The new owners aren't quite so frugal. In talking with them they were going to keep live music, but probably change the menu (to what they are not sure), etc. So they need to figure out exactly what they want to be (its hard to hit a moving target). None the less I did some research on the club and found that a few websites had reviewed them, and I took those and made the front page filled with testimonials.

I think the same applies for musicians. What if you don't have any gigs? No schedule? Then ask yourself what sets you apart from other musicians? My band had 7 people in it (we had a horn section). Most bands playing the same clubs had about 4 or 5 people. We started pointing that out, "Come hear Akron's most entertaining seven piece party band." Then we had a list of all the musicians with a picture.

Is there something that sets you apart from other bands? Exploit it and embrace it.

Always open for feedback.

Adam Hoek Twitter Band

Adam Hoek is using Twitter to share his music. He has set up the Adam Hook Twitter Band. A place where musicians can work together to share tracks and build songs together. Find him on twitter at www.twitter.com/adamhoek and www.adamhoek.com

My apologies for calling Adam "Andrew" in the episodes.

Jimmy Yukka asks, "Is MySpace Dead?"

Find him at www.jimmyyukka.com

Yes MySpace is second to FaceBook, but saying to ignore MySpace is like saying we should ignore the Rolling Stones becuase they were second to the Beatles.

In my opinion when it comes to all social media, you get out of them what you put into them. Unfortunately the more popular a website gets (MySpace, Twitter) people invent robots to manage their website for them.

The Music business is about building relationship with people - no robots. When you turn your relationship building over ot a robot you are missing the boat. The bad nws is at MySpace its hard to find a person. It seems everyone is using robots. This is why MySpace lost some of its appeal. So try to connect with people at MySpace, build a relationship with them.

If you are finding that most of your "friends" at MySpace don't login, don't pay attention, then maybe your MySpace is dead.

Bob Baker has a great book about marketing your band on MySpace and the whole book is about building relationships with people.

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George is using Facebook as an area for "Exclusive content" and when it comes to twitter he has a great plan. Deliver great content that is occasionally mixed in with a plug for a gig etc.  In some of the books I read about twitter it should be no more than one plug for every five tweets.

Music: George Hrab w/ Slau

Today we answer a question from Dave King (www.davekingmusic.com) about adding RSS capabilities to a "Normal" website. 

We also hear about new software at www.songmanagerforbento.com 

Sean G of http://www.learntodjfast.com/ had a great post about the differences between Kinaki, LuLu, and Vervante. In his example he was shpping for a full color DVD printing, DVD case, full color 1 panel insert, full cover case, cellophane wrapping, upc barcode (for Amazon), 24 hour turnaround from order to manufacturing.

And the results are...

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Vervante:

$6.56 USD not including shipping.

Lulu:

$5.50 not including shipping

Kunaki:

$1.75 USD not including shipping.

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Shipping is $4 USD per DVD to anywhere in the world.
So for the same price as printing a disc @ Lulu & less than Vervante, I can print and ship my DVD.

I was leaning towards Vervante because of its great customer service, but with this large of a price gap, kunaki is the answer for me until I do enough volume to warrant going with Disk.com.

With regards to their poor customer service, Kunkaki isn't trying to hide it:

"Kunaki is not for everyone.

Kunaki operates more like a machine than a business and does not offer a personalized service. We don't engage in active marketing, sales, or public relations. We never offer discounts or special deals. We don't offer affiliate or partner programs. The Kunaki machine is operated and managed by software rather than a management team.

Our service is designed for 21st-century, intelligent, independent publishers who prefer to deal with a cold, efficient, and reliable machine that is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Because Kunaki is highly automated and focused on quality, low price, and fast production, we offer a minimal range of options."

Even though this might cause headaches in the future I understand where they are coming from.

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Tales From the Road - Stage Thud

Special tales from the road courtesy of Big Al and Mike at www.projectstudionetwork.com

Strategies for Listing Your Band  at Music Sites

There are so many sites that want you to list your music. They will give you music players, email, etc to just list your music on their site (and of course you'll get "dsicovered"). Well here are some things to look into.

1. Are the "bonus" features a true bonus?

At www.gigleader.com they say you can use their classified website (www.bandmix.com which you can use for free), or their other service that helps you build your site (for $20 a month) which is completely over priced (check out www.marketingmusician.com for a site that shows you how to build your own site).

2. Who is it your dealing with?

At bandstock.com there  no "About Us,"  or contact information, and everything you do you needed to enter your e-mail address first.  Also if there is a forum, go check it out. Often disgruntled customers will go in and launch flaming posts warning potential customers not to join (and if this site leaves them there, you know they are not manning their forums). IF there is contact information, contact them and see what kind of response you get.

3. Get a Spam Email Address

I talk about this in my book, but you should have an email that you put on your business cards (that typically ends in your band's websites).  Then you can get a free email from places like gmail, yahoo, or hotmail (I liek gmail).  This should be your band's name "@ blah blah blah" so if your band was the free toys you should get freetoys@gmail.com. Use this email for any website that you feel may potentially spam you. You still need to check this email (as you may occasionally get a gig from a stie).  Only give out the email from your website to a person. This way if something comes into that email you know its from someone you have personally met.

4. Can You Link Back To Your Website?

Look at the other band's pages and see if you can link back to your band's website.

5. Does the Technology Work?

Click on one of their players and make sure that the technology they are promoting actually works.

6. Can I export the email list?

Some websites will allow you to use a tool to build a mailing list . This is ok (I guess), but as your list is your most important tool, I would make sure you can export these contacts into your mater list (which should be hosted at your site).

7. Are there tons of Google Ads?

Many times these sites are not about discovering your music. Its about you getting your fans to come to the website so they website can earn cash on their advertising.

Music Promotion Websites

Our Stage
A few websites I have heard good things about is Our Stage which is a promotional site and a contest at the same time (and you will see where they have contact information at the bottom of the page). 

Song Cataglog

http://www.songcatalog.com/ is a place where you can list your music if it inTV shows, Movies, etc.

iStock Photo is now selling audio. I listened to a track that was two minutes. If this sold, you would make 7 dollars (or $14 if you are exclusive to istockphoto). While I realize that there are all sorts of talented musicians, not everybody can be in a band. This a way to be creative and make some money.

Free Play Along Track for Drummers

I found out about this from www.brianstephens.com there is a cool free "Drum along" track available at http://www.hudsonmusic.com/site/features/the-woodshed/66-woodshed/151-messin-wid-da-bull

Free Book from the "Indie Guide"

You Tube Tip

Kevin Reeves let me know that if you embed a you tube clip in your website it is NOT counted as a view. So you might tkae a screen shot of the video, add the picture of the video on your website, and then link the picture to your video on their website. 

Keep Up With Your Buzz

THe Internet is big. How do you keep up with what people are saying about you? By using these tools

Google Alerts (www.coolger.com/alerts ) you can set up words and phrases (like your band name) and be notified when someone mentions you on the Internet.

Twitter Search (search.twitter.com ) will show you if anybody is "tweeting" about you. The cool thing is you can grab an RSS of this search and be notified automatically.

Whos Talkin (www.whostalkin.com ) is a search of socail media.

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She did her homework
She had her marketing material ready
She didn't let all the obstacles ruin the show for her.

In the end there are more ways to gauge a gig besides sales. You could make a great contact (I once played a gig to 6 people. One of them hired the band for a gig where we sold 122 t-shirts).  Just because things aren't going your way doesn't mean the gig is a wash.

Anne is the author of the book The Musicians Guide To Brides.

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Alesis ProTrack Released

Alesis has launched a new portable recoding device that works with your iPod. Here is the verbage from their website.

Record stereo audio directly to your iPod with ProTrack. Capture live sound on your iPod anywhere and anytime without a single cable, and with one hand free! Just dock your iPod and cover it with the protective clear shield, and you’re ready to roll.

You can record detailed, 16-bit, 44.1kHz or 22kHz stereo digital audio without connecting any additional equipment using ProTrack’s onboard pair of cardioid condenser microphones. The on-board mics are fixed in XY configuration for optimal stereo imaging. ProTrack also has a pair of combo XLR-1/4″ inputs enabling you to connect any professional sound source, including condenser and dynamic microphones and mixer outputs. Whether you are running on plug-in or battery power, ProTrack supplies 48V phantom power to its inputs for operation with external condenser microphones.

ProTrack has LED-level metering for instant visual indication, even in a dark club. You can monitor or play back recordings on the 1/8″ stereo-headphone output. Controls for phantom power, limiter, and volume are easy to access.

ProTrack records on four AAA batteries or AC power using the included adapter. A 1/4″-20 threaded mounting point enables you to mount ProTrack on a mic stand with the optional ProTrack Adapter, on a table with the optional ProTrack Tripod table stand, or on a camera tripod for hands-free tracking.

ProTrack automatically dates and time-stamps files so it’s easy to identify which track was the recording of the acoustic-guitar folk duo last Tuesday at happy hour, and which was the flailing hard-rock drummer from Friday night. And speaking of that percussive dynamo, you’ll appreciate ProTrack’s switchable limiter which ensures that your recordings are distortion-free.

ProTrack is the most convenient way to capture sound effects, recitals, jam sessions, speeches, interviews, rehearsals, performances, meetings, lectures, notes-to-self, and anything else you can thing of… directly to your iPod.

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Are You Releasing a CD  in 2009?

Do you know what the following bands have in common?

Heaven and Hell
Ace Frehley
U2
Prince

They are all releasing CDs in 2009, and they alerted the media in late 2008.

By letting your fans know you are working on a CD it can build anticipation, and make them excited about your CD.  How do you build the buzz? By telling them about it in your newsletter, your blog, your podcast . Give them quick samples of it. Let them vote on it. Make a contest and let them design the album cover.  Make the release of your CD in 2009 AN EVENT!

Make sure you have a solid plan so that your CD WILL be released in 2009. There is nothing worse than building up our fans and then letting them down (Guns and Roses anyone?).

Show Promo

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Planning For 2009

If you do not make a plan for 2009 you will accomplish less than those who do. This is a proven fact from numerous studies. You need to write them down, make them specific, and review them on a frequent basis. To help with this I have made a FREE planning guide for 2009 that is available with all of my free ebook at the musician library. Download the Free planning guide here .

There are great tools like Indie Band Manager and Band Leader softwar e (use the code DJ7KK to save on shipping and more when you order). 

Marketing Ideas From Disney

Disney has a deal now where they will let kids into the park for free on their birthday. This is brilliant as how is the kid going to get there? So now a family will plan a $4000 vacation to save the price of a Disney ticket (what is that 50, 80 bucks?).

You can use this idea too. If your email list software allows you to add custom fields, be sure to add birthday. In theory you don't even need the year, just the date. Be sure you get the email address. Now at the beginning of the month you can send emails to everyone how has a birthday and say you are putting their name on the guest list and they can get into the gig for free.  After all, who is going to go out and celebrate their birthday alone?

