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Online Music Marketing – step by step plan

by Ian on July 30, 2010

I came across this brilliant pdf report by Virgine Berger about a month ago that sets out a blueprint for your online music marketing and asked her if we could pass it on to you for free. She was happy to let our readers have it, but we didn’t get round to posting it until [...]

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Hope for the DIY musician – Adam Young & Owl City show the way

by Ian on October 2, 2009

I wanted to stick up a very quick post to bring hope to aspiring artists, yet also hammer home once again our core argument. Maybe we’re finally getting to the time where a few artists really can break ‘big time’ without the record company machine, thanks to their own online efforts. Maybe. Adam Young – [...]

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You’re doing it all wrong – how not to mess it up for fans browsing MySpace!

by Amanda on May 13, 2009

Lately we’ve had a lot of people become friends with us on MySpace. We love this and we always check out profiles of our new friends, so we’ve noticed something that we’d just like to let you know about. It’s not that you’re doing it all wrong, but failing to use the way MySpace works [...]

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New MySpace Application for concert or tour dates

by Ian on April 8, 2009

I think these might become a bit of a feature on the blog – little quick posts that point out a neat little tool that can help you in your mission to market your music. We covered ArtistData the other day, which amongst other things gives you greater control over listing tour dates. Well I’m [...]

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How to avoid spending forever updating your myriad social networking pages

by Amanda on March 28, 2009

One of the problems involved with effective social networking and online promotion as a musician is the amount of time it takes. If you have a profile on all the relevant sites, and update your shows and news on relevant listings sites then you’ll slowly find yourself spending more and more time online and less [...]

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Is MySpace still important for musicians?

by Amanda on March 20, 2009

Is MySpace still as effective and as essential for musicians as it was a few years back? My honest answer is ‘yes’. I think it has passed its most dominant moment, but I actually do think it’s now more important than ever in the part that it plays in your career and promotion of that [...]

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