The Music Biz Buzz with Duss Rodgers

Music Marketing Pt 2 – Industry Guide To The Music Business

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The importance of mailing lists and how to do them. Marketing 101 for Artists! GREAT! This series is Taken directly from private meetings and seminars between Artists and Labels.

Effective Independent Music Marketing

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Bob Baker speaks on "The New Rules of Internet Music Marketing." But here are three timeless principles that apply to all music promotion, regardless of the technology or era.

How to Become an Artist Manager

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Street Level Network spoke exclusively to Jonathan Shalit about how to get into the music industry... Jonathan Shalit has a remarkable personal reputation as an innovative manager of talent and their ideas. Following a successful career in marketing working with globally recognised brands, Jonathan has worked with literally some of ...

The Music Biz Buzz Podcast – Episode #05 – Good To Great

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I'm back and comin' at cha with a very insightful and helpful bit of info you can put into action immediately and for your sake I hope you do. If you commit this to your daily regimen there's no way you can fail... and that's the point right! Success in ...

Promoting Your Music on Amazon.com

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Promoting Your Music at Amazon.com by Marc Gunn of the Brobdingnagian Bards... I remember a while back reading David Nevue's book, "How to Successfully Promote Your Music the the Internet". In it he threw out a cool suggestion for increasing the searchability of your band. His suggestion was to write a review of ...

Frank Zappa Quote

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If it wasn't for rap there would be no poetry in America. I think we went from Walt Whitman to Ice-T. - Frank Zappa to Jon Winokur

What’s The Deal With Social Networking?

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Social networking websites, over the past few years, have rapidly increased in popularity. In fact their growth has been so fast that many are wondering why... If you have used a social networking website before, it is likely that you are already aware of how popular they are and the reason ...

Benny Carter Quote

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Let go of that hate in your heart, it will kill you quicker than cancer. - Benny Carter (Saxophonist and Composer)

Madonna Quote

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I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is... therefore I feel free to take risks. - Madonna

James Brown Quote

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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Back, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1001 tunes... I wrote 5500. - James Brown

A Music Business Plan Is Indeed In Need!

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So you’ve got the guys or gals together and you’re starting the next best music thing since the The Beatles. You’re guitarist is slamming riffs down like Fat Albert at an all you can eat breakfast buffet, your bass player is shaking your mom’s windows to the core, your drummer ...

Oscar Wilde Quote

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. - Oscar Wilde

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

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Ed Gardner Quote

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he sings. - Ed Gardner

Online Music Marketing – New Course

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Instructor Mike King talks about his new online course, Online Music Marketing: Campaign Strategies, Social Media, and Digital Distribution. This course takes an in-depth look at the tools and emerging technologies artists can use to generate interest in their music, acquire new fans, and sell their music online. Learn more: http://bit.ly/6xQ9TS

Marketing Meets New Media SXSW 2009

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As the ultimate convergence of the music, film and interactive industries, there is no better place to market your brand than at SXSW. As this unique panelist discussion from 2009 aptly illustrates, SXSW is a unique union of new media, marketing and social networking. The synergetic confluence on display ...

Tina Turner Quote

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I spent, let's see, thirty-five years in America performing. I've already done it in America; they remember me. I've done some good stuff there. So, now, I'm in another part of the world. If you're not successful in your own country, go where your success is. - Tina Turner

Jeff Clayton Quote

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The definition of success is start at the top and work your way down to the bottom. - Jeff Clayton, Saxophonist

Expand Your Musicianship… Expand Your Income!!!

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I’m always discussing ways musicians can make more money as artists or as a complete band but I’ve come to realize that I very rarely, if ever, dip into how a musician can make a living as a session player or a fill in member for other bands... Not that I’ve ...

Integrated Music Marketing Campaign

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Berklee Music instructor Mike King explains the main elements of an integrated music marketing campaign.