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List of Content Management System Forums

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:39:21 +0000

Content Management System Forums are all about allowing the content on your web presence to be created by any website visitor and potential fan of your band and music. You can create topical discussion on which to bring new discussion angles. Update your band news to the forum to see what the subscribers have to say.

Believe it or not, community forums are very easy to manage and install. There is no real use for using forums hosted elsewhere, such as freeboards. Once you have purchased web site hosting your ready to go with your own band community.

A self hosted forum can be tracked how and when you want, styled to match your brand/website and ran how you think it needs to be managed. With other benefits such as loads of content created for you, backlinks pointing towards a website you own there is no need to wait any longer, have a look through the available open source content management system and get your community talking. You can learn how to install your own band community in minutes.

SMF
“Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software”

http://www.simplemachines.org/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 3514

Phbbb

“phpBB is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website.”

http://www.phpbb.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 2,961

Vanilla Forums
“Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone can download and use the Vanilla forum package with no limitations for free!”

http://vanillaforums.org/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 36,513

Bbpress

“bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean.”

http://bbpress.org/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 11,752

List of Social Community Tools

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:01 +0000

Social Community Tools are very similar to web master tools, your bands presence on the social communities can be managed, maintained and updated more quickly and easily with these tools. Some are specific to bands, some are general services that anyone can utilize to help them with their web presences . Take a look at the description and see if any of them will be useful to your bands social media strategies. Even if you do not think they will be of any help, why not come back in a few months with a new social marketing strategy that could employ such tools.

CoTweet

“CoTweet is a comprehensive Web-based social media engagement, management and reporting solution that helps companies of all sizes engage, track and analyze conversations about their brands across the most popular and influential social communities today, Twitter and Facebook.”

http://cotweet.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 7,061

Hootsuite
“HootSuite – Social Media Dashboard. With HootSuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles, schedule messages, and measure your success.”

http://hootsuite.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 590

KnowEm
“Protect your brand or username from Social Media Identity Theft. Is your name is still available at over 350 popular Social Networking websites? Promote your brand by selecting the right username.”

http://knowem.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 21,132

Hellotxt

“Hellotxt is the simple, Free way to read, update and organize your life on multiple social networks”

http://hellotxt.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 13,260

Tweetmeme
“TweetMeme finds the hottest stories from twitter for you to retweet”

http://tweetmeme.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 386

Artist Data

“ArtistData help artists publish information to a variety of destinations with a single point of entry. Social networks, official websites, and much more.”

http://www.artistdata.com/us/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 99,038

Ping.FM

“Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!”

http://ping.fm/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 1,340

List of Domain Registrars For Bands

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:13:30 +0000

Domain Registrars are the beginning of any web presence. Once the domain name is chosen, these are your first port of call. You will be able to check if they are available to purchase. If the domain is available, then that is great news and you will be ready to see where has a good customer base and support the cheapest available. Prices can range from 99p, if there are reductions and up to hundreds of pounds for a dot fm domain extension.

One quick tip for you, if you are still thinking about a band name, have a search on Google to see what else comes up and to see what competition there is for that name, phrase etc. If you’re going to name your band Microsoft then you will have an impossible challenge ahead getting in to the top 10 of Google’s rankings and any other search engine. Obviously this name will never be chosen by a band but is something to consider if you wish fans to find you through a search engine.

Go Daddy
“Register & transfer domains for less. Reliable hosting. Easy-to-use site builders. Affordable SSL certificates. eCommerce solutions. ICANN-accredited.”

http://www.godaddy.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 107

123-Reg
“Easy domain name registration with free homepage, including .co.uk, .com, & .eu domain names. Register your cheap domain names today.”

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 2709

OVH

“Entry level solutions for high availability hosting, OVH caters for your changing needs for high availability hosting”

www.ovh.co.uk

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 26,323

List of Band Business & Website Tools

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:51:43 +0000

Band Business Tools are not just utilized by bands, business’s moving from physical shops to online can use the following tools to help with market research, asking questions is a good place to start and with survey monkey you can do just that. They can help tremendously with time management and many other key areas when running a business online and offline. Evaluate and re-adjust where you invest your bands money and time. As long as these tools are being used correctly the better off your band and it’s ideas for monetizing your music output will be. Remember your band is a business and you need to treat your listeners as potential customers.

Take a look through the services we have listed below and see where they could help your band online and off.

