Online Artist Management: Music Website And Blog Marketing Tips

By admin on August 31, 2011

This is just a follow up from Kurb promotion talking specific stuff for musicians websites and blogs when you’re dealing with music business and Online Artist Management. If you’re looking for music marketing services or free regular advice visit kurb’s music marketing, management, and blog! Here’s some tips on developing your artist blog or music website- posts spaced months apart make the site look dead and inactive, we need to get the posting frequency up so fans see that the band has an active presence and the website is worth coming back to or recommending. Our key outcomes for visitors that is: sign ups, sales, and social networks, free downloads must be prominent. Often I will include these prompts at the head of each post so visitors are always made aware of particular propositions we are pushing,

Having a lot of written content on your site is essential if you’re going to bring in Google traffic, so we need to produce written content. Usually when I’m doing content and branding work for Online Artist Management we aim for 1 post each week on the blog then we collate these 4 posts with any other content available to make up our monthly email mail out. I’ve been doing my blog for 2 years now but it averages 200 hits a day and I am never short of leads, when you can get that kind of traction you should be able to pick up fans without even the benefit of other more aggressive But I’ve written 300 posts in that time so that’s the kind of commitment you’re looking at, but from my perspective it’s worth it because I never have to look for “fans” now, there’s always someone ready to pay me for what I do.  Read more...

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Generating More Traffic To Learn Guitar Online Website Properties

By admin on August 4, 2011

In case you’ve been living in a vacuum, most people use their Learn Guitar Online Websites as their business model for making money. Naturally, you’ll need to make it possible for people to find it. The people who visit your Learn Guitar Online Website are called, collectively, “traffic”. And again, the more traffic your site gets, the more chances you have to convert some of that traffic to sales. The big goal here is to get as much traffic as possible so you can make as much cash as possible. Ok, let’s move onto how you can make those traffic stats look impressive.

You don’t want to manually submit your site to the major search engines, but it’s fine to manually submit to secondary search engines which will help you in certain ways. Using SEO might get you picked up organically, but the quickest way to make sure that your site is indexed on the major search engines is to use Web 2.0 methods. It will take several hours to manually submit to the smaller engines – and it’s not 100% necessary, either. However, you will see traffic from them, and they will also contribute to your site’s ‘popularity’ which the major engines will notice. You may or may not know that it’s possible to get backlinks in many ways, also – some count more than others in terms of backlink “weight.” But it’s a game, of sorts, and you want to have a variety of backlinks so you’ll appear very natural and normal to Google.  Read more...

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Independent Artist Website – Sound Decisions About Studio Recording

By admin on February 10, 2011

Music Studio

Now that you have had a general introduction to recording, specifically for tracking a live show, this Independent Artist Website will give you an overview of studio recording, from the usual rent-a-pro approach to setting up your own project studio.

First things first: You have to decide who is going to be the producer, even before deciding on the engineer. None of the later decisions about tracking instruments, recording vocals, doing overdubs, processing signals, or getting a final mix will mean Bo Diddley, to coin a phrase, if your bands three or five or eight members are arguing all the time about who sounds the loudest and what so-and-so’s girlfriend is doing in the vocal booth. Someone has to run the show.

This is even true for a solo act in independent artist, since in a studio leadership vacuum most seasoned (or semi-seasoned, or even just salty) engineers will step right up and make the decisions for you. If the band does not present a united front behind its leader, the whole process will be at risk. So, before anything else, decide

•    Who will be the producer?
•    What arrangements of what songs will be recorded?
•    How much debate and democracy will be involved in the process,
•    When the various deadlines are going to be set, and
•    Why things are going to be run them way they are.  Read more...

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New Vinyl Website Focuses on the Social Elements of Records and Music

By admin on January 13, 2011

Music History

Well, we made it. The vinyl record revival is in full swing. With many independent artists issuing new releases via the format and many mainstream artists following suit, it is a great place in music history. Add to this the numerous reissues of classic LP’s and the vinyl comeback is complete.

Along with the vinyl revival are new Internet web sites that cater to collectors and music lovers. One such site that has just launched is www.NYLVI.com, is social marketplace that will support independent artists, labels and record stores and will aid in the spreading of musical innovation to the global community of music lovers and record collectors.

I spoke with NYLVI co-founder Ivar Lien about the goals, ideals and values of this new, growing vinyl record community:

There are many vinyl sites on the Internet today, what will set yours apart from the others- what will make you unique?

”We think there are two main aspects that set us apart from other sites. First of all, we have structured our marketplace to reflect the world’s major music scenes. This we hope will make it easier for users to discover more new music and that local artists will be able to find a bigger audience. To make this possible we are cooperating with some of the finest bloggers from these scenes, so previews of all their posts can be read on our scene pages. Instead of creating distant editorials and boring recommendations, we think it’s much better to give the word to local experts, who participate in these scenes on a daily basis.”  Read more...

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Great website about classical music

By admin on January 12, 2011

ClassicalMusicCity.com is a new and innovative web site devoted to the classical music industry.  It is the most comprehensive, free source of classical music information on the web that includes  information resources in the form of video, articles, news, reviews and listings.  It has everything from video of masterclasses, an archive of famous classical music cartoons, classical music composer’s biographies, sheet music, youth orchestra audition notices, recordings and concert announcements.  All content goes through administrative approval, so it is a safe and fun place for children to roam and discover the wonders of classical music.  Lots of informative content for parents too.

With over 10,000 pages and growing, you can easily find what you need. Search by keyword, topic, type of content or even by regions from as large as “worldwide” to as small as a state.  It offers the traditional navigation via tabs at the top of the page which includes audio, auditions, jobs, events, articles, video, blogs and more.   It also features a list of over 30 directories in the left hand column for everyone and everything from music teachers, musicians, ensembles, schools, venues, to medical professionals who specialize in treating injuries to musicians.

The real innovation comes in the form of a clever and colorful map of the CITY.  Each building is a whimsical design based upon musical symbols and instruments and iconic classical music images.  The buildings are topical, so when you click on the image you are taken to content (video, announcements, news, links, articles, etc.) that is related to the “theme” of that particular building.  The map is colorful and bright and especially enticing to younger users.  (Go to main page at www.ClassicalMusicCity.com)  Read more...

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