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Monetizing Your Music So you’ve created your gameplan. You’ve created accounts on all the popular social networking sites, music sharing sites, and forums. You’ve been playing tons of shows and even done a little “touring”. You’ve saved up all the money you’ve made from performing and you spent it to make an EP or album. [...]

Time To Get Some Press Exposure Whether it’s coming from MarsBands, Nanobot, your local Independent radio stations, local papers, or if you’re truly fortunate, local TV, you’re going to want some press exposure. Now you don’t have millions of dollars to bombard people with your name and music 24/7 like the big labels do, so [...]

Your Gameplan If you can answer these 10 questions, you will be well equipped and very well prepared for your career as a musician. Some of these questions are no brainers. Some you may not have ever given a thought to. You need to have answers for all of them. Trying to figure things out [...]

Managing So let’s review. You’ve created a game plan, you’ve gone social, and now you’re playing shows regularly. Great! You’re getting the hang of this, aren’t ya? Now comes the business aspect of your career. With each show you play, you’ll be getting paid. It might not be a lot, but it is something. The [...]

Play Some Shows Before you get too carried away with your Social Networking, you’ll want to be sure you have some shows lined up. Notice, I talked about getting your social stuff all in order before I talked about playing shows. Why? If you start playing shows and someone comes up to you and says [...]

Market Yourself Ok, great, you’ve got some music to market and you’ve created a gameplan. Awesome. Now what? Now it’s time to socialize. You are going to want to make your own webpage. It doesn’t have to be fancy and you don’t have to pay big money for hosting (some places are even free). If [...]