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- Ty Cohen Presents Making The Transition Online
By: Ty Cohen | - The explosion of digital media has not only changed the way music labels have to do business, its also forced veteran musicians to rethink how to sell their music. To rely solely on CD sales is not only lazy; its professionally foolhardy because more and more people are going online to discover, and then buy, music. Making the transition from traditional distribution to online will be smoother and more effective by mapping out a strategy beforehand.
Established ...
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- How To Create Your First Mp3 Ringtone
By: Ty Cohen | - The ringtone industry is booming. As music fans around the world rush to pay their money out for the privilege of adding their favorite tunes to their phones, there is plenty of money changing hands and there is no good reason why your band shouldn't be collecting some of this cash. If your band has a distinctive sound and even a small fan base, becoming part of the ringtone gold rush makes sense.
Getting started is easy. Either use a recording you already have or ...
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- How To Sell My Music Online
By: Ty Cohen | - There are a plethora of places where you can offer your music for sale and effectively market your songs to a global audience. Everything from ring tones, mp3 downloads and CD sales are possible with a few simple keystrokes.
The easiest and most cost effective way to sell your music online is by offering mp3 downloads. By creating a website where the music files are available for download and adding a checkout page where your visitors can pay to download your music, ...
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- How To Make Money Selling Your Music Online
By: Ty Cohen | - With the competitiveness of the music industry, finding an outlet to sell your music can be very difficult. The little retailers can't afford to pay you for your music. The big record companies don't even know your name. Sometimes, it can leave you feeling like you are stuck in the drain watching your music career swirl past you.
Fortunately, there is another option that levels the playing field. The digital world of the Internet cares little about the restriction ...
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- How To Get More Views On Youtube, Ways How To Get More Youtube Views Now!
By: Ty Cohen | - If your band's YouTube videos aren't performing as well as you would like, there are a few simple methods of improving your viewer count. This boost to your YouTube video viewers will create a larger fan base for your bands sound, which will lead to increased popularity for your band. Some of these methods will lead to an immediate increase in your viewers while others will lead to long term benefits.
Method 1:
YouTube is a form of social media. As su ...
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- How To Get Your Band Indexed By Google Cheaply And Quickly
By: Ty Cohen | - Here's a little secret: The music industry is a competitive market.
Actually, it isn't much of a secret anymore. If you want to succeed in the music world, it takes hard work and a lot of luck. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to improve the odds in your favor and one of these things is very simple. By creating a stir about your band in the digital world, you may quickly find yourself becoming more popular among the big recording label world as well.
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- Backlinks For Your Music Site: What They Are And How To Get Them
By: Ty Cohen | - If you are seeking to promote your music online, it is essential that you develop a strong web presence. Finding the secrets that move your bands website to the top of the search engine rankings is of vital importance. One of those key elements is the backlink.
* What is a backlink?
A backlink, in the simplest terms, is a link to your website from another website. Backlinks can be simple text links, graphical banners or even your signature file on ...
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- How Using A Music Licensing Company Can Benefit Your Brand & Business
By: Ty Cohen | - Think of all the ways we encounter music in the course of a day. The most obvious are the radio, our own CDs and mp3s. But you are also hearing a steady stream of music in commercials, in the background of radio ads, while on hold during a call to the bank, from piped in music while relaxing in restaurants and when a local band plays cover songs Friday night at your favorite club.
In each of those cases, the songwriter is earning licensing fees. In addition to the revenue such deals ...
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- The Best Way To Promote Your Music Online For Free
By: Ty Cohen | - If your band is seeking to make a break into the competitive world of the recording industry, getting your name out into the public eye can often be very difficult. Recording studios rarely sign contracts with unknown bands because the music industry operates on popularity. If a band isn't achieving some level of local success, then the big record companies assume that they just aren't what the listening public is interested in hearing. To break this cycle, many bands are turning to online m ...
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- Music Promotion For The Beginner
By: Greg Wilson | - Were going to look at some more conventional and legal methods to get you music to the folks that will enjoy it.
Music promotion and music marketing go hand in hand. You certainly wouldnt target a retirement village for death metal or a college with a crooner like Sinatra so you need to research the intended market before you start promoting.
There are lots of types of music promotion that have been used, direct marketing by sending cards announcing the pr ...
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- 5 Rules Of Successful Myspace Music Promotion
By: Ty Cohen | - The music and recording industry is overcrowded. Hundreds of demos make their way into the mailrooms of the big recording studios every day. Very few of these demos will ever lead to profitable recording contracts because the big record company executives know that they have recording artists over the barrel. With such a huge surplus of talented musicians yearning for their big break, the big record executives are free to pick and choose who they sign and they don't always offer a fair deal t ...
