For those of you attending the Boot Camp, I will see you bright and early at 9am (yipes!) on Saturday at the beautiful Belcourt Theatre near Vanderbilt Univeristy. I and many of your fellow attendees will be staying on the…
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Best CD’s to burn your music
The debate about blank CD quality and how to determine the best disks has been raging since the concept of burning your own CDs was introduced. Blank CDs that are labeled as “music” disks are specifically intended for use with…
Really Rocking The Vote
If you haven’t yet been to David Hooper’s new weblog, you should go. Not only is he posting 40 great music success tips over 40 days, but he’s popping in with extra neat ideas from readers. Today, he’s featuring an…
How to get to your final destination
Derek Silvers of CD Baby gives pretty good advice on how to get where you want to go and it not only applies to the music biz, but it is great advice for any part of your life. Sit back,…
Image Branding produces a hit
“More Bounce in California,â€?? a Canadian songwriter’s ironic comment on American consumerism, didn’t get Soul Kid #1 any radio play. But it did become a sports anthem at the NBA All-Stars’ slam-dunk contest, ESPN’s X Games broadcast, the Los Angeles…
An Insurance Tipping Point
One of our clients asked about health insurance today, just around the same time I noted this great post on Worthwhile about the potential tipping point at which affordable insurance would become available to entrepreneurs and artists. I can vouch…
Integrating Club Media Lists
Jay from OnlineGigs.com brings up an excellent point in his latest subscriber newsletter. Remember to get a copy of a club’s most recent media list whenever you book a show — it will be current, accurate and relevant, and many…
Exactly, what goes in the demo submission package?
Suzanne Glass at Indie-Music.com has compiled a great list of what your demo submissions should include for radio, clubs, venues, reviews, labels, managers, and publishers.
More About Catalogs
Before you begin the effort to market your product to any type of catalog company, you need to know this: a catalog company is no different than any other distributor. The catalog companies will behave exactly as the distributors do…
More Places To Sell CDs
One idea that you may want to take advantage of when marketing your own CDs is to try selling them through someone else’s catalogue. If your CD fits well with the theme of a niche mail order catalog, make them…
Tips on how to expand your vocal range
According to Jeannie Deva, founder of Jeannie Deva® Voice Studios in Los Angeles, the five primary physical causes of throat muscle tension are: 1) Lack of adequate vocal warm-up 2) Air over-blow 3) Over articulation (emphasizing mouth, lip movements when…
Have your fingers gone NUM?
Num=No unsolicited material…….So what do you do now? Is it a barrier or a challenge? I read an article written by Bernard Baur in the Music Connection Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 05. I recommend that you pick up a copy…