Indie Max 100: Category 3 – Recording & Releasing Material
30: Create Amazing Music - Recorded and Live Creating amazing songs/music and putting on a killer live show. That is the number one thing an artist needs to do. 🙂 - Emily White 31: Record and Release (LOTS OF) Music No excuse exists with today's technology to wait...
Indie Max 100: Category 4 – Performance
38: Learn How to Rehearse You know the rules to get a song on radio intro/ verse/ chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ chorus, 3 1/2 minutes long, etc. But live those rules change...it's a different medium. You need to find the moments in the songs and develop them during a...
Indie Max 100: Category 5 – Social Media
53: Have A Killer Website at Your Custom Domain URL Create a webpage that lures in the "just looking" visitors and gets them to upgrade to level 2 of your site when they give you're their email / contacts. The level 2 experience of your site should be enhanced from...
Indie Max 100: Category 6 – Online Resources (Where to Submit)
69: Tell Them It's Okay To Share With Creative Commons Licensing Copyright law is clear: Your songs are yours. But what if you want to tell people it's okay to share your music, or use it for noncommercial purposes, as long as they attribute you? Enter...
Indie Max 100: Category 7 – Making Money
89: Consider Fan Financed Recordings/Projects As the fan base grows, so does their desire to see an artist succeed. Last year, Shane wanted to record and went out to the fans for support. See www.teamtrance.com. This effort raised just over $34,000 in just 60 days. -...
Contributors To The Indie Maximum 100
Bob Baker is an author, indie musician and former music magazine editor dedicated to showing musicians of all kinds how to get exposure, connect with fans, sell more music, and make more money. He is a touring speaker and the author of The Guerrilla Music Marketing...
THE 2008 BILLBOARD MAXIMUM EXPOSURE LIST
September 27, 2008 Billboard Staff It wasn't so long ago that a comprehensive promo plan meant working a record to radio and maybe buying ads in the local alternative paper when a band went on tour. This may sound quaint, or maybe, if your job depends on successfully...
We Are On HYPEBOT: Move Over Billboard: Here Comes Ariel Hyatt And Friends’ "Indie Maximum Exposure List"
When I read "BILLBOARD’S 2009 MAXIMUM EXPOSURE LIST" a few weeks ago, I thought The Onion had taken control of the venerable music trade magazine with a satirical piece. "Today the ways artists can promote their music have proliferated so rapidly that it can be hard...
In Defense of 1,000 True Fans – Mountain Goats – Part I
Since I started my career in this business. I’ve always been working within the 1,000 True Fans model. Here’s my story: In 1996, I was living in Boulder, CO and I had just started Ariel Publicity, my boutique PR firm.Acoustic Junction and Zuba two local bands became...
Social Media Shortcuts
How Save Time Updating Twitter, Facebook & MySpace Christina Duren who is the PR director here at Cyber PR wrote this great piece this week and I liked it so much I added my 2 cents and I’ll share it with you. It comes at a great time because practically every...
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