Nimbit

“Nimbit provides the easiest solution for self-managed artists, managers, and emerging labels to take your music direct to the fans that love you, and to give fans more ways to support your career.”

http://www.nimbit.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 194,401

Root Music
“Finally Facebook has real bandpages!”

http://www.rootmusic.com/

Page Rank: 3

Alexa Rank: 123,584

Dropcards

“Dropcards creates music download cards for industry-leading music, film, television, video game and audio book companies as well as consumer brands.”

http://www.dropcards.com/home/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 193,062

CashMusic

“CASH Music is a nonprofit music tech foundation.”

Loads of free online web tools which are all open source.

www.cashmusic.org

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 387,743

List of Other Band Tools & Services – Setlist, Lyrics, Other Notifications

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:45:57 +0000

Setlist and Lyrics, although it’s important to put all the possible content you can into words and on your own website first, using these services will give you vital authoritative back links to your website that you will always need. The set list services are new to social communities and after a gig, including these information uploads in your routine will do no harm.

Some of the services allow your band to protect the lyrics you have created and are still able to be searched. The great thing about passing on content as valuable as this is that if it is searched and your Search Engine Optimization is yet to kick-in on the search engines you have the potential to be found from the likes of Google through these other services. In turn, placing a link to your website where the lyrics are to be found will keep fans coming to your bands website.

Setlist.fm
“Over 160,000 concert set lists of more than 11,500 artists including tour and song statistics, personal statistics, videos and much more.”

http://www.setlist.fm/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 17,348

Metro Lyrics
“Searchable lyrics database featuring 450000+ lyrics to almost 15,000 artists.”

http://www.metrolyrics.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 680

Lyrics Mode
“Lyrics – Comprehensive online lyrics resource featuring 800000+ lyrics for 45000+ artists.”

http://www.lyricsmode.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 1947

LyricFind

“Add lyrics search and display functionality to your web site, music service, and more!”

http://www.lyricfind.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 764,595

Blyper
“Blyper allows you to get notified when your favorite artist releases a new CD”

http://www.blyper.com/

Page Rank: 3

Alexa Rank: 7,119,898

Songsinc

“Songsinc allows your band to sell songs you have created without vocals to other song writers and bands who can then use them for their own ideas, you’ll even get royalties.”

www.songsinc.com

Page Rank: 3

Alexa Rank: 1,677,279

Your Band Is A Business, New Guide Update Soon

Martin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:35:44 +0000

Well, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy the couple of months I gave myself off from writing articles for Autonomous Industry. In the end I both enjoyed myself and wrote some very interesting pieces which I hope to be adding to this site in the forthcoming weeks.

I have had a few New Years Resolutions added to my routine specifically for music marketing, as after all it dictates what I will be doing in my spare time and hopefully sending my music projects and this site to newer visitors. One of them is to write a 200 word article, on whatever I want and hopefully mention the words ‘music’ and ‘marketing’ every month. So expect some random short summaries by myself from February through to November. This post will include February’s and also some news of which I and the rest at Autonomous Industry are very excited about.

So here is February’s blurb:

Your band, art and music is a business. No matter where you are in the world, this is an undeniable fact. I can bet that right now you are using Facebook as a self promotional tool, this you may not even realise. Just like the majority of bands out there who don’t know they have set up a business. They are sole traders, partnerships and/or limited companies, its all the same. Once you can conquer this thought, you are on your way to ‘setting and foregetting’ and then actually making the most of your sound. Now its just a case of keeping on top of our updates here at Autonomous Industry or other music marketing/promotional websites and utilizing the tools available within our directory. The 74 page guide is still available to follow which also leads on to our new release.

Next week, after six months of being a music marketing resource. Autonomous Industry will be releasing the 74 page guide as a PDF document. This will include new updates, tutorials and websites which we reckon will help mold your band for 2011 and beyond. We shall be updating you over the next few days so you can get the copy through whichever medium you wish.

List of Social Bookmarking Services For Your Bands Website

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:24:34 +0000

Social Bookmarking allows media of all formats, web pages or other possible viral content to be passed on. By the submission of an individual or getting it voted to a more popular status on the service. All of them vary in how to pass the information, some specific to certain types of media, web content & topic. The end idea is for users to organize, store, manage, share and share the websites they want. This can result in better search engine ranking position and much more!

Its now up to your band to see which services you wish to advertise to make sure the visitor of your site or potential fan uses such a service to help your bands authority online. You can check out how to get these on your website in the guide where we talk about social plugins for bands. As well as our forthcoming directory category regards these tools.

