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Steven Tyler Audio Book For Free

May 12, 2011

Cashing in on his American Idol fame, Steven Tyler has released a new autobiography Titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir. Its filled with stories of his life, drugs, sex, rock and roll in that sarcastic and yet brutally honest way that is Steven Tyler. As the lead [...]

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PayPal Calculator

May 4, 2011

In some cases you have t-shirts, CDs, etc and you have a certain amount of money that you need ot break even. When you sell things via paypal, you give them 2.9% + .30 for each transaction. Well if you don’t have a calculator handy, and want something handy to help you with the match, [...]

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Soundtracking iPhone App 250K in 6 Weeks

April 26, 2011

 SoundTracking has announced its quarter of a million milestone today, surpassing 250K downloads in just six weeks after launch on the iPhone. Founder Steve Jang loosely calls SoundTracking the “the second fastest -rowing social sharing app on iOS without any legacy website or mobile apps to drive installs from,” comparing it to photo-sharing app Instagram which [...]

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Marketing Beatles Style

April 11, 2011

A new book is out (available in Kindle format as well for $9.99). The book states that the Beatles success was a well crafted plan and breaks it down to 100 steps (each one acting as a “Chapter” but the books is less than 300 pages). Is this going to be some book that opens [...]

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Custom Silicone Wristbands Get People Talking About Your Music

March 29, 2011

If your music reaches ages 15-25 you may want to consider using Silicone Wrist bands as a way to remind people to visit your website. They great thing is, they are pretty cheap to create (You can get 100 for .99 each – then sell them for $2 and make $100). The church I attend [...]

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Keep Some Of Your Eggs Out of the Facebook Basket

March 10, 2011

There is a great article at gizmodo that compares Facebook to AOL. This makes me think back to the days of MySpace, or before that MP3.com These “mega sites” were so big that nobody ever thought they could be taken down. As we have seen (AOL anyone?) no website is so big that it can’t [...]

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Gary Moore Dead at Age 58

February 7, 2011

I loved Randy Rhoads when I was in High School (dead at 25). Then I loved Stevie Ray Vaughn (died in helicopter crash). I have always been a fan of Gary Moore. I just read that at the age of 58 he has died (no reason has been given). Gary played in Thin Lizzy back [...]

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Wi-Fi at the Gig with No Contracts

January 28, 2011

We all know that building up your email list, accepting money via paypal, etc all require one thing: Internet access. But now you are at your gig, you’ve got some people who want to join your list, buy your music, etc and there is no Internet Access at the club. What do you do? Recently [...]

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Mobile Roadie Gets Sony Music as a Customer

January 20, 2011

I recently read an article where Sony Music is now going to use Mobile Roadie for their phone apps. With Mobile roadie you create your content using their CMS system, and it updates the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry apps. It looks impressive, but what is the cost? Pricing starts at $499 to have it created, [...]

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Get Educated About Web Hosting

October 5, 2010

I just read an article where a new service called Pullyapp is now available. This service makes it easy to sell downloads. You can store up to 100 MB of information and have inlimted downloads for $6 a month. You sell through their technology and the money goes to your paypal account. This sounds like [...]

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