Wristband Self Promotion Idea: Use wristbands to help new fans remember your band name and website or email address! For a while now we were offering up a tip on Twitter that you could purchase a rubber hand stamp that had your bands name or website address. and ask to use it at the door at gigs. It's a great idea but they were often hard to read. The other day a thought came to mind about the last time we went to a venue [...]
Using stories can help to promote just about anything, great stories can 'sell' just about anything, even ideas. So we asked our musician/band followers on Facebook to share their stories with us and offered to feature some of our favorites. If you would like to have your story featured here, visit our Facebook page and this ► TOPIC to share it on. Stories by Randy Wayne Belt of Barley Station You've probably heard "lead them to the bedroom door but don't let them in" in songwriting? [...]
Concept for Music Blogs and Interview Sites Evolving & Revolving Promotions to work together using cross promotions for the good of the artists and each other! This would also make all brands involved more appealing to the artists! We want to offer a directory to make it easy to cross promote great talent and content. Each service posts a list of talent they have interviewed, reviewed etc and who they believe worthy of promotion. Two parties offer their list of talent that they believe to [...]
Indie Radio Submit Directory Hello everyone, today I am here to tell you about some cool new features we've added to our Indie Radio Directory. Put in two days of programming and data entry time to actually add a database back-end and an editor, we were editing the directory by hand. Added New Stations Removed Closed Stations Added Grouping Sections by genre With these changes, it has enabled us to "Group" by genre and randomly sort the stations in each group every time [...]
Thanks for taking time to visit. Consider answering these questions at your leisure. Some or all of your questions may be used in an article that we will publish and promote along with your Twitter handle. We will use the information we gain from your answers in Project: Indie Music Bus Tell us about your station's format and the genre's you support. Who make up the majority of the listeners on your station? Do you have difficulties in finding music to fit your station? What percentage [...]
Hello, I am here to help independent music continue to flourish as one of absolute favorite things besides my wife and kids ;) I have been working with the help of many since 1998 to find our place in this tough music industry and believe I have found it. More on what it is a bit later down the development cycle in 2018. To Do Checklist Progress Programming Team - C# Rest, WCF - Complete Interview Radio Industry Record Label [...]
Thanks for stopping by, we are very glad you are here and now that you are, here is some free and awesome advice: Whenever you post your videos and songs on sites, be sure to include links to buy the song. Also include UNIQUE short stories about what the song means to you on each site. The unique stories on each site really give your fans a reason to visit each of them. This will also work great in the search engines with more words [...]
Hello and welcome! Most of you already know that sooner or later you will come to the point when you will need a team to make it in the new music business. Artist's need to spend most of their time being creative writing songs and music, then on to recording the hits! Of course you will have say over everything going on but team work is key to a really successful release. While you work on that, your team can document interesting things [...]
So I have been reading a lot of music business books lately and one of the very useful pieces of information I learned from one of them I would like to share with you. On social media I see most acts work at promoting their latest master piece by telling everyone the name of the album and all the places to pick it up. Most music fans don't really care to hear about that. They hear it everywhere from so many that it all becomes [...]
Link With Indie Music Bus We are always doing something for someone else but today it's only fair that we do something for ourselves. In the end it will NOT be one-sided, because we are returning the favor! Would you consider placing one of our logo's on your site and link it back to one of our sites? If you decide to do so, let us know and we will return the favor and possibly link one of your sites in return here on Indie [...]