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 ...…
I first heard of Musicadium when they posted a link to our Gen-Y Rock Stars Tool Kit last week. Once I looked into what they do I wanted to chat with them and see what they were all about and help to educate you guys on Digital Sales, one of the most vital aspects to ...…
There are so many tools, sites, gadgets and things to do online to promote and market your music. This is evident by our last report, 100 Social Media Resources for Musicians. That barely broke the tip of the iceberg and over 1,000 people downloaded it so far. Sweet. What happened after that was there were ...…
I am working on something big. Real big. A nice new launch, site, atmosphere, focus and fresh start to Gen-Y Rock Stars is just the beginning. We kicked things off with a bang with the 100 Social Media Resources Report and the response has been phenomenal. Over 1,000 signups, 100′s of emails and great inspiration ...…
How would you like 14,000 downloads? Over the weekend Moe Arora, a music industry tastemaker, leaked a Lil Wayne and Mack Maine track, “Throw It Back,” over the microblogging service. He also used another upcoming social music property to host the download – Soundcloud. Here is the Tweet:Here is the buzz from Twitter Search:Great job ...…
A low cost way for Gen-Y Rock Stars to get exposure is through nonprofits. Nonprofits and causes look to leverage musicians, actors and celebrities to promote their cause and often times as the artist you can help promote yourself as the official songs in their videos, supply photos for their campaign or create new material ...…
