Download or read book Music Marketing written by Mike King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Press). Sell more music! Learn the most effective marketing strategies available to musicians, leveraging the important changes and opportunities that the digital age has brought to music marketing. This multifaceted and integrated approach will help you to develop an effective worldwide marketing strategy. Step by step, you will develop an active marketing plan and timeline tailored to your unique strengths and budget. You will learn to time your marketing campaign effectively, publicize your music to traditional print outlets and emerging online opportunities, understand the current opportunities for online, satellite, and terrestrial radio play as well as navigate various retail and distribution options, both at brick-and-mortar and online options, such as iTunes, Rhapsody, and other services.
Download or read book Social Media Promotions for Musicians written by Bobby Owsinski and published by Music Pro Guides. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION FOR MUSICIANS: THE MANUAL FOR MARKETING YOURSELF YOUR BAND AND
Download or read book Successful Promotion by Musicians written by Richard Letts and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface If Music Be the Food of Love, then What's Eating Leonard Cohen? The Purpose of Music is to be Promoted 1Do this Questionaire 2What are you Selling? Some fundamentals of your position Your image as a performer Interpersonal relations You by proxy 3Who's buying? The Audience Directors of performing groups or organisations Presenters Middle-men: managers and agents Record companies Funding bodies, foundations, sponsors Competitions 4Promotional strategies Promotional attitude Your promotional kit Finding out Getting the audition, getting the gig Attracting and building an audience Publicity Public relations Advertising Mail campaigns More on the core audience Helping your presenters Promoting yourself to record companies Promotion of the recording The CD-ROM Using the Internet Synergy Your international career Record company support 5Appendices
Download or read book How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet written by David Nevue and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is an incredible promotional tool for musicians. You can get radio play, grow a fan base, create a distribution channel and sell CDs and music downloads all online. Imagine how much music you'd sell if *thousands* of people heard your music every day? Most musicians, however, have no idea where to begin when it comes to online promotion. Some get as far as putting up a web site, but stop there. That's where this book will help. David Nevue, an independent musician like yourself, uses the Internet to generate well over $70,000 a year in music-related sales. Today, David is doing the "music biz" full-time, having quit his "day job" in 2001 after making more money selling music online than working for a corporation! In this book, David will take you step by step through the same marketing strategies he's used since 1995 to promote his music successfully on the Internet. Now you too can build your own music career using the Internet -in your own time and on your own terms.
Download or read book Strategies for Success Self Promotion Secrets for Musicians written by Michael Gelfand and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for professional and amateur musicians is an inspired cross between Stephen Covey’s wildly popular Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Debbie Allen’s Confessions of a Shameless Self Promoter. Musician and rock journalist, Michael Gelfand (of the band, Fuller), shoots from the hip and tells his fellow musicians the straight truth about this business: It will chew you up and spit you out... all before breakfast... unless you’ve got a solid plan of attack. This advice is for every struggling musician out there who wants their band to gain momentum and break through the noise.
Download or read book The Self promoting Musician written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take charge of your career with these do-it-yourself strategies for independent music success! Peter Spellman, the Director of the Career Development Center at Berklee, gives tips on how to: write a business plan, create press kits, use the Internet to boost your career, customize your demos for maximum exposure, get better gigs and airplay, network successfully, and create the industry buzz you need to succeed. A must-read for every aspiring musician!