If you want to go one step further, have your band record a generic version of "Happy Birthday" and then have the band do a "Gang vocal" where the name comes into play. So every month you record a few names, pop it into the song and send it to the birthday person. This would build HUGE loyalty.

Podcast Poll

I'm thinking of having more shows of a shorter length. What do you think of this idea? Let me know in this poll

Sites Mentioned

www.wufoo.com

Fanbridge.com - email list management system with text message capabilities.

aweber - email list management.

www.peterwoolston.com - Kicked of the show From New Zealand.

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My Gmail Account Got Hijacked

I went to login to my account. That's funny, it won't let me ine. Then when I used the password reminder, it sent my password to an email that wasn't mine. A week later and I still can't get google to give it back to me on a permanent basis. They did, and the hijacker got to the email before I did. Now when I try to get my gmail account back I get "Thank you for your report. For account security, we limit the number of requests that can be processed about the same account. Please wait a few days and try filling out the form again." Can they be a bit more vague? A few days? What is that, 2, 8 10, 15? NICE.

So now I've listed all my contact information at www.musicianscooler.com/contact

Free Music Business Ebooks

I found an article at hypebot.com about the Top 5 Free Music Business Ebooks.  Here is the list they provided.

• The Word Of Mouth Manual Vol. 2 by David Balter. Not just about music, but an essential guide to word of mouth marketing. (pdf)

• 20 Things You Need To Know About Music Online by Andrew Dubber.  Can something 16 months old already be a classic?  (here)
• Music 2.0 by Gerd Leonhard, co-author of The Future Of Music. This free version of the ebook is 228 pages long. If you only have time to read part of this, don't miss his Open Letter To The Independent Music industry which starts on page 154. (pdf)
• The Pirate's Dilemma - How The Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism by Matt Mason.  The title says it all and the books suggests that it just might be a good thing.  Available via the Radiohead "pay what you want" model.
• Unleashing The Ideavirus by Seth Godin. Written way back in 2001.Practical yet inspiring.(pdf)

I would add to the my book Promoting You Band With Podcastng (www.promotingwithpodcasting.com )  and Derek Sivers Free Ebook (www.sivers.org )

We find out what it was like for a typical day on The Biggest Lost ranch. We also hear how Dan is handling his weight now and we get to hear the title track his new CD "Goin All Out."

We get to hear the title track his new CD "Goin All Out." This is a great CD filled with positive, honest lyrics that combine country and rock. I love the title track and Letter to My Addiction. Goin All Out has made it to #7 on the Country Billboard Charts. It's also available in iTunes.

We also get a "Tales From the Road" from Julian Moore of www.gwonder.com who talk about the time the monitor left with quite a lump on his head.

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I just found out about a new service. It's called Our Stage. It's kind of a Sonicbids (as you get a FREE EPK, and the ability to get gigs) meets Garageband (as you get reviewed by industry types) meets MySpace (as you can have friends). Meets American Idol (as you can enter and win monthly prizes of $5,000. There are also "Channel" prizes where you can win $100.  Here is some text I copied from the website.

How Does Our Stage Work?

As an artist, your first step is to upload your music or video and decide which channel competition to enter. Then, fans judge the work side by side with the work of others. Our unique judging capability (called Peer Relative Ranking, but don't worry about that) makes sure that each piece is judged fairly by the real audience- with no rigging, no cheating, and no celebrity judges. At the end of each month, the top 20 and the top 10 in each channel go head-to-head in a special judging channel to determine the winner of that channel, and then a site-wide judging contest to determine our Grand Prize winner. For more information about that, see the Judging section below! As a fan, all you have to do is listen to some great music and give feedback about just how great you think it is. Find your favorite artists and follow them as they grow!

How Does the Ranking Work?

The ranking or judging is done via two patent pending algorithms that serve up top ranking, middle ranking and relatively new uploaded material in a channel in "somewhat" random fashion for someone to judge.

When we say somewhat, we mean that we take care of serving up the material in a fair and unbiased fashion. We are watching very carefully to make sure that each item in the channel gets equal exposure–we guarantee that. Whether that happens in a particular judging session, though, is another matter.

Depending on how much our users like something (rank it favorably), and how long they want to keep on ranking, the ranking engine will try to get the user to discriminate how much more an item is liked over other ranked items, and thus, the reason why users may see what appears to them as the same item coming up during several battles.

Our site users who judge cannot request what material they will be served to judge. During judging they have to view or play the material served, and at a minimum, they have to screen an item for 15 seconds each before they can rank one item over another.

Then, all of the rankings from all of the users are taken together and the ranking engine bubbles up the best items to the top!

Prizes?

TWO (2) GRAND PRIZES, one for Music and one for Video, for each Contest Period, a check payable to the Music winner in the amount of $5,000, and a check payable to the Video winner in the amount of $1,000.

ONE (1) FIRST PRIZE FOR EACH CHANNEL on the site (one for each Channel winner who is not selected as a Grand Prize winner for each Contest Period): a $100 Online Gift Card. Gift card is subject to the terms and conditions stated thereon. Approximate retail value ("ARV") of each First Prize is $100.

Mojo Ratings?

What is a Mojo rating?

Every artist gets a Mojo rating based primarily on where the fans rank them in our Channels. Other factors that figure into the Mojo rating are: number of Fans, number of Friends and number of media uploads as well as EPK completeness. On Marketplace, venues can use the Mojo rating to help them identify artists with a proven ability to draw a crowd.

How do I get a Mojo rating?

To get a Mojo rating, register on OurStage and activate your account using the link we email you. From there, all you have to do is create a free EPK from your profile page and activate it. To get a positive Mojo rating, just click "View My EPK" from your profile and click the "Activate My EPK" link.

How Much Is It?

OurStage is still a free site for all the services you have right now It's free to join, free to enter competitions, and free to be ranked. The only part of OurStage that will be costing any money is Marketplace, our new site feature for finding gigs around the USA. OurStage Marketplace will be free until Labor Day 2008, and then it will still only cost a small monthly fee, about the cost of buying lunch. So don't worry! You aren't losing any features. The only change is that you can now opt to pay a small monthly fee to access and apply to gigs on the OurStage Marketplace.

I Think It's Worth Checking Out

While I hate things like "It costs as much a lunch" comments this site seems to have alot of potential. The great thing about new sites with competition is it doesnt' take much to be a big fish in a small pond, and when they are handing out prizes I say its worth a shot.  If you're using the service I would love some feedback, and if you're not you can sign up at ourstage.com

Music Marketing Tips From Cheryl Crow

Cheyrl Crow's got a Christmas CD that available at Hallmark stores. Inside the CD you get a code to download an extra song. Now this create a sense of urgency. I HAD to buy this CD at THIS store. The fact that there was an additional song adds more value to the purchase.

Why not have business cards set up with a special link on your website where they can download the extra song. They only get the code if they buy your CD at the show. This way at a gig, if someone is on the fence, you can say "if you buy this CD now you will get an additional downloadable song." When they purchase, you hand them a business card with the URL to your song, and you spent 10 cents on business cards, and the customer spent 10 dollars on your new CD.  I use Vita Print for my business cards.

So they charge a little more to get people to buy the bracelet, but in the end you get a one of a kind product, and now you have a memory that can live on forever.

Queen Makes You Buy Without Hearing It

Queen and Paul Rogers are using a similar tactic on their new Cosmos Rocks CD. You can pre order their new CD, and in addition to the CD you receive FREE ACCESS to the Queen & Paul Rodgers "Album Club"

This means you get first crack at listening to the new album. You get previously unreleased live tracks. Automatic entry into 12 prize draws to win exclusive prize.  An opportunity to purchase an exclusive "Album Club" T-shirt.

The "album club" t-shirt is uber marketing. You've made people pay to get into the club, and then you make them pay to prove they are in the club. For more information go to www.queenonline.com

AC/DC Says No to ITunes

To the best of my knowledge you can't buy AC/DC in a downloadable version. This too me just begs to get your music stolen. If you don't provide this format in a way for people to buy, those that want it in this format will steal it from you.

Building A Tribe

Uber Marketer Seth Godin has a new book called "Tribes." You can hear Seth Introduce it at the "Marketing Over Coffee" website (a cool marketing podcast). While I haven't read the book his prelude ot the book really got me thinking. In it he states something so obvious and (for me) so thought provoking.

He said a tribe needs two things:

1. A common interest

2. A Way to communicate.

We have a common interest (the music business, selling more music, getting more fans, gigs, technology), and we have a way to communicate (voicemail, email, forums).

Many bands name their fans:

KISS- Kiss Army
Grateful Dead - Dead Heads
Jimmy Buffet - Parrot Heads
(notice the last two make a killing on tours).
Terri Clark - "Hat Brats" where she is letting them write a verse in a song, ask her questions, and other items that only members can do.
Def Leoppard - "Fan Club" (how original) $30 a year.

By having merchandise, or special names, it helps build a tribe identity. So far I've got more from the launch audio from Marketing Over Coffee, than the book, but I'm only 28 minutes into it.

Do you have any examples of tribes? How do you build your tribe of fans?

There is a reason Buddy Guy has 5 grammys and has inspired Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray, and Jimi Hendrix. He is a great performer. Watch this video and you will see how he is not faking one note. He also uses dynamics, smiles while he is on stage, and gives it everything he has. He leaves it on the stage.

Dr. Pepper Marketing

Dr. Pepper said that if the Guns n Roses album Chinese Democracy came out this year they would give away Dr. Pepper.  Well the album hits stores November 23rd. They have decided to give away coupons on ONE day, and they are for ONE bottle. Why can't indies do this? With the world series going on, why not say "I'm such a huge fan that if the Phillies win I'm giving away a track from my album. It's a win-win situation becuase iether way you get publicity.

Music Marketing Sites.

www.animestreet.com seems to be gaining ground. Here is some ext from their website, "Amie Street helps you discover new music you'll love quickly and easily. With millions of songs to choose from we make it simple and enjoyable to find your next favorite song. How do we do this? It starts with the fact that all songs on Amie Street are priced from free to 98 cents. Instead of the arbitrary $0.99 per song, on Amie Street the community determines the price of music. Every song starts free, or very cheap, and increases in price, up to 98 cents, as more and more people purchase it. This variable pricing system ensures that the public gets music at a fair, community-driven price point, and makes it easy for you to find the type of music you want. We then encourage you to talk about the music you like by putting money in your account for more downloads when you recommend songs that continue to rise in price. You can play the music you purchase from anywhere on the web and all Amie Street downloads are iPod compatible DRM-free mp3s. Enjoy the music!
Artists collect 70% of the money from each song after it has made $5. The first $5 of each song covers our storage, bandwidth, and transaction costs for that song. This one-time only charge is deducted from your first royalty check so there is no risk: you only have the $5 deducted after you make it

Band Camp was created becuase they feel most band's websites load too slow.  Check them out at http://bandcamp.mu

Other Music Marketing resources

Battling Bands to relaunch soon. Check it out at www.battlingbands.com and sign up to be a beta tester at www.marketingmusician.com

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Cool iPod Application for Sound Engineers

I've got a great iPhone app for the Cooler - at least their techie friends.

