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Great Membership Tool Protects Your Music in Addition To Your Website

October 25, 2010

I have spoken about (and loved) WP Wishlist. I’s a great tool. I recently purchased through membershipcube.com WP-Drip which allows me to drip posts to members (which makes them stick around). In a nutshell, I found a better product. That product is Digital Access Pass. Why am I switching? Let me tell you Easy WordPress [...]

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Paypal Tools To Accept More Cash

October 16, 2010

There are a few new ways to get money into your PayPal account. MoneyPak is a prepaid card that will be available for purchase. If someone wants to pay you with a MoneyPak card, you simpy enter their MoneyPak number into your paypal account, and the money is INSTANTLY in your account (no waiting period). [...]

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Getting More People to open Mic Nights

October 11, 2010

Open mic nights are a great plae for musicians to network, and for clubs to “test drive” having live music. Consequently, we hope that we can make open mic nights successful at clubs.

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Event Registration and Selling CDS

October 2, 2010

Today we have a free tool for those times when you need to count the number of people who are attending a gig (like a house concert where you can only hold 14 people). If you are using WordPress for your website (and why aren’t you?) there is a free plugin called “Event Registration” that [...]

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Find Paying Gigs and Sleep For Free

September 25, 2010

10 resources that may help artists book more gigs: GigMasters (booking platform for artists and talent buyers) GigMaven (free and easy-to-use booking website for musicians; currently available in NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Austin, Phoenix and Ohio) Gigwish (influence venues, promoters and booking agents by enabling an artist’s fans and their [...]

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Linking to your CD

August 26, 2010

Can People Contact You? The Gregory Brothers of “AutoTune News” have entered the chart at #89 with “Bed Intruder”. The debut chart position was almost entirely the result of 10,571 copies of the track downloaded from iTunes in just two days. The original news video has been watched 4 million times on YouTube. The thing [...]

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Search Engine Tips – Be Found – Find Gigs

August 7, 2010

Today we get a question from Jon Solitro who is trying to find popular cover songs. I explained that you can get a better result doing “popular cover songs” as it is looking for a phrase. Also don’t forget that there is an advance search for google where you can be much more specific. To [...]

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Playing in Traffic

July 25, 2010

Today I talk about getting exposure from youtube. This can be done by attaching your band to a viral video. For example the “Double Rainbow” video has 6,974,712 views as I put this together. It’s averaged 35,226 views per day. So the Gregory Brothers who like to “Auto Tune the News” made a song (catchy [...]

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Make Big Profits With Inexpensive Merch

July 21, 2010

One band I was in made a nice chunk of change by finding products that were inexpensive to make, and then sold them for a small fee. In my case it was sunglasses that cost $1.00 to make and we sold for $2. We sold over 500 pairs one summer. I found a new product that fits this criteria

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George Hrab Hopes Free Pays Off

July 3, 2010

Our old friend George Hrab back again. George has been a huge fan of the show, and this is a ONE of a kind show. George is doing a marketing experiement by giving away – in its entirety – his new album TREBUCHET. We get to listen to every second of it. There are some [...]

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