Here is a weekly wrap up of some happenings in the music marketing and social media worlds that can impact your strategies, provide ideas and inspiration to the new breed of music internet marketers. Enjoy and please leave any links I forgot in the comments. The CD Turns 30 – Engadget MidemNet Talk on how ...…
*Contest update, Jimmy from Music Arsenal has just upped the ante and is throwing in a Free Year of their Pro Subscription. Read about what that entails here!! Thanks Jimmy!* *Contest info at the end of the post!* RockDex looks and feels really cool and sleek. It’s made by the MusicArsenal Team so you can ...…
Yea, you heard me right. A new digital distributor is upping the ante and offering you the ability to get your album on iTunes for free. That means no upfront costs, no recurring yearly upkeep fees and no % of songs coming off your profit! This is all done from WaTunes, a small digital distributor, ...…
These are some cool links, sites and ideas that may help you in marketing and promoting your band. Not all are music relate. Some are major label ideas and some are out of the box “I wish I thought if that ideas!” Have a good weekend! Cool iPhone App matches your location and travels with ...…
I love Lou and the Reverbnation team. They don’t get nearly the credit they deserve for making kick butt widgets and tools for musicians. (In our next pro guide we are unleashing the ultimate power of their Fan Reach). Today I got an email from Lou that I had to share. They are offering a ...…
Last week while at BarCampMiami I bumped into an old friend from Advertising.com that I saw speak the previous year. He was handing out flyers and promoting a new advertising platform for musicians, artists and entertainers through their social network inventory. The site is called Showflake. Essentially it’s a CPM (cost per thousand impression) model ...…
A buddy of mine asked me a few days ago what service to use to distribute his mixtape for free. I drew a blank. For all the social sites I pride myself in knowing, I didn’t have a “cool” answer. I told him to try the torrents or even zip the file and use Box.net ...…
Bands are a dime a dozen. Garage Band in commonplace and ProTools is more affordable than the mics to plug into it. How do you stand apart from the competition? The answer is in your brand. Personal branding is the act of working people acting as brands. It has come of age very strongly in ...…
