Tips

I want you to read this NYT profile for two reasons. It echoes what we’ve been saying for the last three years about the distinction between growing a street team from your core audience and letting them tell you about…

Sometimes you can’t always make ends meet with the income from your music, but you can find creative ways to blend your creative work with your day job. [Thanks to Abnu from WordLab for the tip!]

For the podcast, here’s a refeed of one of our more popular calls… Discussion about how to start a career in music management; how to find a good potential manager and train them well; avoiding sharks; pitfalls of management…

I had a great call with our IndieBiz.com members this evening. So good, in fact, that I wanted to share it with you to show you the kind of work we’re getting done over there. On this call, I talk…

Music Connection Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No 19 had a great article, "How to Pitch Your Act to Investors and Sponsors." Investors & sponsors do not want to receive unsolicited requests asking for money when you have no definite plan or…

Audrey brings us today’s cautionary tale of another band that has to go through painful effort and expense to re-brand themselves at the hands of a long-lost trademark owner…

This is the kind of thing you want new fans to say about you on their weblogs and in e-mail to their friends…

We talk about great ways to use your street team effectively, but one of the ways I see those efforts getting squandered is on message boards… If you’re gonna do the old “hit the message board” trick, at least get…

…and I know this because we get the same kind of mail.

Hey, Jessica Simpson may have a point…

David has a followup to our recent post about $40,000 as the magic number…

Holding yourself back because of a fear of failure? Check out more inspirational quotes from real estate legend Barbara Corcoran.