Expansion

I’ll try to keep this short as you might not care at all but I felt the need to let our regular readers know what we’ve been up to!

You might have noticed that since the Christmas break we have posted far less on the Make It In Music Daily and have been tweeting less than usual.

That’s because there have been changes in our day to day business that we have been trying to accommodate and now we have a plan to not only keep it up but to expand what we do and are able to offer.

New beginnings

For years we have been a stand alone management and label company and in the last three years we’ve run this site as an add-on to pass on our knowledge and to try and help aspiring musicians.

However, I have now taken up a full time position with a forward thinking management and label company, Three Six Zero Group, whose clients include Deadmau5, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia as well as a host of independent labels. It’s an amazing place to work and use my industry experience but I also get to apply the digital marketing knowledge that I have gained over the last 5 years or so.

I’ll do my best to report back on the further lessons I learn in music marketing at that level.

Meet Steve

This site is still very much my passion and will continue much as before, but the changes mean that I have passed some of the running of it to an old friend and very experienced musician, Steve Travell.

Steve has been a working musician, producer and DJ for over 30 years and now also works in digital marketing as well as making music and teaching production for one of the leading physical and online music colleges in London.

Steve will be writing some posts for this site and will be dealing with the majority of the daily tip posts. I will be writing feature posts on this site and will continue digging up and adding tips as I have always done, so this should expand our output and maintain the quality that we know you have come to expect. I’ll still be monitoring our Twitter and Facebook profiles so, generally, it’ll be me your talking to. You’ll just see more photos of me in interesting places!

Amanda has been working remotely for some time and will continue to be on board and using her knowledge in the background.

I’ve also spoken to some other members of the musician blogging community who you’d already know and they will be writing some material for us as well in due course.

DTF-Base

The final piece of the puzzle will be revealed in more detail as and when Steve can build a new site for it – DTF-Base.

We’ve been asked on numerous occasions in the last year to take on specific projects for clients from both the DIY musician world and from indie or major labels. This might be a website build, Topspin integration or a whole digital marketing campaign.

We have just completed the first few of these projects and Steve will be adding to this in the next few months – and building a dedicated website! The services that DTF-Base can offer will not generally be necessary, appropriate or affordable for artists in the earliest stages of their careers (that’s what this site is for in many ways) but we can take on pretty much anything of any scope from basic online music marketing advice to a full digital marketing campaign for a release including building websites and social media presences from scratch. If you’re interested, just contact us.

So, as you were. Lots of helpful and informative posts to come and more options for how we can help you. Just say ‘hello’ to Steve if you are so inclined.

Thanks for your support so far.

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