The Business

Although it's obvious that you need fans to sell your music to, there is a deeper meaning behind building a fan base. At some point in your life, you absolutely loved a band, musician or singer, right? Did you ever stop to ask yourself why? Was it the way the music made you feel? What it something about the singer, musician and/or band in particular? Whatever it was it obviously influenced you to buy the music so that you could have it whenever you needed to dance, to reminisce, to relax, to dream or to travel with. It motivated you to buy every offering made available by that artist. It inspired you to see a live performance and anticipate their performances on television. You essentially became a lifelong supporter of that artist. This is exactly what your want from your fans.

Blogs prove to be a tricky field to conquer, especially when it comes to gaining an initial reader-base. However, once you get that reader base, great potential for increasing your online reputation is created. Successful blogs keep their status by following these 20 rules from the start and throughout their blog’s lifetime. This is part two of how to build a successful blog. Part one talks about setting up the blog in the right format to gain reader interest. Part two discusses about more promotion techniques and how to keep your readers.

Blogs prove to be a tricky field to conquer, especially when it comes to gaining an initial reader-base. However, once you get that reader base, great potential for increasing your online reputation is created. Successful blogs keep their status by following these 20 rules from the start and throughout their blog’s lifetime. This is part of a two part series. This first article talks about setting up the blog in the right format to gain reader interest. Part two discusses about more promotion techniques and how to keep your readers.Part two goes into more detail on how to promote your blog and see additional success in the first weeks and months of your blog.

I never thought it possible... in fact I never gave it a thought, because it wasn't something I thought could remotely happen. Can you be signed to a major label, have a #1 album and single, (not christian - I mean mainstream...) and be a worship leader for a very visible church? Yes, you can.

UK music retailers are upset, because His Purpleness has cut out the middle man and is giving away his new CD directly to fans, which leaves little incentive for people to go to stores to buy it.

You are a musician, right? Not a computer geek. I know you want to burst on to the online music promotion scene but you don’t know where to start. It is tough because you know lyrics and sound, not megabytes and gigabytes. But that is o.k., you still have hopes of succeeding with your Independent music promotion dream.

The word on the street is that some musicians and bands believe that MySpace music is a sell-out for musicians but that is nothing further from the truth. All over forums and chat rooms people are complaining about musicians selling-out by joining MySpace.

Quick question, what is the most powerful way to market your music for free on the Internet? Answer: MySpace music. MySpace.com was created in 1999 and has absolutely exploded on the market since then. Amazingly, MySpace has users in the tens of millions. If you have not considered MySpace for bands or MySpace for musicians yet, then over the next few minutes I guarantee this will change your mind.

One of the powerful tools you can have as when attempting independent music promotion is a website. This is a given. There is absolutely no excuse for a musician, in this day and age, to not have a website. Your website is how you will reach the world. This is how you will market yourself to every single person you come in contact with. The internet and your website will be two of the most powerful music promotion resources you will have.

"The best manual ever written on how to ask questions is the Bible...its author Jesus Christ was the greatest salesman who ever lived. He took twelve men-and one of them was a loser-and spread the Gospel in short order throughout the civilized world..."