Domains? Hosting? What’s It All About?!
I first started this blog because I wanted to write about real issues that musicians deal with. And I wanted to write about it in layman’s terms – simple English that anyone can understand without having to pull out a marketing dictionary. Forget the technical terms and the music industry jargon. In most cases DIY [...]
Grassrootsy’s Top 10 FREE Resources for Musicians
We’re excited about EVERY SINGLE one of the following resources. We hope you will be too! INDIE ON THE MOVE Yes, we truly love these guys. We wrote about them a while back, but quite alot has changed since our original post in 2009! For one thing, IOTM is still the #1 place to get an artists [...]
Promoting Yourself Like EVERY Fan Counts
So for one of my senior papers in college, I interviewed a booking agent at Third Coast Artist Agency to get a better idea of what working in the music industry looked like. I came across this paper last night and this line stuck out to me: “You might only know two or three people, [...]
3 Ways to Bring New Life To Your Music
My friend Ken Mueller published a post last week, 5 Ways to Bring New Life to Your Blog. Its great and you should read it. In light of that post, I thought i’d do something similar and suggest 3 Ways to Bring New Life to Your Music – some tips for you music and [...]
Twitter Twricks: 2 Other Ways to Use Twitter
Andrew Holland Who doens’t love twitter, really? Comments about nothing. Notes about something. 140-character press releases! Immediate answers to questions you never thought you’d ask. The possibilities are endless! Here are some newer, unexpected ways that twitter can come in handy for you… THE TWITTER FEED Twitter keeps my site updated even when I [...]
MySiteSucks.Com
Have you done this lately? Visit your website as if you are a random visitor. Put yourself in the shoes of the beholder… is your site easy to navigate? is there anything that’s confusing or not intuitive? is the most important information on the homepage? does your site clearly direct visitor to all other important [...]
A Couple Things Every Artist Should Have – PART 2
Kate Gaffney To read the first blog in this series visit: A Couple Things Every Artist Should Have #1 A GOOD BIO Just like a good press release, a good bio should be written in 3rd person. The idea of being personal is great, but you should have some place online where people can go to [...]
