Review of Ariel Hyatt's Music Success in Nine Weeks by Carla Lynne Hall – Know The Music Biz

Originally posted here: http://www.knowthemusicbiz.com/index.php/BIZ-BLOG/BIZ-BLOG/Review-of-Ariel-Hyatt-s-Music-Success-in-Nine-Weeks-by-Carla-Lynne-Hall.html Carla Lynne Hall is a singer, guitarist, and music marketing consultant based in New York City. Her mission is to make music, and share her knowledge with other musicians. As a singer/songwriter, her musical style has been described as "Norah Jones meets Sade for tea on their way to visit The Beatles". For almost twenty years, she has toured the globe as a singer/songwriter, and professional vocalist. Carla has has spent a number of years behind the scenes in the music industry, in music publishing, management, publicity, and radio promotion. She is the author of The DIY Guide to the Music Biz and Twitter for Musicians. Carla also writes a monthly newsletter, The Soulflower . To be an indie musician requires an entrepreneurial mindset, and the latest edition of Ariel Hyatt’s Music Success in Nine Weeks promises to “supercharge your PR, build your fanbase and earn more money”. As that may sound like a fabulous claim, many indie musicians may wonder if the book can live up to its promise. In my own career as an indie musician, I have learned to be mindful of my business goals. To stay on the top of my game, I read A LOT of books on the music business. While some music biz books are filled with contract mumbo jumbo that require translation, others are total fluff, offering pie-in-the-sky promises that don’t show the reader how to get results. Thankfully, Hyatt’s Music Success in Nine Weeks teaches actual strategies that can be put into use immediately. As the founder of Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR, Ms. Hyatt could easily have written a thinly-veiled promotion piece for her music publicity services. Instead, her book is an easy-to follow nine-week program that teaches musicians how to promote themselves, without any self-promotion hype. Read More READ MORE

The Indie Maximum Exposure List (A Guide For The Rest Of Us)

My phone rang last week and it was Tom Silverman from Tommy Boy calling to discuss my panel for his upcoming Chicago New Music Seminar. Tom was half amused and half disgusted. "Have you seen Billboard this week?" He asked. Since Billboard is a publication I largely ignore, I fessed up: "No. Why?" "You have to see this article," he said. "It's the most ridiculous thing ever." In a few moments, I was reading it and I was laughing out loud. Here are a few excerpts: From the September 26 edition of Billboard: BILLBOARD'S 2009 MAXIMUM EXPOSURE LIST "Today the ways artists can promote their music have proliferated so rapidly that it can be hard to keep up with what's new -- what's actually cutting through the clutter. It's in this context that Billboard decided to geek out with 25 promotions and publicity experts across genres and mediums to create the ultimate multimedia metric: Our first Maximum Exposure List." I sampled a few random ones from the 2009 list to give you a sense: Read More READ MORE

Indie Max 100: Category 1 – Mindset / Who You Are Being

1: Pick A Niche And Dominate It There are no ultimate 100 Indie Maximum Exposure vehicles for one simple reason. Indie artists must break from a niche. Read More READ MORE
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