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3 Quick Resources to Reboot Your Music Website's SEO, Design and Conversion
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HypeBot
There are lots of ways to improve your website so that people can find it and then find what they're looking for when they get there. And there are plenty of in-depth resources for learning such things as how to keep a site in Google's good graces, how to make sure one's user interface draws in rather than repels visitors and how to maximize sales when you make an offer. But sometimes a quick nugget of distilled information, a “brain ...
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Digital Music Services and the Rise of EDM
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HypeBot
By Grammy nominated electronic artist, songwriter, producer and DJ Ryan Farish. When I first started releasing my albums about a decade ago, I challenged myself to find my own voice, pursuing each new song with the hope and in the idea of discovering my own individual sound. I wanted to contribute something to music, and in doing so, I embraced all the new sounds and technology I could get my hands on. Back then, in the early 2000's, I quickly ...
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Jumpstart Your Music Career with Sync Licensing
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HypeBot
By Neil Gillis, President of Round Hill Music, from the Sonicbids blog. When I first started in the music business (yes, the stone age), getting “cuts” of your songs by artists on new records was the key to driving creative success as a publisher. Everything came from that, including additional airplay, compilations, and usages in media. Nowadays, whether it’s on behalf of a traditional songwriter, songwriter/producer, or a new band/artist that writes, all eyes and ears are on the media usages ...
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Are You Psychologically Suited for Success in the Music Industry?
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HypeBot
A recurring theme of business writers is the topic of personal psychology and success. Often this comes in the form of looking at an aggregate sample of successful entrepreneurs, figuring out top psychological traits and saying you need to be this or that personality type to succeed. Yet research into entrepreneurship has repeatedly shown that successful business people have all sorts of personality types. A recent post at Diy Music Biz looks instead at what musicians must do to succeed ...
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Bobby Broom Announces New Management, Booking Agency
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GNUStar - Talent Services Division
Jazz guitarist Bobby Broom announced today that he will be represented by Tiffany Ente of Musiq Haus Management, and that Joel Chriss of J. Chriss & Co. will be handling his bookings. “Glad to be aboard," Broom told his fans on Facebook yesterday. Musiq Haus represents some of the top artists in the Jazz industry. In addition to Broom, the firm represents saxophonist Gary Bartz, trumpeter Pharez Whitted, and drummer Lewis Nash, to name a few. The driving force behind ...
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How to License Your Work to Music Libraries
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HypeBot
By Composer and Filmmaker Jennifer Kes Remington. So in my quest to throw multiple things against the wall and hope that money comes out of it, I’ve been licensing a lot of my music to library companies. I started doing this one July when I was between music gigs, and I thought, “Gee, Christmas is coming soon and I bet someone’s going to want some holiday-esque shit!” So I asked a few other composer friends if they knew of any ...
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David Byrne and Friends Address Money, Art on His Relaunched Website
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Back in February David Byrne relaunched his official website with an emphasis on new content and guest writers. Since then he's continued to address artist revenue topics in his now established role as public intellectual. In the process he's speculated on such topics as what a new Internet might look like and, over the weekend, how musicians might earn a living in the streaming era. As you might expect, he takes his thoughts in sometimes unexpected directions. From his TED ...
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ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN Song Registration Gets Easier with Musicmark Collaboration
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HypeBot
Three major performing rights organizations (PROs), ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN, are working together to make it possible for music publishers to submit songs to all three at once through their new MusicMark collaboration. Though the three PROs will continue to maintain separate operations and payout procedures, MusicMark is designed to unify information from all three about registered works making it possible to provide more accurate information. The collaborative effort by ASCAP, BMI and SOCAN was announced with the following statements: ...
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