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Create a Band Bio Promoters and Press Will Appreciate
By Kathleen Parrish from the Sonicbids Blog. As a musician, having a bio is incredibly important. It's your opportunity to make a great first impression, no matter what stage of your career you're in. Giving interviews, gaining fans, playing shows – these all require someone to take interest in you or your band. Coming across a ...
Dirt Cheap Design Services for Musicians: Swiftly + Eventbrite, Fiverr and More
Need a quick but great looking web banner for your next concert or release? Need a band logo fast, but don't have much cash? There are a growing number of online services that connect designers with potential clients, and many are perfect for musicians and indie music companies on tight budgets. $5 - $19 Goes A ...
Bandzoogle Adds Seamless Bandcamp Integration
Musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle has added a new feature that lets musicians integrate Bandcamp tracks and albums into their website. Bandcamp users can now easily add players to their Bandzoogle powered site, and those players are styled automatically with their theme and on mobile. The music is streamed from Bandcamp and when fans want ...
Wordpress for Musicians: Why I Recommend Managed Hosting
There are a variety of solid options for hosting a music website including many tailored to musicians' needs. Wordpress is a popular solution, in part, because so many themes and tools in the form of plugins are available for musicians. If you've decided to go with what could be called a self-hosted Wordpress.org install rather than ...
IdeasTap Launches Accelerator: Commission-Free Crowdfunding for Creative People
IdeasTap is an “arts charity" or nonprofit based in London that supports young creatives with funding, networking tools and information. To further their mission they launched a commission-free crowdfunding platform with “Cash TopUp Funds" for outstanding projects. However Accelerator is for UK residents only and that's unlikely to change given the UK focus of IdeasTap. According ...
Dear PledgeMusic: It's Time to Stop Misrepresenting Music Crowdfunding
I think PledgeMusic is one of the most important music tech companies currently in the game. I also think crowdfunding is one of the most important financial developments of this century to date though it does precede this century. Because I think both PledgeMusic and crowdfunding are extremely important to the music industry in this time ...
Musician's Guide to Tech Skills: Website Analytics
By Michael Brandvold of Michael Brandvold Marketing. I posted a video that talked about how today you need to have tech skills to succeed. The video didn’t go into much detail on what specific tech skills you should have, so I thought I would list them for you. By all means I am not saying you ...
Twitch Debuts Live Streaming Music Concerts, Twitch Broadcasters Can Play Host
Twitch is an odd seeming thing, a platform primarily for live streaming video gameplay, that is incredibly popular. Since at least May various reports have it that Google is buying them. So far it's only been confirmed by “sources" and it's hard to say what that would really mean for Twitch. But there are lots of ...
Knoxville's Mediaworks Demo Day to Include 4 Music Tech Startups
MediaWorks is a new digital media accelerator emphasizing education and mentorship. It's a program of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) and next week they're holding a demo day for the participants including no less than four startups related to audio and music. The program was led by Nashville's Back Porch Group likely with plenty of input ...
How to Get Press for Your Band Like the PR Pros Do
By Rachel Bailey from the Sonicbids Blog. When promoting a record, there are a couple of different philosophies about the most effective way to get your music heard. One, the carpet-bomb method, involves sending a press release, download, or digital stream to every contact in your press list arsenal. The other – and in my experience, ...