It's called SignalScope and it's a full-scale real time audio analyzer which will handle the full 20-20kHz audio range*.  I've already used it on a bunch of gigs and it works great to tweak monitors, or check problems at front of house. It may not be as accurate as professional RTAs costing $1000 or more, but at $25, it's the best money I've spent this year! Every live sound engineer should get it 

Thanks to Paul from www.mesasand.com 

Throat Spray for Musicians

Brian from www.jhenryband.com likes www.throatcooler.com They are drug free and takes the edge off a dry throat when they perform.   It’s a healthy ice pop with Honey and vitamin C.

Reverb Nation Adds Digital Distribution

It is based on a flat-fee model ($34.95/album with an annual renewal fee) that is non-exclusive and pays the Artists 100% of the royalties we collect from the retailers on their behalf.  The feature is designed to be priced competitively, but the real differentiator is the way we will be tying it into the marketing and promotion solutions we already offer. The sites they will distribute to are:

ReverbNation distributes to these 10 online outlets:

• iTunes U.S.
• iTunes Aus/NZ
• iTunes Canada
• iTunes UK
• iTunes EU
• iTunes Japan
• Amazon
• eMusic
• Napster
• Rhapsody

For more information see http://www.reverbnation.com/main/artist_feature/digitaldistribution

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Music "Blowing Me Out" From The Malloys Courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network

All the details of my band can be found at... http://www.themalloysonline.com, http://www.themalloys.co.uk and of course http://www.myspace.com/themalloys 

Free Beta Testers Need For Music Marketing Website

If you  are ready to make your band's website, have the ability to pay for hosting, have some music for your site, then go to www.marketingmusician.com

Win a Copy of Get Your Band Out of the Basement and Keep Them Out of the Asylum

You can win a copy of my ebook by providing your feedback (good and bad) at www.musicianscooler.com/contest

Music Marketing Tools

Last we we talk about www.ping.fm and this week we mention www.tubemogul.com and www.hellotxt.com which are all used to syndicate your information on numerous sites by posting information in one place.

Keep Your Gigs Moving

Rich Palmer writes in with a question, "How do you keep your band's set moving. It seems like bands lose their momentum in between songs. It takes too much time in between songs, and it brings the set to a halt. How do you stop this?

Dave says: First of you need to identify the problem so record a gig, and when you listen back get a watch with a second hand. You will be amazed. While a minute doesn't sound like a long time, it's VERY long time if you are sitting there waiting for the band to start playing another song. My favorite is when a band asks the audience to get up and dance. When they finally do they take time after that song to thank them. Consequently, as the crowd waits for another song to dance to, the band looks at each other to see what song they are playing next. Finally the crowd gets bored and returns to their seats. At this point, the band goes "Hey why aren't you dancing?" When the crowd gets up, keep them up by having a set list with the song listed. A well planned set list is key. Make sure songs in the same key are not played back to back to back. Put dances songs next to dance songs. Time your sets, and make sure the "bottom of the hour" (when many people leave) has a great song that makes them want to stay. In some cases you may need to call and "audible" on stage and say to skip the slow song and stick with the dance songs. Why is it important to keep the crowd dancing?

Bar Owners love thirsty customers, and dancing customers are thirsty customers.

The bottom line is you have to come up with hand signals, or some sort of way to communicate on stage in an effective manner so you can stick to the plan, or change on the fly in a minutes notice.

Blip.fm Become Your Own Internet Disc Jockey

Daniel Johnson Jr talks about www.blip.fm where musicians can list their music and be their own DJ. This could be a great tool for artists. Daniel Johnson Jr does the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast.

Music

New Music Monday "You're Freakin Me Out"

Rich Palmer - Another Man

Tales From The Road "Then We Blew a Fuse..."

Rich Palmer talks about the gig in the "gig trailer" where they blew fuses, blew keyboards, and more. The gig from hell. We listen to Rich's Music from the Podsafe Music Network.

Attracting New Members To Your Band

I recently started a new podcast about Online Dating Resources and one of the things I've found is that your personal profile should be postiive. Nobody is attracted to someone who complains. You can approach the marketing for your band. If you are putting an advertisement for a new band member, don't fill it with what you are NOT looking for. Instead, you should simply put what you are looking for in a band menber.

Instead of saying "Looking for a guitarist. No druggies, ego maniacs, no alcoholics, with no transporation." Why not spin this into, "Looking for a reliable sober guitarist who is a team player."

I Need a Way to Keep All My Social Networking Tools Updated

Jimmy from www.myspace.com/jimmyyukka asks:

The second point  is that currently I have a facebook profile Fast Hands (the drummer) has a facebook profile, I have the myspace for jimmy yukka and potentially a proper website for the band. I would love to be able to edit a blog in one place and have the info appear everywhere. Is there a service you or any of the listeners know of that allows this? I have experimented with rss feeds but both facebook and myspace can be a bit funny about it.

Jimmy,

Thanks for writing. Check out www.ping.fm

He was also looking for a tool for Text Messaging in Australia.  

Why Don't Clubs Let You Eat and Stay For Free?

James from http://churchofnoise.dyndns.org wants to know about the horror stories of touring.

Unfortunately, its very hard to operate a club in the USA. There is a TON of competition for clubs. Things like a higher drinking age, video games (WII, XBOX, Play Staion), there were no ONLINE DATING SITES all of which took some of the fun out of going to a club. Also, in the past some bands have taken advantage of a clubs hospitality.

You Band's Bio - Who Are You, Where Are You, And Who Do you Sound Like?

Today Dave reviews the Band Conspiracy's band bio (it needs some work). Remember to get to the point and tell people who you are (band name) where you are (city and state), and what type of music you play.

Review Conspiracy's "New World Order"

 Today we try a new idea of playing a song and let people comment on it. You can reply in the forums or leave comment.

Other Sites Mentioned

www.chicagoguitar.com should check out the episode about playing Weddings

Need to take information from your fans? Check out www.wufoo.com and www.surveymonkey.com

www.onlinegigs.com and www.geologicpodcast.com were mentioned as they provided IDs.

Dave's Book Get Your Band Out of the Basement and Keep them Out of the Asylum at www.musicianlibrary.com

This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com This is show 214

The Positive Side of Negative Comments

When I was a customer service representative there was a simple way to find out someting from your customers. YOU ASK. Now I know they may say something negative, but then you have the opportunity to remedy the situation and make them fans for life.

The problem is not everyone is interested in filling out a survery. So to make it worth their trouble, you need to offer them something for free (like give away a CD).

Contests Can Help Build Site Interactivity and Feedback

I found a cool tool at www.contestfreemachine.com which makes it very easy to obtain feedback, and at the end the system e-mails the winner and gets their mailing address. It also blocks duplicate vots and more. There are other sites if you are just looking for a survey like www.surveymonkey.com

Tales From The Road - It's "Snot" Funny.

For several years I worked for Yamaha Music UK, programming all sort of keyboards and demonstrating them at trade shows music fairs etc. 
I was once playing solo piano on stage at a UK Music Fair, PA, lights, foldback the works. Playing to about 200 people. So it was winter approx 1995-ish and I was suffering from a heavy cold whilst working at a large music exhibition in Manchester England. My job was to demonstrate products on stage 3 times a day and talk to customers on the exhibition stand inbetween shows. So there I was on stage with my new Jaeger jacket on, 200 people, and 30 minutes of music prepared to hype the audience up. All going well except for 2 things:
during a Chopin Etude, I suddenly sneezed projecting an almighty mess onto the beautifully polished music rest, embarrassing to have to scrape that off.

This was then topped when I was playing "Nutrocker" by Bee Bumble and the Stingers. This is a great one to end a show, and to sound most impressive I had carefully programmed drum and guitar parts into the digital piano I was playing, I then played live over the top, but obviously couldn't pause mid way if the backing tracks were preprogrammed, very flashy and a great end to the show. It only lasted about 3 minutes and always went down really well with me finishing with schorching blues piano run going down through 3 octaves and me energetically standing up immediately after the last note, which looked very dramatic and audiences loved it.

This normally went well, got applause, and lots of interest in the product which was the whole idea of me being there.  So on this demonstration I had already splattered the music rest and then my problems got worse because my nose started running really badly but I had no handkerchief, and I was not going to ruin my new posh jacket, so I sniffed with increasing frequency throughtout the demo, but of course with a head mic you can't sniff loudly can you, so things degenerated until during Nutrocker I lost the battle and my nose streamed in the worst way, i.e. long and stringy. So picture it, a professional Yamaha player playing the latest music technology on a professional stage with PA lights, sound man, compere etc. and during the "piece d'resistance" the pianist is hacking his way through some flashy rock and roll, with nose streaming down between his legs onto the floor, and the audience howling with laughter. At the end I broke the stream with my finger, turned to the audience and got a standing ovation !!!    That's the only time it's ever happened to me, thank god.
After a few more years at Yamaha I decided to change tack and now work for a very large IT company, not so much fun but I have my own function band, the T6 Band ( www.T6band.com ) which is great fun.
 
Keep up the good work,
Cheers matey!
Jeremy

Battling Bands Coming Back?

I used to host a podcast at www.battlingbands.com but it went away becuase people cheated. I am thinking of brining it back for free. Bands interested need to meet a criteria.

1. You need to have a CD at CDBaby.com
2. You need to have music on www.podsafemusicnetwork.com
3. It would be beneficial if you have a maling list but not mandatory
4. You would be willing to (possibly) email/send downloads to a random recipiant of the voting population.

If you are interested please send an e-mail ot musicianscooler "at" gmail "dot" com with the title batting bands and let me know where I can find your music.

Other Sites Mentioned

Loking to put audio on your website check out http://www.myflashfetish.com

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Dancing with the Stars is Going to Make Me Gauge My Eyes Out

I was at a club this weekend and the band was playing some old 60's tunes. They launch into Journey to the Center of your mind by Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, and a couple gets up to do their "Cross Country Ballrom Dancing" routine. This included lots of  posing, and (of course) a dip at the end. This has to stop.

Cool MySpace Widget

I was over at www.jimmiebratcher.com when I was he was using some social networking widget called "Gydget."

You can find it at http://www.gydget.com/home/bands This seems to really boost alot of intereactivity at myspace and facebook, etc. You can sell tickets, ringtones, music and more while you add "top fans" to your widget. From what I've seen it's free.

Cover Band Tips

I saw a band this weekend called Cosmic Candy. They were really talented and did a great job of paying attention to their fans (as in playing requests immediately when people request them). They also took the song "Funky Town" and made it their own.  On the other hand their website promotes their myspace page (www.myspace.com/thecosmiccandyband ) their website is www.cosmiccandy.org I went over there and found it odd that there was no "about the band" that says:

1. Who they are
2. Who they sound like
3. Who is in the band

Remember if someone is looking for a member of the band it won't work if they are not listed on their website.

