"Your Band Is A Virus" Aims To Demystify Independent Music Marketing
Canadian Music Collective Independent Music Promotions Recently Celebrated The Release Of The E-book "Your Band Is A Virus", Focusing On Viral Promotion Techniques.
Musicians are always looking for ways to increase their fan base. With MySpace's popularity teetering out and Facebook becoming overcrowded and cost-prohibitive on which to advertise, email marketing remains an effective and economical way for both artists and labels to reach a targeted group of potential fans.
TheIndie.biz launched today its much-awaited social buying and selling feature allowing independent music fans to tag and feature their favorite songs as well as sell them through their Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace accounts. This unique social buying and selling opportunity will also give independent bands a vast and exponentially growing network of virtual sales points for their music.
Ditto Music, the distribution specialist for unsigned artists, has announced improved iTunes turnaround times of just 24 hours. Whilst the standard distributor turnaround is 4/5 weeks , Ditto Music artists will have their content live on iTunes within 24 hours of uploading.
Early each weekday morning, the indie music Web site Pitchfork posts five new album reviews. Hours later a 22-year-old reader named David downloads them onto his BlackBerry, reads them on his way to work and muscles out a rambling but surprisingly fluid response using his phone’s MemoPad function: no links, no capital letters at the start of sentences, just adrenalized response.
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