June 30, 2008

Details on Playing in Second Life

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Details on Playing in Second Life

Today we get some details from www.dabluezpreacher.com about how he gets gigs in Second Life, how much money he makes, how much time it takes, and more.

I hook my mixer up to my computer via soundcard and make sure my sound is coming through the computer. Then the venue owner gives me access to a stream that she rents from a real life company (shoutcast stream) and I bring up my streaming software (SAM broadcaster ) and enter the URL , password and port. I go to the venue and I get onstage and I start the stream that the venue owner gave me, and I start playing live. Now whenever anyone comes into that specific area (it has limits, like 50 people per parcel) they just hit their streaming music button and whatever comes through my computer comes through their player. They request songs live and I see them in real time and play them, just like a real show, except the avatar is a guy from denmark. after the show the venue owner pays me what was agreed(usually 5000 linden) and I also had my tip jar out for extra money

Rich Palmer from www.richpalmer.com also chimes in on how its not a bad gig. It’s not going to make you a millionaire, but it will give you money for more gear, or to pay for your website.

Rehearsal Space Tales

Simon from www.windisch.co.uk was wondering if anybody had any tips or tales on picking a rehearsal space. Send them on in 888-563-3228

Virtual Business Cards

You can use the http://www.textmarks.com service so that someone can text a keyword (that you select) and you can have it send your information (your website, contact information, etc).

New Home Recording Podcast

Today’s show has a product review of Focusrites Liquid Mix. His podcast can be found at www.rhymeandmelody.com and his band is at www.questpoetics.com (we hear a song from them at the end of the show).

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June 16, 2008

Getting the Most Out of Free Downloads

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Today we get a great idea about getting the most exposure from free downloads on your site.

Getting the Most Out of Your Band’s Free Downloads

If you’re worried about giving your music fore free, I would agree. Typically most people require a enail address and name (so sign up for the newsletter to get a free song). Some people make free music available to those who purchase their CD (available as “bonus” material). But there are those that want to take the Chic Fil-A at the mall approach and give you a song for free in hopes that you buy the whole CD (where at the Mall the Chic Fil-A restaturant gives you a piece of chicken hoping you will buy a whole sandwich). But if these people take your music and like it, they may not know how to get more.

Well today Dave King from www.davekingmusic.com came up with a great idea. Why not put a “tag” to the end of the song saying “Hi This is (your name) and you just listened to (song name) for more music go to (your website). I LOVE THIS IDEA. But then I thought about it…

On CNN, and some Yahoo sites, when watching a video they make you sit through a SHORT commercial before getting to the “feature presentataion.” So I ask is this is good idea? If so, is it better at the beginning or the end (or both). Click Here to take survey

You could even ste up a “Langing page” like www.mywebsite.com/cd so that you could track the return from giving away singles. You could do this for your songs you upload at the podsafe music network. We’d love your feedback on this idea Click Here to take survey

Making “Gear Money” in Second Life

Raf from www.dabluezpreacer.com has been boosting sales internationally by playing gigs in Second Life (a viritual world with 9 million people from many different countries). We’ve heard of this before, but people were saying “it was better than making no money.” What is your experience? Have you played gigs in second life? Are you making decent money (or at least the same amount as if you played a club? ). Let us know on our comment line 888-563-3228 (or leave a comment on the blog).

Music Played On This Show

Dave King “These are the Good TImes” available at www.davekingmusic.com available at CDBaby.com
Ray “Da Bluez Preacher” Confer ”No Black, No White, Just Blues” available at www.dabluezpreacher.com

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June 9, 2008

Making It Easy For Fans - Again

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Today we talk about are you making it easy for your fans to find you, buy from you, come see you? I went to go see some bands this weekend and I had to use their website to find them and it was awful.

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From Michael Van Laar

Perhaps this could be interesting for the cooler listeners: In a German musicians’ forum I just read about a quite interesting piece of software sold by an Austrian label. It’s called Rebeat Digital and can be found at http://en.rebeat.com/digital.html . The software allows you to distribute your music via a whole lot of internet music stores and platforms worldwide (list of stores: http://en.rebeat.com/digital/portalliste.html). As far as I can tell, it’s only for European residents, since you a valid EU banking account to use the software.

The software itself costs 99 Euros, which is about US$ 150, as a one-time license fee. Then you have to pay 1 Euro (approx. US$ 1,50) storage fee for each song, also as a one-time fee. If you don’t have a barcode for your album and ISRC codes for your songs yet, you can get the barcode (one per album) for 5 Euros (approx. US$ 7.50) and the ISRC codes (one per song) for 1 Euro (approx. US$ 1,50) each. E. g. you would have to pay 29 Euros (approx. US$ 45) as a one-time fee for the digital distribution of one album with 12 songs. In addition Rebeat keeps a 15% margin from the income of sold songs. I don’t know if these are reasonable prices, but since the list of digital stores looks quite huge on a first glance, I thought it could be worth having a look at the software.

