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Make More Money with Your Official Band Website

January 17, 2014

There are a lot of ways to make money on the web when you have your own site. But it's easy to fall into a rut with a band or label's website, monetizing music online in the expected manner by selling music, merch and tickets, requesting donations and crowdfunding. While you don't want to go overboard ...

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What Indie Musicians Can Learn from Efforts to Rescue Radio

January 11, 2014

Doc Searls is known for his insights into business and the web dating back even further than “The Cluetrain Manifesto." His recent post, “How to rescue radio," includes a detailed series of suggestions for radio stations, networks and chains, for app developers, for equipment makers and for “everybody." The suggestions range from technical specifics to nuggets ...

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Marcus Hampton Releases Debut On ARC

January 3, 2014

Veteran trumpet player and composer Marcus Hampton, who is a nephew of Slide Hampton and a cousin of Lionel Hampton, has just released his debut recording that features 12 of his jazz originals. The title of his release is Hampton House of Jazz (ARC-2543). The title comes from the jazz club that Hampton and his family ...

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Making YouTube Central to Your Music Career

December 26, 2013

Though YouTube has many limitations and problems it also offers a unique way to combine one's social media, music marketing, music and merch sales and concert promotion efforts with one's music and visual art. That's a lot for any website to take on but YouTube can combine all that in a single shareable video. Recently The ...

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How to Revitalize Your Hustle by Showing Up for Your Loved Ones

December 20, 2013

By indie rapper Kosha Dillz (@koshadillz) who appeared on Daytrotter this week. During the holidays when touring season is low, we get a chance to enjoy the cold snowy days with our family. So often we are submerged in work, we forget about the special person in our life that is many times the backbone of ...

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3 Social Media Myths It's Time Musicians Recognized

December 19, 2013

Tim Grahl, author of “Your First 1000 Copies," writes for authors but he's got lots to say that musicians should consider. Some will find his take on social media a bit extreme but I think he makes a lot of practical sense and shares examples similar to what I've seen in music-related social media. In particular, ...

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6 Tips for Setting up Your Online Store

December 18, 2013

It’s no secret that at Bandzoogle we believe that your website should be your main hub on the Internet. So if there’s any place online that fans should be able to buy your music and merch, it’s on your own website. Why sell direct to fans? By selling direct to your fans, you not only get ...

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Musicians: Put Yourself on the Map, the Google Street View Map

December 17, 2013

Though many of us are balking at Google's ongoing drive to connect products, such as the widely attacked, integration of Google+ comments on YouTube, sometimes those connections open up great new possibilities. In this case, Google's connecting their Photo Sphere tech for 360 degree photo creations and Google Maps' Street View to allow you to create ...

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Louie Bellson: Hollywood, 1962

December 16, 2013

Back in the early 1960s, big bands led by jazz stars of the 1940s and '50s still packed clubs in Hollywood. The Summit was one of them. Owned and co-managed by Jimmie Maddin from 1958 to 1962, the Summit was at the corner of Wilcox and Sunset and could host up to 200 people. Maddin ran ...

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How to Make the Most of Your Music Merch

December 6, 2013

By Robal Johnson of PUMP Merch. In the last ten years we have experienced the simultaneously terrifying and invigorating evolution of recorded music and collectively bore witness to the ups and downs of technological progress and innovation. The entire major and independent music establishment has struggled to find new ways to make an honest living in ...