by Michael Brandvold | Feb 15, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
I recently did a interview with Ragan.com about how to deal with a “flamer” online. Much of what I talked about comes from experience managing fan communities for bands. The article was posted today. You wake up, flip open your laptop and try to ease into...
by Michael Brandvold | Feb 14, 2011 | Marketers of Music
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...
by Michael Brandvold | Feb 11, 2011 | KISS, Music Marketing
It is your band and you can do whatever you want. But, wow it must really suck when you send out a little update and it virally spreads through the media and social networks. Terrible that people are paying attention and care about what you say. So many bands would...
by Michael Brandvold | Feb 10, 2011 | Music Marketing
Lots of great comments and discussion going on over at Music Think Tank around my post “10 Things Every Musician Should Do Online Every Day”. Head over and leave your $.02. Do you or your band have a daily online routine? You better. At the speed this...
by Michael Brandvold | Feb 9, 2011 | Music Marketing
Just read this over at Digital Music News. Can the music industry catch a break. It was just a couple years ago that some people were saying that games like Guitar Hero were the new sales channel for music. It’s Over! Activision Nixing Guitar Hero… The...
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