Marketing

Is Your Band Ready For Black Friday?

November 19, 2009

Black Friday is the day after Thanks giving (November 27th). Stores have insane sales, open their doors in the wee hours of the morning, resulting with people lining up and going crazy. Why should your band miss out? You can participate as well. Send an email out to your fans stating that if they buy [...]

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Global Roundtable

September 14, 2008

Props From Randy at the Ryhme and Melody Podcast. Check them out at http://www.rhymeandmelody.com/ Tips on Creating a Set List How to choose and effective Set lists From Andy at  www.myspace.com/jesuistrois Practice and record various set lists once you have decided on/written your songs Record Various Sets at 30 60 90 minutes, and listen back, [...]

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500 Bucks a Gig MINIMUM

May 25, 2008

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. JUST [...]

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Who Wants Exposure?

April 14, 2008

I have been working with the people at www.podcampohio.com and when I went to make a promo, I noticed that nobody had written any songs about Podcamps. These are FREE conventions that teach people how to podcast all over the world. Its a great networking resource for podcasters. I’m surprised nobody has written a "generic" [...]

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The No Fluff Episode

April 7, 2008

This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com and is brought to you by Godaddy.com where you can use a promotional code " cooler10 " and get .com domain name for $6.95 a year. Also get 35 free songs at www.emusic.com/musicnews (even works with an iPod !) Todays show is the shortest musicians cooler podcast ever. I had [...]

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Why You Don’t Let Critics Bother You

February 27, 2008

In my last podcast I talked about handling constructive criticism, and how the best thing to do is NOT flame out on the reporter. Instead I said to ingore it. Why? Because there are people like the guy from Maxim magazine that gave the new Black Crowes CD 2 out of 5 stars. The interesting [...]

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Get Exposure For Your band With Craigslist

February 19, 2008

Did You know that Craigslist gets more Traffic than Amazon.com? It’s the 9th most visited Internet site! If you’re brand new to Cragslist and looking for a quick crash course in understanding this site, the rules, how to bend them to your advantage, and how you can get more exposure for you band using Cragislist, [...]

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Let Me Turn You On To Podcasting: Show Notes (premium)

April 4, 2005

30 Minutes Long: 64K quality TOC: (Time notes where the item appears in the Podcast) Let Me Turn You On To Podcasting – 1:00 Rock and Roll Geek Insights – 15:00 From the Group – 22:30 Links: MP3Postcards Music Marketing Madmans Underground Lab Report 2005 Dear Mr Soundman sample is here. Rock and Roll Geek [...]

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