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Completely Free Digital Music Distribution – Get Your Music On Spotify, iTunes and More For Nothing!
The article title reads like a bad attention grab, but it appears that more and more, I’m running into completely free offerings for music distribution and aggregation, so it’s time to look at your options. When I say “distribution” or “aggregation” I mean a company or service that will allow you to upload your music […]
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How To Become a Successful Musician, DJ, Artist or Producer – Remember the Real Story
If you go searching for instructions on how to become a successful musician, you’ll probably come across a few artist or band Wikipedia pages or biographies that give you a series of events that led to fame and fortune. A single event, that triggered a rise to success. What you don’t get is a list […]
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Getting Started With Releasing Music
This extensive article should give you a good level of information about what you will need, what processes you should follow, and whether self-releasing or starting a label is the right choice for you.
Beginners, Distribution, Producing & Creating, Promotion & PR, Self Releasing, Social Media
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Artists & Musicians Are Wasting Time With Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud and all the rest – tired of zero reach? You need a better solution.
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A Bunch Of Ways Musicians Are Actually Making Money (& One Way They’re Not!)
As a music producer, artist or musician (especially if you’re starting out) you’re probably wondering how it’s possible to take your passion and push it so you’re able to do it full-time, without having to worry about how you’re going to pay rent.
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Introducing: Build Your Fanbase
If you’re looking to build a fanbase, this might be the single most important blog post you ever read. OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but still… I ask everyone who joins my email list here at HTSR what the single, biggest, most important thing that they are worried about or trying to do when they […]
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The Process of Releasing Electronic Music In 6 Simple Steps
I’d like to simplify the process of going from having a few tracks made, right through to releasing your music and seeing it on iTunes, Spotify and everywhere else.
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Finishing Projects – 17 Ways You Can Complete Those Unfinished Music Tracks
A bunch of techniques to keep you finishing those tracks, to help you get through them and to get them out the door and into your cannon.
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Are Your mp3 Audio Files Ready For Promotion Or Sending To Influencers?
Have you named and tagged your files properly. Chances are the answer is no. I get countless promos with badly named files. Do yourself (and your promo list) a favour and get this bit right. It’s too easy NOT to.
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Retaining Artistic Creativity and Productivity
Being a musician is just like having any other job, meaning there are good days and bad days. Here are some ways that you can achieve and maintain both creativity and productivity.
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How To Build And Use A Strong Promotion List When You’re Just Starting Out
How do you build a list of promo contacts when everyone is always getting promoted to? How can you build a relationship with an influencer and help them promote you?
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I think I’ve lost my mind…
You don’t discount a $100 course by this much unless you’ve lost your mind. That’s for sure.