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YouTube Insight: Great for Bands and Musicians!

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Be sure to enter your band in our Socially Awesome Band of the Week contest and thanks for visiting!In case you haven’t already caught on, YouTube launched their Insight service on Wednesday and it has some rich potential for you if you [...]

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28Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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Meet The Darcys

Meet The Darcys. You’ll be glad you did.
These up-and-coming Canadian indie-rockers (#5 on Clash Magazine’s Top 10 New Canadian Acts) are using all the right tools to maximize their presence and build a growing fanbase online.
Here’s their latest YouTube video:
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20Mar2008 | maxlowe | 5 comments | Continued
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Don’t even think about becoming an artist without reading this article.

Kevin Kelly has published the most up to date and articulate expression of the economics behind the new music industry I can find anywhere.

In his post titled ‘1000 True Fans’, Kelly puts the power of social networking into dollar terms for your band.

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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Band Promotion 101 - Back to Basics

I’ve been meaning to write a post about the essential steps to the bigger ’system’ of the new music industry, not just the online component that we talk about alot on this blog.

Turns out Jimmy Shelter has already said it better than I ever could.

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued
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Read Tour Smart by Martin Atkins Now!

I thought I’d take a minute to switch from the regular topic of online music promotion to the tried and true offline epitome of breaking your band at the grassroots - touring.

Take a look at Martin Atkins’ Tour Smart, a must have book of touring secrets every artist should read before heading on tour. I bring this up because a lot of you have been talking to me about ideas for promoting your summer tour on the internet.

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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Touring? List your gigs on your Wordpress blog with Gigpress!

If I thought it was possible, I would confess to being madly in love with this plugin designed for any band using the Wordpress platform for their website.

Calling itself ‘tour management for Wordpress’, Gigpress gives you a powerful way to manage your upcoming gig calendar whether you’re playing a few shows a year or doing [...]

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Write a Band Bio for the Web

Your band’s biography is the essential welcoming point that connects your band’s profile, website, and music to a new visitor when they first visit one of your pages. You want that biography to be as detailed and interesting as possible. The wrong message can either bore or worry away new visitors while the right message can convince them to stick around and listen to a few more tracks. Here are a few tips to nailing that band bio the first time through:

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 5 comments | Continued
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Using Squidoo to Become an Instant Expert and Grow Your Social Networking Interaction

The Internet has too many social networks already. It is full of blogs, social bookmarking sites, and clever little Web 2.0 outlets that allow you to interact with people all over the world. Basically, if someone thought of something that could be done on the Internet, at least one person has tried to create a social network to make it happen. The result is a massive web of sites that are generally all very similar, but still quite powerful.

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19Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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