Also, if you list where you are playing (and you SHOULD), put the club's address. This way people can use sites like mapquest, and google maps and get directions. Make it easy for your fans to find you. The other thing I noticed is there was no contact name on the business card (I realize this means anyone can pass out cards).  Business cards are cheap if someone quits and you have to make new cards, its not going to kill you (and you can use those in the event you run out).

Survey Question: Cover bands, Are there songs you thought were going to go over (and didn't) and songs you thought might lay an egg and instead went over like gangbusters.

Let me know 888-563-3228 (or email me at musicianscooler "at" gmail "dot" com)

Matthew Ebel Launches Membership Site

I talked about this in a previous episode that one way musicans can make money is by having a "Fan site." Matthew Ebel is doing this exact thing with membershps starting at $5 a month going up to $15 a month. You can read about all the bonus material he will be giving away at www.matthewebel.net I beleive he is using the Amember membership script to pull this off.  Amember is around $179 for the script. If you interested in membership scripts check out this list of membership sites at Weekly Web Tools

Tunecore Get Your Music Into iTunes

It appears Tunecore.com now has a deal with guitar center that gets your music into iTunes (you keep all the royalties). Thanks to Marcus Couch of the The Scene Zine Hard Rock Podcast.

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We hear how musicians are "starving" and how there isn't enough money.  Well it's true, the potential to make less money than a lawyer is greater. However, becuase we accept this, we need to manage our money better  than the average Joe. Today we talk with Veteran Musician Doug Ross who has been writing financial advice for musicans (and non musicians) on savng money, and making money. You can find Doug at www.dougross.net

There is a great book that Doug Mentiones that you can download as a pdf called "Common Sense" by Art Williams"

Get Bob Baker's Free Report "How to Recession-Proof Your Music Career: 39 Ways Musicians, Bands and Record Labels Can Reduce Expenses and Prosper in Today's Economic Times." at http://www.bob-baker.com/buzz/recession-proof-music.html Check out Bob's

Other Sites Mentioned

www.xpenser.com where you can easily track your expenses.

www.gnucash.org is an open source (free) software alternative to quicken

I use http://home.ingdirect.com/index.html to create his "Oh crap" fund. He earns 3% interest.

I mentioned Dave Ramsey on the podcast. Everyone is raving about his Book Total Money Makeover. There is even a total money makeover workbook. How am I going to save money? By going to the library and reading it for free.

www.betterthanavan.com is a way to find places to stay on the road.

www.fool.com is a great site to learn about investing.

Music on This Episode (from the Podsafe Music Network)

"Distractions" from the self-titled Doug Ross CD. You can buy it at his website www.dougross.net or at CDBaby

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No More Practicing Alone

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• 164 Niche Happens with Christine Kane
• MC163 Putting on a Show with Phil X of Powder The Musicians Cooler - Where Musicians Trade Advice › Edit — WordPress
• EZ Drummer Feedback - PMN Discussion
• 161 Interactive T-shirts
• 160 Blake Morgan Shows Up Big

• 95: Home vs Professional Studio Which One Makes Sense For You
• 94 Anthony Gomes “It’s All About the Fans” - Getting Airplay in 7 Days
• 93: How to Be a Hit Songwriter Reviewed
• 92 Dipping Your Toe in the ProTools Pool

• Mentoring Moment with Judith Owen
• #33 Interview with the Booker
• #32 Podsafe Music Network - The Results Are in
• #31 Americas Biggest - Here I am Dave

Make Your Song The Next Anthem

Musicians Guide to Brides

Today I talk with Ann Roos who is the author of the book Musician's Guide to Brides How to Make Money Playing Weddings and has a huge amount of experience playing weddings. There are some great tips in the book (and this interview). If you've been afraid to play a wedding, this book walks you through the whole process. The tips in the book are great for the music business in general (so if you're playing clubs, the marketing tips will work for club bookers as much as brides).

Some great points include:

"Showing up late with a great excuse does not equal "on time."

"It's all about the bride."

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Kadoink Wdiget Music Promotion Tool

Rich Palmer from Blog Views and Blues podcast Reviews www.kadoink.com which is a great widget to promote your music. He is using at his www.RichDesoto.com website.

4 Resources for Musicians

Paul from www.mesasand.com he got it from www.isound.com the artcile states:
Sunrise Promotions
http://www.sunrise-promotions.com/

Sunrise Promotions is a great inexpensive newsletter service that allows you to connect with your fans on a monthly basis. They offer newsletters with no cap on subscribers for only $5 a month. The newsletter service does require you to be a little knowledgeable with html but at $5 a month you can afford to learn some simple html. For those that would rather pay more, Sunrise also offers a full service newsletter where they create your monthly newsletter for $30 a month. Other services offered by Sunrise include street teams and website development.

Feedburner
http://www.feedburner.com/
Make it easy for your fans to subscribe to your band blog with Feedburner. Feedburner manages your rss feed, allows you to keep track of the number of subscribers, usage and traffic. The best part are the widgets for your website and blog that make it easy for your fans to subscriber via email or rss reader and make it easy for the content to be shared with each other. For those that subscribe via email, Feedburner sends all your daily blog updates every day at noon to all your subscribers.

Whrrl
http://www.whrrl.com/
Whrrl is a new Social Networking SMS Service. Think Myspace and Yelp all in one. Whrrl allows you to connect with your fans regionally by city. Share with your friends great restaurants you find while touring, or notify your fans when you arrive in their city for a concert date, or let your fans know that you would like to meet them at a pizza joint before the show. Great for promoting concerts and reminding fans of events.

Twitter
http://twitter.com/
Twitter is similar to Whrrl and is used for micro blogging, it allows you to update your fans on a minute by minute basis. Fans can subscribe to your Twitter updates via SMS, Email, Instant Messager or just read them on your Twitter profile. Let your fans know about your current playlist, what you just ate, how your band practice went, or keep them updated on the recording process. A Twitter widget also allows you to place your updates on Myspace, Facebook, or your band's website.

Web Traffic for Musicians Package

Never heard of Twitter? David Hooper has some great books on using Twitter, facebook, bloglogs and more. All these books for $27 check it out

Tales From the Road - Driving Through the Road/River

Peter Woolston had a gig where the raods turned into rivers.  Hear his music and watch the video at http://www.reverbnation.com/peterwoolston Watch his video on You Tube

Calculate Profits On CDs and Gigs 

Disk Makers Launches Eleite Artists Services (http://www.eliteartistservices.com/) they have a cool Excel spreadsheet you can used to measure the profit on your next CD release. If you like this sheet, check out the tools from David Hooper of Music Business Radio at www.gigcalculator.com

www.judithowen.net

Independent artist, session guitarist and music educator, Chris Juergensen shows you the steps you need to take to make music your career. Subjects include: building and maintaining your website, recording and releasing your own music, marketing on a tight budget, selling from your site and through internet retailers, digital distribution, royalties, publishing, personal finance and more. This book will pay for itself with one CD sale. Available at lulu.com

Today Chris and I discuss his book, his time in Japan, getting your music promoted on Podcasts, and more. He has a great marketing idea about working with other local musicians (that will boost CD sales).

In his "tales from the road" Chris talks about the time he found himself without pants on stage. Thank goodnews for his guitar.

MUSIC: Sweet Mellissa from the Podsafe Music Network buy Chris' music at CDBaby, and iTunes.

How Much Money Do Artists Make on a CD Sale?

According to a video fomr the Band Bezerker the breakdown is as follows:
Retail 52.3%
Distribution 23.3%
Record Label 12%
Manufacturer 9%
Artist 3.3%

This means on a sales of $12.99 the breakdown would be as such:

 Last.fm Royalties

 You will accrue an amount each time one of your tracks is streamed on the Last.fm service. The amount will vary depending upon which Last.fm service your track is played. A brief rundown of the various royalty levels can be found below:
- If your track is played on our free radio service you will accrue a 10% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue (see the definition of “Share” and “Net Revenue” in the terms and conditions) from the free radio service.
- If your track is played on our personalised premium radio service, you will accrue the greater of either 10% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the personalised radio service, or US $0.0005 for each complete transmission on the personalised radio service.
- If your track is played on our free on-demand service, you will accrue 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the on-demand radio service.
- If your track is played on our premium on-demand service, you will accrue the greater of either 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the premium on-demand service, or US $0.005 for each complete transmission on the prepaid or subscription on-demand service

Thanks to Rokk from http://www.myspace.com/rokk  and http://www.myspace.com/vociferousmusic

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Three Sites To Surf

Today we have three sites you may want to check out.

Songness

http://www.songness.com/ is a fair way to evaluate and market new songs, and systematically introduces fans to songs they might otherwise miss. You will have your song evaluated by 200 people. Their engine suggests music that they like. It opens in September, so you may want ot check it out.

MySpace Lets Band Find Their Fans
You can apply at https://advertise.myspace.com/apply.html you spend 25 and every time someone clicks they deducts .25 from your account. This means you will get 100 people to your profile. In my book that's kind of pricey. If you use this please let me know if this is bringing results.

Last.fm pPoviding Royalties

You can sign up for Last.fm at http://www.last.fm/uploadmusic as they are no issuing Royalties when you music is streamed. I was unable to see how much a "royalty" is, but its better than 0.00

Feature Interview with Vick Blankenship of Indiegrrl as they launch new Conference

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Today we are talking about "Live Looping." This is where you have a pedal that you record a chord progression (or percussion) and it plays it over and over (it "loops" it). More and more sophisticated technology has come out where you can have multiple parts that play on top of each other (with the ability to stop just one certain loop). The best part is if you live in an area where there are no other musicians, you can go out and play LIVE with a few pieces of technology.

 K.T. Tunstall has a JamMan check her out in this video doing her hit "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree."

You can see Musicians Cooler Friend Norman Lamont's set up. He is using a Roland GK20 guitar synthesizer that ends up going into a Boss Loop Station. He picked this gear becuase of the price, and the pickup that attaches for the guitar synth goes on with glue (nothing permanent). He recommends a website called "Looper Delight" where you can read reviews of looping tools and hear some great performers.

Ray Confer Acidic Loops

Looping Gear Mentioned

Simple Boss RCS "looping Pedal" $189

Boss RC-20XL $259

Boss RC-50 Looping Station $499

Digitech JamMan $299

 Line 6 JM4 Looping Pedal $330

 Digitech GNX4 $399

 Roland GR20 Guitar Synthesizer $699

 SONiVOX LoopLine HotBox Volume 2 MPC Grooves Loop Library $30

 Funk Drums Loops $30

Pitch Sheet Reviews Part 9

Music Marketing Resources

I found a posting at hypebot that mentions some resources for musicians. You can read that post here

Dave's Book "Get Your Band Out of the Basement and keep them out of the asylum" available at www.musicianlibrary.com

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There is a contest from McDonald's where you can write a jingle for the Big Mac Sandwich at www.myspace.com/bigmacchant

 Marcus Couch of www.thescenezine.com sent me a note about how people can get their music into iTunes for $9.99 For details check out www.tunecore.com/guitarcenter

Simon from www.windisch.co.uk  wants to know if anyone has any tips on selecting a rehearsal area? Does anybody have any "tales from the rehearsal studio" sotries?

