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Tips For Collecting, Blasting, and Loving Your E-Mail List
Sites like viinyl can be a great way to build your e-mail lists. Bands hear it all the time: your e-mail list is extremely important; an e-mail is more valuable than a Facebook Like or a Twitter...
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Calling Your Fans to Action
Like Ric O'Barry's Oscar sign, a good CTA must be brief and clear. [Last week, band manager Ryan Sweeney laid out the basics of how a band should treat the members of its e-mail list. Today, he begins...
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We’re Giving Away 5 Copies of Tom Jackson’s Live Music Method!
We’re really starting to love all this give away stuff we’re doing, and coming up this week, we’ve got even more goodies: copies of Tom Jackson’s Live Music Method DVD. It normally costs $119, and...
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How to Use “MP3 For E-Mail” to the Fullest
Bands like U.S. Royalty use free music to attract e-mail addresses. But what are you supposed to do with those e-mails? As previously discussed, giving away access to content online is a great way to...
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The Importance of Knowing What You “Sound Like…”
D.C. "folk-core" band Dreamscapes Project has given some thought to this question “So what do you sound like?” Almost every new artist will get asked this question at some point, and yet it is...
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Ranking Your Fans From 1 to 5 (And What Those Ratings Mean)
[Editor's Note: The following post is by Ryan Sweeney, who's currently recovering from a week up at NXNE with his artists] My last article touched on the use of third party e-mail marketing systems...
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The Top Five Apps for Musicians on SoundCloud
As more and more artists try to go it alone in this do-it-yourself music era, they are taking advantage of web apps that let them create and share their tracks in ways they never could before. The app...
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14 Dos and Do Nots For Your Band’s Next Residency
A flyer for Wine From the Moon's branded residency, Strip Down at Uncommon Ground [Editor's Note: This is part two of Ryan Sweeney's series about the merits of securing a residency for your band....
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A music video is a powerful promotional tool. It can help your band portray an image while reaching new markets and fans. There is much more to releasing a music video than just tossing it up on...
View ArticleHow to Use Email to Promote Your Music Without Alienating Your Audience
For a moment, just imagine that you received an email about this very article, and that the email read as follows: To: WeAllMakeMusic_Reader From: noreply@noreply555.com Subject: New Article Just...
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