My friend Dave Hooper wrote a blog post on Thursday about giving music away free music on your website. I agree with his ideas of giving away music on your website. It’s something I tell my clients about in the Musicians Mastermind too.
Here’s an excerpt from Dave’s post:
Not everyone who visits a website is ready to make a purchase.  […]

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How approachable are you?
I believe that to succeed in today’s independent music industry, relationship building with our fans and peers is more important than ever. An important factor in that is approachability.
You need to make yourself easily contactable by your fans, venue managers and the media. Musicians tend to want to follow the record label […]

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The Dubber has launched MusicThinkTank.com
It’s a site of some independent musician writers including my friend and founder of CDBaby - Derek Sivers.
I suggest you keep an eye on it. It’s set to grow into a phenomenal project over the next few months.
Derek wrote about how the music industry has flipped. Instead of you having just 10% freedom, you […]

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Welcome to our new look blog.
The blog is now going to be the main focus of the site. I will continue to write my weekly Musicians Development Newsletter to over 15,000 musicians. But I will write even more frequently in short bursts here on this blog.
Subscribe to the feed to get your updates in your Google […]

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Another fan-funded initiative, Slicethepie.com is a website that allows artists to join and raise money from their fans. Here’s what it says on their About page: “How? We turn every music fan into a record label.”
The idea is to tap an artist’s online fan base to generate cash for projects that are going to succeed. And in […]

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In today’s Times newspaper website, I came across an article about a US-based rock group R.E.M. who are planning to launch their album for sharing via the iLike application on Facebook.
They will launch the album Accelerate one week before it hits the shops. iLike is an application that is popularly used on Facebook where people can list […]

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There’s a big increase in having your record funded by your fans. Lots of sites are out there collecting funds from fans and then acting as a fan’s record label to sponsor an artist. 
One example is of Jill Sobule who has managed to raise over $80,000 from just 552 fans - that’s more than enough funds to […]

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Facebook is one of the hottest social networking sites on the internet today. You can get a free profile and set it up with little effort. The great thing about a Facebook profile is that is can really generate some great traffic for you. You can get fans of your site and […]

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