 Randy Ponzio has launched a new Podcast at www.rhymeandmelody.com Its a great podcast for people who record their own music. You get to "watch" a song go trough different stages of its life. His band Website is  www.questpoetics.com

Today we talk about are you making it easy for your fans to find you, buy from you, come see you? I went to go see some bands this weekend and I had to use their website to find them and it was awful.

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FROM THE GROUP
From Michael Van Laar

Perhaps this could be interesting for the cooler listeners: In a German musicians' forum I just read about a quite interesting piece of software sold by an Austrian label. It's called Rebeat Digital and can be found at http://en.rebeat.com/digital.html . The software allows you to distribute your music via a whole lot of internet music stores and platforms worldwide (list of stores: http://en.rebeat.com/digital/portalliste.html). As far as I can tell, it's only for European residents, since you a valid EU banking account to use the software.

The software itself costs 99 Euros, which is about US$ 150, as a one-time license fee. Then you have to pay 1 Euro (approx. US$ 1,50) storage fee for each song, also as a one-time fee. If you don't have a barcode for your album and ISRC codes for your songs yet, you can get the barcode (one per album) for 5 Euros (approx. US$ 7.50) and the ISRC codes (one per song) for 1 Euro (approx. US$ 1,50) each. E. g. you would have to pay 29 Euros (approx. US$ 45) as a one-time fee for the digital distribution of one album with 12 songs. In addition Rebeat keeps a 15% margin from the income of sold songs. I don't know if these are reasonable prices, but since the list of digital stores looks quite huge on a first glance, I thought it could be worth having a look at the software.

Best wishes from Germany to Ohio,
Michael

Reverb Nation Add Gig Finder
From Lou Plaia
http://www.reverbnation.com/main/features_tabs?tab=Gig+Finder 

Is Your Band's Website Missing Some iTems?

I went to find some music to see this weekend. My girfriend suggested that we see a band called Cosmic Candy. (http://www.cosmiccandy.org/ ) Well I want to hear them first. Unfortunately there is audio on their website or their "eye blinding myspace" www.myspace.com/thecosmiccandyband  Likewise I see where they don't have an email list to keep their fans updated on their progress.

On their schedule they listed the name and city of the club. Do you realize that you are now forcing your fans to google search? Why not provide the address, the phone number of the club. You can also use yahoo maps (or mapquest etc), and then put a link to the directions on YOUR website.

If you are using MySpace for your MAIN website I have two words. MPE .com (ok is that two words) PEple put all their eggs in the mp3.com basket. The site got sold, and people who were maing 10,000 a month are now making 0.

On your Photo album page make sure there is a picture of a FULL CLUB for potential booekrs to see.

They did a good job of putting where they are (Northern Ohio), but they didn't put their phone number in that paragraph (again make it easy).

AUDIO ON YOUR WEBSITE
The AUDIO SOLUTION that I just LOVE is Wimpy Player that makes it soooo easy to put audio on your website (that can or can't be downloaded  - you pick). You install the software and upload your mp3s. It's 30 bucks. Check out the Wimpy Player

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH A NEWSLETTER
There are tons of great email solutions athat are affordable

Fabdrige is great and allows you to email and text people www.tryfanbridge.com

icontact allows you to only pay for what you need.

aweber is a very powerful email and auto responder solution

Constant Contact is used by a lot of people as well

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Today we talk with David Hooper about his new book Moving Your Music Forward which is available at amazon.com

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In his new book "Move Your Music Forward" David Hooper provides the roadmap to keep you on course to reach your goals. It's a great brainstorming tool, and YOU end up being the author. He walks you through all the aspects of the music business and you come up with goals in all these area, and then you have the tools to write them down, keep them in front of you, and lead you to success.

Today David and I talk about some of the ways bands get sidetracked, and ways you can improve your efficiency.

David is also the athor of the blog at www.musicmarketing.com he also has other books such as Quit your job (and never go back) How to Create, Start, & Market an Online Business for Under $500 in 30 Days or Less  or get his CD Releases Party Strategies (a 2 hour audio book) for 99 cents!

Get Your Band Out of the Basement (And Keep Them Out of the Asylum) JUNE 2008 SPECIAL. Get the audio book (all 6 CDs for $9.99 - listen to the podcast  to get a special coupon). Check it out at www.musicianlibrary.com

Other Sites Mentioned

scriptlance.com

Today we have Bob Baker authot of such books as Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook and   MySpace Music Marketing  is hosting his own Indie Buzz Boot Camp. It sounds like a Music Conference like no other. It won't just tell you what to do, but HOW to do it.

JUST RELEASED
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On the show we have Bob Baker who is talking about his new product

INDIE BUZZ BOOTCAMP
indiebuzzbootcamp.com

Other Bob Baker Titles

MySpace Music Marketing

Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook

Insiders Club

"All Things Bob" including his new "How to Tap Into the Lucrative College Music Market - the Ari Nisman Interview" at thebuzzfactor.com . It will be on sale for $37 for a short period before it goes to its regular price of $77.

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www.musicianlibrary.com

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FROM THE GROUP
LAST FM
Great Posts about getting involved with last.fm PART I and PART II 

Blend Music and Pictures
http://biz.animoto.com/musicsubmissions.html from Rachel at http://biz.animoto.com/thebuzz.html

Bob Baker Indie Buzz Boot Camp Deal
Bob is hosting a great weekend with TONS of Gurus (like the head of CDBaby) as well as giveaways like the Indie Bibe and "How to promote yourself on the Internet" This seminar is regular price of $399. Now you and a friend can go for $455 if you register together this month. Check out all the great stuff happening at the Indie Buzz Bootcamp

Gear Trap - World's Larget Pedal Board
Check out www.geartrap.com for an interesting promotional stunt before the NAMM show, as well as updates on gear.

THROW A NICKLE SALE
This is an interesting script that works with your paypal account. Every time the product is purchased the price goes up .05 It sends a unique download links and protects the URL. It sends an email to the buyer. It's pretty cool and its only 16.27 as I write this (as they are using the nickle script to sell it)

The only thing I didn't like about the script is it uses the IPN feature in paypal, but there is a way to disable this if you dno't want to use it.

So you could sell your demos for $3. If 20 people buy those the price will go up to $4 and you will have made $60. In the end you might sell more music.

Tales From The Road "Oral Treats"

Other Sites Mentioned
The Scene Zine (great hard rock podcast) www.thescenezine.com
Project Studio Nrtwork www.projectstudionetwork.com 

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GET DAVE'S BOOK FOR FREE.
Go to www.emusic.com/musicnews and send Dave the confirmation email. He will send you a link to his book Get Your Band Ouf of the Basement - and Keep them out of the asylum. (available at www.musicianlibrary.com )

MATTHEW EBEL HOUSE CONCERT - AT MY HOUSE
See Matthew Ebel at "My House" for $10 on May 16th. BUY YOUR TICKETS
Buy Matthew's new album "Goodbye Planet Earth. "

FROM THE GROUP
Les from http://detroit.insomniaradio.net and http://www.zaldor.com enjoyed the Shannon Curfman interview in last week's episode. Check out his Flickr photos

Kevin from www.kevindoucet.com points out how cool Beu Hall had a glitch on his site. Beu said to take his music for free. See how BEu is giving it away for free at http://www.beaurocks.com/beau2

BRIAN STEPHENS RUTURNS! - THE MUSIC PRO SHOW IS BACK ON THE AIR
Check out Brian's great Podcasts The Music Pro Show and Brian Stephens TV. Everything (along with his book) are at www.brianstephens.com

TALES FROM THE ROAD "Pop Tart Napalm"
A fun story of Accidental Vanilli and pop tarts from Hell courtesy of Jeff Martinez of www.myspace.com/jeffmartinezbassist and www.BornInWinter.com

TIP SHEET UPDATE from Paul at www.mesasand.com
My Next Hit is gone, but Paul points out that you can get this service from Broadjam using the Primo Mob service and their "Transmit: service. Check it out at broadjam.com

MAKING MONEY WITH YOUR MUSIC BY SELLING SHEET MUSIC
Pete Huttlinger is selling tabs of his music on his site. This make sense as guitar player want to know how Pete is pulling of his phenominal playing. I looked into this and there are a few programs that make it easy to convert your music to "tab" or sheet music. The person that inspired this idea is www.petehuttlinger.com

Guiar Pro 5 $49 Geared towards a guitarist, but also prints out a "Standard" staff.

Finale PrintMusic 2007 ($69)

MakeMusic! Finale PrintMusic 2008 Music Notation Software ($79)

Then you could use a free program at www.primopdf.com that allows you to make anything into a pdf and sell it to your muscian fans. This would work for Chrisitan artist (so an aritist might cover your song in church), if you have songs for children a school or day care may buy it so the children can sign it.

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SHANNON CURFMAN
She had a major label deal by the age of 14. The label try to take this bluesy, soulful rocker and turn her into Britney Spears. Well Shannon would have none of that.

The experience left her leaving the music business for a short period, but now she's back and better than ever and on her own label (and loving it).

I found Shannon's new album at emusic.com where you can get 35 free songs for signing up for a free trial. If you don't like it, you can cancel and keep the songs. Best of all, the songs are DRM free so you can burn them to a CD or throw them on an ipod (or other mp3 player) with NO RESTRICTIONS. Go to

www.emusic.com/musicnews

For more information about Shannon go to

www.shannoncurfman.com
www.myspace.com/shannoncurfman
www.myspace.com/shannongcurfmanrocks
Shannon on YouTube

Shannon Curfman - Big Guitar Loud Suspicions

Shannong Curfman - Fast Lane Addiction

Music - "Another" from the Album "Fast Lane Addiction" (get this album with your 35 free songs at www.emusic.com/musicnews )

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Today we are talking about some very easy ways to drive some traffic to your website

EASY WAYS TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BAND'S WEBSITE
In my book Get Your Band Out of the Basement (and keep them out of the asylum) I mention how putting pictures of our fans on our website (RELIGIOUSLY) TRIPPLED our website traffic. People knew that if I took their picture it would appear on our website the next day.

Be sure to have your website address in your signature. As this is the last thing in your email, it gets more clicks than many of the items in the middle of your email.

Also why not use your expertise of (insert your instrument) at answers.yahoo.com (and be sure to have your website address in your signature).

Another "answer" based website is www.fluther.com Why not go answer some questions about your instrument (for example guitar).

If you are looking for message boards where you can find your target listeners check out http://www.boardtracker.com/

FROM THE GROUP

Dave King gives us a review of the Mio C230, and says he's used a Garmin, and except for the voice being more like a computer, he really liked it and it's only $126! 

TALES FROM THE ROAD
Marc Gunn of www.marcgunn.com and www.bardscrier.com tells us a story of bloody noses,  (not once but TWICE).

Other Sites Mentioned
Get 35 Free MP3s at www.emusic.com/emusic totally DRM free, burn them, throw them on your ipod.
Weekly Web Tools Podcast www.weeklywebtools.com
Marc Gunn on the Cooler Episode #62 (Niche Marketing) and Episode #63 (Pricing Your CD).

