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Disc Makers and TAXI present "Achieving Success With Your Music: Hard-hitting tips on marketing, A&R, record labels, and more"

Both Evinar and Gyroskope are services that musicians can use to monetize streaming video. Evinar focuses on livestreaming via Facebook while Gyroskope features videos for which customers pay to st...

In this clip Jeffrey Brabec, Vice President of Business Affairs for the Chrysalis Music Group, talks about two types of publishing deals. The first is the writer deal. A writer agrees to deliver a ...

Chris Hacker here, I create Marketing Plans for artists at Cyber PR® and really enjoy working with my many clients. I've noticed a huge problem though. Artists call the Cyber PR® offices all the ti...

While reading a recent set of tips for turning your fans into superfans, I was struck by how the list and related explanations made it sound like they were describing how to build a cult. If that s...

FanCulture: The Evolution of Influence is a nearly 30-minute documentary focused on the relationship of brands with their fans. Created by Amplify, an agency specializing in "brand strategy, ...

Guest post by Valeria Bornstein of Fame House Pinterest has quickly become one of the fastest growing social media sites, now boasting over 11.7 million unique visitors per month and 17.8 million r...

So you added a blog on your website, posted a "Welcome to my blog" post and it's been collecting dust ever since huh? Between making music, practicing, setting up gigs, promoting your music, and (p...

Image: Voxphoto/Flickr By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm In the early days of Web 1.0 beta (i.e., the '90s), most of us who were paying attention thought music middlemen were on their way out. Techn...

The industry's addiction with likes, friends, and followers is reaching junkie status. So maybe this is a step towards recovery.  Or, at least a little more balance: according to a new findin...

Artists tend to be creative people. We write music, create dazzling visions of art, and express sentiments in the most unique ways. However, when it comes to promoting our art, something else happe...

Recently both Hypebot and Music Think Tank posted a number of interviews with music supervisors and related industry figures on getting your music placed in movies, tv, video games and commercials....

There's plenty of advice out there for booking a tour. In fact, I've written on it a few times (including this step-by-step guide). People generally talk about the same kind of stuff: how to approa...

If you're new to independent travel, or even if you're not, the need to plan and book everything yourself can some times seem daunting.  You often need to book different parts of the tr...

After our recent post about getting music placed in video games, we had a bunch of requests to find out also about the same process for advertising. We spoke with James Alvich from MAS (Music and S...

As a consumer, you are blasted with the same request over and over, "Follow Us on Twitter, Like Us on Facebook" As a consumer however it is more than natural to ask why should I or what's in it for...

Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site. Don't label songs "Demo", "Rough Mix", "Unmastered" or anything in ...

First of Real Industry Talk's presentations.  Basic information on Copyright, Split Sheets, PRO's, Establishing your business.  You can download presentation of Music Industry Business ...