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Guide To Generating Music Marketing, Promotion And Publicity Opportunities
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A look behind the scenes of how to identify similar artists who have succeeded in cultivating significant coverage and promotion, and how to research their success and identify their fanbase in order to broaden your own marketing opportunities. By Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan from the Disc Makers Blog By identifying and researching artists who are similar to you but have gotten more coverage and promotion, you’ll learn exactly where to focus your own music marketing efforts. Plus, you’ll learn where ...
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Making Emotional Connections With Real Fans Is Your Job, Here Are 5 Ways To Do it
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It's not the number of fans an artist has, but rather their level of commitment that matters, says Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR. It's true fans, those emotionally connected to the artist, that matter. Understanding fan commitment and building an emotional bond are essential to building a meaningful fanbase. Hyatt offers a road map. By Ariel Hyatt and the team at Cyber PR There is a huge issue that most artist face today with building actual fanbases. So many want to ...
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3 Questions To Ask Yourself When You're Feeling Overwhelmed As An Artist
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As an independent artist struggling to make a place for yourself in the music industry, it's easy to start to feel overwhelmed and burnt out. Here we look at three important questions to pose to yourself when the burdens of navigating a truly challenging business have become too great. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo of the TuneCore Blog Being a musician or an entrepreneur doesn’t exactly come with a guide book, does it? Truth be told, I spent a good ...
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How To Deliver New Music To Fans After A Lengthy Hiatus
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It's impractical to assume any artist can constantly churn out new material, and a reprieve from creating music can often be a healthy thing. That said, getting back in the game can be challenging, not just for you, but also for you fans when it comes to introducing them to your new material. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the ReverbNation Blog As much as many of us would like, we can’t just make and perform music every waking minute ...
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Move with the Times: Ideal AI Tools For Musicians
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While AI's expansion into the music industry is an intimidating and off-putting idea for those songwriters afraid that a computer will take their job, the reality is that as this new era of technology dawns, there are number of ways in which the music can, and should, benefit from new AI tech. Guest post by Berta Melder During the industrial revolution, people learned to create machines that could deal with various physical tasks. Machines have proven to be more productive ...
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4 Ways To Build More Content From Your Music Videos
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Creating a music video can be a complex, lengthy, and above all expensive endeavor, meaning you should work to get as much out of the end product as you can. Here we look at four clever ideas for how you can utilize elements of your music video to create other valuable content you can apply to additional promotional efforts. Guest post by Hugh McIntyre of TuneCore Filming a music video is a costly, complicated endeavor which can take days, or ...
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Bringing Performance Into The Practice Room
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While traditional practicing is all well and good for honing your technical expertise, it won't do as much good when it comes to getting your comfortable with being on stage. Enter performance practicing! Guest post by Erica Sipes of Soundfly's Flypaper. This article originally appeared on Beyond the Notes I don’t really know where I got the idea to start making practice performing a part of my regular routine but it’s now something I rely upon all the time and ...
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3 Ways A Mailing List Can Turn Out Fans To Your Show
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Getting people to actually show up at your show can be exhausting, and if you've been at the DIY artist thing for awhile, chances are you've given most attendance tactics a try, from social media blasts to old school postering. At the end of the day, however, the mailing list is the most likely to get potential concert goers off the couch and out of the house. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo of the Symphonic Blog Getting people out to ...
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