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What Do Fans Think of Your Website? 76% Say Make It Easier
This guest post comes from Michael Brandvold (@michaelsb), a 20 year music & online marketing veteran who has worked with unsigned bands and superstars like KISS and Britney Spears. His Michael Brandvold Marketing provides consulting services to musicians. What do users think is the most important part of a website design? Flash? Beautiful design? Cutting edge? ...
INgrooves Takes over All Digital Distribution for Universal Music Group
INgroove's ONE Digital division has replaced Universal Music Group's existing digital music supply chain in North America and assumed responsibility for all online and mobile deliveries to retailers like iTunes, Amazon and Verizon. The world's largest music group, UMG made a substantial strategic investment in INgrooves several years ago, but had limited digital distribution to third-party ...
Socmetrics Identifies, Ranks and Tracks Social Media Influencers in Topic Niches
Yesterday I took a web tour of SocMetrics, a new service still in beta that ranks social media influencers, from celebrities to bloggers, and offers multiple tools for identifying which ones are most suited to marketing outreach. It also allows you to track what influencers are saying about particular topics, including your brand, which makes it ...
Discover New Music: Algorithms or Your Friends' Suggestions?
Where do you discover new music? Maybe you heard from a friend about a new band or discovered new music through services like Pandora. Traditionally, the record labels were the ones that dictated what music was cool or popular and who would become music superstars. Major labels still hold some of that power, but the power ...
Mixed Reaction to Apple iCloud and iTunes Match
Early reaction to yesterday's announcement of Apple's iCloud digital locker and iTunes Match has been mixed. Some focused on how iTunes Match essentially legitimizes illegally downloaded music. Others were disappointed by the lack of cloud streaming. Sample reactions: “Apple throws music industry another life vest It looks a concession to piracy—but it at least offers a ...
Thinkup: Capture, Analyze, Share Your Social Network Activity
ThinkUp is an open source software solution for monitoring all that social network activity you've been doing to market your music or on behalf of your music clients. It's available as a free download that you host on your own server. Expert Labs leads development on this project and that's good news because they are a ...
10 Tips to Get Your Music News and Content into Facebook's Top News Feed
Since Facebook separated its News Feed into Top News and Most Recent, it's become really important to get into the Top News feed which is the default and where you're most likely to be seen. If not, despite all the fans who liked your account or your band's Facebook Page, much of what you do is ...
Free Ebook: Peter Spellman on Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times
This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the new Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Peter Spellman has released a free e-book for musicians called “Musician 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times". Peter is the Director of Career Development at Berklee College of Music in Boston, as well as ...
How to Get a Booking Agent to Book Your Band
Finding venues to perform and scheduling performances can be tedious. On Music Think Tank, Dave Cool has a simple answer to people looking for a professional booking agent. He states that, "By far the best way to get a professional booking agent is for bands to book themselves until the point where they are selling out ...
Apple iCloud Advances Major Labels $100-$150 Million, Indies Get $0 (Zero, Zip, Nothing)
Apple is advancing the major labels $100—$150 million to allow the launch of its iCoud music locker next week, according to reports. Google had apparently offered the same big labels $100 million to let it launch a robust cloud music service, but got bogged down over efforts to fight piracy. What are independent labels being offered ...
