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Artists, Use These Tips to Get Started With Email Marketing

Here’s a helpful guide on how and why your email marketing strategy should come first.

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5 Key Strategies for Promoting Music

Promoting music requires a fresh approach to stand out in a competitive landscape. Discover five key strategies for promoting music that every artist needs to know. 5 Key Strategies for. Continue reading

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What career level are you at as a musician?

Through the means of Chartmetric’s streaming analytics, they were able to categorize artists into 6 different ‘career stages’. Find out where you fit from “undiscovered” to “established” to “superstar”. by. Continue reading

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SCAM ALERT for all indie artists on Spotify

A recent Spotify scam that is targeting indie artists allows users to sneakily profit off artists by using their name without permission. Here is what to be on the lookout. Continue reading

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How to get verified on Twitter as an indie artist in 2022

Getting verified on Twitter could do a lot for your credibility as an artist, and it’s a lot easier than you think. A guest post by Disctopia. Anyone can get. Continue reading

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Wonder why your music can’t get traction? Distrokid is adding 1M tracks a month

Just in case indie artists weren’t feeling frustrated enough about their inability to gain significant traction with their music, new numbers out from indie music publisher Distrokid are only likely. Continue reading

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5 reasons NFTs don’t matter for indie musicians (YET)

There’s been a great deal of buzz lately about how NFTs could be the long awaited savior that rejuvenates the music industry, but if you’re a DIY artist, you might. Continue reading

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Surprise releases aren’t a good idea for indie artists: Here’s why

Dropping an album out of the blue can be a great way for industry heavy hitters to make a big splash with their latest release, but a similar tactic is. Continue reading

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10 hard & awful truths about being an independent artist (and what you can do about it)

It’s tough out there for almost anyone in the music business, and for independent artist, the journey to stardom can be especially arduous. In this piece, we face down some. Continue reading

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Making Emotional Connections With Real Fans Is Your Job, Here Are 5 Ways To Do it

It's not the number of fans an artist has, but rather their level of commitment that matters, says Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR. It's true fans, those emotionally connected to the. Continue reading

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The Musician’s Guide to Pandora Promotion

While Spotify deserves kudos for its free Artist toolkit, no music service has provided more opportunities for artists to connect with fans than Pandora. Pandora AMP (Artist Marketing Platform) is. Continue reading

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