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5 Top Characteristics of Full Time Musicians
This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. I've now been involved in the Montreal music scene in some way for 17 years, and have seen many artists and bands come and go. Now that I'm in my 30's, I'm starting to truly understand what ...
Top New Music Industry Leaders Share Tips on Telling Your Story to Press and Fans
StoryAmp, a soon-to-launch self-marketing service for indie musicians is currently offering a free ebook, “Amplify Your Story: Getting More Press through the Art of the Pitch," as bait for future customers. It's an excellent guide to getting press and attracting fans by telling the stories of your life as a musician as well as the stories ...
Interview: RootMusic CEO J Sider on Music Business Success Strategies
Last week in San Francisco, Musi2k held a Q&A session with RootMusic's CEO and Founder, J Sider. During the conversation, Sider brought up interesting anecdotal information about how he started RootMusic, the trials and tribulations he went through to get the company where it is today, and what musicians and entrepreneurs should keep in mind as they move ...
Ian Rogers Interviews VEVO CEO Rio Caraeff on "This Week in Music" [video]
Rio Caraeff left his position of EVP at UMG's Digital Strategy arm “eLabs" to found and run VEVO. He joins Topspin CEO Ian Rogers in the “This Week In Music“ studio to talk about the business of music video and how VEVO is creating new revenue streams at a higher level than ever before. Co-Founder of ...
Billboard Pro Closes After Just 4 Months
Billboard has closed new registration to its independent and d.i.y. artist subscription site Billboard Pro after just over 4 months of operation. “We are not accepting new registrations at this time, pending a revamp and relaunch of the site later this year," reads a notice offering no hint of a relaunch date. Existing users paying $9.99 ...
Adva Mobile Offers Free Mobile Websites Designed for Musicians
Adva Mobile focuses on mobile websites for musicians. The basic service is free and the sites are dubbed “Mobile Fan Clubs" though you don't have to think of them as fan clubs per se. However, they are designed to build mobile contact lists, meet the needs of fans on as wide a variety of phones as ...
Cent2Cent Provides Platform to Charge for Video Content
When it comes to engaging with fans online, it's been said time and time again: “Content is King" Well, coming up with the content has never really been the difficult part, given all the different methods artists can create content with (Twitter, FB, Youtube, etc). However, the challenge remains in monetizing that content. Difficulties usually arise in ...
5 Ways to Turn Superfans into Super-Marketers
Sanjay Dholakia, CEO of Crowd Factory, recently shared his insights on encouraging teens to become superfans who will broadcast your message beyond the level of basic participation. Such fans are motivated by the chance to support artists they care about, hooking up their friends with rewards and receiving recognition for their supermarketer status. “How To Turn ...
Slicethepie Moves Fan Funding to Pledgemusic, Integrates Soundout Song Analytics
Fan funders PledgeMusic and SliceThePie have formed a partnership that integrates SoundOut, Slicethepie's song analytics service into PledgeMusic, who now also takes over the management of the funding process for Slicethepie's artists. SoundOut offers crowdsourced feedback for music and now all successful artist on the PledgeMusic platform will receive a complimentary report on one of their ...
Big Changes for Midem 2012. Midemlab Startup, Apps Competition Opens
As we announced two weeks ago, producer Reed Midem is shifting gears for the 2012 edition of its signature music industry gathering Midem. In response to a changing industry, the conference is creating an “all-new midem" (new logo to left) that adds more “D.I.Y., technology and brands" to the mix. Gone is popular decade old sub-conference ...