Best wishes from Germany to Ohio,
Michael

Reverb Nation Add Gig Finder
From Lou Plaia
http://www.reverbnation.com/main/features_tabs?tab=Gig+Finder

Is Your Band’s Website Missing Some iTems?

I went to find some music to see this weekend. My girfriend suggested that we see a band called Cosmic Candy. (http://www.cosmiccandy.org/ ) Well I want to hear them first. Unfortunately there is audio on their website or their “eye blinding myspace” www.myspace.com/thecosmiccandyband Likewise I see where they don’t have an email list to keep their fans updated on their progress.

On their schedule they listed the name and city of the club. Do you realize that you are now forcing your fans to google search? Why not provide the address, the phone number of the club. You can also use yahoo maps (or mapquest etc), and then put a link to the directions on YOUR website.

If you are using MySpace for your MAIN website I have two words. MPE .com (ok is that two words) PEple put all their eggs in the mp3.com basket. The site got sold, and people who were maing 10,000 a month are now making 0.

On your Photo album page make sure there is a picture of a FULL CLUB for potential booekrs to see.

They did a good job of putting where they are (Northern Ohio), but they didn’t put their phone number in that paragraph (again make it easy).

AUDIO ON YOUR WEBSITE
The AUDIO SOLUTION that I just LOVE is Wimpy Player that makes it soooo easy to put audio on your website (that can or can’t be downloaded - you pick). You install the software and upload your mp3s. It’s 30 bucks. Check out the Wimpy Player

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH A NEWSLETTER
There are tons of great email solutions athat are affordable

Fabdrige is great and allows you to email and text people www.tryfanbridge.com

icontact allows you to only pay for what you need.

aweber is a very powerful email and auto responder solution

Constant Contact is used by a lot of people as well

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Tags: Email Solutions, Indie Band, Streaming Audio

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June 3, 2008

Move Your Music Forward

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Today we talk with David Hooper about his new book Moving Your Music Forward which is available at amazon.com

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In his new book "Move Your Music Forward" David Hooper provides the roadmap to keep you on course to reach your goals. It’s a great brainstorming tool, and YOU end up being the author. He walks you through all the aspects of the music business and you come up with goals in all these area, and then you have the tools to write them down, keep them in front of you, and lead you to success.

Today David and I talk about some of the ways bands get sidetracked, and ways you can improve your efficiency.

David is also the athor of the blog at www.musicmarketing.com he also has other books such as Quit your job (and never go back) How to Create, Start, & Market an Online Business for Under $500 in 30 Days or Less or get his CD Releases Party Strategies (a 2 hour audio book) for 99 cents!

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Other Sites Mentioned

scriptlance.com

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May 25, 2008

500 Bucks a Gig MINIMUM

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This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com This is show 198

Today we have Bob Baker author of such books as Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook and MySpace Music Marketing is hosting his own Indie Buzz Boot Camp. It sounds like a Music Conference like no other. It won’t just tell you what to do, but HOW to do it.

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On the show we have Bob Baker who is talking about his new product

INDIE BUZZ BOOTCAMP
indiebuzzbootcamp.com

Other Bob Baker Titles

MySpace Music Marketing

Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook

Insiders Club

"All Things Bob" including his new "How to Tap Into the Lucrative College Music Market - the Ari Nisman Interview" at thebuzzfactor.com . It will be on sale for $37 for a short period before it goes to its regular price of $77.

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Tags: Bob Baker, College Market, Indie Band, Indie Buzz Bootcamp, Marketing, NACA

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May 19, 2008

Throw A Nickel Sale

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This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com and this is show 197

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LAST FM
Great Posts about getting involved with last.fm PART I and PART II

Blend Music and Pictures
http://biz.animoto.com/musicsubmissions.html from Rachel at http://biz.animoto.com/thebuzz.html

Bob Baker Indie Buzz Boot Camp Deal
Bob is hosting a great weekend with TONS of Gurus (like the head of CDBaby) as well as giveaways like the Indie Bibe and "How to promote yourself on the Internet" This seminar is regular price of $399. Now you and a friend can go for $455 if you register together this month. Check out all the great stuff happening at the Indie Buzz Bootcamp

Gear Trap - World’s Larget Pedal Board
Check out www.geartrap.com for an interesting promotional stunt before the NAMM show, as well as updates on gear.

THROW A NICKLE SALE
This is an interesting script that works with your paypal account. Every time the product is purchased the price goes up .05 It sends a unique download links and protects the URL. It sends an email to the buyer. It’s pretty cool and its only 16.27 as I write this (as they are using the nickle script to sell it)

The only thing I didn’t like about the script is it uses the IPN feature in paypal, but there is a way to disable this if you dno’t want to use it.

So you could sell your demos for $3. If 20 people buy those the price will go up to $4 and you will have made $60. In the end you might sell more music.

