I was going to post a link to Nancy Baym’s post about the issues that bands are facing when reaching out to under-18s, when I realized… you just need to be reading all of her blog, Online Fandom. Seriously, add this link to your feed reader, because she’s on-target every single day.
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I love this stuff: Beatnik Turtle’s indie band survival guide:
We found, when we started out years ago, that there weren’t enough bands that shared what they’d learned. The information that we found useful was scattered in different magazines, books, and all over the Internet. After doing all of that research, and going through the inevitable [...]
It’s not often that I see a blog post that draws public responses from the brass at hot indie labels like Merge and Secretly Canadian. Patrick Monaghan of Carrot Top Distribution was dismayed to discover CDs from Merge and SC artists available at Best Buy at a deep discount. Concerned that he was witnessing a [...]
Tomorrow night (August 2) at 8pm ET, members can join me on a live conference call where we’ll discuss the power of weblogs. Not just getting your music picked up by a tastemaking MP3 blog, but methods that you can use on your own website to attract your perfect audience. Members can log in to [...]
Black Eyed Peas are taking the membership idea even farther, with a weblog-like site that allows members to pay $2/mo for bonus material and even a personalized weblog! Very cool idea.
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While I was on the road, I almost missed the latest issue of our friend Dave Jackson’s Musician’s Cyber Cooler newsletter. This month, he asked a panel of folks to describe the stupidest thing they’ve seen bands do. The winning column didn’t surprise me at all. Dave also spotlights TCM Clients Showin’ Tell, who used [...]
See, folks still care about the order in which you’ve placed your songs…
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Learn how to use our three recommended site building services to get a great site online in the next ten minutes! PLUS: Big technical discussion about RSS, a way to push information out to your audience!
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Looking for more evidence that weblogs grow audience? Check out this roundtable meeting of six tastemaking MP3 bloggers.
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In case you missed the announcement in our newsletter, our latest project, Music Business Mastermind, is now online!
Here’s the idea: In an even more high-powered version of my old Strategy Seminar, we lock eight musicians in a room for four hours. When they emerge, they’ve developed a solid strategy for working together as what we [...]
