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Why Modern Musicians Should Care About Metadata
By Bill Wilson, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at NARM and digitalmusic.org. Metadata. It's a jargon-y word that probably turns a lot of artists off at the mere mention of it. It's also one of the main things standing between them and a variety of new opportunities to make money. And those new ...
Prog Legends Spock's Beard Film New Video In Support Of Newly Released Album
Los Angeles, CA - Prog legends Spock's Beard, in support of their newly released and critically acclaimed album, 'Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep', are filming a video for the track “Submerged.” The three-day shoot is based in Los Angeles, and inside sources say it is a full-on music spectacle! Released on April 2nd, 'Brief Nocturnes And ...
The Tools of Music Fan Engagement [part 1]: Blogging
In a previous post I spoke about developing a strategy for fan engagement. One of the best tools that we encourage Bandzoogle members to use to engage with their fans is a blog. A blog is essentially a web log, an online journal where you can post entries and where your fans can leave comments. Blog ...
The 27 Year-Old Intern
My name is Corie. I am 27 years old. I have an MBA and my undergraduate degree is from one of the best public universities in the United States - the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I have a full time job as a manager for a well-respected health insurance company. ...And I am a record ...
Top 5 Ways to Spread Your Music
Being new to the music industry is not always the easiest time in an artist's life, working hard to write songs, record and getting noticed. This doesn't always have to be a hard process and as long as you have the first two perfected the third will be easy. To help give you that extra advantage ...
Dear Musicians: Become Your Own Middleman
By Joshua S. Lundquist, musician and blogger at An Incredible Waste of Time. Finally over ten years after the music industry started freaking out about Napster and BitTorrent downloads of entire albums (a godsend for fans of old out-of-print music), there is starting to be a glimmer of hope for us artists. In this post I ...
You Don't Need a Label, Manager or Big Money to Make It but You Do Need a Real Team
By Michael Brandvold @michaelsb of Michael Brandvold Marketing. Ron Young the lead singer of Little Caesar posted this earlier this week and it hit me as a great inspirational post for all those musicians who think you need a label, a manager and big money to make it. In the 80s Little Caesar were signed to ...
5 Ways Musicians Can Benefit from Google Glass[es]
Love 'em, hate 'em, it doesn't matter. Google Glass or Glasses, depending on what suits, are going to be part of your reality. Welcome to a wearable technology that will have unexpected effects on the world of music. But musicians and music pundits aren't waiting for the actual tech to arrive as you can see from ...
5 Tips for Musicians from Music Industry Entrepreneurs
Venture Harbour's Marcus Taylor gathered “pieces of advice" for “aspiring entrepreneurs" from 30 music industry entrepreneurs. I've taken the liberty of excerpting the top 5 that I think musicians will find of use in building their businesses since entrepreneurial thinking is key for artists as well. Plus, Taylor shared some advanced Facebook marketing insights linked below. ...
Topspin Offers 5 Direct to Fan Lessons from SXSW
By the staff of Topspin Media. SXSW is one of the few events that organically blends the discussion of digital/tech business trends/topics, with the actual music and artists they affect. Attendees can spend the day in panels or keynotes, and the evening attending performances from both newcomers and superstars alike. The result is some much-needed perspective ...
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