Viral Marketing
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 | ContinuedViral Marketing for Beginners - What every Music Marketer Should Know
You’ve probably heard the term “viral marketing” more than a few times in the past. It’s bandied about enough these days. It is an extremely important and highly viable means by which you can actively engage an audience well beyond your own. Unfortunately, it is also very hard to know when a viral marketing concept […]
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14Apr2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | Continued7 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 | ContinuedYouTube Insight: Great for Bands and Musicians!
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 do any viral or other video promotion of your music.
This post on the YouTube blog announcing the Insight release describes the analytics service as “a free tool that enables anyone with […]
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28Mar2008 | maxlowe | 0 comments | ContinuedBandarazzi Goes Viral on MySpace
Back from a month’s worth of vacation and what better way to get back into the game with than a post about a (very?) successful viral marketing effort by California based A Cursive Memory.
I stumbled across this campaign in a post titled ‘Music Videos and Viral Marketing‘ from the folks at musicmarketing.com.
Check out the post […]
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20Feb2008 | maxlowe | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy 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 | 1 comment | Continued5 Tricks They Didn’t Teach You in Music Marketing 101 That Will Change the Way You Think About Promoting Your Music Online
The Internet is a whole new world of promotional opportunities. Essentially everything you thought you knew about the business can be thrown out the window when you log into MySpace or any of a dozen other social networks to find new fans. Those bands that fail to make the essential adjustment are doomed to fail until they realize just how different everything is. For the rest of you, here are 5 essential tips that help you look beyond the basics of Music Marketing to find what you can really accomplish online.
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