Marketing

How to Easily use Twitter to Promote Your Music

by Michael Brandvold | Sep 1, 2011 | Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing, Webinar

Here is the slide deck from The Music Biz Weekly Music Marketing webinar: How to Easily use Twitter to Promote Your Music. Some of the great feedback Brian Thompson and I received on the first webinar: breakopenmgmt – Great webisode on using twitter… stay...

2000 Things to Generate 20,000 Fans – Take Your Cues from Daily Life

by Michael Brandvold | Aug 30, 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...

Paul Myers Discusses Content Creation in the Digital Market with The Music Biz Weekly Podcast.

by Michael Brandvold | Aug 26, 2011 | Audio, Marketing, Music Biz Weekly Podcast, Music Marketing

Welcome to episode 22 of The Music Biz Weekly, a weekly podcast co-hosted by Michael Brandvold and Brian Thompson. Each week Michael and Brian will discuss the latest events in the music business and music marketing events and techniques. This week’s episode,...

2000 Things to Generate 20,000 Fans – Create a List of Fan Websites

by Michael Brandvold | Aug 25, 2011 | Marketing, Music Marketing

Stop Typing and Start Shouting to Your Fans with Shoutomatic

by Michael Brandvold | Aug 24, 2011 | Audio, Marketing, Music Marketing

I just found a brand new website called Shoutomatic.com that lets you record audio updates to easily post to Facebook and Twitter, as well as posting a audio widget on your website. Shoutomatic.com is extremely simple, I have already done a couple “Shouts”...

Don't Forget to Buy the Domain for Your New Album

by Michael Brandvold | Aug 22, 2011 | KISS, Marketing, Music Marketing

So much of what I write comes from my life experiences; either having worked with bands or from my being a fan and consumer. Life is full of many great lessons. Here is a lesson that hit me over the weekend. KISS just announced that their upcoming new album is called...