Web Tips for Musicians: The January Roundup

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January 30, 2013{ 3 Comments }

iStock 000001638268XSmall 300x199 Web Tips for Musicians: The January RoundupThis month in web tips: better practices to smarten-up your music career

Have you checked out The HostBaby Blog recently?

Every week on that blog, we’re posting a few new web tips for musicians (and other independent artists)— stuff like: growing your email list, crafting newsletters that lead to music sales, optimizing your site for search, and much more.

If you’ve been missing out, don’t fret, because…

Here’s a recap of January’s HostBaby Blog articles:

5 Free Tools from Google to Help Advance Your Career as an Artist

How to Use Your Website to Become Famous

How to Conduct a Survey and Learn From Your Fans

10 Ways to Increase Website Traffic Using Real-World Promotion Techniques 

How to Write a Website Bio That Rocks

Give Your Website a 30-Minute Makeover for the New Year

How NOT to be Annoying on Twitter

How to Geo-Target Your Facebook Posts

You Might Be a Spammer If… (3 Warning Signs You’re Wasting Your Fans’ Time)

Optimise Your Website for Google Image Search

Should Your Website’s Links Open in a New Tab or Window?

Head on over to the HostBaby Blog and let us know what kind of web stuff you’d like to learn more about.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/gia.saulnier Gia Volterra De Saulnier

    All great tips! Also just make sure that you keep your content updated. So, that means if you use Facebook, use it at least once a week to update your “fans”. Also, make sure your band has a FAN page and NOT a profile page. FB is getting tougher by cracking down on that!

  • http://twitter.com/torgjoe Torg

    so not the correct place to put this, but maybe you’ll see it and move it.

    in the interest of discussing how non huge people are making a living

    http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/21273908968/more-treaming-data-for-your-research-and-edification
    40,500 plays on spotify = $149

    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/how-you-turn-music-into-money-in-2012-spoiler-mostly-itunes/260678/#
    and how much she made total, and where

    (found from spinning off of Amanda Palmers blog)
    ( :( no anonymous posting)

    • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

      I saw that article yesterday. Fascinating. I always appreciate Zoe being so transparent about her books, and being honest about the struggles she faces as an indie.