Music Marketing Predictions For 2021

12 Days of Monetization: How to Make Money from Live Shows – John Taglieri [DAY 3]

Hi, I’m John Taglieri. I’m an indie artist with 11 CDs out selling nearly 25,000 units, have been touring the world for years, own my own recording studio,… Read More READ MORE

12 Days of Monetization: What’s Really Stopping You From Making Money From Music? – Nikki Loy [DAY 2]

This article was contributed Nikki Loy (@NikkiLoyMusic), a singer/ songwriter, entertainer and creative obsessive. What do you really believe about your music career? If your… Read More READ MORE

FB Makes a Complete 180° – Are You Ready?

  3 Ways Facebook’s EdgeRank Changes Will Make Your Fan Base Stronger (If you know how to master content marketing)   In early December, Facebook made an announcement that… Read More READ MORE

6 Steps to Start Building Your Brand on Pinterest

Image Credit (CC): http://mkhmarketing.wordpress.com/ This article was written by Corie Kellman (@coralman808), Cyber PR®’s Director of New Artist Relations. Your goal is to… Read More READ MORE

Pinterest is Here to Stay! Learn How to Use It in Part 3 of Ariel’s Mini-Class Series

After introducing Ariel’s ‘FTP Sessions’ mini-class two weeks ago with Part 1 on Facebook, we rolled out Part 2 early last week on Twitter, which you can find… Read More READ MORE

The Reason I Got into Helping Artists Goes Like This…. (or Part 2 of Telling My Story)

It’s the day after Christmas.  The rain is pouring down on the roof and the turkey roast is slowly digesting…  and since I have just asked practically everyone in… Read More READ MORE

5 Things Needed To PRE-Prepare for a Crowd Funding Campaign

Over the last several months, I’ve been helping Ariel to prepare for the launch of her crowd funding campaign (which went live on Monday!). While we were doing our research, we came across article after article saying the same few things about crowd funding preparation that we already knew about: You need to have an existing fan base - crowd funding is NOT a discovery tool. You need to understand your target audience and create not only compelling rewards, but also a compelling story/ journey to bring them on. But what we finding to be most unexplained was even a step further back from this. The crowd funding PRE-preparation... There are so many things that we needed to decide on that we have never even considered, and we want to share some of these things with you for your own crowd funding campaigns: Read More READ MORE

Sound Advice TV – Brian Meece, Co-Founder of RocketHub

These past few weeks have been some of the most confronting ones of my career. Boy am I getting a taste of my own medicine 🙂 This coming week… Read More READ MORE

Musician’s Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites – ReverbNation Mobile Apps

Keeping in line with our recent mobile theme, I wanted to present another mobile option to you this week. Last week we talked about Mobile Roadie’s free mobile ready website option. Mobile Roadie is also quite adept at making mobile apps. And while they are a leader in app creation platforms for musician’s to consider, their price points can be prohibitive for many independent artists. But have no fear, ReverbNation has been creating free/inexpensive solutions for independent musician’s since their inception. Here again they have come up with an affordable solution for mobile app creation. And ReverbNation can get you up and running with a customized app in 6 quick steps. Read More READ MORE

Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools and Sites – GigFunder

Fan funding, it is the saving grace for the broke independent band. Where before bands couldn’t consider studio time or hiring promotional companies to support their release, with a little hard work, some social media love and good old fashioned word of mouth spread, bands can raise the cash they need to fund their dream projects. With the big four players fairly entrenched in the field (PledgeMusic, Rockethub, KickStarter and Indie GoGo), it’s hard to imagine a new player coming into play. However, GigFunder has found a unique need to fill in the fan funding world. Read More READ MORE