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How to Plan Your Music Crowdfunding Campaign from Start to Finish
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HypeBot
Crowdfunding campaigns can take quite different forms depending on the project, the people and even the platform involved. Yet there are also similarities across the board that can be taken into account when planning your music crowdfunding campaign. Indiegogo's “Field Guide for Campaign Owners“ is a free download that's useful for planning campaigns no matter what form those differences take. Indiegogo's Field Guide for Campaign Owners does make plenty of specific references to their platform but even those often relate ...
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Band Interview Tips: How to Make the Most out of Your Interview
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HypeBot
If you do a scan online, you can find many articles about how to interview a band and what kinds of questions to ask a band, but there aren’t many things about what bands can do to prepare for and leverage an interview. I’ve done a fair share of them, both as the interviewer and the interviewee, and wanted to share some experiences with you so you can maximize the interview. Preparing For Your Interview What do you do when ...
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Music Video Strategies for Promotion and Monetization
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HypeBot
By Caroline Bottomley of Radar Music Videos (@radarmusicvideo). Caroline Bottomley from Radar Music Videos recently chaired a panel at the legendary music industry conference Midem. Top industry professionals discussed strategies for promoting and making money from your videos and here are some of the top tips they shared. The importance of YouTube Having your video on YouTube is essential for musicians: availability (YouTube is the primary search tool for music). shareability (it's easy to share and embed from YouTube). monetisable ...
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Agile Marketing for DIY Musicians
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HypeBot
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Agile Marketing is a term that takes its inspiration from , a methodology “defined" in 2001 by a group of programmers in order to apply a set of alternative (and hopefully more productive) values to traditional software development. Many software development projects large and small had, by this time, become unwieldy and nightmarish processes (see the concept of Edward Yourdon's “" software project management) when Agile Development became the new trend, and ...
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Tips for Surviving as a Musician in New York City
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MusicianWages.com
For most artists, living in New York is the only place where they can have a legitimate shot at making a living doing what they love. Unfortunately, a good deal of those people leave empty handed and the ones who stay either struggle to get by or find some other field to make a living. There are always exceptions, so being prepared can make a big difference when you’re going for broke. There are a lot of things that I ...
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15 Top Tips for Successful Music Crowdfunding and Fan Funding Campaigns
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HypeBot
Lots of people are sharing their tips and advice on crowdfunding and fan funding campaigns in areas from music to just about every fundable topic one can imagine. I took five different tips articles, including some not focused on music, and pulled out excellent tips of relevance to musicians. In some cases they address issues not previously discussed on Hypebot and in other cases they amplify key points that are well worth restating. Today's tips were gathered from the following ...
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Musicians: Find the One Key Metric That Matters for Your Career
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Michael Ricci
This blog post originally appeared on the music/technology blog Hypebot (@Hypebot) and is written by Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (Twitter/App.net), who also maintains a writing hub at Flux Research. From time to time concepts and approaches from the world of tech startups have relevance to indie and DIY musicians. Recently the concept of “One Key Metric" has been making the rounds of Silicon Valley. Though not a new idea, the recent attention has resulted in some useful exploration. It's ...
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6 Steps for Successful Audio Mastering
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MusicianWages.com
Mixing is an art form that takes a lot of time and skill and even though we may spend a long time on any given mix it is a good plan to be able to have a strategy for commencing a mix down session. To some degree this is going to be influenced by the genre of music that is to be mixed but there is a lot one can do to start off on the right footing to create ...
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