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!Just back from vacation, I see a few notes in my box asking if I have any new books coming out.
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Bob just announced that the new edition of his stellar Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook is available at Amazon and the other usual places. You can also get an autographed copy directly from him.
Your homework is to get yourself a copy. (My homework is to get crackin’ on the Second Edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience.)
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Music management contracts are always a hot topic around here, and I have broken out some extra information and tips from my music management book in a special, free mini-course…
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Back in the mid-90s, Boston singer-songwriter Jen Trynin was the subject of a major label bidding war. A few years and two unsuccessful albums later, Trynin left the major label game, went back to school and into hiding for awhile. Her new book “Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be,” based on journals she kept during [...]
If you want people to recognize your name, you have to get out there and find your fan base. Bob Baker, who has been involved in the music industry for years, just came out with an audiobook, What Every Musician Should Know About Self-Promotion. This article, an excerpt from the book, offers a [...]
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For the second time in as many days, Scott Andrew flatters me and the research team with positive reviews of our music business books. I’m proud that musicians like Scott can use the action items in all four of these books to make specific changes in the way they approach [...]
Thinking about book club selections for September and beyond… If you have an idea for a book you’d like to discuss (or if you have written a book), suggest it in the comments. I’ll probably make a decision next week.
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Ever since I started working personally with musicians on improving their income, I’ve noticed that 80% of my first discussions revolve around time management and task management. For years, I subscribed to the Franklin Covey school of prioritizing tasks. While I still believe in the "four quadrants," I love the way that David Allen’s book, Getting [...]
David’s got a great set of suggestions to maximize your investment in books about the music business. As I discussed on our member call about The War of Art, you can easily trap yourself by reading about success without doing anything about it. (Scott and others call it music business porn!) So, as someone that’s [...]
More Gigs Now is my new book that explains the “Zone Strategy” I’ve been using for the last few years to help clients book more shows and earn more money from eager audiences. It’s great to finally have it out in the world for real (a few of our newsletter subscribers snapped up the pre-release [...]
