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- Advice for Beginners and A Reminder to Veterans in the Music Industry
- Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites - Visibli
- 10 Stupid Album Release Screw Ups
- Who Cares?
- Facing the Music Industry as an Independent Artist
- What Indie Bands Can Learn From Rebecca Black: Ignore The Masses
- How Middle Class Musicians Navigate the Nodes on the Network: Topspin Media's CEO Ian Rogers Says "It Just Takes a Long Time"
- Artist Advice: How to Make Money through YouTube Ads
- Top 10 Rules For Better Songwriting
- Can Indie Bands Use Lady GaGa's Example For Originality & Controversy?
- DIY Promotion, Songwriting and Pricing w/ 3OH!3
- How to Sell Out Properly
- Why No One is Reading Your Newsletter
- Google+ is for PEOPLE, Not Bands
- Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites - Onesheet
- Approaching Music Journalists
- Let's Talk About Google+ For Artists
- 7 Ways to Bring Back the Physical Album Experience in Digital Music
- Question: Can there be another "CD Baby"?
- How I Got 96 Album Cover Designs for $145 (and why I'll never do it again)
- Artist Advice: Tools to Avoid Getting Overwhelmed by Twitter
- Brand Bands Together: Bridging the Gap Between Cliquey Music Scenes
- Marketing Music Through Non-Linear Communication: The Ecosystem Of Fans, Artist & Label
- What are the odds of succeeding WITH a record deal?
- Make That Five Tips for Your Domain
- Is Anti-Marketing Right For Your Band?
- Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites - Turntable.fm
- The Importance of Creating Momentum
- The Adventures Of Co-writing
- Is the future of music in the clouds?
- How to Structure a Company to Succeed in the Current Music Industry
- ODDS ARE… (A response to What are the odds of succeeding without a record label?)
- Call To Indie Artists: Stop Giving Your Music Away Free
- CELEBRATING DEREK SIVERS’ NEW BOOK: "Anything You Want - 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur"
- Online Music Licensing Resources
- What are you waiting for?
- Why the Confusion? It Has Always Been About the Business
- The Musician’s Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools and Sites – NoiseTrade
- Redefining Success In Music
- What are the odds of succeeding without a record deal?
- Preparing For The Studio
- Andrew Dubber & Monkey On The Roof
- Pandora- What's In A Name? Does The Music Service Walk Its Talk?
- On Innovation, Flying Deloreans & Explosions In The Desert
- Do Social Networks Really Help Musicians? Revisited
- One Easy Way to Sell and Share Music on Facebook
- The Musician's Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools and Sites Featuring BandsinTown
- Do Social Networks Really Help Musicians?
- The Talent Myth
- No One Will Remember Your Band: 10 Ways to Stop Being Forgettable
- 2000 Things to Generate 20,000 Fans – Create a Monthly Fan Meetup
- How to Get a Booking Agent to Book Your Band
- Remake Remodel - The Major Labels Speak
- The Many Hats of a Musician
- 2000 Things to Generate 20,000 – Give a Musical History Tour
- How To Rule The World
- A Nashville Musician Needs Us... A Run To Joplin Missouri
- One Man's Ode To The Beauty Of Bandcamp
- 4 Steps To Transition From Playing Cover Songs To Your Own Music
- Question: Is this the best or the worst time for independent musicians?
- Prescreen Your Future Fans with Twitter
- 3 Musician Marketing Basics: Newsletter, Products & Polls
- The 5 Biggest Facebook Fan Page Screw-Ups
- REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review
- Natalie Cheng Is Music Think Tank's New Community Manager
- Here We Go Again: The bright new future ahead where we can all share music in the cloud, NOT..
- Recording: Getting it Right at the Source
- Thank you Elliott Smith
- An Introduction to the Self-Released Album
- The New Music Industry is Not Coming
- 5 Easy Steps To Making Your Dreams Come True
- Generate Demand for Your Music By Rightly Using A Loss Leader
- The Music Intern: Five Tips for Success
- Time Management for Bands: 12 Tips to Handle Social Media Overload
- Great Marketers Aren't Afraid To Annoy and Why You Need To Think Like Them
- What Do Music Fans Want To Own, and Why?
