Archive for November 2004

Gatecrashing Google

Nov 26th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Web/Tech

Welcome to spinme.com, where we help working musicians make more money making music. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!Lots of folks who attended 2NMC in September were asking me to clarify some things David Hooper was talking about in his [...]



Copyright Bill Backs Down

Nov 23rd, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Wired covers the "kinder, gentler" copyright bill on its way to the House.
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Music Management For The Rest Of Us Conference Call

Nov 23rd, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Tips

For the podcast, here’s a refeed of one of our more popular calls…
Discussion about how to start a career in music management; how to find a good potential manager and train them well; avoiding sharks; pitfalls of management…

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Is it still a street date if nothing actually hits the street?

Nov 23rd, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Universal’s new digital skunk works releases some online-only titles today.
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MSN Music + GarageBand

Nov 20th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Remember those songs you used to have posted at MP3.com? They’re ba…ack…
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We are GO for Podcast!

Nov 19th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Announcements

In the middle of the night, we activated some new features, thanks to our friends at AudioBlog and FeedBurner. Spinme’s RSS feed is now podcast-enabled!! What the heck does that mean? If you download a tool like iPodder and subscribe to our newsfeed, you’ll get any new classes or other audio blips I post to [...]



More P2P from an artist’s perspective…

Nov 19th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Editorial

Scott Andrew frames up filesharing and throws down the gauntlet for other emerging artists…
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Multiple Streams of Music Income

Nov 18th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Tips

I had a great call with our IndieBiz.com members this evening. So good, in fact, that I wanted to share it with you to show you the kind of work we’re getting done over there.
On this call, I talk to about a dozen working musicians about how to find more ways to get — [...]



The next GBV is out there, somewhere…

Nov 17th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Editorial

What are you doing to affect your fans this way when you finally retire?
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12 Tips for Pitching Your Act to Investors & Sponsors

Nov 17th, 2004 | By Staff | Category: Tips

Music Connection Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No 19 had a great article, "How to Pitch Your Act to Investors and Sponsors." Investors & sponsors do not want to receive unsolicited requests asking for money when you have no definite plan or proposal.  Anyone can panhandle.  They want to know, right from the get-go, what you can [...]