Musician’s Guide to Marketing Plans: Planning Your Music Release – Part 2
These Musician Marketing Plan posts are the most popular series on this site. They are fully updated for 2024. Do you have a plan for your next music release? This can be a single, a music video, an EP, or an album. In our most popular series, The Musician’s Guide to...
Building an Effective & Affordable Music Website
A lot of artists find the idea of building a music website daunting. It can be expensive, and is it really necessary with Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, Apple Music, Bandsintown, Linktr.ee, and all the other profiles you need to manage? In a word, yes. While a huge...
The Musician’s Guide to Music Conferences
Thinking about taking your music career to the next level? Well, one of the best moves you can make is to step out from behind your screen and step into the vibrant world of music conferences. These gatherings aren't just about schmoozing or handing out business...
Best Tips For Live Streaming in 2024
By now most of us have tried live streaming performances. Even in a world beyond the pandemic, not every artist can readily perform at bars, festivals, or events. For those reluctantly turning to live streams, the landscape has evolved and lucky for you, it's for the...
Your Fan Journey Probably Sucks – Here’s How to Fix it
What is A Fan's Journey? A fan's journey is when a fan or potential fan first finds out about you. It's the journey they go on to discover you and what helps them become engaged fans. This fan journey may start on Google, Spotify, SoundCloud, or Instagram. The word...
Crowdfunding Tips for Musicians
Every great endeavor starts with a strong foundation. Crowdfunding is no different. In fact, it requires so much preparation that I wrote a whole book about crowdfunding called CROWDSTART. You can download a free chapter here if you'd like, and read on for some of my...
How To Build Your Crowdfunding Team
Building Your Crowdfunding Team - A Musician's Guide This is an excerpt from my best-selling book CROWDSTART which is a book that will help you run a successful crowdfunding campaign, While researching, I came across many articles that gave the same advice on...
Crowdfund Campaign: Using It On Your Next Album
Ariel Hyatt was a special guest on Kristine Mirelle's program Music Hustler. The two break down crowdfunding, how and why artists should start a crowdfund campaign, and the perks of purchasing Ariel's book Crowdstart. Ariel provides listeners with great advice on...
5 Music Crowdfunding Myths – Busted!
You're excited about your next project, am I right? And to celebrate, maybe you're thinking about crowdfunding to raise money. Or, perhaps you've run campaigns before with less than ideal results and now you're trying to figure out what went wrong and how to avoid it...
5 Fabulous Fundraising Platforms For Musicians
You have a range of choices when it comes to crowdfunding your next project and building a strong, supportive community of fans. Yes there are the traditional crowdfunding platforms and we'll talk about those—but there are also other platforms that can help you raise...