Stumbleupon

“StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 8 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you.”

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 181

Fileswap
“On this web site you can download things like nature photos, photos of people, wallpapers, audio files, animated icons, videos or even pdf and text files. Just upload one of your files and see what you get!”

http://www.file-swap.com/

Page Rank: 3

Alexa Rank: 362,407

Digg
“The best news, videos and pictures on the web as voted on by the Digg community. Breaking news on Technology, Politics, Entertainment, and more!”

http://digg.com/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 113

ShareThis
“See what friends are sharing in the real-time sharing stream, or get the sharing button for your site.”

http://sharethis.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 4528

AddThis
“AddThis is a free way to boost traffic back to your site by making it easier for visitors to share your content.”

http://www.addthis.com/

Page Rank: 9

Alexa Rank: 165

NoiseTrade
“Artists want to know, connect with, and be supported by music fans. Music fans want high-quality, free (or variably priced) music and to be rewarded, not punished, for sharing the music they love with their friends. We believe that if artists and fans work together, everyone can get what they want.”

https://www.noisetrade.com/

Page Rank:

Alexa Rank: 355,217

Delicious
“Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.”

http://www.delicious.com/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 301

GetGlue

“GetGlue is a social network for entertainment. Check-in and rate things to discover new favorites, see what your friends are into, get stickers and win free stuff.”

http://getglue.com/

Page Rank:7

Alexa Rank: 6,319

List of Music Marketing Resources

admin — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:12:08 +0000

Here are some Music Marketing resources, blogs and magazines which your band could definately benefit from if you want to enhance your promotion ideas, after completing our guide of course. A couple of the sites linked spawned the idea for Autonomous Industry many moons ago. So please add them to your RSS reader or subscribe by email.

They all have their own angle and niche in the ever evolving diy music marketing and promotion industry. Combined with Autonomous Industry, they could be the greatest resources for band promotion, record label management, internet marketer, brand creator, i could keep going. They are just all great information points and my personal 2010 diy music marketing bookmarks. Here is our RSS link just incase you wish to add ours http://feeds.feedburner.com/AutonomousIndustry

Passive Promotion

http://passivepromotion.com/feed

“Passive Promotion focuses on set it and forget it methods of music promotion, along with a few tips on mixing, brought to you by a mastering engineer and recording artist.”

Fanagement

http://feeds.feedburner.com/fanagement

“Fan Focused Music Marketing”

Into The Music Biz

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IntoTheMusic

“Contemporary Engagement & Enterprise”

Mr Foggs Log

http://foggslog.wordpress.com/feed/

GigHive – The Buzz

http://gighive.com/the-buzz/feed/

“The Buzz – Empowering the Independent Movement…One Artist at a Time | Giving Indie Artists a Voice in the Process”

DIY Musician – CDBaby

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DIYMusicianBlog

“Moving Your Music Forward”

Lawyer 4 Musicians

http://lawyer4musicians.com/feed/

A team of lawyers which help independent bands and musicians.

GrassRootsy

http://grassrootsy.com/feed

“Grassroots marketing for independent artists”

Music Think Tank

http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/rss.xml/

http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/rss.xml/

“A group blog bringing together key thinkers in the realm of online music business.”

Artist House Music

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArtistsHouseMusic

“Helping musicians and music entrepreneurs create sustainable careers.”

Echoes Insight for Independent Musicians

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/discmakersblog

“Providing insight for independent musicians on the music business, album promotion, CD sales and releases, and much more.”

Hypebot

http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/DqMf

“Music technology and the new music business.”

Musicians Cooler

http://feeds.feedburner.com/mcpodcast

“A podcast by musicians for musicians trading advice about getting more fans, more gigs, and more sales. We talk gear, marketing strategies, and Internet tools.”

Eleet Music

http://eleetmusic.com/?feed=rss2

“Marketing digital music”

Musformation

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/musformation/EquX

“The Daily DIY Guide To The New Music Business”

Unsigned Band Promotion

http://feeds.feedburner.com/unsignedbandpromotion/GrKP

“unsigned band promotion – bands resources include a free website and promotion package check with how to promote your name, gigs and music.”

Making It In Music

http://feeds.feedburner.com/makingitinmusic

“Welcome to Making It In Music – the blog for the serious musician who continually strives to further their music career.”

