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ELECTROGARDEN.com Launches Indie Music Portal and Social Network

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 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 [...]

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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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When Boredom Strikes - Why Your Profiles are more than Just a Hobby

Your MySpace profile is more than just a hobby. It is the quintessential tool in your online music marketing campaign. For that reason, you must treat is as such and make sure to remain as active in updating, monitoring, and using that profile as possible. Your profile must straddle a very thin line between a [...]

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5Feb2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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The Top 10 Music Social Networks

There are a lot of social networks online and more are created each and every day to compete in niches such as dating, pet owners, and sports fans. Knowing which ones will provide you with the resources and interaction you need to market your music is hard.
To help you get started in that process, here [...]

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4Feb2008 | maxlowe | 15 comments | Continued
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5 Ways a Blog Turns Your Boring Profile into an Interactive Marketing Machine

Let’s face it - a MySpace profile with a few songs and a basic event calendar is just plain boring. It might draw in new friends, but if you don’t offer something more, will they stay on your friends list for very long? On the other end of the stick, if you blanket them with bulletin updates and comments on their profile, they might decide you are annoying and remove you just as easily. What is a band to do?

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3Feb2008 | maxlowe | 3 comments | Continued
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Why Giving Your Music Away Through Social Networks Works

The Internet is a great tool to spread your music and the idea that you want to make money from it is of course first and foremost in any musician’s mind. But, there has been a recent kick lately from major artists around the world such as Prince and Radiohead to give away their music and it might have you a little nervous about the future of the music industry and the viability of making money online with your music.

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18Jan2008 | maxlowe | 2 comments | Continued
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Why Mashable Should be in Your Blog Feed

Blog feeds are one of the most essential and elementary tools you should have in hand when you start marketing your music online. They are easy to setup, easier to check on a daily basis and full of invaluable information that will quite literally make you more successful.

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17Jan2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Friends: How Your MySpace Profile Pic Can Make Or Break Your Friends List

You think your picture looks pretty good, don’t you? That mid air dive from the stage during a recent show makes your band look hardcore enough to draw in the fans that you know will go to every show and wait rabidly for your next single.But, what about everyone else? The beauty of MySpace is that any band in any genre has the freedom and ability to take on fans of any age and background. No one falls into those easy little definitions anymore and neither should your band. So, why would you lock yourself into a specific image with your profile picture?

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16Jan2008 | maxlowe | 2 comments | Continued
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