This should be fun… I’ve got 10 free passes to the Virtual Music Conference, at which I’m going to be a speaker. It takes place this coming week Feb 26 – 28 and It will consist of 3 days of live high-level music industry networking, education, live artist showcases, business development and more! Everything takes […]
Here on MusicMarketingManifesto.com we focus on marketing strategies that get consistent results and ultimately lead to generating a profit from your music. However sometimes you need to throw all the strategy out the window and just do something cool. That’s exactly what Belgium Indie Rock Band, Garcia Goodbye, did when they decided to […]
This past Thursday, my compadre Scott James (from websitesforrockstars.com) and I, held a live music marketing summit / webinar / coaching call / whatever-you-wanna-call it, to discuss the state of the music industry in 2013. More importantly we opened up the phone lines and discussed YOUR music careers and the various obstacles many of […]
Today I’d like to share a resource with you guys that only came to my attention recently. It’s called RadioGuestList.com and it’s essentially a no-cost back door to getting radio publicity and exposure. In a nutshell, RGL is a service that connects radio show bookers, podcasters, talk radio show hosts and even television producers with […]
In today’s Q&A we were asked by one of our subscribers about what we feel are some of the best landing page practices for musicians. If you’ve been following Music Marketing Manifesto for any stretch of time, you know that we feel the absolute best landing page practice is to use what’s known as “squeeze […]
Just a little catch up first for anyone who is new here and still unclear about what makes the marketing strategy we focus on at MMM a bit different from what musicians typically do… Music Marketing Manifesto is based on a strategy that is known in marketing circles as “direct response marketing”. Instead of simply […]
Every now again we come across students of Music Marketing Manifesto, who are totally putting in the work that is required for success, but get a little stuck when the results are not as positive as they would like to see. Such is the case for our Estonian friend, Joonas K., who wrote to us […]
Recently I reported on Amanda Palmer’s astonishing Kickstarter success, when the indie artist raised over 1.2 million dollars to help promote her upcoming album/book release. However many readers pointed out that Amanda Palmer is by no means your average musician. She has a major label past, a huge following, managers, publicists, and a reportedly […]