Download or read book Music Marketing for the DIY Musician written by Bobby Borg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do it yourself and succeed! More and more artists are taking advantage of new technologies to try and build successful careers. But in this expanding competitive marketplace, serious do-it-yourself musicians need structured advice more than ever. In Music Marketing for the DIY Musician, veteran musician and industry insider Bobby Borg presents a strategic, step-by-step guide to producing a fully customized, low-budget plan of attack for marketing one’s music. Presented in a conversational tone, this indispensable guide reveals the complete marketing process using the same fundamental concepts embraced by top innovative companies, while always encouraging musicians to find their creative niche and uphold their artistic vision. The objective is to help artists take greater control of their own destinies while saving money and time in attracting the full attention of top music industry professionals. It’s ultimately about making music that matters, and music that gets heard! Updates include: New interviews highlighting current marketing strategies for the new music market Info on how to leverage digital marketing and streaming playlists Updated stories and examples of current music marketing principles Future forecasts and trends into music marketing New and revised services, tools, references, and contacts that can help musicians further their careers New marketing plan samples for bands/solo artists and freelance musicians and songwriters
Download or read book Get More Fans The DIY Guide to the New Music Business written by Jesse Cannon and published by Jesse Cannon. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Do I Promote My Music On A Small Budget? How Do I Get My YouTube Videos to Spread? How Do I Turn Casual Fans Into One’s Who Buy From Me? How Do I Get Written About On Blogs? How Do I Increase Turnout At Shows? How Do I Make Fans Using Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr And SoundCloud? With every day that passes, the power the major labels once had dies a little more. The chance to get the same exposure as your favorite musicians gets easier and easier. The hurdles that would only allow you to get popular, if the right people said your music was good enough, are gone. You can now get exposed to thousands of potential fans without investing 1% of what musicians used to by building a fanbase based on listeners love for your music. No more writing letters hoping that A&R writes you back. This book explains how you do it. While many books will tell you obvious information, legal mumbo-jumbo and marketing catchphrases that don’t help you get more fans. Our experience working with real bands - from upstarts like Man Overboard and Transit to legends like The Cure, The Misfits and Animal Collective, has led us to understand the insider tricks and ideas that go into some of the most important groups of our time. We produce records, do licensing deals, negotiate record contracts and get the musicians we work with written about on websites like Pitchfork and Vice. We have worked with bands who started off as nothing and became something. Unlike any other book written on the subject we have compiled the knowledge no one else has been willing to print in fear of obsoleting their own career. We give you thousands of ideas on how to get people to hear your music and turn them into fans who pay to support your music. Whether you are a label owner, musician, manager, booking agent or publicist there is information in this book that will help you do what you do better. Enjoy! For more information see GetMoreFansBook.com
Download or read book Processing Creativity written by Jesse Cannon and published by Musformation. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Jesse Cannon has been pushing creative ideas in music. You may know him from writing one of the most popular books on the music business, Get More Fans, or from his recording credits on records with the most varied set of bands you've ever seen, including The Cure, The Misfits, Animal Collective, Brand New, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Menzingers, Limp Bizkit, Basement, Leftover Crack, Saves The Day, Senses Fail, Weird Al Yankovich, Lifetime, Say Anything, NOFX, Flatsound, Man Overboard, Bad Books, Transit, Somos, Cavetown, and over a thousand others. You may also know his work as the host of the podcasts Atlantic Records Inside The Album, Noise Creators, and Off The Record, his popular YouTube channel Musformation, as a producer for popular podcasts at Rolling Stone & The Daily Beast or from his writing at outlets like Alternative Press, Tape Op, & Hypebot. In Processing Creativity: How To Write Songs People Love he chronicles the lessons learned working on all those records and writing about music's most progressive ideas, taking on the subject he knows the most about; helping musicians fulfill their creative vision. The book is the culmination of four years of poring over scientific studies, books, and thoughts from top creators as well as his own experience to write a book every musician should listen to about what goes into making great music versus what bands do when they make the innumerable bad songs we hear each day. Covering the pitfalls of creating music, the book thoroughly explores the hidden reasons we actually like music, how to get along with our collaborators, and patterns that help creativity flourish. While every musician says that being creative is the most important part of their life, they barely explore what's holding them back from making music they are happy with. When trying to navigate the ways our creative endeavors fail there's no YouTube tutorial, listicle, or college course that can help navigate the countless creative pitfalls that can ruin your music but after reading this book you will have the knowledge to guide you to make songs the world loves. The essential ideas on creating music are detailed in a simple, fun language that’s littered with quotes and insight from the most innovative creators of our time including: • How to make highly emotional music that compels listeners to listen again and again. • Effectively dealing with collaborative problems like “too many chefs in the kitchen,” giving helpful criticism or dealing with stubborn collaborators. • Finding inspiration when you have writer's block. • How to draft your songs while avoiding the common pitfalls of losing perspective and giving up. • Examining the unexpected reasons we enjoy music. • Calming your thoughts so they don’t sabotage your music and other helpful tools to help execute your music as best as possible.