- The Silver Bullet for Music Business Success?
- Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Rock?
- What If Radiohead And TOMS Shoes Had A 'Love Child'?
- The Problem With Releasing A Single Each Month
- Introduction: How I Became a Broadway Musician
- Is The New Digital Ecology More In Harmony With Music Than The Industrial Model Ever Was?
- The Fuss
- 5 Psychological Principles To Help You Sell More Music
- Shift Happens: A Lesson in Coping with Music Industry Change
- Chaos We Can Stand: Attitudes Toward Technology and Their Impact on the New Digital Ecology
- Musician Email List Etiquette
- 8 Reasons Why You Need to Have Your Own Website
- Turning TV Placements Into Fan Engagement: Lessons From Mr. Robotic – In Defense of 1,000 True Fans – Episode X - Part 2
- The Facebook Dilemma: "New" Media, Just Like the "Old" Media
- 10 Pieces of Essential Content For Your Band's Website
- The Musician’s Guide To Affordable, Effective Websites Part 2
- Turning TV Placements Into Fan Engagement: Lessons From Mr. Robotic - In Defense of 1,000 True Fans – Episode X
- 3 Essential Elements of Music Marketability
- The Musician’s Guide To Affordable, Effective Websites
- Managing Relationships With Fans When Your Fan Base Gets Too Big
- Music Think Thank Is Now On Facebook
- 7 Tips to Make Your Next Music Video
- SEO for the Discerning Musician
- The Realities of Making a Living with Music in 2011
- How Can You Drive Your Fans From Offline to Online?
- SEO Band Names: How To Choose A Band Name So You Will Be Found Online
- The Hidden Challenges of Subscription Music
- How To Actually Make $50,000 a Year As a Musician
- A Mastering Engineer's Guide to Final Mixdown
- Want To Make $50,000 a Year In Music? Start With One Dollar a Day.
- 10 Marketing Lessons I Learned from KISS
- In Defense of 1,000 True Fans Part IX - Theory At Work In Australia - Down Under Series - Part 1: Urthboy
- The Top Five Employers of Musicians – And What the Economic Recovery Means for Us
- Don't Hold It Against Me – But Product Placement Will Not Save the Music Industry
- Cash for Covers: 3 Easy Ways to Make Money from Cover Songs on Digital Stores
- 6 Case Studies on Successful Online Music Marketing
- Is YouTube Destroying or Saving Music?
- The Three Legged Table: Songs, Magnetism, and Business
- How to Successfully Grow Your Fan Base Using Facebook (And Not Spend a Dime)
- What Kinds of Images Best Represent Your Band?
- 10 Things Every Musician Should Do Online Every Day
- One Rocket I Hope Never Takes Off
- Music Think Tank Logo
- 4 Steps To A New Music Business
- Are You Wishing Your Fans A Happy Birthday?
- Why I Think Video LPs Are A Good Idea
- How Does Effort Impact Music Value?
- Using Blogger Motivations to Drive Fan Connections
- 10 Key To Do’s For A Successful CD Release Party
- HOW TO: Use Viinyl to Help Promote Your Latest Single
- How To Sell And Market Your Music Using The Latest Research
- Give Your Fans The Experience They Crave
- 10 Ways to Trade a Song for an Email Address
- How Understanding Choice Will Bring Music Streaming To The Masses
- Seven Rules for Effective Social Networking For Artists
- How to Manage an Effective Street Team In the New Digital Decade
- A Conversation Between Me And Rick Moody On Punk, Gang of Four And Digital Strategy
- MTT Founder Bruce Warila Wants To Meet You At Midem
- How Technology Killed Rock And Roll
- Content Marketing: To Register or Not?
- Do We Consume Music More, Enjoy It Less?
- How a Lyric Website, a Memorable 'ah' Noise, and Drake Helped Promote Chase and Status
- How Artists Can Profit From File Sharing
- 6 Simple Ways to Give Back to Your Fans
- Top 6 Missing Features From Thumbplay Music
- Buy One, Give One Free: What Artists Can Learn From Social Entrepreneurship
- My 2011 Project: 2,000 Things to Generate 20,000 Fans
- A Musician's Guide To Setting And Achieving Goals For 2011
- The Day Spotify Changed The World
- Should Digital Collections Be Worth Something?
