After today's article on management tools you could easily mistake this blog for a fan blog, but the fact is Google makes some great products. Lifehacker has up a great article on how to get the most from your Google Voice account and some ways to use it you may not have thought of that can make your life way easier.
When sending out press releases and promos it is very important to not get lost in the Monday morning snow storm of emails. Unfortunately, many of us have to do work our music during the weekends so this makes our lives even more difficult. Thankfully, Boomerang will now let you schedule when to send your emails inside Gmail! This cool service is currently in Beta but we have a code for you to use it right now - b4gbeta.
Klaxons - Twin Flames from tim ward on Vimeo.
- Divided By Friday have signed to Hopeless Records
- Silverstein Signs to Hopeless
- Eulogy has signed Life As A Ghost
- Altercation Records has signed American Pinup
- Progress in Color has signed to Epic records
Welcome to Tourbinder from Aaron Marks on Vimeo.
Tourbinder is a new beta startup that seeks to help book and administrate tours in a easier way. The above video explains some of their cool new features. Keep a lookout for their upcoming launch.
This is your last chance to get a great book that has been available for free for almost 2 years, The New Rockstar Philosophy. Until 11/20 they are still allowing a free download of the book before they press it up. Get yours here.
Steve Lawson from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.
From the always awesome Tight Mix Blog.
We All Make Music has up a great article that has some interesting insight as to what type of prep work should be done before you release your record. A great article that you may want to consider to make sure your next release meets it's full potential.
Over on Evolver's blog they have an article that points to an important change in music listening habits. Listeners are now streaming as much music as they download. This means that your strategy could probably use a tweak from concentrating on iTunes and get more concentrated on streaming sites like Rdio (which I use everyday), Last.FM and Spotify. Read the article here and recognize an important shift in music.
- Indianola Records signed Oh, Manhattan.
- Thrill Jockey has inked Liturgy
- Mightier Than Sword Records have signed Last Call
- Don Giovanni Records sign Laura Stevenson & the Cans
A cool tip from the blog The New Rockstar Philosophy is that if you are a label you can go straight to iTunes and skip the aggregate services like Tunecore, CDBaby, ReverbNation, etc. by using iTunes Connect While this may seem totally awesome one of the things to remember is that those services also bring your music to tons of other digital music vendors. Though you can gain direct access to iTunes reports by using this method. Read more here.
Ping has announced that users will now be able to link their Twitter account to their Ping account. This means they will now be able to share what they buy on iTunes. By encouraging your fans and increasing the awareness of your Ping account. Read more here.
The SixtyOne has long been a great way to discover new music and get your band heard by potential fans for your group. They have now launched an iPad App to show off their slick looking music discovery service called Aweditorium. This will make their service even stronger all the more reason to upload your music with them. Read more here.
The blog Indie Music Tech as usual has brought an extensive list of sites that will host your music video. This can be very helpful in making sure your music gets discovered by as many people as possible. Check it out here.
If you're smart, you probably keep a list of all the names, email addresses and contact info for people that have written about your band before (or people you want to write about your band). One thing to consider when accessing your contacts is that the blog world operates much differently than you're probably used to. Blogs (often even influential ones) rise up to prominence and then quickly close down seemingly without reason. When you're sending out your stuff to a contact list, you could be emailing someone who no longer even maintains their blog, wasting your time and theirs. Another common and unfortunate problem is that blogs often change their email address (or preferred way of receiving submissions) without telling anyone. Be sure to double-check and make sure you have the most updated email/contact info and that the blog you are writing to is in fact still being maintained. 
The Music Think Tank has up a seriously academic article on the role of music management today. While being very serious and straight it asks many of the right questions of if you are prepared to be a music manager today. While it may not cite some of the funny things you may do as a a music manager like researching homeopathic treatments for your sick, uninsured bands, talking the drummer down from slashing another band's tires and hanging a white boy rapper upside down from a building and demanding royalties. It still serves as a great primer on some questions you should ask yourself before going into business with a group.
Facebook has a bothersome interface that drives many of us crazy on a daily basis. Thankfully PostRank has come up with some analytics tools that can help you improve your sharing on Facebook and unlock the potential of one of the biggest marketing tools available to us today. To get more details head to their blog.
Concert tracking services are some of the coolest recent technologies to happen to the live music experiences. With that said many bands neglect their presence on them. Despite the fact that you may wonder how many people who use them, the important thing to remember about who uses them is that they are huge live music fans who are always looking to go and see shows. MakeUseOf has a great list of these types of services that you should check to be sure your concert dates are always listen on so that your fans will know you are coming to town. Check it here.
Digital Music News released a big headline that is counter to much of the wisdom on digital vs. physical that we hear in the music biz today. We are constantly told that physical sales are dying and digital is everything. With Topspin reporting that 75% of their revenue comes from physical sales it doesn't prive that theory wrong as much as show there is still a big place for physical sales in your release strategy.
For one, we have to keep in mind one of the best practices that Topspin employs is using tiered incentives to get fans to buy unique merchandise with price tags that cater to each fan's devotion to the group. By making packages where fans can pay for high ticket items and getting super fans to buy more than just the music you can greatly increase revenues and make sure you get the most out of every sale.
What this also shows is the importance of selling direct-to-fan with more than just digital items. Despite all of the "digital hype" fans still want physical items that they can put their hands on. Don't neglect the importance of selling physical products today.
For one, we have to keep in mind one of the best practices that Topspin employs is using tiered incentives to get fans to buy unique merchandise with price tags that cater to each fan's devotion to the group. By making packages where fans can pay for high ticket items and getting super fans to buy more than just the music you can greatly increase revenues and make sure you get the most out of every sale.
What this also shows is the importance of selling direct-to-fan with more than just digital items. Despite all of the "digital hype" fans still want physical items that they can put their hands on. Don't neglect the importance of selling physical products today.
Are you doing an Australian tour soon? It can get quite annoying to your fans to see updates for merch sales and show announcements from thousands of miles away. One way you can be less annoying is to geo-target your updates so that only those people in the country you are playing see these updates. To do this simply click the lock next to your status update and you can target languages and countries with updates!
Createspace has long been a great way to get high quality CDs pressed for your music while not having to order thousands of them to keep prices reasonable. They have just announced that they have made an improved interface and given more options for pressing your CDs. Check them out here.
In the time that you are making music you will surely have to buy a domain name at some point. If you are working very hard you may need to buy dozens, Keeping the this task cheap and organized is not easy since there are hundreds of sites who offer this service. Thankfully, Lifehacker has summed up the 5 best sites for doing this service in another one of their awesome posts.
BandCentral has announced advanced email features that will allow you to use your account with them to do your email campaigns. This new features includes the following features:
- Create/Save/Edit Email Campaigns.
- Track opens/bounces/unsubscribes/delivery rates.
- Track clicks on links.
- Wysiwyg HTML editor.
- Re-use Past Email Templates.
- Send 1000 free plain text emails per month.
- HTML email design tips & tricks.
- Ridiculously cheap to use!
- Create/Save/Edit Email Campaigns.
- Track opens/bounces/unsubscribes/delivery rates.
- Track clicks on links.
- Wysiwyg HTML editor.
- Re-use Past Email Templates.
- Send 1000 free plain text emails per month.
- HTML email design tips & tricks.
- Ridiculously cheap to use!
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