Download or read book Whether Or Not Social Media Have Become the Most Important Element of the Marketing Strategy for Music Artists to Become Famous written by Sarah Gottschling and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Koln RFH, language: English, abstract: The classical way music artists have to go to become successful is to convince the guard of a music label to get a chance to convince millions of people with their music afterwards. The labels then contrive a marketing-strategy for the new artists and arrange live-concerts in front of small audiences, which are a good medium to give the world a first impression of the artists talent and style of music. In the era of web 2.01, the way goes the other way around: Through social media they can create their music career vast on their own and can profile themselves. Uploading a music video, e.g. on YouTube, and convincing millions of people can be the key to call the labels attention to the unknown artists. The music labels work has also changed: Scouts search for talents on social media platforms. On the basis of users feedback, they can analyse, whose music runs and so which artists they want to contract. But often the labels look for artists, who are really talented and already have a self-marketing-strategy.2 That shows some kind of a new era in the social media, because during the last years, the term social media marketing was formed and operated. In the first period, after the entrance in the web 2.0, people didnt know about the spheres and possbilities of social media. Using it as a marketing tool has opened new gates for musicians to create the first buzz. The following explanations demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing in social media on the basis of the worlds largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube. Additionally, two cases of successful self-marketing through social media are exemplified in the end: the story of success of Justin Bieber and Lana Del Rey. Their appearance on Facebook and YouTube will be analyzed with the help of numbers and figur
Download or read book Music is Your Business written by Christopher Knab and published by Christopher Knab. This book was released on 2007 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the mystery out of the music business! "Music Is Your Business" tells you who does what in the music industry. Music industry veteran Christopher Knab's honest, no-nonsense information will empower you to market and promote your music--whether you're an experienced performer or just starting out. Learn how to attract distributors, get radio airplay, negotiate offers, and create a demand for your music with topics like Con Jobs: Watch Out for the Flim Flam Man, 10 Reasons Why Musicians Fail (and How Not To), What A&R Reps Do, and Online Music Retailing. Straight to the point legal chapters by entertainment attorney Bartley F. Day include Filing Copyright Applications, Trademarking Band Names, and Making Sense of Recording Industry Contracts. A sample distributor one-sheet, band tour and work schedule, band bio, and more! Newly revised, updated, and 100 pages longer, the 3rd edition of "Music Is Your Business" is essential for independent musicians and record labels.
Download or read book The Artist s Guide to Success in the Music Business written by Loren Weisman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music industry and you - Your band: working with other musicians - Defining and refining your sound - Managing, performing, and booking gigs - Solo or band touring - The music business plan - In the recording studio - Fundraising and investors - Your band is the brand - Music marketing and promotions - Your career in the music business of today.
Download or read book Social Media Marketing for Musicians That Works written by Dan Shinder and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume III of the "Social Media Marketing For Musicians That Works" series. The focus is on the wrong way EVERYONE is using hashtags, as well as the misuse of @mention tags, and more. The answers to the effective way to use all tags across all platforms are in this book and will be an eye-opening-forehead slapping experience and will keep you from following everyone else off the cliff!About the series: Who is "Social Media Marketing for Musicians That Works!" written for?Attention all Musical Entrepreneurs, or rather, "Musicpreneur" (Musicians, Music Artists and Music Educators who mean business!) who want to sell more tickets to shows, more music downloads, more CD's, get more live gigs, more sessions, more YouTube views, Facebook video views and engagement (you NEED this!) radio airplay, more students, create a huge following in love with what you do and run successful crowdfunding campaigns - THIS IS FOR YOU!If you're looking to succeed with Social Media Marketing then this Quick-Read (under an hour each) 10-Volume Kindle Short Series by Social Media Marketing Expert Dan Shinder reveals how every Musical Entrepreneur can understand and implement Social Media Marketing Strategies that pay off with increased trust, likeability and brand love among an ever-growing fan base in love with what you do! And the first Volume is now available - FOR FREE, $2.99 USD or $5.99 USD, depending on the Amazon version you select!Here's a sample of what Dan Shinder covers in this insightful new series of Kindle Shorts: "Social Media Marketing for Musicians That Works!"(An Interview with Social Media Marketing Expert, Dan Shinder)-How Does Social Media Marketing Truly affect a musician's business in a positive manner?-What are REAL results in social media marketing?-How do I recognize REAL results in SMM?-How do I consistently create social media marketing content that will get great results?-How do I create engagement and build a relationship with my audience/fans/target market?-How do I leverage great SMM results to create more revenue?-How do I measure SMM results and recognize what is working and why, and what is not working and why?-Exactly how do I create great content that will get me great results?-How do I build a relationship between my brand and my following?-... and much, SO MUCH More! [in announcer's voice!]Dan also reveals "It's about Understanding People First, NOT the Technology!" Never before have you had such a unique opportunity to have this PROVEN Social Media Marketing expert take you by the hand and explain not only universal principles of social media marketing that get results, regardless of technology changes or platform features, but also Social Media Marketing Strategies that pay off with increased trust, likeability and brand love among an ever-growing fan base in love with what you are offering!Most of what you need is instruction and encouragement from someone who has 30,000+ hours of "been there and done that!" Get this book NOW and begin acquiring the Social Media Marketing success you want! And the rest of what you need is in the series. You can opt-in at http: //bit.ly/Mastermind-Group-SignUp to be invited to free live webinars and be notified when new additions to this series are released, and more!If you follow Dan's "Social Media Marketing for Musicians That Works!" step-by-step exactly what is taught, and it doesn't show you exactly how to create a larger online fan base with more engagement, it will absolutely get you better results-much better!Get Started Right NowSo go ahead, ORDER NOW and you're on your way to Social Media Marketing Success!
