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	<title>Music Marketing | Music Business Resource</title>
	
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		<title>Music Business Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/05/music-business-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of questions lately relating to the jobs in the music industry. If you want to get into music, you have to be strategic. There are so many people wanting to &#8220;break into&#8221; music. Universities are offering music business degrees, there are trade universities like Full Sail that are growing exponentially ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Text Messaging Platform for Musicians</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/04/free-text-messaging-platform-musicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever think about having a phone number that your fans could use to communicate with you? Years ago there was a tool called SayNow that gave bands the ability to send voice messages and text messages to their fans. Fans could also call in and leave messages on the band&#8217;s voicemail. A few months into ]]></description>
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		<title>Offer a Free Download Instead of a Stream</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/03/free-download-better-than-streaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, I have given great consideration to the value of offering free streams of new music. All the way back to when I was just starting out in the business, there was a pattern to releasing new music. Once all elements of the album were completed you would start trickling pieces of album-related ]]></description>
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		<title>Still Remains Kickstarter</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/03/still-remains-kickstarter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of debate going on out there about whether or not it is &#8220;cool&#8221; for bands both new and old to ask their fans to fund their album-making and marketing process.  My buddies in the band Still Remains have recently joined the ranks of post-hiatus bands that have come back into the ]]></description>
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		<title>Email Marketing For Musicians V.4 (Drip Marketing)</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/03/drip-email-marketing-musicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing is more than just writing a newsletter and hitting send. There has to be some strategy behind it.  Do I sound like a broken record? STRATEGY.  Drip Email marketing is an automated method of communicating with your list subscribers that perform specific behaviors.  I touched on it briefly in Email Marketing For Musicians ]]></description>
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		<title>Musicians Need Websites</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/03/musicians-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Band Online Merch Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Band Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How To Make a Musician's Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market My Band On the Web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, one of the first things a band would do once they formed was build a website. Sometimes it was before a single song was recorded and, in many times, even written. The URL was purchased immediately because you didn&#8217;t want someone else taking your dot com. The website went up and the songs ]]></description>
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		<title>5 Steps to Landing Event Sponsors</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/landing-sponsors-concert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concert Promotion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that promoting a concert is akin to gambling.  The reason being that you cannot force the general public to purchase tickets and you certainly cannot control the variables that could impact a purchase.  Your offer is nothing more than your &#8220;best guess.&#8221;  You establish your expenses for the gig, you consider ]]></description>
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		<title>Email Marketing for Musicians v.3</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/email-marketing-musicians-v-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/email-marketing-musicians-v-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=2302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you start off with these: Email Marketing for Musicians v.1 Email Marketing for Musicians v.2 By this point you should have a list started and, with any luck, it should be growing daily. Before you can send out your first email, you really need to think through a few more components that relate to ]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: How Do We Get A Booking Agent</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/qa-booking-agent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/qa-booking-agent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From: Ross Question: My band is one of the more solid and fairly popular bands from our area, however, despite countless weekends spent out-of-state, we can never seem to book more than a few days away from home. So my question is; how do we get a booking agent? &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Getting picked up by a ]]></description>
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		<title>Be a Concert Promoter 5.0: Day Of Show!</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/concert-promoter-5-0-day-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2013/02/concert-promoter-5-0-day-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=1057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read these first: Be A Concert Promoter (Overview) Be A Concert Promoter (Make an offer) Be A Concert Promoter (Market your event) Be A Concert Promoter (Produce your event) Over the years, I would stress about every show that I promoted.  The fear of whether or not it would make money, or that bands ands ]]></description>
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