Starting Your Career As A Musician

could provide such a connection? Another example; A fellow teacher at my elementary school and I became friendly over time. She ...

fit from your show, music or project. Remember that the media are always looking for interesting and unique content. Be gratefu ...

Digital downloads Merchandise Licensing Action/promotion plans Print Flyers, posters, business cards, etc. Organize street team ...

Producers, managers, agents, etc. Press kit Press releases Interview procedures Live show development What will you do? Props/ ...

projects roll in. They get busy and begin to put their marketing on the back burner. Then, the projects are completed and they f ...

Chapter 4: Your Band’s Website A Website is a “must-have,” for any performer. That’s pretty much a given. It’s how you, and more ...

A killer website is one that engages its visitors, gives them what they want and does so in a transparent manner that doesn’t re ...

Avoid Flash is possible or use it sparingly. Don’t use a splash page. Splash pages are intro pages to a site. Whereas they may ...

Although domain names are significantly less expensive today, it’s much more diffi- cult to get the name you want. If you have a ...

when the Web just getting started. Nobody really knew what this stuff was worth. As competition grew, as always, prices came dow ...

time the server is running keeping sites live. It’s normal to have some downtime for maintenance, but too much is a problem. Put ...

Homepage Events Calendar Bio(s) Music Samples Lyrics Discography Photos Merchandise/Store Media/Press Page Blog Contact Info Yo ...

Do It Yourself Or Hire A Designer Now for the big question. Should you build the site yourself or should you hire a de- signer/d ...

trated and invent a litany of colorful new curse words and phrases. If that sounds like you, you might be wise to invest in hiri ...

Approvals Phase 2 – Development Setup development site Wireframe development & testing (a stripped down version of the ke ...

on your way. Inkscape is a vector-based drawing program, very similar to Adobe® Illus- trator®. It’s useful to create logos and ...

someone who knows what they’re doing to do my website and go write a new song in the meantime.” Hiring out the site building can ...

Ensure they’re “apples to apples” Don’t be taken in by folks who want to up-sell you or give you something other than what you ...

Many are turning to Wordpress as a CMS and that’s what drummer-for-hire, Brian Doherty , did. He said, “At first I had a pro do ...

Keeping In Touch With Fans Via An E-Newsletter Savvy musicians know they need to continually market and promote themselves to st ...