The 7 Essential Elements of Your Digital Press Kit
When reviewing websites for Bandzoogle, I advise artists to think about the different kinds of people that will be visiting their site. These can be your current fans, and potential. Continue reading
Ryan Holiday On Traditional Marketing, Growth Hacking and Music [Updated]
Inspired, in part by Ryan Holiday's new book "Growth Hacker Marketing" , I recently introduced some ideas about growth hacker marketing for musicians. I then spoke with Holiday about how. Continue reading
100,000 Artists Join ReverbNation Music For Good Charity Program
In the 10 months since ReverbNation launched it's Music For Good charity download program, 100,000 artists have signed up to "do well by doing good". 13 charities including Oxfam America,. Continue reading
SoundCloud, Vine, Google Search, Instagram Updates For Music Marketers
Tweaks and interations are the name of the game as a number of new features are rolling out for major web services used by musicians and music marketers. SoundCloud is. Continue reading
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
7 Major Facebook Changes That Will Affect Your Music Marketing Thirty Tigers May Not Be A Label But They Sure Put Out A Bunch Of Records Notes From The Indie. Continue reading
How Top Musicians’ Brands Benefit From Acting Roles
By David Bakula, SVP Nielsen Entertainment. At their core, musicians are entertainers. And the creativity they put into making music can often translate into other areas of entertainment. The same. Continue reading
Burton Cummings’ Fan Response To Social Media Takes Off With RebelMouse
Originally posted on the RebelMouse Blog. Burton Cummings, the Canadian Hall of Fame rocker and former lead singer of "The Guess Who", has seen his website's numbers shoot through the. Continue reading
Kickstarter Hits Crowdfunding Milestones but Successful Music Projects Lag
Five million backers have successfully funded more than 50,000 projects on Kickstarter, the company has announced, cementing their place as the world’s top crowdfunding platform. Projects on Kickstarter have a 43.8%. Continue reading
Go Beyond D2F Sales and Create Music Campaigns That Fully Engage Your Fans
D2F or direct-to-fan is a key topic of our time whether considered as an approach to ecommerce or a core focus of business. Numerous D2F services now exist making it. Continue reading
Notes From The Indie Label Front Lines
Some aspects of running an indie record label weren't changed by the web. Everybody used to work really hard and had to adjust to changing realities that were often quite. Continue reading