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- How To Quickly Increase Youtube Views
By: Ty Cohen | - For a personal ego boost or a boost in sales, large numbers of viewers watching your bands YouTube videos is always a good thing. If you are trying to build your viewer stats in YouTube, there are a few quick and easy secrets that are used by the YouTube experts that you really need to know about.
* Twitter
Twitter is like blogging on steroids. They stripped out everything mundane that you hate about your regular blog and then they gave you a word limit. The result ...
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- How To Apply For The American Idol Auditions
By: Ty Cohen | - American Idol gives undiscovered talent a chance to be overnight singing sensations. Before you can become the next Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson, you have to successfully get through the American Idol registration process.
All applicants have to register in person; there is no online registration. So the first step is to locate the closest audition city from the listed posted on the American Idol web site. The audition cities are spread throughout the country but if you live ...
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- Insanely Crazy Independent Music Promotion Ideas That Actually Works
By: Ty Cohen | - If you are an independent musician, then I know that coming up with great music promotion ideas is one of your main goals. Gone are the days where rappers, musicians and artists have to rely solely on record deals to make the big bucks, in fact who the heck wants to right? With the rise of "The New Music Industry" the possibilities of success are literally limitless.
One of the most effective ways to market yourself and your music is through social networking sites as well as havin ...
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- Free Music Hurts Music Giants
By: music business | - The world of high technology and endless innovations made its way to music consumers from all over the world. This definitely opened new ways in enjoying music, whether it is through legal ways or the other way around. With the bad smell of piracy spreading the stink globally, its time for music companies to fight against it, in order to save the music business today.
Music giants are once again at odds with the consumer electronic manufacturers. This time, it is very much related ...
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- Mass Music Promotion On A Shoestring
By: Brent Thomason | - Music Promotion pure and simple is a numbers game. It is just like the promotion of any business service and or product. The trick is mass promotion. When I say mass promotion, I am talking about the ability to submit your music to hundreds even a thousand different sources. Sources include ezines, music magazines, internet radio stations, music web sites, music blogs, I mean everywhere.
Weather you are operating as just an independent artist or a small indie label working with a ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- The Self Promoting Musician
By: Brent Thomason | - What a time we live in today. There is great reason to be insanely excited about being a self promoting artist today. Think about it, you can write a song, record it, mix it down, master it, and produce the finished product then promote it on a shoestring budget to millions of people overnight all in the privacy of your bedroom. If that doesnt excite you as an artist and musician, nothing will.
Think for just a minute about what this means for today's artists and musicians. Histo ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Label Startup Pure And Simple
By: Brent Thomason | - So you want to start an indie label, become a music publisher or both.
It all boils down to what can you do with a diamond in the rough?
Here's my example.
You want to be in the game. You want to be a producer, indie label, publisher, or all three, and you want to have the ability to take yourself, and your artists to the next level, or several levels. You want to be a player. You want the ability to turn a diamond in the rough into a prize winning masterpiec ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Why Do So Many Music Careers Fail
By: Brent Thomason | - OK, Listen up guys, heres the deal. Pay close attention, soak up every word, and share this with your peers and friends. The reason that the majority of you will never succeed is simply because you do not take a proactive approach towards your career.
In todays market more than ever, artists and musicians MUST take a proactive approachtowards their career. Labels, Publishers, and Indie Labels are looking for artists that are also strong marketers,self promoters, and business men. ...
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- Todays Proactive Artists, Producers, And Musicians
By: Brent Thomason | - To succeed as an artists or musician in the music industry.
For any artist, songwriter, musician, and or performer. Even if you don't have a strong desire to start and or manage your own Independent label, if you are even remotely serious about experiencing any level of sucess in the music industry, you absolutely MUST gain as much knowledge as you can get your hands on so that you understand the industry in which you have a desire to succeed.
You must research, stu ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Labels Competing With Major Labels?
By: Brent Thomason | - Major music Label, and Indie music Label, who does what, and what are the differences?
I get emails constantly asking me this question. Who does what, who doesn't do what? Well the answer depends on the organization.
Generally the biggest two things that a major music label has that a indie music label does not have, is deep pockets, meaning a boatload of cash that they can invest into an artists career, they also have mass distribution outlets that just aren't ava ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Music Promotion Top 3 Most Marketed Female Singers In The Industry
By: Selena Valoure | - Music is one of the most competitive sectors of todays economy. Millions of dollars are made and spent on musicians and bands and the market continues to grow every year. Theres no doubt that a natural ability to sing is critical in becoming a musician, but is it the most important factor in your success? The answer is no.
