20 Must Read Articles for Musicians Marketing Their Music

Today I wanted to focus on learning from other music bloggers who have great advice for developing successful marketing campaigns.

The topics are all very fascinating and range from marketing music online to creating music niches for your band. Since the music industry is changing, its time for us to become the innovators, participate and knock heads with fellow music brains out there and create our independent success. Take a look at some advice from music professionals across the web and ask all the questions you can. It’s time to educate ourselves, one article at a time.

Ariel Publicity

• What Successful Internet Marketers Know and What Musician Marketers Don’t
• Social Media and Online Marketing for Musicians

Hypebot

• Top 5 Free Music Business eBooks
• 100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips

Bob Baker

• 1,000 True Fans to Make a Living
• Attract Subscribers, Not Visitors

KnowTheMusicBiz

• The Art of Email Contact by Loren Weisman
• How To Blow-up Your Band On An Artist’s Budget

Indie Music Tech

• Serving Your Fans: The Trent Reznor Case Study
• Do Bands and Musicians Understand What is Happening Online Right Now?

Derek Sivers

• Video Interview About Promoting and Marketing Your Music
• Interview

Music Marketing [dot] com

• You Could Sell 100,000 Records, but You’ll Make More Money Doing This
• 10 Mistakes Bands and Musicians Make

Music Think Tank

• Music Niches: Narrow Your Net to Get More Fans
• Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic: Evolutionary Traits of The Music Industry

Hip Hop Distribution

• Day 2: How To Promote Music Through Social Bookmarking
• Day 4: Develop a Free Music Strategy?

Artist House

• Why Interruption is a Crappy Music Business Model
• Calling All Go Getters: The Music Industry Is Yours

I recommend taking out some scratch paper or open up a text edit program and begin to take notes of things you like or feel you could improve on in relation to your music operation. I have recently been more conscious of my marketing strategy and it is important to take control for my long term success.

Have any recommendations of articles related to Music Marketing? Please feel free to leave a comment and discuss what works for you.

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Tags: indie music blogs, marketing music online

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