by Michael Brandvold | Dec 12, 2011 | Music Marketing
Can you be a fan of yourself? I believe the answer is no. A fan is always in a different world than the performer. Part of what defines a fan in my opinion is the fan strives to be close to the performer. The fan wants to always learn more, know more about the...
by Michael Brandvold | Aug 11, 2011 | Family and My Life, Music Marketing, TV and Movies
I tell many people one of my strengths is I am a fan, I’m not a musician. I love music, I love bands, I love concerts. I am your customer. Last night I went to the one night only showing of the Angels and Airwaves movie Love. I had been waiting to see this indie...
by Michael Brandvold | Jul 5, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
Excellent article on AllFacebok.com about buying Facebook fans. I encourage all musicians to read this. I am sure you all at one time or another have either seen an ad or received an email from a company promising you more fans for just a few dollars. They sound real,...
by Michael Brandvold | May 27, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
I discovered the Jacobs Media blog when they recently re-posted my article 10 Marketing Lessons I Learned from Working with KISS. Jacobs Media is a radio consultancy, providing assistance to radio stations. Today they posted a really great article discussing what you...
by Michael Brandvold | Apr 20, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
Author David Meerman Scott made a honest and realistic quote, “if you want 20,000 fans you must do 2000 different things that each generate 10 fans.” This was my favorite quote from 2010 and I am going to take this on as a challenge for 2011 for an ambitious project...
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