10 Things to Do Before You Release Your Album

Monthly Archives: March 2010

10 Things to Do Before You Release Your Album

Following are, in no particular order, 10 important things you should do before you release your album: 1. If you are hiring musicians (background singers, instrumentalists, etc.) to play on your album, you will need to make sure they fill out a musicians release agreement or talent release form. This agreement is not necessary for [...]

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Website Salesmanship – Is Your Website Selling You?

Website Salesmanship maximizes your website’s ability to help your customers, fans and clients zoom in on the information they need to book your act or buy your CDs. This series of tips will help you review your website to discover how well your website is selling you or your products. Begin by focusing on the [...]

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The top 10 blunders independent artists make with their web presence

Where ever they are are on the web, there are simple blunders that artists, bands and labels make on their websites, MySpace, Facebook and other social media that turns away potential new fans and stops potential sales of their music. After visiting many artist websites, we found 4-5 of these easy to rectify issues on [...]

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WordPress websites for musicians…

This guest post comes from KnowTheMusicBiz.com… One of the most important aspects of being a musician these days is trying to understand how to efficiently use the web to promote your tunes to people in the hopes of creating a rabid fanbase. Unfortunately, most do not understand the underlying principles of how to use your [...]

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SXSW Recap: Days 3-5

The hurricane that is SXSW intensifies ’round about Thursday, reaches full strength by Friday, and sends most hipsters running for the safe harbor by Saturday.  This was exactly what happened to Nimbit.  Our new website launched on Wednesday, and when we hit SXSW, lots of people were quite excited to see us.  We really were [...]

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SXSW Recap: Day 2 …

The beauty of being at SXSW on the second day is that you have the ability to wake up in the same place you started at the day before.  Admittedly, you’re still working on a couple hours of sleep, waking up with a hangover, and repeating the cycle, but at least there’s no airports and [...]

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SXSW Recap: Day 1 ….

When you’re sitting in your office, and it’s all cold and dark, you think “yeah, I’m gonna get to Austin and see this, talk to them, do that, and drink lots of beer, and hear all these bands, and who needs sleep, right?” That usually lasts for about a day.  Then you start to remember [...]

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The DIY Guide to Submitting Your Songs to Anyone in the Music Industry

Cliff Goldmacher is a songwriter/engineer/producer/author and owner of recording studios in Nashville and New York City.  Cliff’s articles have been published in EQ, Recording and ProSound News magazines and his eBook “The Songwriter’s Guide To Recording Professional Demos” is available as a free download from his site http://www.cliffgoldmacher.com/ebook. So you’ve written a great song, made [...]

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From Vinyl to Cassettes to CDs to MP3s to…

The world is jumping on the digital bandwagon.  A recent study by mint.com found that digital music now currently encompasses 36% of music sales thus far in 2009 (up from 30% last year).  The rise in digital sales is of no great surprise to anyone. With near-instant delivery and massive portability, digital music (mp3s, FLAC, [...]

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Sam Bush Television – A Webcasting Success Story

Today’s guest post is written by Craig Havenhurst of String Theory Media… Yesterday I gave a talk at the chaotic and slightly surreal but hospitable Broadway club Cadillac Ranch during a session at PodCamp, an annual free gathering of digital content creators and facilitators. The title, as above: Sam Bush Television – A Webcasting Success [...]

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