MUSIC
Kitty Martin from the soon to be released "Whiskers from the Jar: Irish Songs for Cat Lovers" available at www.catdrinkingsongs.com 

Emusic.com Get 35 free tracks and try the service free for 14 days at www.emusic.com/musicnews 

I have been working with the people at www.podcampohio.com and when I went to make a promo, I noticed that nobody had written any songs about Podcamps. These are FREE conventions that teach people how to podcast all over the world. Its a great networking resource for podcasters. I'm surprised nobody has written a "generic" Podcamp theme. Then you could take that theme and customize it for each www.podcamp.org

For a list of all the podcamps and their schedules see www.podcamp.org

Realize this is like a "Program Directors" meetup. Why not make a great impression with Podcasters by taking some time to write a quick theme. This may be the ice then introduces you to them, and then you can show them your OTHER music.

Paul from www.mesasand.com talks about www.mynexthit.com (free pitching service) make its eay to pitch your songs, and there isn't much of a lead system. Hit online version is the professional version of mynexthitonline.com  www.myhitonline.com there are different fees based on membership from 60-700.

NEW MUSIC BUSINESS BLOG
www.musicthinktank.com Has some of the biggest names in music combining on the same blog. COOL!

MUSIC
Burned from RedFX from the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com find the band at www.redfxmusic.com

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Be sure to pick up Dave's Book "Get Your band Out of the Bassment and Keep Them Out of the Asylum" at www.musicianlibrary.com

Dave has written a number of books on the Law of Attraction including Law of Attraction - How to Attract Money, Love, and Happiness , Law of Attraction Workbook - A 6-Step Plan to Attract Money, Love, and Happiness , 
  The Great Secret of Gratitude: Why Being Grateful Will Change Your Life ,

and his newest book Ask, Believe, Receive - 7 Days to Increased Wealth, Better Relationships, and a Life You Love

If you are new to the law of attraction then Dave's books are quick and to the point, and an easy read (and easy on the wallet as you can pick up some of these titles used for $7).

We also get another installment from Paul Bordenkircher at www.mesasand.com on tip sheets and submitting your music for consideration in movies, radio, commercials, management, and more.

Thanks for listening, and you can sign up for additional information in our newsletter at www.musicianscooler.com

Next week I will be releasing my own book on the the Law of Attraction.

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We have another installment from Paul Bordenkircher from www.mesasand.com where he reviews different places to get your music placed. Today he is talking about www.pumpaudio.com and www.crucialmusic.com

Marcus Couch shares how someone is making some nice money by composing custom wedding music and promoting it on Craigs List. If you're new to Craigs List get start with this book "Craiglist Traffic" for only $7 

We have some music from CJ Borden "Kiss Me Goodbye" after an "interview". Get her music at www.cjborden.com (provided by the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com

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Paul Bordenkircher from Mesa Sand Productions at www.mesasand.com talks about Broadjam.com

PROS
It all depends on what level you sign up for, but you can submit up to 250 songs if you have the "uber" level ($200 a year), This includes your website hosting (its a great all in one package and makes submitting music very easy).

CONS
No Direct access - your music is passed based on Rankings
Unlimited Submissions for one listings
Voting service have musicians voting against other musicians to keep them down.

Billy Bourbon has been having some Podsafe Success after visiting www.promotingwithpodcasting.com for more information about Billy check out www.billybourbin.com

Ron Finklestein is a Business and Success Coach. He has mentored business, spoken and many conferences, traveled the country teaching, and has written books such as The Platinum Rule for Small Business Mastery, Celebrating Success!: Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company, and 49 Marketing Secrets (THAT WORK) to Grow Sales. Today we talk with him live at Borders in Fairlawn Ohio.

9 Attitudes and Behaviours of a Successful Person

1. Selfishness - A positive life affirming approach. It's a loving thing to say no if you know you're not going to do something. You are not wasting someone's time.
2. Ownership - Take responsibility of where you are. While you can't choose what happens to you, you can create how you react to it.
3. Focus on Results - Successful people measure everything. By measuring you know what works.
4. People - How well lead, motivate, manage, influence, and work with others to purchase our products.
5. Focus -  Ask these Two Questions: Is what you're doing getting you closer to your goal, and it its no ask, "Why am I doing this?"
6. Persistence - Any behavior is going to be harder before it gets easier. Those that are persistent will get better. The greatest success is just before the biggest failure. Success that is handed to us isn't appreciated and doesn't stay. 
7. Discipline - When you measure your results and get the desired result, it's about turning this into a habit. It's about creating measurable, repeatable, and predictable outcomes.
8. Ideas - Creative people may have two many ideas. This can leads into too many items. The idea is to go deeper into the ideas you have instead of being shallow in a lot of ideas/projects.
9. Action - Success means to take action. People associate money, cars, with success. Those are the outcomes of being successful. You can only be successful by taking action.

Check out Ron's Books
The Platinum Rule for Small Business Mastery, Celebrating Success!: Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company, and 49 Marketing Secrets (THAT WORK) to Grow Sales.

For more Information about Ron Finklestein go to www.ronfinklestein.com

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Interesting TWIT.TV episode from Dave King and Slau (www.slau.net) get it at www.twit.tv/133

Paul From www.mesasand.com talk about the song pitching service TAXI at www.taxi.com where they will puitch your music for $5 a song pitched and $300 a year. Major labels, video games, movies, television shows are all listed. They are like a match making service.

Interview with John Waterman of Bandit Newsletter

You can get a free month of the Bandit Newsletter by going to www.musicianscooler.com/bandit

The interesting thing about Bandit is they get you in DIRECT contact with the people who need your music. They know who needs the music, and they provide you with the contacts. You deal with them directly. The bandit newsletter has been around for 20 years.

MUSIC

Dave King "Hot Summer Nights" from www.daekingmusic.com

From the Podsafe music Network. music.podshow.com

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Today we got an eamil from Mike at www.mikeshardish.com about how a band asked him to consider playing their music. He went nad listened and the audio quality (in Mike's opinion) was poor. He offered some suggestions to make it sound better, and said he would be willing to hear more in the future if they improved their sound. He said to take it as constructive criticism.

The band e-mailed him back explaining how they would make it without MIke's support, they used sarcasm, they took it as an insult, and said they woudn't be contact him in the future. It was far from professional. So lets state the obvious:

Not everyone will like your music. Deal with it now.

The same person that thinks you can do no wrong, should be listened to as much as the person who hates everything you do. Go for the overall consensus.

Also, if your podcast is called "Mike's Hot Dish" you might want to use the podcaster's name when you email them (go ahead and guess what the name of the Podcaster is of MIKE's Hot Dish).

Tip Sheets and Song Submission Sites Part I
Paul from Mesa Sand Productions (www.mesasand.com ) gives us installment  #1 on submitting your music to tip sheets and services. Today he talks about preparation. Get your songs ready. There is a ton of places that need your music.

1. You need to own the song, the publishing. and the recorded masters.
2. You should be part of a perfoming rights societies (ASCAP, SESAC, BMI) so if you get placed a song in a tv show, the royalties come through these companies. Next week we will talk about Taxi.

If you are worried about losing your recordings check out this video I did for Carbonite. Its very cool and only 50 bucks a year. I'm using it, and I love it. It's soooo easy.

Creative Performance Ideas
I was at a Casting Crowns show and they had a paitner come out and paint a painting LIVE during a song. It fit in with the music. The painting didn't "make sense" till the end. It was a cool effect.

They also partnered with a cause (www.worldvision.org) because they believe in it. Now they have an organization's publicity machine working for them, and consequently they are leading people to the organization. If you sponsored a child (like www.alanalex.com my child) you got a free CD. This lead to me going and buying their entire back catalog. Do you have a cause you feel strongly about? IT seems to be working for Bono.

Looking to Join a Community? check out www.big-boards.com

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Today we have a conversation with Tom Sabella from www.page2management.com and author of the book "Don't Get Taken - Take Control." Tom also host "The Business Side of Music" podcast (available at his website).

Find out how some people are being abused by the business, and what steps people are taking to be successful in the Music Business.

Are you looking for a manager? Are you looking for a label? Learn tips and insights into the music business. Do you know about publishing?

Other Sites Mentioned:
Shout Life http://www.shoutlife.com/

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We now have a local number (great for europeans who can't use tthe 888-563-3228) it 243-542-0893

4:20 New Rersouce for Musicians www.bigtime-artist-resources.com has a ton of great article for musicians. This was sent in from Kevin Revees from www.kevinreeves.net and his new hard rockin' side project www.thefreefalleffect.com

7:55 From Steve P{asek from BiG Productoins Inc who works with  www.podcastdupont.com talks about how you can make a "Directors Cut" for your CD (we taked about this in last issue). You can do this by creating your CD as a data disc with two partitions (one music and one data). 

They made these enhanced CDs were only part of the First Pressing of the CD, and the CDs were marked "First Pressing" (making them special).

On their third CD they made it so that anyone who buys the Cd gets a free membership card. The fan club membership that includes a membership card and downloads of live acoustic and electric versions of songs from all 3 CDs. You can't get these mp3s anywhere. ONLY by being a member.

They mail the membership card to the customer (obtaining the address from the CDBaby Sale). They market this on their myspace page as Free MP3s. So to get the free mp3s you have to be a member, to be a member you have to buy the CD. Brilliant.

The extra content on the CD can point to an email sign up form on their website, or even point them to a "Sneak Peek" of music on their other CDs. ( http://www.chainsawdupont.com/sneakpeek )

They also offer 2-for-1 deals for fans (with any club that goes for this, some add a time limit, 2-for-1 until 8:30). This gets the fans involved in bringing their friends (thus turning your fans into a street team).

15:10 Steven Cravis met some people from Israel and it turns out they not only knew his music, they were playing it. They loved his music. How? By having his music in iTunes. He also has his sheet music at http://www.lulu.com/stevencravis It was just another great example of how the world is getting flatter.

Find out more about Steven at
http://www.StevenCravis.com
http://www.NewAgePiano.net

Never Heard About the Podsafe Music Network (music.podshow.com ) check out my free report at www.promoingwithpodcasting.com

Cool Wordpress Login
17:55 Damien Sutton tells about a great feedback form for Wordpress Contact Form he also listens to Buidling the Pod at www.audio2u.com want to learn how to podcast? Check out www.schoolofpodcasting.com

Music in this Podcast (courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network http://music.podshow.com)
Look Alive from the Freefall Effect www.thefreefalleffect.com
Funky Foot and Never know from Chainsaw Dupont (www.chainsawdupont.com )

Other Sites Mentioned in this Show
Memberhsip Cards / Free MP3 via a card at http://www.discrevolt.com/
Great Hard Rock Podcast "The Scene Zine" at www.thescenezine.com

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We get a great Tales From the Road that includes drunk people in a van, illegal use of roadworks, being mistaken for
terrorists, stealing from the venue and getting away with it all!

