When I’m not writing music I’m usually reading about how to promote and make some money out of it. There are a huge number of sites dedicated to the music industry and discussions about “industry models” and the future of the industry which most people don’t really care about because they’re steeped in speculation and theory. Here’s a few links to some of my favourite E-books which are based a little more in fact than theory.
The first is the fantastic book put together by Blink from A Low Hum. Once subscribed you get access to the best little E-book about the New Zealand live music scene full of advice and information about booking, promoting and surviving tours in New Zealand.
“Local Knowledge is a simple guide to touring New Zealand for bands from New Zealand or overseas looking to tour New Zealand. “
The next is an essential guide to online music written by kiwi expat Andrew Dubber. The book is compiled from a series of blog posts from March to May 2007 from his New Music Strategies blog. This E-book isn’t new but is still an essential read for those who still don’t know about it.
The 20 things you must know about music online - E-book
The final E-book is from the Inner Rhythm website and is written by Kavit Haria who is based in London and runs seminars and workshops on developing and marketing your music online. I only got this E-book a couple of days ago and can highly recommend it, it’s basically a marketing tool for Inner Rhythms new online coaching program and is full of music marketing advice, promotion tips and social networking tactics. Lots of specific tactics for getting people to your site and therefore listening to your music through social marketing. Don’t think I’ll be paying for the coaching program but I’ll be focusing more on my social networks in future.
A Strategy guide for succeeding as a musician in 2008 - Free E-book
If you’ve got any suggestions for other online resources then just leave me a comment and let me know what you think of the E-books if you download them, i’ll be posting more about my successes and failures with social marketing in future posts.
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Luigi Cappel 05.07.08 at 7:45 am
Nice blog man. Hey do you Twitter? I strew songwriting tips amongst other comments on the world at http://twitter.com/BluesBro