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Hold on to Your Hats!
In case you haven’t visited our website recently, we have just expanded our line of promotional products to include caps and hats! We now offer over 50 styles of custom embroidered caps and hats, including sports caps, mesh caps, beanies and visors, all in a great assortment of colors…with your logo!
So, whether you are an [...]
How to More Effectively Promote Your Band at Live Shows
You’ve got the venue lined up, you and your band have been practicing for months and you’re raring to go. So how can you ensure that you’re maximizing the amount of exposure you make on this special event? Whether this is a local one-time gig, or whether you’re on a multi-city tour for [...]
The Mixonic Guide: How to Monetize your Music Videos Part II: Vimeo
Last week we discussed how to make money off your music videos on YouTube, one of the most popular websites in the world, but YouTube is not the only video content site offering you the opportunity to make some bucks off your band’s music videos, Vimeo has now stepped up to the plate and added [...]
The Mixonic Guide: How to Monetize your Music Videos Part I: YouTube
YouTube is one of the most viewed websites in the world, with over 92 billion page views per month and over 490 million users. If your band has music videos, behind the scenes videos, interviews, sketches, whatever, they need to be on YouTube for two reasons – first is the huge potential audience and the [...]
Why Your Band Needs Instagram
Instagram is a photo-based app for iphone and android smartphones used by millions of users around the world, in fact, according to an article by HypeBot, new figures by Comscore show that Instagram has surpassed Twitter by number of daily users, and not by just a little bit, but by almost half a million users [...]
Should You Presell Your Album?
There are multiple reasons to presell your album, such as generating hype around your album so you sell more copies, giving your fans something to look forward to, or getting the cash in advance so you have the funds to get your custom discs manufactured, but then there’s also a few good reasons why you [...]
Is it Really Necessary to Have a Website in the Age of Social Media?
You’ve got Facebook, twitter, tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and all the rest going for your band or brand, and connecting you to both current and new fans and customers on a daily basis, that’s just as good as having a website, right? Well that depends on whether you want to be taken seriously or not.
In the [...]
The Mixonic Guide: How to Sell More CDs at Shows
Live shows are great venues for selling your CDs to the people who would benefit from them most – your fans! The following is our guide to utilizing this opportunity and selling more CDs at your shows:
Present your CDs attractively! Have them on display with your other merch such as T-shirts, mugs, stickers etc in [...]
Does Modern Pop Music all Sound the Same to You? – A Guest Post by Vinylstall.com
Well you may be onto something. This past July, a research team from Spain published a paper in Scientific Reports that asserted what many had suspected all along: music is getting dumber—and louder. Using a database called the Million Song Dataset, the team algorithmically analyzed characteristic data of 464,411 songs released between 1955 and 2010 [...]
How to Care for Your CDs
Scratched discs are the bane of CD-listeners everywhere, that jumpy skip a beat in the song sound or the disc that won’t even play at all and actually ejects itself automatically from your CD player seconds after you press play, but it doesn’t have to be this way. CD’s, while definitely not indestructible, can and [...]