If you're looking to sell tickets at a gig we've added a new Entry (Event Brite) to the Tickets Section of the Musicians Cooler Links Section

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Matt from www.labigdaddys.com says that he is now getting some "podplay" after reading the free ebook "Promoting Your Band With Podcastin" at www.promotingwithpodcasting.com

If you set up a relationship with a podcaster when your next album comes out you can send it to podcasters befoe you list it on the PMN to make them feel special. It's all about the relationship.

If you email is "clickable" then you are open to tons of spam. Get around this by doing this like this. My email is musicianscooler "at" gmail "dot" com. You can also write your email in a graphic program and show your email as a graphic (again the key is its NOT clickable.

Jule Blake from www.getmusicsuccess.com gave me the book The Small Business Millionaire by Steve Chandler and Sam Beckford. This book has some great marketing tips, but instead of being a boring "ROI, and Stats book" its in a story format. I'm having a hard time putting it down. However, I got it for free. The cool marketing slant is in the bokk there was a postcard promoting all of his past books. Now I really like this book, and do you think I''ll be interested in buying some of his old stuff (or better yet, his NEXT book). Absolutely

Rich Palmer of www.richpalmer.com
Asked his fans and friends in the social media world what they preferred downloads or physical CDs? It was almost completely split. Some know the CD is better quality, but some said they don't want the storage hassle of the physical product.

Paul B of www.mesasand.com 
Hear out last show about Audio Flyers  and it got him to thinking that (espcially in the Christian Market) artist could make their tracks available as backing tracks for their fans to sing in their churches. (GREAT IDEA PAUL!).
When I have worked with Christian music, I see where people are paying 7, 9, 10, 12 for a SINGLE SONG. Now granted these are typically with different keys. But all you needs is a version with and a version without your vocal. You may find a whole new market in your fans.

Greg Kocis of http://mybedroomstudio.ning.com/profile/ScatteredFusion is a member of this "My Bedroom Studio" social network site. Thanks for the heads up. He also gives two thumbs up for the New US movie and says its just like being there.

SITES MENTIONED
Http://www.kunaki.com
www.nig.com

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Make sure to mention your website.

Promote a specific gig

If possible promote a "special" that will entice people to show up.

Make it to the point, and avoid inside jokes. Make it fun.

While some sites say use mailing labels to keep cost low, I'm nervous about labels and say you might want to use something like an Epson R260 printer (which prints right on the printer).

Music From Ben Vega courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network at http://music .podshow.com

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TIMELINE:

2:40 How Do You Record Covers Songs? We asked this last week and out cooler Friend Paul from Mesa Sand Productions at www.mesasand.com lets us know.

Sites Mentioned:
www.songfile.com
www.ascap.com
www.bmi.com

6:15 Radion and Internet Promtotional Services: Can anyone share an opinion on sites like
Radio Indy, Airspun, and Broadjam's Digital Delivery.

All of these sites seem like the "Typical" bring music fans and music creators together while pushing lots of advertising on their sites. The exception is Broadjam who has advertising, but its for all the services they offer musicians. If you want to see a site created using broadjam's services check out www.cjborden.com

Do you have an opinion or experience with any of the companies (or other companies like these companies) let us know. 888 - 563 -3228

11:00 Seth Godin's Music Business Post
Seth Godin is a GIANT Internet Marketing Guru. He had a post about the Music Business as it falls apart. You can read the whole post at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html

Summary:
0. Old thing is never as good as the New Thing
1. Past performance is no guarantee of future success
2. Copy protection in a digital age is a pipe dream
3. Interactivity can’t be co
4. Permission is the asset of the future
5. A frightened consumer is not a happy consumer.
6. The best time to change your business model is while you still have momentum.
7. Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement
8. Don’t panic when the new business model isn’t as ‘clean’ as the old one
9. Read the writing on the wall
10. Don’t abandon the Long Tail

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TIME LINE
3:30
Simon from Shed Music likes www.shedmusicuk.com really likes Reverbnation. He says it can update your schedule on your website, as well as mp3 of your songs. It also automatically updates your website, and myspace, and facebook. Simon also says, ""Regarding your clean up your website issue, There's a handy free tool
called Xenu http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which will check
every link on your site and tell you if there are any errors."

5:50 . Rich Plamer said he used something like to put CDs in, then use magnets to stick it to your car. With the clear front you can put a pice of paper that says "Free CDs with Music For Kids" (for his music see www.richpalmer.com ) So RIch was using this type of thing.

So you can see where you could put something INSIDE this and say "Free CDs - TAKE ONE"

The box I found of light-weight plastic (that you could stick to your car with magnets looks like this

So now this box would have to secure the lid, etc. It's only $4 US, but I like Rich's bag Idea (even thought its more like $13 according to the Staples website.

8:44
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11:38
THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELPED www.davestaxissue.com
Brian from www.greencircles.com
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David Hooper of www.musicbusinessradio.com
Don Lewis of www.thebigbreakpodcast.com
 

13:30
How Do I record Cover Tunes?
Kevin from Alabama asks, :How do I record cover songs? I 've been in contact with HArry Fox and I'm very confused. What do I do to get approval, and how do I pay?
- We need some help from the cooler friends on this one. I know its like 8 or 9 cents per song, per CD sold. I think you have to pay Harry Fox in increments of 500. I'll thorw this out to the group to let us know the details.

16:04 GEAR ALERT
Paul from www.mesasand.com lets us know that Musicians Friend is selling IK Multimedia Piano Expansion Pack for $19.99. Likewise Guitar Center is nady RSM4 Ribbon mic for $69. Looking to pick up a mic or some samples. GOing shopping visit www.supportthisshow.com and use our affilaite links.

17:35 How Do You Get Someone To Understand The Power Of Podcasting?
Daniel Johnson Jr (www.danieljohnsonjr.com ) Some musicians say they just focus on their local marketing. How do you get someone interested in promoting themselves on the Internet.
- I Recommend reading my FREE audio ebook "Promoting Your Band With Podcasting" at www.promotingwithpodcasting.com (which is a sample chapter from my book). While I understand that you get bookings locally, but you can make the world a much smaller place by using the Internet. There are people like Brother Love who have recieved gigs in other states (www.brotherloverocks.com ) and Matthew Ebel (www.matthewebel.com ) who did a small east coast tour this Summer based on his popularity from Podcasting. The key is 5 words:

YOU HAVE TO WORK IT.

It's called the music BUSINESS. My Dad use to say, "They would call it fun if it was, but its not, it;s called WORK."

27:23 NEW BRIAN STEPHENS TV
Brian Stephens of the Music Pro Show (www.musicproshow.com) now has his own VIdeo Podcast at www.brianstephens.tv

28:15 What is the Address To Nimbit?
Someone asked about the website address for nimbit. Its www.nimbit.com (which is just one of many at www.musicianscooler.com/links

28:50 The Musicians Cooler Will be Getting a Face Lift.
I know Worpdress Sooo much better than Joomla so I'm going to switch from joomla to Wordpress.

30:45 Music "Modern Love" from Michael Oliva

Michael Oliva at CDBaby.com

The songs on ‘Modern Love’ consist of dark, satirical and abstract ideas and perceptions of life and talk about things any 21 year old can relate to. Except instead of delivering them in the tired old clichés and predictable song structures that modern pop/rock are so common for these days, Michael Oliva takes a creative twist on everyday life and says normal things in a very unique, not so normal, way.

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Today we get some feedback from Marcus Couch (via his podcast The Scene ZIne - www.thescenezine.com ) as we talk about your band's bios. Be sure to have someone read it, and then someone else, and then someone else.

We also talk about using your car to distribute demos CDs. Rich Palmer of www.audiogumshoe.com says "Hey we've done this before! Just get some magnets and make it easy to put on and off yoru car.

Lastly we play some great music from Ben Vega www.benvega.com from the Podsafe Music Network. You will not beleive the backup vocals on "Take Me Away."  Music courtesy of music.podshow.com

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Today I went to http://www.jacirae.com/ and went to order an EBOOK and they wanted to charge me $6.50 for SHIPPING AND HANDLING. NO THANKS. So I ask you, have you gone to your website and tested it from the perspective of a customer? Then go back and approach your website like you are a booker. See how easy it is to contact you. Send yourself an email and see if you get it. 2008 is right around the corner, and you want to make sure everyting is working.

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Marketing Brainstorm I saw a tool where you could have business cards on your car. Interesting (slightly cheesey) idea. Anybody know how we could do this we CDs? An articel from ww.jacirae.com she mentioned, "You know all that annoying spam snail mail you receive with pre-paid postage envelopes inside? Why not save the envelopes and put a little note inside that states since they were kind enough to share their information with you, youre returning the favor. Also, with any bill or any correspondence you send out thats official, include a one sheet or little card that has a blurb about you and your music (watch the weight; you dont want to add more postage). Make sure to put your website on whatever material you have."

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Today I have a slew of websites for you to check out (and some of those have a slew of websites to checkout). At http://mashable.com/2007/07/06/online-music/ there are 90 Essential Music and Audio sites (from mashable.com ) http://www.artistshousemusic.org/ Artists House Music is a website for Indie Musicians with articles on about every part of the Music Business. The Cyber Tip Jar http://www.scratchback.com/ is a paypal tip jar that allows you to give back to your supporters. While sites like http://www.chipin.com/ allow you to set up an earning goal (maybe for studio time, etc) Scratch back is a way to receive a tip from supporters and give them some love (in the form of them appearing on your top list) and hopefully provide them with some exposure.

You are in complete control of how much it takes to appear on the list, as well as who appears on the list (as you can reject your competition from appearing on your list). This isn't designed to be a way to earn a living, but more a way to obtain tips and say "Thanks" to those that support you. The creator Jim Kukral is an internetentrepreneour who is no stranger to making money on the Internet.

If there is a catch its that you get 90% of the fees, but the list can inspire people being competative to bump each other off the list as you earn $$. I apologize to Jim and apprecaite him being available to "redo" the interview (as Skype hosed the audio completely). I've taken the information and summarized it for the listners (and readers like you). I may be implementing a "Scratch Back" option on the Musicians Cooler website at http://www.musicianscooler.com/

The only downside (if any) is that if you are using a blog and your side bar is less than 200 pixles wide, it will probably throw off your layout. Jim is working on "slimmer" versions of Scratch Back for the Future.

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Items Mentioned
www.scriggleit.com
An interesting tool, if most of it wasn't "Coming soon."

Yousendit.com Update
Got to tell you about this new mini-app that's in beta test (for Mac at least).  The file-transfer website YouSendIt.com has developed a beta of YouSendIt Express, a small application that allows you to send large files quickly from your computer.  It links to your YouSendIt account (the Lite service is free), and allows you to send files of nearly any size to anyone by uploading it to their system, and sending a link to the recipient for download.  The lite service only allows one file at a time, with a maximum file size of 100 MB, and downloads of 1GB per month.  The paid services allow files up to 2GB, larger bandwith and varying other services.
I've been using the Express app for a few days now, and with my free Lite account, it's fast, easy and seamless!
Paul Bordenkircher
Mesa Sand Productions
Music Services for Independent Artists
www.mesasand.com

Free Press Release Software
Check it out at http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/Instant-Press-Release.htm

Music from the podsafe music network. (music.podshow.com )
Kevin Reeves (www.kevinreeves.net ) "Wasted" You can download Kevin Reeves ENTIRE album at www.kevinreeves.net for FREE.

