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TuneCore Partners With eHealth To Offer Musicians Health Insurance Resources & Options

President Obama may be moving as fast as he can to bring affordable health care to everyone, but TuneCore decided not to wait for legislation to help musicians. "It took. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/10/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Duran Duran’s Taylor To Musicians: “Twitter (is) diluting their creative powers.”

"When artists today are asked to Twitter their every thought, their every action, to record on video their every breath, their every performance, I  believe they're diluting their creative powers,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/09/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (19)
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Topspin And Berklee College Partner For Online Music Marketing Course

Six months ago Topspin and The Berklee College of Music announced a partnership to offer an online course teaching implementation of the Topspin digital music marketing and sales platform. The. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/04/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Indie Artist X Project Wrap Up

This guest post comes from David Rose who created the Indie Artist X experiment. David Rose is also the Managing Editor at KnowTheMusicBiz.com and a Partner at The PlazaBridge Group.. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/03/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (12)
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Use Lala & MySpaceTo Improve Google Results

Along with Lala's new deal to provide enhanced music search results for Google alongside MySpace and others comes word that indie artists and label will be able to control and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/03/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Topspin’s Ian Rogers Becomes An Artist Manager

On his personal blog, Topspin CEO Ian Rogers has revealed that in addition to running the direct to fan tech start-up, he's also co-managing a new artist. The focus of. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/02/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Indie Maximum Exposure 100 Now In Web Form

Hypebot recently published the Indie Maximum Exposure 100 by music marketing guru Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity and her friends as a pdf.  It was a collaborative effort, bringing  together. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 11/02/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Understanding Facebook Artist Pages vs. Profiles

CEO Patrick Faucher and his team at artist se rvices provider Nimbit have been creating the tools and infrastructure for indie and d.i.y. artists to build and monetize their fanbases. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/28/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Tweet For A Track Offers Free Viral Tool

(Updated) Using free to build your audience sounds simple, but getting something to spread virally beyond your existing fan base is far from easy. Tweet For A Track offers a. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/27/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Kompoz Offers Collaborative Self-Publishing

Music collaboration site Kompoz, has launched an online publishing feature which allows musicians to self-publish collaborative projects while retaining all rights to the original work. Musicians can use Kompoz to. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/26/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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