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!Another great post from Seth Godin, this time on the Beatles’ rise to megastardom:
At the beginning, they were playing two or three [...]
Arctic Monkeys All Business Onstage:
Keywords: success
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…at least your tour van didn’t spontaneously combust on the road.
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Over the weekend I saw a post on Craiglist by a guy offering to sell databases of music press contacts for between $50-$75 a pop. Not a bad way to make some cash I suppose, but with a little bit of work, indie musicians can probably create their own contact list in a weekend or [...]
How to get famous using myspace.com:
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Branded Bands:
Advertising agencies are now creating their own bands, from scratch, to capture youth attention without shelling out big bucks for musician endorsements. Huh?Keywords: advertising, endorsements
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Kitchens of the rock stars’ office staff:
One day, your streem team captain could have a kitchen this nice.Keywords: fans
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I plucked this bit from the website of a guy I sorta-kinda know, attributed to another guy I sorta-kinda know: “It’s not about luck. It’s about managing risk, so in the end it looks like luck.”
Q: How do you convince someone to do something for you?
A: You manage the risk. In fact, you take as [...]
PayPal Mobile Arrives:
If this takes off, it could really rev up your merchandise sales.Keywords: money, sales
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It’s tax time in the US, which means it’s also the season for what I call the “$400 Myth” to start circulating in musician circles.
Here’s the myth as I hear it goes like this: “If I made less than $400 last year, I don’t have to report it on my taxes.”
Wrong. You are required to [...]
