Podcast #1
The only thing that determines your material success with music is the number of fans you have who are willing to spend money on your CD’s, downloads and merchandise and pay admission to your live performances.
This show tells you how to build a thriving fan base that are willing to support you financially.
Canadian startup Sayvee will “soon” launch a new service that allows artists to quickly and easily create their own websites to sell their art, build community, support positive political causes and more.
5 Reasons to get a site through Sayvee.com from Nico Boesten on Vimeo.
360 Music deals give labels their standard cut of CD and digital download sales, but also give them a percentage of event ticket profits, merchandise sales, endorsement deals and anything else that uses the artist’s brand or music.
A year ago they were still seen as controversial and experimental. Labels defended them as justification for investing [...]
Writing a Great Band or Artist Biography
A bio is the cement that holds your presentation together, creates your identity, brands your style and leads the reader directly to the music. Ideally, your bio should be applicable for multiple purposes: a key ingredient in your press kit, an essential element on the homepage of your website [...]
From Hypebot:Every week brings the launch of another online service to connect musicians and fans. Beyond spending endless hours on MySpace and Facebook, what are the best affordable online tools to communicate with fans and monetize the relationship? Here are our picks in no particular order:
1. BANDZOOGLE - It all starts with a great web [...]
My proposition to you is to spend less time worrying about the number of friends or followers you have on social networks. Instead, focus on fewer but more valuable people.
Online social networking tools can be powerful, but numbers are just numbers and don’t necessarily represent your real “reach.” Does having 500 friends on Facebook mean [...]
Worship is a spiritual activity before it is an artistic one. If the focus of a worship leader is to bring people to an awareness of God, then the Bible is the ruler by which we should measure our effectiveness as worship leaders. Here are the five most important qualities of a worship leader who [...]
There was one Monday we had some sound glitches with during the evening service at The Living Faith Church. And that was such a pity. It was to the worship leader’s credit that he continued to lead worship well without letting the technical problems affect him noticeably.
What made it even more of a pity was [...]
Many worship ministers, even those who have served for some time in the worship ministry, feel unsure about their effectiveness in serving the people of God. This often causes them to either be defensive when feedback is given to them, or easily taken in by the latest fads in worship ministry, any thing that promises [...]
How do you improve yourself as a worship drummer? The supportive nature of your instrument means that growing in skill and maturity is less a question of developing more riffs and chops and more that of learning how to choose the right notes for a song.
The root problem for many worship drummers is this: they [...]
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