Day 5: Alternative Pop Music Build

One ☝🏿 more post before the premiere of the Alternative Pop single is dropped. So if you stuck around this long, would only mean that you guys are just as excited as I am to finally get to hear my new single. So let’s this blog post started.

Trademark Your Name: A Musician’s Guide

While you certainly can perform shows and release music with a name that isn’t trademarked, doing so isn’t generally recommended. Here Randi Zimmerman walks us through the necessary steps for securing a trademark for your band/artist name.

Spotify Takes Aim At Radio With Daily Drive

Author Thoughts: Ok so for years I’ve purposely stayed away from radio due to the fact that everything was so commercialized for the media marketers not for the listeners sake. But Spotify has now came with at least to me that is a better a more of a personalized radio for the listener. I like this move a lot and hope that Spotify can make this work or some other web company that can make this work for everyone. 


Marketing Your Music Blog With Just 3 Tools

Clambr’s Richard Marriott got “50 Experts” to weigh in on “How to Promote Your Blog with Just 3 Tools.” It’s a big page that’s now at 53 professional web marketers, SEOs and marketing bloggers. But I think their choices of blog marketing tools and their rationales for using them, which also reveals some of their approaches to blog marketing, offer useful insights for musicians, music businesspeople, music writers and music marketers who are creating content, building brands and spreading the word through blogging.

3 Simple and Free Website Design Resources for Musicians

  3 Simple and Free Website Design Resources for Musicians A Guest Post by Crowd Audio I’ve harked on marketing for a few posts now. Not for nothing, because being a band in a vacuüm is pointless. You want fans, and marketing is the thing that will get you fans. It gets a bad rap,…

Do something daring

As Mark Twain said: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.” This quote by Mark Twain is so true, I felt long ago that I had musical talent and wanted to…

SEO For Musicians: “Don’t Chase The Algorithm”

SEO For Musicians: “Don’t Chase The Algorithm” There are a number of technical things one can still do to have a higher presence in Google and other search engines. But, unless you’re really into playing search engine games, most of the time it’s better to set up your site correctly and then focus on creating…

Amplify the positives

What are the positive attributes of your situation? Try amplifying those to see how it affects the negative ones (like feeling stuck or not having enough motivation). Well with the internet being the way that it is, this idea isn’t that hard to do. It’s just staying positive with yourself, and your fans is more…