Muzeek Developing Intuitive Gig Booking Platform
Muzeek is a new gig booking platform that hopes to go beyond simply being a handy booking tool and towards something a bit more powerful. In addition to taking care of agreements, bookkeeping and payments, Muzeek hopes to build a self-reinforcing community to ensure good behavior from acts, promoters and venues. Beyond that they see Muzeek ...
The Tools of Music Fan Engagement [part 2]: Newsletters
In Part 1 of Bandzoogle's “Tools of Music Fan Engagement" blog series, I discussed blogging. Another important tool to use for fan engagement are email newsletters. Having an email newsletter might sound a little old school, but the reality is that it's still proving to be the best way to keep in touch with your fans ...
What is SoLoMo Marketing? And Why It's Time to Start Doing It
By Brandon Chiat, co-founder, Marquee a live music discovery and rewards application. There's a new buzzword being thrown around by marketing teams. SoLoMo, which stands for Social-Local-Mobile, refers to the integration of social, location-based, and mobile marketing tools into new customer acquisition platforms. Most everyone is familiar with the common SoLoMo platforms like Foursquare and Groupon. What ...
Ignore the Labels if You Want to Get Signed
Ethan Schiff is an artist manager. He's on Twitter @ethanschiff and blogs on creative music entrepreneurship at www.SchiffBlog.com. Although the music industry is evolving, it is still hard for artists to get out of the “pick me" mindset, which has been drilled into bands' heads through a combination of the traditional record business model and endless ...
New Music Industry Think Tank Maintains There Are No Music Tech Tools for Poor Musicians
Back Porch Group is a new think tank for the music industry that claims to tell the “unvarnished truth." They're off to a strong start with their first blog post taking the stance that music tech companies aren't serving musicians who are scraping by on low-paying day jobs while trying to build careers in music. I, ...
9 Tips for Throwing an Awesome CD Release Party
Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). I did something important this weekend. It was important because I'm dying. Not anytime soon, mind you, but someday I won't be here. So, because I could - because it mattered to me - this weekend I did a few things I enjoyed doing a lot. Things on my bucket list. These were ...
Do We Expect Too Much from Music Listeners?
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I often wonder if the music industry expects too much of music listeners. This might seem like an odd concern, considering that an equal portion of label executives seem to expect nothing but music piracy and concert going from today's listener. But hear me ...
CEO Chris Kantrowitz on Creating the Future of Music Storage and File Transfer at Gobbler
Cloud storage is a big topic these days but specialized services for musicians are still coming into their own. Last week I spoke with Gobbler CEO and Founder Chris Kantrowitz about his unique cloud storage, syncing and transfer platform for musicians and others who work with digital audio. From his early days as a teen entrepreneur ...
Why Modern Musicians Should Care About Metadata
By Bill Wilson, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at NARM and digitalmusic.org. Metadata. It's a jargon-y word that probably turns a lot of artists off at the mere mention of it. It's also one of the main things standing between them and a variety of new opportunities to make money. And those new ...
Real Band Names That Sound Totally Fake
By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). By now you must've seen the video from Jimmy Kimmel, catching people lying about being into bands playing at Coachella that the interviewer just made up. How long must it have taken to come up with band names that they knew were fake? Here are some band names that ...
Get More Fans is a Mindblowingly Complete DIY Guide to the New Music Business
Jesse Cannon and Todd Thomas's new book, titled “Get More Fans," is more accurately described by the subtitle “The DIY Guide to the New Music Business." At a bit over 600 pages, it's hard to take in as a whole yet so far I cannot find anything I would describe as padding or filler. It's simply ...
Santarosa.jazznearyou.com Added!
All About Jazz has improved the appearance of the Jazz Near You calendar widget with new graphics and a “buy" button to facilitate ticket sales. If you currently do not use our widget, but would like to promote local jazz events on your website or blog, go here. Existing widget users can grab the new code ...
Jazz Near You Improvements: April 2013
We wanted to announce some recent Jazz Near You website improvements as we forge ahead with iOS app development. In addition to fixing a few minor bugs, we also improved the appearance of the calendar so it looks less like a spreadsheet. Larger text, a new way to present dates, and most importantly, a “Buy" (ticket) ...
The Most Important Problem the Music Business Must Solve
By David Sherbow (@MusicBizGuy) of My Life With Music. What is the greatest problem which the new music business must solve to maintain it relevance in the future? In my humble opinion, it needs to figure out how to simply curate new music, filter it down to a small enough selection that is easily digestible and ...
