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How To Set Up Your Recording Studio For Creativity
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Guest Post by Adam Percy from the Bandzoogle Blog If you’re a musician, then you’ve been involved to varying degrees in recording. While many of you have probably been in a pro studio, it’s likely that you’ve dabbled with the idea of doing some recording yourself at home or in your own space - for demos, making beats, or even full fledged recordings. Recording technology has made huge leaps while dropping in price, but having a creatively inspiring and good sounding environment can ...
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How Much Can You Actually Make Playing House Concerts?
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Guest Post by Blake Guthrie on Sonicbids Blog Every singer/songwriter or acoustic act who's played out enough knows the drill. You show up to a gig where you must perform underneath a TV showing the big game or in a coffeehouse with the erratic, nerve-jarring grinding and screeching of the espresso machine, or maybe in a bar with the incessant cackling of people doing shots five feet away from where you're performing, oblivious to your presence. And all this for ...
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5 Things That Need To Be Readily Available on Your Band's Website
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Guest Post by Carla Jean Whitley on Sonicbids Blog You've released your first EP, booked some dates, and you're ready to generate some buzz for your band. With all of that accomplished, it sounds like you're on the right track! But there's another thing to mark off your checklist: is your website press-ready? Yeah, we know it's all about the music. But reality check: the media is busy; they're inundated with tons of releases from bands just like yours. (Okay, maybe not as devastatingly talented as ...
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13 Essential Elements Of An Effective Marketing Plan
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Guest Post by Bobby Borg, Author of Music Marketing For The DIY Musician A marketing plan (or as I sometimes call it, a Marketing Plan of Attack™) is a written document that outlines your band’s goals and the strategies you intend to use to achieve these goals. This can be helpful in keeping all members of a band on track, communicating to a manager what you’d like to achieve, and even convincing investors that you have a viable business idea. While ...
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Creating An Experience Before A Website
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By Ethan Schiff on Music Marketing Money As a new artist, it’s very easy to buy into the mindset that there’s a list of things you must do to compete in today’s music industry. This makes sense. Artists are, in fact, not solely artists as much as creative entrepreneurs.Your Instagram page might see twice as much traffic as your official website, and your recent Tumblr post about a charity you support might resonate with fans more than your latest press release. The ...
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More Face To Face, Less Face To Facebook - Reclaiming Your Brand In 2015
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Facebook was admirably open about their less than admirable move to bottleneck direct-to-fan marketing. But the move they made to box bands and brands into paying to reach their fans may have resulted in them getting boxed out. Facebook built a destination with Pages; a platform that until now, served as an opt in marketing platform for fans to connect directly to their favorite brands and vice versa. Now that Facebook has all but removed organic reach from Pages, brands ...
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The 3 Biggest Delusions Musicians Still Have About the Music Industry
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By Amy Sciaretto on Sonicbids Blog Despite mountains of easy-to-find evidence to the contrary, musicians still have some serious delusions about the music industry and how to “make it." To quote the amazing Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones – because what he says is #truth – “If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night." If that still hasn't penetrated your skull, well, here are three more specific delusions musicians still have about the biz, and each one ...
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11 Forms Of Promotion You May Be Overlooking
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Guest Post by Bobby Borg, author of The DIY Musician The Internet may be one of the most popular and convenient forms of promotion today, but it’s also flooded with independent artists all trying to get attention. Thus, with consideration to your target customers, your budget, and your goals, you might consider evening-out your promotional campaign with a variety of additional strategies. Simply put, the more unique places your target customers see your message, the more likely you’ll get their ...
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