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!Thanks to our clients, friends and readers over the past few, grueling days. Although the auto-pilot posts still appeared on schedule, I’ve [...]

If you own a copy of any of my books or you’re a member of IndieBiz.com, join me this Tuesday night at 8pm ET for "open phones." It’s your chance to ask me anything about your music career. Visit your member area for details, or buy a book today to get on the call!
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Record stores are lousy places to sell records. Find out why, and what you can do about it, on today’s call for IndieBiz.com Members. You only have a few days left to join, so sign up now to join us on this call!
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Wired’s Chris Anderson is expanding his theory of the "Long Tail" to book form, and is blogging the process. Read the original article to see why it’s an important theory for you to be thinking about.
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Lots of buzz about the Chely Wright situation. We’re shocked, shocked to hear that someone in the fan club encouraged folks to pose as military family members to encourage jocks to play the single. Of course, this has been going on for years, this is just an interesting new flavor. But look at the public [...]

Here’s a neat idea for a community site: Blanks and Postage. Fans send blank CDs and cover postage costs, and get great live shows on disc in return. Bands pay $50 for inclusion in the directory, which will surely expose new audience members who want to get as much as they can from the site. [...]

Our IndieBiz.com members participated in a great conversation about songwriting royalties the other day. Here’s an example I wish we could have discussed — did you know that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the folks who legislates issues affecting the music business — actually earned $33,000 in songwriting royalties last year?
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E-mail’s not very good at getting fans to your shows. Learn how to use some old school techniques to boost your audience on tomorrow’s conference call for IndieBiz.com members at 7pm ET.
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We now have THREE slots available for musicians to join TCM’s Music Biz Coaching program in January. We did this by juggling some things around and adding a few hours to my coaching schedule each week, but I don’t think we’ll be able to do it again until much later in the spring. (Once we [...]

…for gig swaps with some of our clients. Identify yourself in the comments and get on a great bill!
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