How to Teach Music Online
As a musician, you want to have as many ways to make a few bucks available to you as possible, from playing shows, to selling various merch such as tshirts, custom cds, DVDs, posters and the like and from earning royalties on plays on online radio or iTunes downloads. But over and above that, sometimes [...]
TuneSat – What Is It, And Should You Be Using It?
TuneSat is an audio monitoring service that monitors millions of websites and hundreds of TV channels around the world. With the slogan ‘Get played. Get paid’, their purpose is to track the use of users’ songs on television shows and sites because according to them, ‘up to 80% of music on TV goes unreported.’ And [...]
How to Write Timely and Engaging Tweets and Facebook Updates
Ahh Facebook, the artist to fan medium of the future, and twitter, the even quicker, shorter fan communication method that, if you’re not on at least one of these, or preferably both, you’re losing out on a lot of potential interaction with your fanbase and/ or potential customers. But while posting photos and videos is [...]
The Top 3 Things Your Band Can and Probably Should Avoid on Stage
Playing shows can be one of the most rewarding experiences of being in a band, there’s the instant feedback of the crowd, their energy mixed with yours, the chance to get out there and do what you love in front of an audience and maybe make a few new fans and a few bucks in [...]
First of the Year: How to Prepare Your Band for Total World Take Over in 2012
Congratulations, you made it, welcome to 2012! It’s now January, the first month of the year and time to set the tone for the rest of it, by planning and preparing your band for a totalworld take over in 2012.
Your first step is to figure out what taking over the world means for you and [...]
2011 in Review: How to Conduct Your Own Year in Review
Twitter’s done it, so has yahoo, and now it’s time that you should consider doing it too – that is conducting your very own 2011 year in review. The year in review is a collection of the highlights (and sometimes the low-lights as well!) of your band’s year, or if you’re not in a band, [...]
2011 in Review: Top 5 Mixonic Articles to Change Your Band’s (Musical) Life
If you’re an avid blog-reader, then you may have noticed a common trend in the blogosphere, and that is for bloggers to post their ‘Year in Review.’ This is a great way for the blogger and blog followers alike to take a look back at things they might have missed and pick out the best [...]
Thinking Outside the Square – Releasing Apps as a Band
CD’s, DVD’s and MP3’s are all important and standard ways to make your music available for sale to your fans, and are pretty necessary, particularly the MP3’s and CD’s, to have on offer if you want to make any money from your music, but outside of this, there’s music merch like tshirts, hats, hoodies and [...]
Five Funny & Crazy Christmas Album Covers
With Christmas creeping up on us, it’s only time to share some holiday cheer in the form of you guessed it…crazy Christmas album covers! Whether they’re funny, cute or just plain crazy, these Christmas CD and LP covers all have one thing in common – you need to see them to believe them!
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Is the Direct to Fan Approach the Sales Model of the Future?
Most bands start out with this business model, selling their own CDs and merch at shows, before moving on to selling MP3’s through sites like iTunes, and then eventually even getting signed to a record label who takes over things, flipping the script on the sales model, which no longer becomes direct to fan – [...]
