It’s essential for your future as an independent musician to find ways to sell as much merchandise as possible at your shows. (And it doesn’t always have to be CD’s!) Read how one band is using new technology to take the risk out of accepting credit cards at gigs!
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David Hooper and I are planning what we’ve been jokingly referring to as The Mother of All Music Industry Conference Calls. Basically, we’re gonna get on the phone and go nuts answering your e-mailed questions about your future music career, until every question we get is answered.
Doesn’t matter if the thing takes four hours or [...]
Kudos to the folks at Tummy Touch Records, who are using the service our friends at PayLoadz have developed to offer low-cost music downloads right from your site. The REAL innovation is the built-in PayLoadz afflilate program, which lets them credit a few cents to folks who post the link from their site. Clever, clever! [...]
Some great information on music licensing showing up on Velvet Rope this week…
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From New York Magazine, a reminder that you should be looking to your friends and family to populate your FIRST show in the area — after that, you should be building your audience from the friends that those folks brought to your gig.
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It’s not a music newsletter per se, but this newsletter we got from the Ellen Degeneres show is a really good example of keeping a newsletter short, taking care of business (talking up show dates) and emphasizing personality. What can you do to put more of your personality in your newsletters?
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Fleecing the Indie Community: The Song Shark Saga Continues
By John Foxworthy, MusicDish.com
In the weeks since my original article was written and published I have received a virtual mailbag literally full of feedback regarding 97 Radio, Talent 2K and the entire funk surrounding them. Much of the reaction substantiated the results of my initial investigation, however, [...]
David Hooper, co-author of “How I Make $100K a Year…”, made an excellent point in his newsletter today, that you could look at the Twelve Disciples as the Original Street Team. In case you missed it:
while I’m on the subject…how about Jesus? If you had paid a
little more attention in church, you’d know something [...]
An interesting discussion at Velvet Rope today, around the idea that one of the major problems in the mainstream music industry today is a glut of artistic sense and a LACK of business sense. Many independent projects are bottom-line profitable because they have smaller budgets, smaller audiences, but less barriers to actually make a profit. [...]
I’m officially back from my mini-hiatus. On the agenda over the next few weeks… mastering our second CD compilation, “Bloom,” shipping the first copies of Host Your Own Concerts, and working with even more of our readers one-on-one at MusicBizCoaching.com.
Happy October! It’s very good to be back.
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