Download or read book The 9 Irrefutable Laws of Music Marketing written by Bob Baker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Know These Nine Timeless Music Marketing Principles? From the author of the "Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook" ... The business of making, promoting and selling music has changed drastically since the dawn of the 21st Century. (How's that for overstating the obvious?) I've been immersed in music marketing since the early 1990s. I've witnessed, participated in, and written often about the huge shifts that have taken place. I know first-hand how confusing and frustrating it can be to stay on top of everything - all of the new websites, new technologies, and new routes to success. However, from this perspective I've also come to another realization: Hidden among all of these changes are some timeless, irrefutable principles that many musicians, songwriters, managers, publicists, and other music pros have sadly lost sight of. Sure, the tools and tactics evolve. But if you really look under the hood, you'll find several factors that have always powered the link between musicians, self-expression, fans, popularity, and ultimate success as an artist. For the purposes of this book, I am calling these factors "Laws." After decades of intimate involvement with the topic, I consider them to be the foundational, undeniable principles that govern music marketing. These laws were in effect decades ago, they are alive and well today, and they will continue to influence musicians, songwriters, bands, and fans for decades to come. Why obey these laws? In a world filled with ever-changing options, I find it comforting to know there are some things I can always count on. I may not know what the hot new website or app will be six months from now, but I can be certain that when that shiny new thing pops up, I'll have a good idea how to use it. Why? Because I have at my disposal a set of rock-solid principles to guide me. I often use the topic of weight loss to illustrate this point. There have been many times in my life when I've felt confused and overwhelmed about what to eat and how to exercise. There are so many books, programs, experts, and options out there on the subject. The sheer magnitude of choices often keeps me from taking any action whatsoever. Perhaps you've felt the same way at some point in your life. However, years ago I realized a simple, timeless principle related to healthy living that helped me immensely. And I could sum it up in four words: "Eat less, move more." For me, that became my weight-loss "law." Whenever I start to feel frustrated, I come back to this fundamental idea, which practically every weight-loss book, program or diet is built upon. When I stay focused on this underlying law, I maintain my balance and purpose. And that's what I hope these nine irrefutable laws of music marketing do for you - give you a solid set of principles to build your music career upon. With each law, I give you well-known examples and personal stories from my own life in music and marketing. I also give you a short statement in bold text that sums up the main idea of the law. Each chapter ends with a list of ways you can implement the law and put it into practice. The hope these music marketing laws give you the knowledge and clarity you'll need to make major progress with your career as an artist (or as someone who supports an artist as a manager, publicist, producer, or agent). One final thing about these music marketing laws No one will arrest you or fine you if you disobey them. However, if you seriously use these laws as a set of guiding principles, I truly believe you'll find yourself with more exposure, more fans, more sales, and you'll make more of an impact with your music. Scroll up and click the Buy Now button! To your success! -Bob
Download or read book Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead written by David Meerman Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grateful Dead-rock legends, marketing pioneers The Grateful Dead broke almost every rule in the music industry book. They encouraged their fans to record shows and trade tapes; they built a mailing list and sold concert tickets directly to fans; and they built their business model on live concerts, not album sales. By cultivating a dedicated, active community, collaborating with their audience to co-create the Deadhead lifestyle, and giving away "freemium" content, the Dead pioneered many social media and inbound marketing concepts successfully used by businesses across all industries today. Written by marketing gurus and lifelong Deadheads David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead gives you key innovations from the Dead's approach you can apply to your business. Find out how to make your fans equal partners in your journey, "lose control" to win, create passionate loyalty, and experience the kind of marketing gains that will not fade away!
Download or read book The Musician s Way A Guide to Practice Performance and Wellness written by Gerald Klickstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.
Download or read book Business Basics for Musicians written by Bobby Borg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, when artists are empowered to take greater control of their careers and earnings, the need for musicians to understand the business of music has never been greater. In a digital age overflowing with confusing and ever-changing information, musicians need trusted business advice from a veteran artist who can break down the basics in language they understand. Written by a professional musician for other musicians, Business Basics for Musicians is the laypersons guide to the music industry. In this must-have manual, music industry veteran Bobby Borg presents vital info in a conversational tone and an easy-to-scan format regarding five vital areas that musicians need to succeed: Career Execution, Business Relationships, Pro Teams, Deals and Dollars, and Future Predictions. Everything from copyrights to record deals, to managers, to merchandising, to doing it yourself is covered. With pro interviews, anecdotes, and review quizzes, Business Basics for Musicians is the complete handbook from start to success. Updates for this edition: Changes in copyright laws Summary of the Music Modernization Act Updates on record, merch, publishing, and live performance deals New trends in sponsorships and partnerships with product brands New interviews with industry professionals, including managers, producers, and agents New stories paralleling current events and industry happenings Updated business resources, industry contacts, and URLs
