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What Is Yahoo’s Ian Rogers Up To Now?

TOPSPIN LAUNCHES When Ian Rogers stepped down from Yahoo Music a few months ago TechCrunch declared that Yahoo! had "lost their music soul".  Lofty praise. But if passion for music. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/24/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Top 10 Indie Music Marketing Tools

Every week brings the launch of another online service to connect musicians and fans.  Beyond spending endless hours on MySpace and Facebook, what are the best affordable online tools to. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/23/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (29)
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ReverbNation Adds Twitter Support

FACEBOOK STATUS NEXT ReverbNation, a growing online marketing and promotions platform for music has added Twitter to its artist profile pages.  Member artists can import and display their Twitter posts,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/16/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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SliceThePie Adds Pandora’s Brown To Board

Slicethepie, the UK based online artist financing site, has added Paul Brown to the board, as Commercial Director.  Paul will combine his new role with his current position as Managing. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/11/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Lisa Loeb On Free Music, AmieSt, 360’s & Much More

Lisa Loeb, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, actress, and television producer, spoke to Laurence Trifon for Hypebot recently at Digital NARM. The now indie artist is embracing the digital space to market. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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FanDoodle Pays Fans To Sell Music

FanDoodle.com enables fans to distribute downloads for artists and labels and get paid for it. Unlike the Burnlounge pyramid scheme, which I understand finally went out of business, FanDoodle is. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Quotable: “Are you ready to…take control?”

".. Are you ready to climb up and take control?" "Then make great music.  Respect your audience.  Give people the tools to spread the word, never rip them off.  Know. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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ASCAP Partners With Nimbit

NIMBIT’S ARTIST SERVICES PLATFORM WINS NEW FANS ASCAP will now include Nimbit’s direct-to-fan sales & catalog management tools as part of the basic membership package for more than 320,000 ASCAP. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/27/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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SliceThePie Logs 1M Reviews

There are a number of competing online and D.I.Y. fan to artist financing systems, and perhaps the most popular Slicethepie just hit a milestone as volunteer "scouts" submitted their millionth. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/27/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Gydget Gets Band Widgets Right

Few music 2.0 tools have gotten higher adoption rates as widgets. These little pieces of code are popular because they encourage viral promotion. Plus if you keep the widget updated,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/27/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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