Music Marketing

http://feeds.musicmarketing.com/MusicBusiness

“How to Sell More Music, Get More People to Your Shows, and Make More Money in the Music Business…”

The Indie Guide

http://blog.indieguide.com/?feed=rss2

“Practical Music advice that you can use from the Authors of the Indie Band Survival Guide”

Music 3Point 0

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Music30

The blog behind the book “Music 3.0 – A Survival Guide For Making Music In The Internet Age” by Bobby Owsinski.

Sandbox FM

http://www.sandbox.fm/feed/

“Digital music marketing.”

The Syn

http://feeds.feedburner.com/synblog

“Music & Entertainment Marketing”

List of Band Web Master Tools

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:43:50 +0000

Web Master Tools range from organizational tools, time management services to URL shorteners and much more. The list below can help make your website or promotion routines slightly easier. We have included in our 74 page music marketing guide the full instructions on setting up your own free Google Apps account for your band. Find out more about what Google Apps and some of the other services can offer your band in the guide.

Some of the tools will help interactivity within your website, Wibiya has its social bar and Mibbit offer free chat rooms. Some go as far as helping with the creation of your website, using the File Transfer Protocol tool FilzeZilla you can control the content that is uploaded to your hosting and website.

Google Apps
“Get constant enterprise innovation with Google, saving your company the time, money and hassles of managing these IT solutions yourself.”

http://www.google.com/apps/

Page Rank: 1

Alexa Rank: 1

bit.ly
“bit.ly, a simple url shortener…Shorten, Share and Track your links”

http://bit.ly/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 157

Bloggy bits
“BloggyBits is a flash widget that helps you show your latest activity on your favorite social sites right at your blog or site. Create your widget for free!”

http://bloggybits.com/

Page Rank: 4

Alexa Rank: 811,702

Wibiya
“Add this free web toolbar to draw traffic & integrate a great variety of web applications. Wibiya web toolbar is great for blogs, web publishers, e-commerce sites and more”

http://www.wibiya.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 3368

Mibbit
“Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.”

http://www.mibbit.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 16,294

Polldaddy
“Set up an online survey in minutes and start collecting responses in real-time! Conduct your customer surveys with Polldaddy to get a better handle on how well you’re serving them.”

http://polldaddy.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 5313

Survey.io
“Get started with customer development for free by creating your own initial customer development survey below.”

http://survey.io/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 202,462

Classicftp
“Classic FTP Uploading Software – Classic FTP is an easy to use ftp client that allows you to view, edit, upload, download and delete files from a remote server (website) or network for free.”

http://classic-ftp-uploading-software.nch-software.qarchive.org/

Page Rank: 2

Alexa Rank: 6787

FileZilla
“FileZilla, the free FTP solution, both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License”

http://filezilla-project.org/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 3894

FreeFTP
“FreeFTP is a Windows FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet.”

http://www.freeftp.com/

Page Rank: 4

Alexa Rank: 652,291

Cool FTP
“Cool FTP is a user friendly and full featured FTP client. Cool FTP includes many great fetures. Cool FTP is easy to learn and fun to use.”

http://cool-ftp.findmysoft.com/

Page Rank: 3

Alexa Rank: 7532

List of Image Hosting Services

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:46:39 +0000

Image Hosting services can provide a great repetoir of tools for your music images and band photos. Saving on transfer bandwidth is a great benefit we mention about most of the media hosting tools and services available online. Images embedded on to your site will work exactly the same as if you hosted them yourself. Tagging the images well will improve the amount of views your images get on the service and possibly increase traffic to your own site.

Other great benefits of image hosting services is uploading content on the fly, whether at a gig , or recording some new music in the studio, after taking the photo you can instantaneously upload that image, categorize, tag and comment. It will be there for the world to see and if that service is linked to your website, it will automatically be added to any albums or slideshow you have embedded. It’s up to your band to keep the images flowing with the majority of mobile phones having cameras.

Picasa

“Picasa will help you find and organize your photos, and with one click you can upload photos directly to Picasa Web Albums”

http://picasaweb.google.com/

Page Rank:

Alexa Rank:

Photobucket
“Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.”

http://photobucket.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 67

Deviant Art
“Art – community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.”

http://www.deviantart.com/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 116

Flickr
“Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.”

http://www.flickr.com/

Page Rank: 9

Alexa Rank: 34

Twitpic

“TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter in real-time.”

http://twitpic.com/

Page Rank: 8

Alexa Rank: 106