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Sponsor: The Hard Rock is opening a new Hotel in San Diego and you can win a trip to play with the Black Eyed Peas. For information about the contest go to http://www.audiostreet.net/contest.aspx or check out all the cool stuff at Audio street at www.audiostreet.net For more information about the Hard Rock go to www.hardrockhotelsd.com 

Special thanks to Neil from http://musicattack.libsyn.com/ who told us about www.gigpress.com a cooler wordpress plugin for bands. He found this vis www.stumbledupon.com

Dave talks about sending holiday cards to yoru fans, possibly a special holiday message for the fans who are members of your website. The free membership software can be found at interlogy.com

Thanks to Jason Heath of  http://www.doublebassblog.org and http://contrabassconversations.com for his well produced "Tales from the Road" where he explains how his Bass (and other things) were on fire, and in some cases - exploded.

Music "Can You See Me" from Neil McDougall

Anyway, the reason why I'm writing to you this time is to mention how to have a bot free forum. I run a forum at http://homedad.org.uk/forumand we were getting overrun by bots (it was a standard phpbb V2 forum) so we had to implement admin authentication, where the administrator gets an email everytime someone registers.

We were getting a new email every 20 minutes 24 hours a day, obviously bots. We tried to stop it by blocking IP addresses etc but then I came across Projekt Spambot http://www.beehave.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1400 which spams your forum and tells you how to stop it from happening.Anyway, to cut a long story short, I implemented the Anti Bot question Mod http://phpbb.mwegner.de/english/phpbb2/mods/anti-bot-question-mod/index.html which allows you to add UNIQUE questions to your board at the time of registration. In other words a spam bot cannot break this because it requires real human. intelligence (Projekt Spambot calculated that out of 6000 forums found via google, nearly 1000 could be registered to by their bot).

This mod is not easy to implement, but well worth it. I have a random question asked out of four (as I remember) - things like what comes next in the sequence A B C, easy for a human but impossible for a bot.Anyway, since implementing the mod (obviously my favourite word!) we have had NO more spamAll the best, and keep up the good work on the podcasts.Simon Windisch, of Shed Music http://www.shedmusicuk.com/songs.htm

P.S. If you're interested, we have our own musician's cooler of sorts here in the UK, in the "Royal" county of Berkshire at http://www.josaka.org/MUSIC From Chris Yale at www.chrisyale.com from the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com

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The band went on to make two dance singles for Atlantic Records, and Sutra Records, selling over 80,000 copies until they disbanded in 1991 after the unexpected death of their lead singer Eric Thompson.. Gus then went on to write and produce music for other Artists as well as for television and film projects.

Check him out at www.thesongwritershow.com

OTHER SITES MENTIONED
http://www.musesmuse.com/

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Music Promotion Tips
David Hooper of www.musicbusinessradio.com has an alternative (and safer) way to build your friends at myspace is http://www.youroutsourcingsolution.com  has done a good job for me.  For a few hundred bucks, she can get you hooked up with a fulltime person who will do nothing but MySpace.  A $500 investment could get you tens
of thousands of people."

USB Preamp From Rich Palmer of www.audiogumshoe.com
MArshal USB Mic Mate $80 at Same Day Music (free shipping)

Music Pitch Sites
By Paul Bordenkircherof www.mesasand.com

ww.PumpAudio.com  and www.CrucialMusic.com Thesesites handle pitches to film and TV listings.  You must be approved to be a member, but once you're approved, there's no cost to you.  They split all revenues 50-50 with you. Their most unusual aspect concerns how they handle songs - they re-title your song and claim it as theirs with the performing rights society.  (For example, if you have a song called "Oh Baby," they will register it as "Oh Baby Ballad" with ASCAP).  You retain all rights to "Oh Baby," but they claim copyright on any placements they do with the same song entitled "Oh Baby Ballad").  Confusing, I know.

Grace Woods (

Find out how she is: Gathering more email addresses Providing Ring Tones to Fans Rewarding Fans (using Constant Contact) for Forwarding her newsletter.

She talks about the percentages she receives from different digital distribution channels such as: Snocap (60%) iTunes (70%) Find Grace at www.gracewoodstrio.com and www.myspace.com/gracewoodsmusic

Questions from the Group Simon from the Band Shed Music (http://shedmusicuk.com/ ) filled us in about Radiohead and their popularity in the UK.

Paul from Mesa Sand Productions http://www.mesasand.com/ asks about MySpace Robots. I explained how I had played around with Add New Friends + Tool You can also check out MySpace Masteryship or a great book is MySpace Music Marketing from BobBaker

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I've been interviewed on the Shamless Plug Cast at www.shamelessplugcast.com thanks for having me on Moth man!

Today we talking about the Radio Head "You make the price" marketing trick. Please note that they are collecting email addresses when they do this. Why? because this same stunt next year will not generate the same buzz and they will need a way to contact their fans.

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Ways to Improve Your Website
Thanks to LAnce from www.ticketprinting.com for this article.

Other Sites Mentioned
Weekly Web Tools www.weeklywebtools.com Resources for the DIY webmaster.
Cooler Websites.com www.coolerwebsites.com

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Sites Mentioned 
MatthewEbel.comMatthew has complete change the look of his site. It now matches his soon to be released CD. He has created speical "one time only - never before released - behind the scenes" items to get people to pre order (the more preorders you have, the less out of money expenses for the pressings). Check out the packages he has put together at http://matthewebel.com/main/store/preorder

Tale From the Road
Geoff Smith (http://www.thegeoffsmith.com/ ) is back with another fun story. This time a "guest" pianist is a little excited about Jerry Lee Lewis.
Christine Kane Ever had that gig where you are the human juke box? Makes you feel like crying right? Not Christine. Her guitar player got her going and she had to take a break she was laughigng so hard.

Music "She Don't Like Rose" from Chrstine Kane's new Live CD "A Friday Night In One Lifetime"  

Other Sites Mentioned in Passing

Building a Better Dave (http://www.betterdave.com/ ) Dave's "Diary" to make you laugh, cry, think, or groan.

Best of the Worst Podcast http://www.bestoftheworstpodcast.com/

Audio Book from David Hooper of Music Business Radio (http://www.musicbusinessradio.com/ ) "CD Release Party Strategies: Insider Secrets for Independent Bands, Musicians, and Songwriters--How to Have a Major Label Event on a Shoestring Budget" is available by calling (888) 296-2747 and asking for it. Or check out his 14 Qualities of Successful Musicians at http://www.musicbizcd.com/  

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Dave's New PO Box
Dave Jackson
P.O. Box 369
Mogadore, Oh 44260

Christine Kane's Blog Post "Niche Happens"
Christine's Website www.chrstinekane.com
New Live Album A Friday Night in One Lifetime 

Christine use 1 To All for her email list.

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Phil X has played with a ton of people. His main band powder takes putting on a show to a new level, and it pays off in packed gigs. We talk about how he is able to pull this off, as well as how he got the gig with Tommy Lee and other chart toping acts.

If your band can't afford "fembots" then do something like the geezecats (see left) and do something funk like decorate the satge, or like Mathew Ebel and simply paint your nails black. DO SOMETHING to set you apart from the audience, and yet be sure to not disconnect yourself from your audience do meet and greets, sign merchandise etc).

Other Sites Mentioned
http://www.wheatware.com
http://www.indieextreme.com
Nick from http://www.nicksjourney.com
Dave Hooper of http://www.musicbusinessradio.com

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Toontrack dfh EZdrummer Multi Layer Drum Sampler Software

Rich Palmer's New Podcast http://www.richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/

I'll be speaking at the Expo http://www.newmediaexpo.com/incoming.php?linkid=1759 

Dave's Free Book "Promoting Your Band WIth Podcasting" at www.promotingwithpodcasting.com

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Reactee.com 
This is an interesting site. You set up / design a t-shirt. You create your own text and catch phrase (moregigs in my case). Then if someone texts you, they receive a reply text (so in my case it promotes the podcast). You could use it to promote your music.

ClubFlyers.com 
You can get 1000 post card / flyer for free (your stuff on one side, an ad for them on the back). You pay for shipping

Tryfanbridge.com 
This service alows you to gather emails and phone numbers so you can email and TEXT your fans. Well now they have free software (for both Mac and PC) that you can load on your laptop to gather email addresses at gigs. Then this software creates a file that uploads into your account. No more trying to read hard to read handwriting, and for those who are interested it's GREEN as it requires no paper.

Blake Morgan is an Artist, Producer, and runs his own record successful record label. He also is currently getting a boatlad of podplay, as well as his music is showing up on TV and movies. We get his thoughts on running a label, iTunes, podcasting as a promotional tool and more.

Listener Email From Jimmie Lee of www.indieradiochattanooga.com gives his insights into Tax.com We listen to a quick snippet of his band Dead Hot Blond 

Music
Maybe I'm Amazed by Blake Morgan from the Album Burning Daylight 
I Win by Dead Hot Blond 

Music is from the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com

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I've been talking about this since I published the free chapter of my book Get Your Band Out of the Basement and Keep them Out of the Asylum called "Promoting Your Band with Podcasting" (its a free sample).

Contributors
Arron Cloutier from www.myspace.com/joeydavola
David Hooper from http://www.musicbusinessradio.com/ Check out episode 41
Adam Curry www.dailysourcecode.com

Music
"Prints in the Sand" Crazy Joe Davola
Blake Morgan "Maybe I'm Amazed." Buy in iTunes off the labum Burning Daylight

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Music "King Of My Heart" from www.Chainsawdupont.com and www.myspace.com/chainsawdupont from the Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshowcom

Other Sites Mentioned
Music News Podcast www.musicnewspodcast.net
Taxi www.taxi.com
Braodjam broadjam.com

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Music From From the Podcast Music Network
Cooler Water band www.coolerwatersband.com "Don't Forget Where You Came From"

While it is a rock concert (and you don't want to be mistaken for a Britney Spears show), throwing away your hearing in the name of rock and roll will more than likely be regretted in the future.

I played with a band this weekend that could wake the dead with their volume. My ears are still rining. Were we playing a festival with a giant stage? Nope, we played a paviliion to about 40 people and we could dry their hair with the volume. However, as I was told, "Hey we're a rock band." You sure are, and that might the reason you're only playing once a month.

I also talk about a festival I went to where SIGNED BANDS didn't have a CLUE on how to put on a professional show. It was sad to see. I talk about some cool tools you can use to avoid these situations.

Set Maker Free Software From Sweetwater. http://www.sweetwater.com/download/setmaker.php 

We also play some music from the Eight Bucks Experiment (www.eightbucks.com ) "Volume Junky."