Apologies for the distinct lack of posts over the last month or two. Rest assured that we are working very, very hard to get to the next stage of what we’re hoping to achieve with the site. With that will come very regular blog posts and emails to subscribers and a lot, lot more usable […]
Continue readingI 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 – […]
Continue readingYou already know that having your music available digitally is becoming more and more important in today’s DIY musician environment – essential really. As owners of an extensive music catalogue that we have for sale in a whole load of places, we can tell where our digital sales come from by looking at traffic and […]
Continue readingA Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer To the readers of the Make It In Music blog, I would like to present my paper looking into some of the best practices of the online promotion of new music releases. The paper identifies trends at play in the online practices of music promotion, looks at five different […]
Continue readingWe love Nimbit. It’s been around a while offering all sorts of amazing ‘direct-to-fan’ marketing tools (email list capture, analytics, social media tools etc) and ‘direct-to-fan’ selling tools (widgets that allow you to sell all types of stuff from all sorts of places). In fact, we’ve been recommending it to our clients for a very […]
Continue readingI just got back from two weeks holiday and cleared out my inbox – well over 1000 emails, including over a hundred from artists asking me to check them out. I try to check out all the bands who send me mail – both to us for this site and also people checking in with […]
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