Spread the word the second Music Success in Nine Weeks Blogging Challenge kicked off on July 5th! For this blogging challenge, I will again be awarding a grand prize of a 3-month Cyber PR campaign to the artist who blogs all 9 weeks.
Thirty three musicians participated in the first blogging challenge, 18 completed it, and I was so inspired and moved I could not choose so 10 contestants won a campaign!
A complimentary campaign…
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This month’s guest post is brought to you Jon Ostrow of MicControl.com
Jon is the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a music social networking platform. This post originally appeared on the MicControl blog on June 15, 2010. Jon can be found on twitter and facebook.
Musicians are entrepreneurs whether they want to believe it or not. By writing music under a band name, pen name or even just their own name, they have…
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Feature Article: Five Tips to Increase Sales in a Failing Music Industry
1. Personal Communication
FACT: Social Media is a great “Keep In Touch” tool. With social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace and Facebook now giving fans 100% access to artists, many aren’t sure what to say or how to keep their fans actually engaged and coming back. The key to this is understanding how to personally communicate with your fans. Ariel wrote a great article that…
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Now that Facebook Fan or “Like” pages are the new norms, it’s time to make sure you have the right apps installed on yours to get the biggest return on it! Continue reading
Here is a guest blog post that came from musician Esther O’Connor from Scotland.
It is insightful and asks a VERY important question: When is too much unfettered access well, just too much?
Social Media has pulled back the veil a little too much in many peoples opinions, and she makes a poignant remark: No build up, no hype, no anticipation, no waiting. It’s true that the rules have changed. One artist I met at a conference recently snarkily
