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How to Get Your Music on College Radio
By Patrick Hertz of Tinderbox. This article originally appeared on the Sonicbids Blog. College radio is a unique mix of non-commercial stations that range from small-watt student-run operations to huge, vastly influential public and/or community stations. This spectrum allows for most any independent artist to find terrestrial radio airplay – that is, of course, if the ...
3 New Platforms for Music Crowdfunding: Payola.FM, Crowdtivate, Crowdtilt Open
2014 has seen the launch of a variety of crowdfunding platforms around the world suitable for music projects. The following three, Payola.fm, Crowdtivate and Crowdtilt Open, represent very different approaches including pledge-based music-specific crowdfunding, crowdfunding as a form of startup acceleration and a hosted DIY platform with open source self-hosting options. Payola.fm Takes a Slow-Growth Approach ...
Enter the Haggis Compares Crowdfunding Experiences on Multiple Platforms
Brian Buchanan of Enter The Haggis recently shared his thoughts on crowdfunding via Bandzoogle's blog. He gives a lot of solid crowdfunding advice while taking a look at their differing experiences using Kickstarter, PledgeMusic and Bandzoogle (to run a DIY crowdfunding campaign). I was surprised to find more evidence of Kickstarter losing its leading position but, ...
Don't Ignore Your Email List, Say Fan Engagement Experts
First they told you to build your fanbase on Facebook. Then Facebook changed its timeline rules. Next they told you to engage on Twitter. But its hard to get noticed in a stream of continuous updates and their user growth is slowing. While social media is still essential, it turns out that good old fashioned email ...
3 Quick Resources to Reboot Your Music Website's SEO, Design and Conversion
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 ...
Digital Music Services and the Rise of EDM
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 ...
Jumpstart Your Music Career with Sync Licensing
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, ...
Are You Psychologically Suited for Success in the Music Industry?
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 ...
Bobby Broom Announces New Management, Booking Agency
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 ...
How to License Your Work to Music Libraries
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 ...
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