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Guide To Building Successful Relationships In The Music Industry
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While ability is certainly a large part of making it in the music industry, the business is unfortunately often as much about who you know as it is your actual talent. In this piece we look closely at the essentials of building relationships in the music industry that will help propel you up the charts. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo on the TuneCore Blog When you first entered the music industry, you may have expected that your talents would be enough ...
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Video Game Music: An Art And Business In Its Own Right
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While musicians have been cozy with the video game industry for some time as another supplementary source of revenue, but some indicators suggest that game music could be growing into an entire business all its own. Guest post by Cherie Hu of Forbes Musicians have been drawing inspiration from video games for decades—whether as a simple hobby, as a multimedia creative tool or as an adjacent revenue stream to traditional record sales. But to what extent can musicians today build an entire ...
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Add A Booking Section On Your Music Website
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When it comes to landing gigs for you band, it's essential to have a booking section on your website that provides any potentially interested promoter with answers to all their booking inquiries, from basic info to average crowd size. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 One of the things that’s vital to getting your band gigs is a booking section on your website that provides all the information that a promoter needs to answer both pre and post ...
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How Free Music Giveaways Make Money Over Time
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Given everything that the music industry's been through, it's understandable that the word “free" can often evoke a negative reaction when dropped in music business circles. That said, however, judiciously applied giveaways can yield decidedly positive results in the long run. Guest post by Ben from Subreel To some musicians, “free” is a curse word. It’s understandable, an industry that has been turned on its head by piracy is bound to try and cling to the value in its products. ...
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How Musicians Can Survive The Facebook Apocalypse And Thrive In 2018
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For artists who had worked tirelessly to cultivate a following on Facebook, the blowing up the popular social network's algorithm has industry marketers spooked. Here we look at how musicians can continue to maintain a successful Facebook strategy. Guest post by Amber Horsburgh, SVP Strategy at Downtown Records on Medium On Thursday Jan, 11th 2018, Mark Zuckerberg announced a colossal change to the algorithm that will strip the Newsfeed of news taking Facebook back to its original mission of bringing us closer to ...
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How To Find A Music Career Mentor
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Trying to make it on your own in the music industry can often lead to isolation and burnout, neither of which is particularly beneficial to your career. Here we look at how to find a mentor who can share their wisdom and help you make the right decisions for achieving maximum success. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo of the ReverbNation blog In the music industry, it can sometimes feel like you’re going it alone. There’s so many tasks to be done, decisions ...
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10 Important Question To Ask BEFORE Hiring A Music PR Agency
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While bands or artists may be inclined to jump ahead to hiring a PR company in hopes of having their career made, they are often disappointed by the results. Here we look at ten essential questions to ask yourself before making the decision to have a PR agency take you on. Guest post by Maddy Raven of music PR firm Burstimo “Our last music PR company didn’t seem to get any results” is what we hear from most our new clients. Nobody ...
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