Your band’s website should be the hub of all activity around your band (not Facebook, Twitter, MySpace). This step by step class will show you how you can get a great looking site that will help you engage with your fans, get more music sales, and have you making a great first impression. The class ...…
Today we spotlight two services. One will help you check or secure your brand online (like your band name) and the other will help you follow your tweets, likes, stumbles, diggs, all in one place. Know em is a website where you check your band’s name (or user name) on hundreds of websites. If you ...…
This is from Areil Hyatt, and sometimes its good to go back to the basics. As many of you know Cyber PR® is a hybrid of Internet Marketing, Social Media and PR. I am an avid Internet Marketing student and I gather the nuggets I learn from my studies for musicians. For many years, I’ve ...…
Everybody has a story. When you have a good one, you need to tell it to everyone you know, and put it in as many different formats as people will consume it. In the case of “United Breaks Guitars” the video that showed the power of one voice (and the cost of bad customer service). ...…
As songwriters, we often provide the stories of how a song came to be. Lionel Richie provides a play by play to his new album on spotify. He explains how he contacted each person who performed with him as he took his hits from the past and added some country flavor to see if they ...…
What do you do when you’re rythm guitarist gives you the words to the song, you ignore them and sign the second verser first? You laugh. Thats what Paul McCartney did in this clip. Then John Lennon forget to quit playing at the beginning of the solo. In the end, the thing I always love ...…
Today I’m playing clip of someone in the entertainment business who just made $15 million in two days. His name is Kevin Hart, and the clips are from Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast (a favorite of mine). In it we learn how Kevin had a lot of momentum going where his standup lead to Television and ...…
An artcile at Gigmasters.com reveals where their traffic is coming from. They state that: 1. Google (organic) 56.1% It’s not surprising that Google’s number one, however, it’s pretty amazing that it accounts for more than half of our traffic. Plus, this is organic traffic, which means that it’s from searches and not from paid advertising ...…
If you’re hungry, you will have a much better chance of getting food if you move to where the food is. Likewise if you want to grow your audience online (let’s say twitter, or facebook) you need to do the following: 1. Understand your audience. You can get to know them by starting a podcast, ...…
Special thanks to Rich Palmer for pointing out a new tool called “Artist Growth.” I”ll be checking it out, if you have any experience with it please let me know. You can use the voicemail button on the right, or leave a comment below. Check out the Artist Growth Youtube Channel. Rich read about it ...…
There are some new interviews on Youtube that show David Lee Roth interviewing Alex and Eddy Van Halen. It starts off with them talking about how they started off. They weren’t shooting for stadiums. They were shooting to play that first small club. Then the next bigger club. Then the next small theater. I read ...…