- MTT Open: Everyone Is Lying To You And Becoming a Rock Star
- The Beatles Tell Us That We've Hit The Concert Price Ceiling
- How To Use Facebook & Twitter With Your Official Website, Case Study Kissonline.com
- 6 Reasons Why The Album Format Died
- 50 Most Read Music Think Tank Posts In 2010
- Microfunding Is The Future of Labels! (...But Kickstarter Is The Wrong Model For Bands)
- The Unfamiliar Sound of Competition and Managing Your Rights
- Bob Marley: The Transformative Sound of Selling Out
- UPDATED: Can Computers Analyze Songs For Hit Potential?
- What If You Owned Music Think Tank?
- What’s The Best Music Business Model? You Might Be Playing It Every Day
- MTT Open: Google Music, Recording Vocals, & Is the Internet Dead?
- Tidings Of Comfort, Joy, Forgiveness & Success, A Four-Part Exercise For Musicians
- 10 Success Strategies for DIY Musicians, Managers & Promoters
- A Sample Music Business Plan
- Is Money Limiting Your Band’s Growth?
- New in MTT Open: Endorsements, Internet Radio, Relationships, Money, and Virtual Tours
- Live Performances Should Be Like Church
- Scattered Monkeys - “An Insiders Perspective on the Evolving Music Industry”
- What is Twitter? Do you have an answer?
- The Day Steve Jobs Dissed Me In A Keynote
- Michael Laskow of Taxi: Marketing + Entrepreneurial Skills = Music Business Success
- Learning From Facebook Ad Failures
- Management In The Music Industry
- Bands, Social Is Not Just About Sharing It Is Also About Commerce – CommerceSocial
- How to Write Engaging Newsletters - Ariel’s Greeting, Guts, & Getting!
- Why is Music Cheaper Now? It's as Simple as Supply and Demand
- Browser Audio Recording Gives the Web a Voice
- An Argument Against Fan Funding
- New in MTT Open: Hyperlinks, Pay to Play, Face the Interface, and Are You Really Selling Music?
- How Well Do You Know Your Fans?
- What Is A Brand?
- Andrew Dubber To Record Album In Delhi With Street Kids
- What Artists Should Know About SoundOut
- MySpace Still Rules Google Search Results for Music Acts
- 7 Reasons Why Writing Well Will Help Your Music Career
- The Real and ONLY Reasons Why Fans File-Share Music
- How To Post A Perfect Press Kit On Your Website
- 10 Things Bands Can Do to Book More Live Shows
- Music & Social Shifts (a personal account)
- New In MTT Open: Publishing, T Bone Burnett vs. the Internet, & OK Go
- A Fragmented Music Community: The Sum of the Parts Equals Less than the Whole
- The Music Manipulation Curve (theory)
- Ask The Readers: Do Music Fans Today Have Too Much Control?
- Does Your Music Always Come Out the Way You Want It To?
- 7 Best WordPress Plugins for Passive Promotion
- 4 Reasons Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music (And Why They Can't Be Changed)
- 20 Alternative Ways To Create A Sustainable Career In Music
- New In MTT Open: Andrew Heringer Interview, Social Networking, & Making It In One Year
- Music Think Tank Brings On New Intern
- Dividing Ownership in a Group Project
- Music Management Skills: Network in person, not just online.
- The Stream that Snuck up on You
- Learning When To Listen
- The College Bound Musician's Checklist
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- Real Time Rock Stars - A Report From The #140Conf
- Myspace - Now With Glitter
- Finding 5,000 Fans Under Your Nose: A Case for Facebook Ads
- The Musician's Social Media Food Pyramid
- Music, community & file-sharing: from Napster to Ping
- Using Fan-Funding Techniques to Help Direct a DTF Marketing and Sales Campaign
- Merch Table Essentials: 15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and Efficiency
- (Not) In The Pages Of The Rolling Stone.... A Little Music Business Ditty
- Why You Should Learn to Build Fans by Being a Fan
- The Crowdfunding Quandry: Sales Vs. Art Vs. The Little Voice Inside Your Head
- Making It In One Year - Is It Possible?
