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End of Year Awards: Best Use of Emerging Technologies, 2010
Technology, media, and music are moving so quickly nowadays that it's hard to tell what to pour your time and energy into. Apps? Bundled music and merch? Foursquare? HTML5? iPads? How do these things work again? What do they do? The best part is that in today's world, you have to ask these questions as you're ...
End of Year: Worst Artist Marketing Ideas
As much as we love to recognize and celebrate the wonderful work done by others at the end of a year, we also really, really like making fun of their mistakes. Here, without further ado, are some of the worst marketing moves made by bands this year: Irrespective of who funded what, the cover of ...
10 To Do's Before, During, and After Every Gig
Every time a band has a gig, there are certain guidelines they should follow. This checklist of 10 items will help bands ensure each show runs smoothly and is as successful as possible. Advance The Show There is a lot of information that trades hands when setting up a show, and sometimes that information gets jumbled ...
End of Year Roundup: Our Friends' Bests
All week, we've been hitting you with some top-shelf reviews of all the wonderful things that have been done by and happened for independent musicians. This is the recap. Some of you have been following this series since Monday, but a quick rehash of what's going on here: we invited friends at Tight Mix, CD Baby's ...
How to Waste Five Dollars, End of Year Edition
Regular readers know that we like Sonicbids, that we like The Deli magazine, and that we favor creative schemes to get publicity for your band. We do not, however, like this. As you can see in the above picture, The Deli magazine is accepting submissions for its End of Year poll. For the first few days, ...
Best of 2010, Part Two: Innovative Online Marketing Strategies and Music Videos
Throughout the year, this site and others have pointed you in the direction of cool services, sites, videos, artists and companies that have made life better for independent artists. And a few weeks ago, we decided that it would make sense to pool all our colleagues' thoughts and finds into one massive end of year blog ...
Best of 2010, Part One: The Most Innovative Music Companies, the Best Tour Tactics
Throughout the year, this site and others have pointed you in the direction of cool services, sites, videos, artists and companies that have made life better for independent artists. And a few weeks ago, we decided that it would make sense to pool all our colleagues' thoughts and finds into one massive end of year blog ...
Are You Media Ready?
[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.] If you can't afford the luxury of a publicist, dealing with the media can be a daunting, even overwhelming task. But it is also a necessary one, and to make the process bearable, ...
What Can You Learn from Brett Domino?
In this age of instant gratification and short attention spans, online videos have become a staple of entertainment and discovery, with millions of options at your fingertips. Video gives musicians many different kinds of chances to stand out, either through covers, unorthodox instrumentation, or displaying their senses of humor or out-sized personae. Brett Domino has used ...
The Advantage of Keeping It Local
If twenty or so independent bands are asked where they printed their CD's, a good majority of them will say Disc Makers. Ask the same bands how they get their record digitally distributed, and many will say CD Baby. If you start asking about other product, such as posters, stickers, banners, and t-shirts, you will probably ...
