The Rap Industry Needs SMS Marketing
By Max Porter at CallFire. With less than 10 percent of Facebook posts, and possibly less tweets, ever viewed, text messages have an open rate estimated at 98 percent and 90 percent texts are read. Continue reading
5 Quick Email Etiquette Tips for Bands (and Everyone Else)
By Bobby Borg on Sonicbids Blog While the internet and new technologies propel the world into the future, I'm amazed by how many of us have the online etiquette of a caveperson.. Continue reading
Why Your Band Isn’t Going To Be In Rolling Stone
By Angela Mastrogiacomo of MuddyPawPR.com As a publicist, one of the first questions I ask potential clients is “what do you view as a successful campaign?” This is crucial because it lets. Continue reading
audiomachine: Remixed Now Available on CD Baby
audiomachine, a boutique motion picture advertising music production collective, was approached by demanding consumers to release their fan-proclaimed "epic" trailer music commercially, and as a result, audiomachine: Remixed happened. To add. Continue reading
The New Bandcamp Subscription Feature And Why It Won’t Work [Bobby Owsinski]
By Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Indie music aggregator Bandcamp recently launched a new feature that enables fans to subscribe to its artists for a fixed amount per year (like the $32. Continue reading
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y & Indie Music
Concert Pianist Evokes "Right To Be Forgotten" To Demand Google Take Down Bad Review The Vinyl Revival [Infographic] 5 Ways to Follow Up with Your CMJ Contacts Before SXSW. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Taylor Swift Breaks Spotify Silence: "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment." 10 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Be On Spotify Taylor Swift Pulls All Music. Continue reading
Can Red Bull Give Artists Wings?
On November 1st, Red Bull kicked off 30 Days in LA – the largest initiative to date in the second year of their Sound Select program geared towards launching new. Continue reading
How to Connect With Influencers When You Have Zero Music Industry Contacts
[UPDATED] By Cortney Harding on Sonicbids Blog A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a profile of theAudience, a firm that connects big brands to social media influencers. Gone are the days. Continue reading
6 Ways to Reach Your Kickstarter Goal
By Hugh McIntyre on Sonicbids Blog We’ve all heard of Kickstarter and some of the amazing success stories that have come from its fundraising platform – LeVar Burton raising $2 million in two days to bring Reading. Continue reading