- Building a Festival: One Beer at a Time
- If I were a record label and you were an artist, would you marry me anyways, would you have my baby?
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- For Musicians: 10 Tips For Turning Your Fanbase Into A Tribe
- Conquer Your City - Conquer Your World
- Selling Out Your Shows Every Time
- Four Cases You Need to Know About and How They Affect The Music Industry, Part 2 with Joyce Dollinger
- The Individual Edition CD
- The Musicians Guide To Fan-Funding
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- LSD is great. Don’t let the Internet cure it.
- Structuring an E-mail Newsletter for Your Fans [Free Template]
- The Artist 2.0 Manifesto
- Top 7 Reasons Why Artists Strongly Resist Social Media
- A Note From The Editor: Seeking New Authors, Spam Problems, And The Hit Song Contest
- How Are We Gonna Pay These Musicians?
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- Russell Rains of St Edwards on 4 Cases You Need to Know About and How They Affect The Music Industry, Part 1
- Savor Your Music: The Effect of Abundance in Culture
- 10 Free Google Tools to Manage Your Music Career
- How Man Overboard Made Their Record Leak Turn Into A Good Thing
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- Frustration, Jealousy and the Often Forgotten- Consistency
- Investing in Artists: Consider a Promotionless To Popular Strategy First
- How To Get Bloggers To Write About You - Become a Reader & a Commenter
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- 30 Tips For The Typical Musician
- Reality TV Killed The Rockstar. But Is That So Bad?
- On File-Sharing: Are You Smarter Than A 12th Grader?
- The Jango Focus Group
- Madina Lake's Bass Player Matthew Leone is a Hero.
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- Crowd Funding Week 2: Feeling Confronted & Insecure, But Pushing Ahead
- How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs: Tracking the Results of Your Hard Work
- Why Music Should Never Be Given Away For "Free"
- Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena That Are Making Your Music The Only Thing That Matters To Your Success.
- 12 Must-Have iPhone Apps For The Musician On-The-Go
- Last Week On Music Think Tank
- Interested In Crowdfunding? Watch and Learn! A Play By Play Series For You
- How to Find A Music Manager
- The joy of discovery; Marketing in the brave new media world
- How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs: Crafting a Killer Pitch Letter
- Rock History: A Dialectical Narrative
- A&R Tips: The Art Of The Press Kit
- My Last Day On The Job. Thank You.
- Paradox or Paradise: Music Choice in the Digital Age
- How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs: Becoming an Active Community Member
- Why You Should Pay For Music
- In Gratitude... I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
- Avoid These Mistakes! 15 Critical Marketing Mistakes That All Musicians Need To Avoid
- How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs: Finding the Best Blogs for Your Music
- What I Learned About Marketing From New York Times Best Selling Author Michael Port
- After 15 years of practice...
- How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs: Defining Your Music, Your Lifestyle, and Your Fans
- How to solve Royalty Collection Societies
- Has the bubble burst on fan culture?
- The Musician's Guide To The 360 Record Deal
- Well, what is a good digital music strategy ? Part 5 - Master the web !
- Sweet Relief Musicians Fund Needs Your Help... Vote To Make A Difference For Artists In Need
- Well, what is a good digital music strategy ? Part 4 - Be A Geek !
- Maverick Recording Company v. Whitney Harper
- Well, what is a good digital music strategy ? Part 3 - Monetize
- Revealing Shakespeare's Inner Pirate
- Well, what is a good digital music strategy ? Part 2 - Social Networks
- Well, what is a good digital music strategy ? Part 1 - Introduction and Website
- How To Increase Gig Attendance
- The 4 Best iPad Apps That Can Make You A Better Musician
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist
- The “HTML5 vs. Flash War” in Regards to the Music Industry
- 20 Non-Traditional Venues That Can Boost Your Fanbase
- 10 Ideas For Recording Amazing Guitars
- Musicians: SIGN UP FOR SQUARE RIGHT NOW
- If a Tree Falls in the Woods Can You Call It Music?
