This is one of those things that I really hemmed and hawed over writing about here on the Music Marketing Manifesto blog. It’s something that is incredibly important, but I honestly don’t know how many musicians actually care… You may or may not be aware of the fact that Google released a massive update to […]
Recently I was going through my stats for the Music Marketing Manifesto blog and saw something really depressing under “search engine terms”. Take a look at a query that brought someone to my site… Dude! How much does that suck? As musicians we all dread that potential “end of the line”, where (God forbid), we […]
It’s no secret that itunes has single handedly forced the record store into extinction. Therefore, if you’re a musician it goes with out saying that you you’re going to want to sell your music on itunes and get access to their enormous international audience. Fortunately this is not difficult to do. In fact any independent […]
In this weeks Music Marketing Manifesto Podcast we’ve got a really special guest. His name is Sean Mize. Sean happens to be the number #2 article marketer in the world (by volume), and he happens to be one of just a small handful of guys that I consider to have been major contributors to my […]
One of the things I’ve noticed while researching various topics for articles and blog posts is the lack of reliable statistics relating to independent musicians. It’s easy enough to pull up statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America but their data is largely related to what is happening in the main stream of the […]
It’s a little talked about secret that most musicians exaggerate when it comes to their stats. Hell, most straight up lie. Show of hands, who here is celebrating their 6th 29th birthday? That’s what I thought… Well, with all of the vague, convoluted and outdated stats floating around on the internet about the music industry, […]
Gmail Canned Response is a really helpful add on from Gmail Labs. I didn’t know this feature even existed until a few weeks ago and I have already implemented it on all of my many inboxes. It’s massive time saver. Watch this video and see how Gmail Canned Response works. For more music marketing tips […]
First off, I just wanted to let you know that the Viral Music Player is going to be closed to the public as of Tomorrow at Midnight (pacific time). But you can still get a copy here: http://viralmusicplayer.com Second, I want to share another testimonial we received yesterday from someone who just started using the […]
In last week’s rant I talked about social media and many of the wrong, or at least ineffective, ways many musicians are using it. I also promised to teach you about a a NEW social media strategy that I’ve been using that is getting some pretty amazing results. To learn what it is, how it […]