Archive for the ‘Music Marketing’ Category
Major League Affiliate Music Marketing
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A few weeks ago I sparked the conversation on Internet Music Marketing, or how musicians need to start thinking like the Internet Marketing crowd in order to really capture data and sell their music online. What sparked was a really cool conversation on promoting other people’s stuff via affiliate marketing. This is by no means the official guide, but a way to make some money by promoting offers to your fans via your mailing list or your blogs, Twitter accounts, etc.
How to Use Social Bookmarking Sites for Big Traffic
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Sites like propeller.com, digg.com, stumbleupon.com and other social bookmarking sites can give you a huge traffic. How about having 30,000 or more visitors everyday when your website is on the front page. Here are some useful tips on how to get huge traffic from these social bookmarking sites:
Music Marketing That’s Made-To-Stick
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Everybody these days wants to create buzz. They want to grab people’s attention on a large scale. And they want to do it sooner rather than later.
Therefore, everyone wants to know the secret steps they can take to ensure their marketing idea sticks — that it gains traction and reaches the people who need to hear it the most.
How to Promote Your Music on Last.fm
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Promoting your music online these days is meant to be easy – but due to the sheer number of sites out there it might not always seem that way. This is a brief guide to why Last.fm should be one of the main sites you use to promote yourself, and how to get the most [...]
How Bands Can Avoid Making 7 Big SEO Mistakes
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There is an entire school of thought, as well as a sizable industry, dedicated to the optimization of websites to show up higher in Google search rankings. Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques vary from simple content changes to tricks that game Google’s system, referred to as “black hat” SEO. Optimization can be a complex topic — read Mark Glaser’s article 9 Tips to Improve Search Engine Optimization to get a good feel for the process.
The Time is Right for Direct-To-Fan Marketing of Music
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As the music industry continues to evolve and search for a sustainable and profitable business model, the direct-to-fan (D2F) approach is making great advances, from artists just starting their career up to superstars with massive fan bases.
Getting Publicity – Use Hype Machine To Find Blogs That Will Blog About Your Music
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Some people find Hype Machine to be a deplorable place where blogs are robbed of the glory of finding new songs. If you are like me you find it to be the greatest thing that ever happened to easily finding music by the groups you like. Aside from being able to easily find tracks by your favorite indie artists it also acts as a great way to find blogs that would be potentially in to your music (pending you are in the genres that are covered in their site). As anyone knows getting blogged about these days is one of the ways to getting into good graces of the Internet elite. Follow me to the jump and I will show you how it’s done.
How Indie Bands Should Be Using D2F Marketing
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Inspired by Mike Masnick’s recent NARM talk, I thought I’d provide yet another example of a band that has used the direct-to-fan (D2F) channel to connect with their fans (CwF), give them a reason to buy (RtB) and have not only made money, but earned thousands of fans in a matter of days.
Automatic SEO Links and Music Marketing:
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Search engine optimization is a very critical part of your music marketing campaign. What active efforts are you taking to strengthen your keywords? I asked myself this same question and tried different ways to keep a continuous effort towards improvement. Keyword research involves planning for future stability in blog traffic.
Google Analytics provides some of the best free web analytics
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Google Analytics provides some of the best free web analytic tools on the web. You can view a detailed breakdown of your visitors by country, type of browser, and how they found your site.