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We all spend so much time on the same sites that we sometimes never venture out to sites that are not on our day-to-day list, and we miss some really good nuggets of new information. I try to make it…
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With the composure of a seasoned businessman, “Stone” is the personification of hard work. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana to a single parent home, his hunger for success has propelled him from a street life, to one of multiple business…
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Born and raised on the Westside of Chicago, music sort of found Boo. In the summer of 1999, while hanging with a few close friends at a downtown McDonalds, Boo bumped into R. Kelly, and the rest is history. He…
Read the full story »Amazing story by Ariel Publicity Founder Ariel Hyatt, that explains a very familiar feeling and objections that I’ve heard from many artists. Many musicians run into road blocks because of the many excuses they set before themselves. Ariel breaks down…
This week we revisit one of my all time favorite subjects: your Marketing Funnel. I’m an avid follower of online marketing guru Ali Brown. Ali Brown publishes the award-winning Highlights on Marketing & Success weekly e-zine that includes marketing tips for…
Spread the word the second Music Success in Nine Weeks Blogging Challenge kicked off on July 5th! For this blogging challenge, I will again be awarding a grand prize of a 3-month Cyber PR campaign to the artist who blogs…
This month’s guest post is brought to you Jon Ostrow of MicControl.com
Jon is the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a music social networking platform. This post originally appeared on the MicControl blog on June 15, 2010. Jon…
Feature Article: Five Tips to Increase Sales in a Failing Music Industry
1. Personal Communication
FACT: Social Media is a great “Keep In Touch” tool. With social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace and Facebook now giving fans 100% access to artists, many…
Now that Facebook Fan or “Like” pages are the new norms, it’s time to make sure you have the right apps installed on yours to get the biggest return on it!
Here is a guest blog post that came from musician Esther O’Connor from Scotland.
It is insightful and asks a VERY important question: When is too much unfettered access well, just too much?
Social Media has pulled back the veil a little…