- In Defense of 1,000 True Fans - Jerry Joseph: How Does The Theory Work When You Already HAVE 1,000 True Fans? - Part VIII
- The measurable music industry, as described by Britain's Chief Measurer of Music Industry
- The measurable music world peaked a long time ago. The immeasurable music world has a long way to go.
- 5 Ideas For Creating a Rabid Online Fan Base
- The music industry is financially healthy. I will pay you to prove me wrong…
- The Free Music Mirage
- How To Deliver Remarkable Value
- Future Now: At The Coalface
- Barking Up The Wrong Chart
- On My Mind: The State of the Music Business
- Your Three Communities, Part 1
- Musicians on the Internet - Strategy Vs Tactics My Interview with CD Baby's Brian Felsen
- The Top Ten Reasons Fans Don’t Buy Your Merch
- The Death of the Bridge
- The Bricks With Which You Will Build Your Palace...
- The 4 Reasons Fans Buy Your Products
- Loren Weisman Launches Site, Service and Book
- Interview: Twitter Millionaire Zoe Keating on the Value of True Fan Connections
- Never Underestimate The Value Of Respect.
- Idol Thoughts… the 4 Key Factors That Michael Lynche Posseses That Make Him A Great American Idol & A Lifelong Artist
- Information Is Dangerous
- Have you ridden a windhorse?
- Dave Kusek on The Cloud, Topspin, Hype Machine, SoundCloud, and the death of MySpace
- Music and merch. Bands over-think design. Fans want big loud logos.
- How To Make Your SXSW Sticky! Advice From The Indie Max 100 Experts on How To Keep Your Conference Alive
- 3 Timeless Steps to Music Business Success
- The 1st Musician to Make Amazing Use of Chat Roulette
- No, do it NOW
- The Indie Maximum 100 Goes To Texas ...Industry Experts & Musicians Dish Out Their Best SXSW Tips - Part 2: While You Are There
- The Indie Maximum 100 Goes To Texas ...Industry Experts & Musicians Dish Out Their Best SXSW Tips
- In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans - Part VII - Ellis Paul - 300 Fans = $100,000 in Contributions The Ultimate Testament to Fan Loyalty
- Three Steps To Inexpensively Winning The Search Engine Game
- Some good, old-fashioned advice
- Ariel’s Tips On How To Advance Your Career at SXSW
- Rock Band Network authoring best left to the pros
- Do you have conference advice for musicians? Want to be in my SxSW talk?
- 3 Music Biz Mindsets I Learned From My 3 Year Old
- What Do You Pretend to NOT Know About the Music Biz?
- Secrets In Stereo 2 Years + No Live Shows = $97,000 In Defense of 1,000 True Fans - Part VI
- Create An Elaborate Plan
- My Interview with SXSW Magazine on Online Strategy for Musicians
- Swami Sivers on Leadership
- The five most crucial points for any new artist just starting out...
- a Concept for Reinventing MySpace
- Digital Distributor Math: Choosing the Right Distributor for Your Band
- Man wins Grammy award and then racks up seventy-eight plays on MySpace the next day.
- The Musician’s Guide to Facebook Fan Pages - Six Apps to make your Artist Fan Page Pop!
- Honeyboy’s Grammy: A Moment for a Great American Voice
- The Flat Earth Conundrum
- The Song/Artist Adoption Formula - 2010 Update
- I Fight Dragons: 1 Band, 1 Year, & 10,000 New Fans - In Defense of 1,000 True Fans - Part V
- Rock Band Network for Dummies?
- Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy
- Music Think Tank Notes and Etc.
- Is Your Wireless Mic Being Banned?
- TuneCore politely smacks down TommyBoy and Nielsen
- My first ReverbNation street team mission
- It's everything except our music that will make us the most popular place to hear music in the future.
- What are the ‘Music Industries’?
- About 1,500 artists break the "obscurity line" each year. Less than 1% do it on their own.
- The Futility of Flogging My Music Poem
- TuneCore Rocks
- Dear Rock Stars...
- Get Paid in 2010: Want To Increase Your Bottom Line? Focus On Your Fans!
- More evidence that the major labels have you by the nuts and bolts...
- Food For Thought - 2 Warner Music Execs Share $14 Million
- 7 Steps to Reaching Your Music Career Goals in 2010
- Avoiding Avoidance
- High margin digital music products that won't be stolen...