Tales From The Road "Oral Treats"

Other Sites Mentioned
The Scene Zine (great hard rock podcast) www.thescenezine.com
Project Studio Nrtwork www.projectstudionetwork.com

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Tags: Music Marketing, Musicians Cooler, Nickel, Nickle Script, Sell More Music

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May 12, 2008

Technical Skills for the Modern Musician

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As I play with more and more musicians I’m surprised at how many don’t have ANY knowledge of some of the "Technical" stuff that you can use to marketing your music. Today I talk about making an mp3 from a CD. When you’re music is in MP3 format you can email a song to people. Here is an example:

Typically you would give everyone a CD at practice, and maybe spend some time listening to the CD. Why not turn the CD into MP3’s and email the songs ahead of time to the band members. Then people can decide if they like the song or not. This means instead of making practice a "listening party" it now turns into a productive time or put the songs together that you learned at home.

However to do this you need to know how to take a CD and "turn" it into an mp3. To do this we will use iTunes. Why iTunes? This program is free and it works on both a Mac and a PC. Here are some steps:

CREATING AN MP3 IN iTUNES
Click on the Edit menu and choose Preferences
Click on the Advanced tab.
Click on the General tab and you will see where this file will be saved. This is important if you are going to email it to someone. You need to know where to find it on your computer (so take note).
Click on the Importing tab
Choose the option for MP3 encoding at 128 Kbps.
Click on OK.

When you put in your CD, it won’t recognize your music (but it would recognize someone on a major label). When it appears it will show as "Audio CD." RIGHT CLICK on the Audio CD and choose Get Info.
Enter your name, the title of the CD, the genre and year. Now iTunes has information about the CD but not the tracks.
Click on your first track, and then RIGHT CLICK and choose Get Info. Here you can enter the name of track 1. Click the NEXT button to move to the next song (where you would enter the name of the song). Repeat until you’re done with all the tracks. That’s it. Now your music is in a digital format. You can email to people, or you can burn just certain tracks to a CD.

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EMUSIC PROMOTION - GET MY BOOK FOR FREE
If you go to www.emusic.com/musicnews and sign up, then send me a screen shot of your account at emusic, I will send you a copy of my book "Get your band out of the basement and keep them out of the asylum" (available at www.musicianlibrary.com

FREE TAB PROGRAM
Dallas Millward writes, "Love the show, been listening since show 183… and have downloaded all the old shows" and says we might want to check out http://www.power-tab.net/guitar.php as its FREE. This is in regards to last week’s show about putting out sheet music, and other ways to make money.

20 Things That Bars Do
Simon Windisch http://shedmusicuk.com told us about this hillarious post 20 Things that Venues do at http://acapella.harmony-central.com/archive/index.php/t-1634374.html

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Tags: , Create an MP3, Modern Musician

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May 5, 2008

Another Way to Make Money With Your Music

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MATTHEW EBEL HOUSE CONCERT - AT MY HOUSE
See Matthew Ebel at "My House" for $10 on May 16th. BUY YOUR TICKETS
Buy Matthew’s new album "Goodbye Planet Earth. "

FROM THE GROUP
Les from http://detroit.insomniaradio.net and http://www.zaldor.com enjoyed the Shannon Curfman interview in last week’s episode. Check out his Flickr photos

Kevin from www.kevindoucet.com points out how cool Beau Hall had a glitch on his site. Beu said to take his music for free. See how Beau is giving it away for free at http://www.beaurocks.com/beau2

BRIAN STEPHENS RUTURNS! - THE MUSIC PRO SHOW IS BACK ON THE AIR
Check out Brian’s great Podcasts The Music Pro Show and Brian Stephens TV. Everything (along with his book) is at www.brianstephens.com

TALES FROM THE ROAD "Pop Tart Napalm"
A fun story of Accidental Vanilli and pop tarts from Hell courtesy of Jeff Martinez of www.myspace.com/jeffmartinezbassist and www.BornInWinter.com

TIP SHEET UPDATE from Paul at www.mesasand.com
My Next Hit is gone, but Paul points out that you can get this service from Broadjam using the Primo Mob service and their "Transmit: service. Check it out at broadjam.com

MAKING MONEY WITH YOUR MUSIC BY SELLING SHEET MUSIC
Pete Huttlinger is selling tabs of his music on his site. This makes sense as guitar players want to know how Pete is pulling of his phenomenal playing. I looked into this and there are a few programs that make it easy to convert your music to "tab" or sheet music. This was inspired by www.petehutlinger.com who is a mind boggling musician

Guitar Pro 5 $49 Geared towards a guitarist, but also prints out a "Standard" staff.

Finale PrintMusic 2007 ($69)

MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software ($79)

Then you could use a free program at www.primopdf.com that allows you to make anything into a pdf and sell it to your musician fans. This would work for Christian artist (so an artist might cover your song in church), if you have songs for children a school or day care may buy it so the children can sign it

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