Last week we announced the full schedule for the upcoming DIY Musician Conference, happening this October 23-25 in Chicago.
It’s a solid lineup of workshops and panels specifically geared towards musicians who manage their own music careers.
If you want to see a breakdown of sessions by topic, check out the list below.
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Music marketing, promotion, and PR
Publicity for Every Artist: Crafting Stories That Get You Press — w/ Dmitri Vietze
Online Marketing and Sales for Developing Musicians — w/ Benji Rogers (Sponsored by Berklee Online)
Email Marketing for Bands: Everything You Need to Know to Build a List, Create Emails, and Grow Your Fanbase — w/ Joy Merten
Top 5 Mistakes When Planning a Release: a special live taping of the DIY Musician Podcast — w/ Kevin Breuner and Chris Robley
Band Website Explosion: Mastering Your Online Presence — we/ Chandler Coyle and Rebecca Bateman
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Songwriting and publishing
Songwring Across Genres: Indie Artists Share Their Approaches — w/ Black Milk and Crow Moses
Publishing Unlocked: Your Money is Waiting for You — w/ Rob Filomena
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Touring and live performance
Band Smart: 50 Ideas to Make $100k More This Year (Keynote) — w/ Martin Atkins
The Four Most Important Things You Need to Know for Performing Onstage! (Keynote) — Live band makeover with Tom Jackson
DIY Touring: from Booking to Backline — w/ Billy Geoghegan
Go Book Yourself! — w/ Dmitri Vietze, Mark Steiner, Dayna Malow, Eric Muhlberger, and Austin Ellis (Sponsored by GigSalad)
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Music rights and revenue streams
Show Me the Money: How to Maximize Every Revenue Stream for Your Music — w/ Kevin Breuner, Rob Filomena, J. Gibson, and Lauren Danzy
SoundExchange: What It Is, Why It Pays, and How to Get Your Share — w/ Lauren Danzy
Back Me Up! Starting New Projects with Funding — w/ Hayley Rosenblum
YouTube and Your Music — w/ Ben Kihnel and Kevin Breuner (Sponsored by Rumblefish)
Publishing Unlocked: Your Money is Waiting for You — w/ Rob Filomena
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Recording
Music Production 101: Recording and Producing in Pro Tools — w/ Mike King and Chrissy Tignor (Sponsored by Berklee Online)
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Branding your musical act
Band Website Explosion: Mastering Your Online Presence — w/ Chandler Coyle and Rebecca Bateman
Eye Catching Visuals: How to Get the Best Band Photos Ever — w/ Becky Yee
Your Band is a Brand: Communicating Who You are to Get Results — w/ Janice Bond
Publicity for Every Artist: Crafting Stories That Get You Press — w/ Dmitri Vietze
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Building a DIY music career
From Indie to Major in Nine Months… And Back Again (Keynote) — w/ Brian Mazzaferri and Tony Van Veen
Careers That Break the Mold: How Three Indie Artists are Creating Their Own Path — w/ Patrick Griffin, Chad Lawson, Shannon Curtis, and Jeff Murphy
Stop Making Cents: Why Data is the New Dollar — w/ Mike King, Chris Moon, Chandler Coyle, Colleen Theis, Tracy Maddux (Sponsored by Berklee Online)
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Plus Friday night’s open mic at the The Bottom Lounge, Saturday night’s artist showcase headlined by Black Milk, and the opportunity to talk to representatives from these cool music companies.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.