Building a fan mailing list, Part 1 – the why and the how.
One of the most important parts of your self-promotion is your mailing list and your relationship with the people on it. Getting people to sign up and provide you with their contact details enables you to reach them directly for a whole host of reasons and create that genuine relationship between you and them. This […]
Continue readingMake like Radiohead with ‘In Rainbows’ and have your fans pay whatever they like for your music
You can’t argue that when Radiohead announced the release of ‘In Rainbows’ a matter of days after it had been completed and just days before it was made available and announced that fans would be able to get the mp3 download for whatever they wanted to pay, they sent shockwaves right through the recorded music part of […]
Continue readingHow to make your fans buy more and promote for you
I’m posting this because once again I’ve been inspired by something on Ariel Hyatt’s blog – a new post entitled ‘Increasing the Frequency of Purchases’ If you read our blog you’ll know that we think she writes a lot of great information and that we follow her blog. So, check her post out, but what […]
Continue readingFacebook Username change announced – essential information & the clock is ticking!
Heads Up! You may or may not be aware of this already, and you might agree with the policy change or not – opinion seems divided. But, whichever side of the fence you’re on, this is a critical opportunity for all facebook users, which will apply particularly to bands and artists. This Saturday at 12.01 […]
Continue readingPromoting your band and music on Facebook – a quick tip for musicians
We are in the process of writing what we hope will be the definitive guides for musicians on how to use Social Networks to promote and market your music and your band – the single most important development in music marketing in the last 75 years. Since, in fact, the shift from sheet music to […]
Continue readingSocial Bookmarking – is it any use to musicians & can it be done quickly?
This is a really quick post. I’ve just signed up for OnlyWire, a service that allows you to bookmark any webpage to a whole load of Social Bookmark sites at once. It takes a while to set up but if you need to have webpages added to those sites, as I do, then it is […]
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