by Michael Brandvold | Oct 10, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
Just A reminder that I will be speaking this Wednesday, October 12th at the San Francisco NARIP, National Association of Record Industry Professionals, event How To Use Social Media To Promote Music: Get A Digital Strategy In Just One Session. I will be joined by...
by Michael Brandvold | Oct 7, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
There is a etiquette on how to solicit someone with your new music, be it on Facebook, Twitter, email or SoundCloud. The proper way to do it is contact the person and ASK if you can send them some music. You do not blindly send a email with links or attachments. You...
by Michael Brandvold | Oct 5, 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...
by Michael Brandvold | Oct 3, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
The article below about the band Oh No Fiasco and their experience with changing their band name because of poor search results is an important read for other bands. In the age of the internet you now NEED to consider your band name search results when picking the...
by Michael Brandvold | Sep 27, 2011 | Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing
A few weeks ago I wrote about some customer service issues I had with Nimbit. I am happy to report that immediately after writing the article Bob Cramer the Chairman and CEO of Nimbit reached out to me with great concern about the problem. I met with Bob a couple...
by Michael Brandvold | Sep 26, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing
Would you let your fans play your instruments before the show, if they paid? Having setup and run VIP Meet and Greet Packages for many artists I find this a interesting extension and something that I think many fans would love to do. From a Bob Lefsetz email on...
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