suck!!" Almost every musician has heard something similar to this at one time or another. It comes with the territory of releasing your creation to the public. Inspired by a "bad review" of my...
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Why Your Local Scene Sucks (and Two Ways to Fix It Starting Today)
Support local music. This is the rallying cry of the guy playing at the bar down the street. The sticker is on his car. He wears the t-shirt. And he's gonna get pissed if you tell him you'd rather see...
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How to Maximize Your Next Photo Shoot
The following video is a "behind the scenes" look at a photo shoot of musician Andy Velo. Here is why you should be doing the same thing on your next photo shoot... You're going to do it anyway. - As I...
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Why Most Musicians Don't Make Money
This is a guest post (submit your guest post) by Tom Hess, a touring guitarist, composer, and a mentor to musicians. He plays in the 1,500,000+ record selling band, Rhapsody Of Fire. Fact is, the...
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If You're Not Pissed at Spotify... Try This!
Ran into Rachel Pearl at a party a couple of nights ago and she handed me her new card... This blog post will focus on the middle option -- Spotify! I know a lot of musicians feel like Spotify and...
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Did I Play Your Music on the Radio? Here's How to Tell!
We review music on (almost) every episode of Music Business Radio. This is how to tell if we've reviewed your music. After every episode, I post an "In the Studio..." message on musicbusinessradio.com....
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Music Marketing Podcast #9 - How Musicians Can Get Noticed Online
Why are only some bands successful? Why do only some bands get discovered? And how does this process happen? This is an interview with Charles Alexander of Outside the Box Music. Charles is a digital...
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A Psychological "Trick" to Sell More Music (and T-Shirts) at Live Shows
Here's a little psychological trick you may have seen variations of in restaurants. It's important to you because it can be used to help you sell more music, t-shirts, and other merch at live shows....
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Music Marketing Podcast #10 - How to Start a Music Publishing Company
In today's music business, with so many opportunities for music licensing, it's more important than ever that you own the copyright on your music. This is where the big money in the music industry is...
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Music Marketing Podcast #13 - How to Start a Record Label
The traditional record label may be on life support, but this is a great opportunity for enterprising musicians and music business professionals to redefine what a record label is and jump into the...
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