You can have the best voice in the world but if you cant market yourself (or find a team who can), youre not going to be success ...
Tags: music, music career, music promotion, music marketing, singer, careers, entertainment
- Use Social Networking As A Promotional Tool
By: Sukanta Sarangi | - Raj Promotions was started with the intent to help Djs, Bands, Musicians, Record Labels, Nightclubs, Bars, Restaurants, Cafes, Singers, Event Promoters, Fighters, Magazines, Retailers, Clothing Lines, Filmmakers, Producers etc and many others by promoting themselves in a consistent, unique and effective way. We focus on getting important messages to your customer base in a multitude of different methods. We are good at what we do and feel that we will help you increase your exposure, all the whi ...
Tags: Myspace promotion, facebook promotion, music promotion, online promotion, event promotion, band promotion, social network promotion
- The Six Sigma Music Business: Keep Your Audiences Coming Back For More!
By: Lionel.Wayne | - Six Sigma? What could a statistical math term possibly have to do with music? Well I could bore you with a long answer on the statistical benefits, or I could explain it in one simple sentence.
Six Sigma is about quality, service, and making sure that your customers or audiences keep coming back for more! Would you like your audiences to come back for more?
The more your audiences come back to see you;
The more of your music they purchase.
Tags: music production, music promotion, music marketing, music distribution, music, band, musician, music
- Music Piracy And The New Musician
By: Lionel.Wayne | - Today click-and-download technology presents a greater threat to the music recording industry than all other past music-delivery technologies combined.
Music piracy exists in 3 different planes:
Illegally mass-manufactured pirate music CDs
Illegal copies of legitimately purchased music CDs
Illegally downloaded digital copies of recorded music
A recent research study on the economic impact of music piracy (Institute for Policy Innovation, ...
Tags: music production, music promotion, music marketing, music distribution, music, band, musician, musician resource, music
- Peer-to-peer: A Musicians Highway To The World
By: Lionel.Wayne | - Peer-to-peer is the term used to describe a complex computer network. It is very different from a regular computer network as there are no centralised servers; it is simply a group of nodes connecting for the purpose of sharing files.
Instead of relying on a busy, slow FTP servers or websites for a bunch of files, peer to peer networks distribute or transfer files over a network as large as the amount of people using it is. In fact it enables those who download the files to upload ...
Tags: music production, music promotion, music marketing, music distribution, music, band, musician, music
- Free Music Downloads1
By: Lionel.Wayne | - While downloading music is one of the most popular online activities, besides social networking and playing games, there is a lot of information that is not made available to the public at large.
There are a number of serious issues that should be understood when downloading music (which most people overlook) and there are also ways to obtain free music that are simply unknown by the majority of people online.
This is very important when considering the growing tren ...
Tags: music production, music promotion, music marketing, music distribution, music, band, musician, music
- Learn The Top 2 Secrets That Will Keep Your Audience Returning For More
By: Lionel Wayne | - Every business has a purpose and for most that purpose is to earn the business owners money. I do not know of any musicians that have decided to go into the music business for fun! Yes, they may enjoy their work! Yes, they may have this need to get their creative tallents heard! In every case however they all want to do what they love and make money too. So how do you make money in the music industry? These days it seems that with rampant music piracy, and dropping compact disk sales makes the c ...
Tags: music production, music promotion, music marketing, music distribution, music, band, musician, music
- Getting The Most From Your Myspace Music Page
By: Clive Calvin | - If you are like many musicians, you are too busy to worry about decorating your MySpace profile page. Because you are responsible for promoting your music, your time will have to be divided between online marketing, radio spots, shopping for a recording contract, and playing at various gigs and events in order to generate more fan support. MySpace is another way for you to be seen online. Since you are promoting music, you do not have to do too much to make your page a popular one.
Tags: myspace music marketing, online music marketing, promote band, music promotion, hip hop promotion
- Music Marketing Tips - Self Promotion Ideas For Songwriters, Musicians And Bands
By: Clive Calvin | - If you are like many musicians, you are too busy to worry about decorating your MySpace profile page. Because you are responsible for promoting your music, your time will have to be divided between online marketing, radio spots, shopping for a recording contract, and playing at various gigs and events in order to generate more fan support. MySpace is another way for you to be seen online. Since you are promoting music, you do not have to do too much to make your page a popular one.
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- Tips For Writing Effective Music Blogs On Myspace
By: Clive Calvin | - You don't have to be a great writer to create a memorable music-related blog on MySpace. All you need are a few good band stories, gig stories, or an observational take on the music industry to start a blog. Once fans and others begin reading it, they will want to know more about your music and where you will be playing next. This is how to drive more traffic to your profile page.
