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The Ultimate Guide to Promoting Your Music Online: A shameless plug for my book…

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!The world of online independent music marketing is getting more confusing every day. Sometimes it’s difficult for busy independent artists to quickly learn the […]

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21Apr2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued
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MySpace teams up with Major Labels, Screws Indie Artists?

At least that’s my take on the new MySpace music site reported to be taking shape in the New York Times yesterday.
According to the NYT:
Visitors to the site will be able to listen to free streaming music, paid for with advertising, and share customized playlists with their friends. They will also be able to download […]

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4Apr2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued
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What Digg and Social Bookmarking Can Do For Your Music

When social networking was originally created in the 1990s, no one knew that it would become the indelibly powerful marketing force that it now is. The growth of new technologies in the early 2000s made it possible for sites like MySpace to become so incredibly massive that their populations would rank them amongst the top […]

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2Apr2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued
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7 Tips to Writing a Crowd Drawing MySpace Blog

So, you’ve decided to create a blog on MySpace - one of the single most effective ways to draw an audience to your profile. Before you get started, it is important that you know exactly what seven things you can do to ensure that crowd shows up though - otherwise, you will be left scratching […]

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2Apr2008 | maxlowe | 3 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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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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ELECTROGARDEN.com Launches Indie Music Portal and Social Network

The folks over at ELECTROGARDEN.com moved their site into its next phase yesterday when they announced they’ve finished more than a year’s worth of beta testing and design.
Although they’ve been around since 1999, we have yet to see whether this site will be able to attract listeners and fans over and above artists themselves.
Here’s an […]

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21Feb2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | Continued
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Sell More CDs - How to Increase Your CD Release Success by 600%!

I usually limit myself to a post a day, but I couldn’t wait to point out this post titled “Study: Blogs Trump MySpace for Selling Music” by Mack Collier over at mpdailyfix.com.
He’s talking about this study from NYU’s Stern School of Business that found blogging has a positive impact on the success of a CD […]

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20Feb2008 | maxlowe | 4 comments | Continued
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