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Musician Tips
Musician Tips
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Musician TipsMusic Marketing: How to Dominate in a Niche Market
Finding more creative and focused ways to reach, impress, and engage your audience. Throughout his music career, Simon Tam has dominated not just one niche market, but many. It’s impressive, it’s inspiring, it’s frustrating (in...
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Musician Tips
How to choose the best headphones
Finding the right headphones for the job. One fine evening last June I sat down after a workout to eat dinner and enjoy a few episodes of Frasier. I plugged my headphones into my computer...
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Music Rights
How to be wildly successful at licensing your songs to TV, film, and ads
The 3 things you can do right now to increase your chances of getting your music licensed for sync. [This article was written by Cathy Heller, a singer/songwriter who has had great success licensing her...
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Musician Tips
Should I change my artist name if my music changes?
5 reasons you probably SHOULDN’T change your band name. Re-branding your music? It’s something you should consider carefully. When companies change their names, they can spend years sometimes figuring out how to do it right,...
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Musician Tips
Booking the right venue for your band: what you need to know
How to get the gig at a venue that fits your music. If you’re an up-and-coming musician, you’ve come to terms with an undeniable fact. Your art is also a business. The success of your...
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Musician Tips
5 areas where musicians can get MORE by doing LESS
Downsizing for DIY musicians. Striving independent artists want MORE. More listeners, more money, more opportunities, more recognition. But there are a few areas where you could actually benefit by doing less. If “downsizing” sounds scary,...
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Musician Tips
Being a musician in the audience (What we REALLY think)
What every musician is secretly thinking during someone else’s show. Just as teachers can make the worst students, so too can musicians make the worst audience members. Sure, we’d like to think we lead by...
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Musician Tips
How to write a stand-out biography (and what it can do for your music career!)
Effective music PR begins with a good artist bio. As an independent artist, it’s your job to wear a plethora of hats if you want to make it in the music business. You’re basically an...
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Distribution
What is an EP?
The difference between an EP, LP, and single on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Pity the poor EP, that oft-overlooked music format; the middle child between the single and long playing album (LP). Often...
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Distribution
What every musician should know about Shazam
Getting your music added to Shazam. Now that Apple Music for Artists displays Shazam stats, many independent musicians are wondering how to add their songs to the popular music-recognition tool’s database. Good news: Getting your...