The following tips can help you in writing a blog that is informative, opinionated, and entertaining ...
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- Tips And Strategies On Myspace Music Marketing, Promotion And Online Branding For Artists
By: Clive Calvin | - Now that you created your profile page on MySpace, how do you make sure people see it?
In order to promote your music, uploading songs, providing a bio or band history, uploading photos and video of your band playing or rehearsing, and joining various forums are all great ways to promote your music. But what about those people who are new to MySpace? Or those who don't read forums or blogs? What about record producers who don't have time to sift through hundreds of pages looking f ...
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- How To Promote Your Music Successfully On The Internet
By: Clive Calvin | - If you are like many musicians, you are too busy to worry about decorating your MySpace profile page. Because you are responsible for promoting your music, your time will have to be divided between online marketing, radio spots, shopping for a recording contract, and playing at various gigs and events in order to generate more fan support. MySpace is another way for you to be seen online. Since you are promoting music, you do not have to do too much to make your page a popular one.
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- How To Market Your Music Thru Myspace And Get Noticed!
By: Clive Calvin | - Marketing your MySpace artist page will help you increase hits to your page which will translate into a growing fan base. But you should also promote your page in other ways.
As the internet becomes increasingly easy to navigate and to use as a marketing tool, placing your MySpace URL in various places will help people find you and learn more about your music.
Marketing on your web site
Always include your MySpace URL on your bands web site and ...
Tags: online music marketing, Myspace music marketing, music promotion, myspace music promotion
- What Do Musicians And Businesses Have In Common?
By: Fred Hueston | - We are a local band that is trying to get a wider audience. We have been around for two years playing local clubs and we have a small following. After listening to several of your shows we have gotten some great ideas; but we were wondering if you have any fast ways we can get our band more exposure?
The Lightning Bugs
Fred: You are not alone. According to Myspace there are nearly one million Indie bands in the world and I am sure there are a lot more. ...
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- Has The Music Industry Shifted?
By: Ty Cohen | - What is an artist to do when people no longer pay $19.99 for a compact disc? Driving down the road the other day, while listening to the satellite radio, I wondered, why anyone even purchased over priced CD's from the record store at all? I am assuming that the music industry is shifting or possibly being shoved. The amazing thing is that there are millions of artists out there who aren't even worrying about getting a record deal. They are paving their own path to success with online music promo ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources, independent music promotion
- The Not So Tech Savvy Musician
By: Ty Cohen | - You are a musician, right? Not a computer geek. I know you want to bust on to the online music promotion scene but you don't know where to start. It is tough because you know lyrics and sound, not megabytes and gigabytes. But that is o.k., you still have hopes of succeeding with your independent music promotion dream.
Everyone knows that there is money to be made online, especially musicians and artists. The problem is for most people is that they don't know how to build a site, ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources, independent music promotion
- What To Include On Your Music Promotion Website
By: Ty Cohen | - One of the powerful tools you can have as when attempting independent music promotion is a website. This is a given. There is absolutely no excuse for a musician, in this day and age, to not have a website. You website is how you will reach the world. This is how you will market yourself to every single person you come in contact with. The internet and your website will be two of the most powerful music promotion resources you will have.
If you are sold on the idea of online musi ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources, independent music promotion.
- Online Music Promotion For Newbies
By: Ty Cohen | - Are you tired of playing miniscule gig after miniscule gig only to generate pennies? Are you tired or working that second job, just to scrape up enough dough to put gas in the van to get to gigs? Maybe you are one of those people who feel the have exhausted every option there is? Well, if that sounds like you, then you have come to the right place. Have you considered or even explored online music promotion?
If you are a newbie to this concept then hold on because you are in for ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources and independent music promotion
- Independent Music Promotion Ideas
By: Ty Cohen | - If you are an independent musician, then I know that coming up with great music promotion ideas is one of your main goals. Gone are the days where musicians and artists have to rely solely on record deals to make the big bucks. With the rise of online music promotion on the Internet, the possibilities are literally limitless.
One of the most effective ways to market yourself and your music is through a website. But, the trick is driving traffic to that site. Fortunately, through ...
Tags: online music promotion, music promotion resources, indpendent music promotion
- A Free Shortcut For Getting Massive Publicity To Launch Your Successful Music Career.
By: WMP Article Staff | - What's an easy way to gain Massive Publicity?
Massive publicity can give your music career an enormous boost which can mean more music sales and much more exposure. There are many ways to get publicity. Certain tactics and gimmicks like controversial stunts have been utilized by countless musicians to get public attention and many these work great.
One of the exceptionally effective ways of promoting one's music is by attracting music journalists. The key is to leve ...
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