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This should be fun… I’ve got 10 free passes to the Virtual Music Conference, at which I’m going to be a speaker. It takes place this coming week Feb 26 – 28 and It will consist of 3 days of live high-level music industry networking, education, live artist showcases, business development and more! Everything takes [...]

This past Thursday, my compadre Scott James (from websitesforrockstars.com) and I, held a live music marketing summit / webinar / coaching call / whatever-you-wanna-call it, to discuss the state of the music industry in 2013. More importantly we opened up the phone lines and discussed YOUR music careers and the various obstacles many of you [...]

Today I’d like to share a resource with you guys that only came to my attention recently. It’s called RadioGuestList.com and it’s essentially a no-cost back door to getting radio publicity and exposure. In a nutshell, RGL is a service that connects radio show bookers, podcasters, talk radio show hosts and even television producers with…[Read more]

Okay, first things first… This post is about two weeks overdue. My apologies there. Secondly, if you have not yet read Part 1 in the “How To Make More Money For Each Album Sold”, please do so before proceeding. You can find it here. Alrighty then. With that out of the way… In the recent [...]

In today’s Q&A we were asked by one of our subscribers about what we feel are some of the best landing page practices for musicians. If you’ve been following Music Marketing Manifesto for any stretch of time, you know that we feel the absolute best landing page practice is to use what’s known as “squeeze [...]

Just a little catch up first for anyone who is new here and still unclear about what makes the marketing strategy we focus on at MMM a bit different from what musicians typically do… Music Marketing Manifesto is based on a strategy that is known in marketing circles as “direct response marketing”. Instead of simply [...]

Every now again we come across students of Music Marketing Manifesto, who are totally putting in the work that is required for success, but get a little stuck when the results are not as positive as they would like to see.  Such is the case for our Estonian friend, Joonas K., who wrote to us [...]

Recently I reported on Amanda Palmer’s astonishing Kickstarter success, when the indie artist raised over 1.2 million dollars to help promote her upcoming album/book release. However many readers pointed out that Amanda Palmer is by no means your average musician. She has a major label past, a huge following, managers, publicists, and a reportedly…[Read more]

This post was contributed by guest author, Paul Hudson. It wasn’t so very long ago that the thought of your music being online usually meant that it was being illegally downloaded at sites like Napster and Kazaa, and while musical piracy still happens and always will, there is a real solid base of online buyers. [...]

Recently I was going through my stats for the Music Marketing Manifesto blog and saw something really depressing under “search engine terms”. Take a look at a query that brought someone to my site… Dude! How much does that suck? As musicians we all dread that potential “end of the line”, where (God forbid), we [...]

It’s no secret that itunes has single handedly forced the record store into extinction. Therefore, if you’re a musician it goes with out saying that you you’re going to want to sell your music on itunes and get access to their enormous international audience. Fortunately this is not difficult to do. In fact any independent [...]

In this weeks Music Marketing Manifesto Podcastwe’ve got a really special guest. His name is Sean Mize. Sean happens to be the number #2 article marketer in the world (by volume), and he happens to be one of just a small handful of guys that I consider to have been major contributors to my success [...]

There once was a time when being a rock star meant cultivating a JD Salinger-esque persona and keeping the public at arms length. I don’t think I’ve ever admitted this to anyone, but years ago I used to have several fake “assistants” to help me deal with my fan mail because I just didn’t think [...]

One of the things I’ve noticed while researching various topics for articles and blog posts is the lack of reliable statistics relating to independent musicians. It’s easy enough to pull up statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America but their data is largely related to what is happening in the main stream of the [...]

It’s a little talked about secret that most musicians exaggerate when it comes to their stats. Hell, most straight up lie. Show of hands, who here is celebrating their 6th 29th birthday? That’s what I thought… Well, with all of the vague, convoluted and outdated stats floating around on the internet about the music industry, [...]

Gmail Canned Response is a really helpful add on from Gmail Labs. I didn’t know this feature even existed until a few weeks ago and I have already implemented it on all of my many inboxes. It’s massive time saver. Watch this video and see how Gmail Canned Response works. For more music marketing tips [...]

Gmail Canned Response is a really helpful add on from Gmail Labs. I didn’t know this feature even existed until a few weeks ago and I have already implemented it on all of my many inboxes. It’s massive time saver. Watch this video and see how Gmail Canned Response works. For more music marketing tips [...]

Gmail Canned Response is a really helpful add on from Gmail Labs. I didn’t know this feature even existed until a few weeks ago and I have already implemented it on all of my many inboxes. It’s massive time saver. Watch this video and see how Gmail Canned Response works. For more music marketing tips [...]

Gmail Canned Response is a really helpful add on from Gmail Labs. I didn’t know this feature even existed until a few weeks ago and I have already implemented it on all of my many inboxes. It’s massive time saver. Watch this video and see how Gmail Canned Response works. For more music marketing tips [...]