Promoting 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 […]
Continue readingHow can I make sure that my demo actually gets listened to?
There will come a point where you think you’re ready for a record deal, a manager or a publishing deal (or that other much touted ‘new model’ deal with some music related company). You’ll want to get yourself heard by the right people so what better way to do it than to send out a […]
Continue readingThis TweetAdder can turbocharge your tweeting and add lots of Twitter followers – is it a good thing?
We don’t often recommend specific products in posts because, as you know, this site is more about teaching you to learn the skills you need. That said, one of the parts of the site that I’m working on is a section that just has our recommendations on it – tools and advice from other people […]
Continue readingWhat this site is all about – a musician’s resource that tells it like it is for aspiring artists
Strange title but it kind of says what I want to say in this post, or at least, I hope it does! I saw a couple of blog posts this week that were different takes on the same theme. This one from Bob Baker on how we need to stay on top of and maintain […]
Continue readingWhat makes a great song?
A Guest Post by Fraser Smith What makes a great song? It’s a big question, and one that has been written about endlessly in an attempt to unravel the “formula” for creating a world dominating smash hit record. Sure, there are some basic rules and if you were to examine a handful of the most […]
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