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5 Methods For Avoiding Costly Band Merch Mistakes
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Merch can be one of the best ways for a touring band to bring in some additional cash, but get it wrong and you can easily be saddled with an expense load of unsellable junk. Here we look at five useful guidelines for ensuring you get your merch right. Guest Post by Hugh McIntyre on the Sonicbids Blog Having new merchandise made can be a risky business—just ask any band that's paid good money to see plenty of items with ...
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How To Make Money From Teaching Music, Even If Your Schedule Is Full
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In addition to providing an excellent added source of income, teaching music can go a long way towards helping you to expand your fan base. Here we review five tips that can help you make teaching music work, even with a busy musician's schedule. Guest Post by Gfire Mayo on the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This is a guest blog written by Gfire Mayo. Gfire is an Austin, TX-based music teacher with TakeLessons.com, offering lessons in guitar, singing, piano and more to students ...
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Apple Music Best Practices For Musicians: They Updated, So You Should Too
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As a kind of followup to their earlier 'best practices' piece, The Daily Rind takes use through the updated Apple Music iOS 10 interface, with an refresher on the best practices to adopt with this new interface. Guest Post by Tricia Arnold: Senior Director, Retail Marketing on The Orchard's The Daily Rind Last week, Apple released its new iOS 10 and with it, the new version of Apple Music we’ve been waiting for. Never ones to wait when we can dive in full ...
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How Many Fans Do You Need To Make A Living In Music?
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While reaching a point where you can live off the money made from your music and fans is the end goal for many artists, most musicians are forced to work some kind of additional job in order to fund their creative exploits. Here we look at some numbers regarding exactly how many fans an artist really needs in order to live off their music. Guest Post by Nicholas Rubrigh, CEO of Dozmia, When it comes to the music industry, it seems all but ...
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3 Stages Of A Successful Music Launch
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While an artist may have created wonderful music, how they launch it can make or break the success of the material. Here Yann Ilunga discusses what he learned in his conversation with Music Launch Summit founder Steve Paolfreyman about the right way to release new music. Guest Post by Yann Ilunga on The Jazz Spotlight I recently sat down with artistpreneur and Music Launch Summit founder Steve Palfreyman to talk about what a successful music launch is made of. As ...
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Bass Legend Stanley Clarke Included In Smithsonian's New NMAAHC Museum And Gives Free Bass Workshop Opening Day
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Diane Hadley Public Relations
The opening of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) September 24 in Washington DC will be particularly exciting for legendary bassist Stanley Clarke. Not only is one of his Alembic basses and archival photos included in the museum exhibit, but he is participating in the opening festivities, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. Clarke will attend the opening dedication ceremony and then give a free Bass Workshop at the Fannie Lou Hamer Stage on the ...
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Time Management: A Musician's Guide
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In many ways, time is like money, meaning it's important to develop a system through which you manage and budget your time. This can be especially true for artists, so in this piece we look at how musicians can structure their days in such a way as to avoid constantly running out of time. Guest Post by Debbie Stanley on the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This blog is written by Debbie Stanley, the second in a three-part series that aims to ...
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5 Critical Things To Add To Your Monthly Email Newsletter
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Social networks are essential for promoting music and shows, but their popularity can rise and fall. Remember MySpace? There are just two constants in your marketing plan, your web site and your email list. In this post, the smart folks at CyberPR share some musician newsletter essentials. This guest post comes from CyberPRMusic.com Your newsletter is number one thing that will help you create a career in the music industry; communicating with your fan base regularly and consistently. If you do not already have a ...
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