Archive for May 2006

Online Music Promotion TeleClass in Three Weeks

May 30th, 2006 | By Amber Miller | Category: Classes

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!We’ve got another conference call class coming up three weeks from today that can help you learn more about achieving success in [...]



Let me tell you about the ORIGINAL Soul Patrol.

May 25th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Inspiration

When I first started working in radio, one of our station’s specialty DJ’s was a fascinating guy named Bernie Milton. He actually fronted a band called Bernie Milton and the Soul Patrol WAY back in the day. He had a dance hit called “The Waddle” back in the 60’s, and hit the charts again in [...]



Music Business Contracts TeleClass in Three Weeks

May 23rd, 2006 | By Amber Miller | Category: Classes

We’ve got another conference call class coming up three weeks from today that can help you learn more about achieving success in the music business. Once you register for the event, we’ll e-mail you a telephone number that you can dial to join Joe Taylor Jr. and an audience of musicians just like you.
Music [...]



Music Business Q & A TeleClass tomorrow!

May 22nd, 2006 | By Amber Miller | Category: Classes

Here’s one final reminder about tomorrow’s conference call!
Music Business Q & A
It’s the return of our fun-filled open phones forum, where you can ask any question at all about achieving success in the music business. Members can register as usual, and readers of our music industry books can also participate — use the REGISTER [...]



What does your mailing list mean if it’s not local?

May 19th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Editorial

About once a week, folks will ask me about another new service that’s supposed to “get your music heard.” And some folks will try these services out and report that they got a hundred new people on their mailing lists, or that they ranked on some chart somewhere.
My reply is always:
“And what did that do, [...]



Create.

May 18th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Editorial and General

David comes to the aid of Delta in an earlier post (at least someone’s getting some good service from them), but brings up a bigger issue. If you believe that something sucks going in, it probably will suck for you. Just like if you believe that the world’s beating you down, or that it’s impossible [...]



CD Baby Launches 1-Stop In Store Distribution for Independent Artists

May 18th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: General

Oh, yeah. It’s free if you’ve paid the $35 to get your product into their database.
That sound you just heard was hundreds of song sharks crapping themselves.
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Ready for the road?

May 18th, 2006 | By Scott Andrew | Category: Tips and Tools

We’re having an early summer heat wave here in Seattle, and the sunny weather always turns my thoughts to…touring! Roadtripping , playing in different cities to new audiences, living on fast food and floor crashing at the homes of host bands and/or brave and generous superfans. Alas, as gas prices continue their seasonal skyward climb, [...]



As if we needed an excuse not to fly Delta

May 16th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: General

Lori had a horrible experience on Delta a few weeks back. I used to fly Delta a whole lot earlier in my career, but we mostly fly Airtran or USAirways these days. Still, it’s hard to see a once great airline suck so hard. They’ve squeezed every last centimeter of legroom out of the cabin. [...]



Music Retail Promotion TeleClass in Three Weeks

May 16th, 2006 | By Amber Miller | Category: Classes

We’ve got another conference call class coming up three weeks from today that can help you learn more about achieving success in the music business. Once you register for the event, we’ll e-mail you a telephone number that you can dial to join Joe Taylor Jr. and an audience of musicians just like you.
Music [...]