How Technology Destroyed The Traditional Music Industry

How Technology Destroyed The Traditional Music Industry In 2006, Jeff Price (@TuneCoreJeff)  launched TuneCore, for the first time allowing all artists onto the shelves of the digital music services whithout giving up rights...

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Case Study: Remixing: New Release!

Brand New releases from Oscar TG on his new record label Oh That's Good Music!  Entitled, Squelch, the release features remixes from Sean Dexter, Pete Kastanis, Secret Groovers and Me, The Celebrity Murder Party. You can purchase this here: Oscar TG Squelch Juno Download (Mp3/WAV) | iTunes (256kbps AAC) Oscar TG Squelch (Celebrity Murder Party remix) Amazon (256kbps Mp3) | iTunes (256kbps...

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How to book a Tour

From the Music Managers foundation: Taking place from 6pm on Monday 16th January at Under The Bridge in Fulham, this is one of s series of events the MMF have produced to engage with the live industry that many emerging managers want. The aim is to expose the (sometimes) conflicting needs of the participants in booking a successful tour from artist/manager/agent/promoter/tour personnel/transport...

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How to: Internet Marketing - Affiliates

There is much disagreement over affiliate marketing on the internet - the idea of advertising masquerading as content is a contentious one.  Many principled people balk at the idea of placing ads on their internet boards - and certainly for your main content - your "shop window" this isn't really such a great idea as it tends to give off a bad impression.  This is why, if you're going to...

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Case Study: First Release: Raindance

Back in October my track "Raindance" was released through Red Robot Records.  At the time I was busy setting up a company and so was unable to dedicate time to self releasing.  Red Robot had a good reputation and a solid backlog of ...

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Monetise your music content: Mixeeba

Mixeeba are a music affiliate system that enables content providers to monetise content by linking to music download stores.   As they describe below: Mixeeba originally started life as a website for hosting DJ mixes. DJs uploaded...

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Internet Marketing Dirty tricks: Mayor of New York to learn to code

According to the BBC "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has resolved to take an online computer coding course. The mayor is joining more than 180,000 people currently taking part in Code Year, a campaign to encourage more people to programme. "My New...

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