- Reconsider promotion. The faders are coming. The faders are coming.
- The musician enablers
- Lou Reed iPhone App - An Example of Why The Last Decade Was a Waste of Time in Music
- In Defense of 1,000 True Fans - Part IV - Kelly Richey
- The global self-promotion license application - it's a fake!
- No One Has the Answer, But Sivers Told Us That
- Eight things I plan to put into our new music-related website…
- The case for online-only promotion
- Anthropology, Technology, The Social Web and Advertising
- Right sort of rage, wrong machine
- Getting Started
- Global Self-Promotion License Application
- A Musicians Roadmap To Setting Goals for 2010
- Endorsements
- Pundits - Do Keep Up!
- Breakthroughs, Bitterness and Biopics
- Farewell to the Casual Music Fan
- Have I got a bridge to sell you.
- Dear Musicians - Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of The Way
- Get Your Music On The Radio
- Business idea: Put buskers online
- But it makes sense to me
- In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans - Part III - Amber Rubarth
- Notable posts on MTT Open
- Staged performances and thoughts about the future.
- The unprecedented shift from multiplication to division.
- 9 out of 10 dentists
- So now you get it, but do you really?
- Money can't buy you love
- An Interview With Zoë Keating
- First Impressions are now more important than ever.
- Music Think Tank is Under Renovation
- Does Anyone Have a Music Related Domain For Sale?
- Socialnomics Video
- Ten Tips that Every Musician Should Apply to Their Career
- Transformative Vs Incremental Change
- How to RUIN Your Music Career in 7 Easy Steps
- University research proves that the smart interlinking of multiple artist-controlled web properties drives success
- Ok, you make great music, but what’s your value proposition?
- What are you listening to when it comes to music?
- Photo and Video Release
- Keep Shooting High-Definition Music Video and Related Material
- Start Your Own Scene
- What are music fans willing to pay for?
- Posting and announcing your gigs.
- Email 101 for Artists
- MTT launches the Indie Maximum Exposure 100 Blog
- In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans - Part II - Matthew Ebel
- Ending agreements in the beginning for bands.
- ‘It’s tough to beat up a guy that never quits’
- Happy 'Quit MySpace' Day
- The primary job of a manager is to take care of your lazy artist…
- What happened? A rant about the work ethic of many musicians
- Hot Tip: Be one of the first to jump into the Augmented Reality buzz..
- The Lottery Model, The Free Culture Model, The Click Control Model
- In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans - Part I - The Mountain Goatsl
- How I knew I was done with my company
- Cancellations and Rescheduling
- Why the New Music Seminar Matters a.k.a. A Love Letter to Tom Silverman
- Music Marketing That's Made-To-Stick
- Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one.
- 12 years with Taxi
- Drive and determination are far from enough.
- How I Connect with Thousands of People in 7 Minutes A Day
- Music Think Tank's Google Analytics Reminder
- Dog Guru
- How much is a fan worth? - Part 1
- Honor as a musician and a business person.
- And if only 1% of those people...
- Set lists for the sound man and sound woman.
- Copyright v. Culture
- Spectral Management
- What I would do with a pile of money to spend on an artist?
- What would YOU do with freedom and a healthy budget to break a new artist?
- Experiment: Everyone must have a CD, even if free.
- Why didn't In Rainbows open the music industry floogates?
- You’re So ‘Yester-moment’
- Artists are not inherently entitled to monetary compensation for their Art
- Session players for recordings.
- Viral, Schmiral (‘Greatness’ Pt. 2)
- Not your average promo idea.
- Take it with a grain of salt - Dealing with the critics
- Why is a secular artist performing at a Christian Church?
- Unlearning
- Why Your ‘Greatness’ is Missed
- Eleven Steps To Fixing The Problem That Occurs When You Work Harder Than Everyone Else In The Band
- Public Relations has changed forever. PR 2.0 Tactics for Musicians
- Keeping with a plan and when it is the right time to change plans
- The World's Biggest Cover Band
- ReverbNation Survey: Artists and Health Care
- Sprezzatura
- Idea: Musician's own website as definitive source of all info.
- How I use Twitter
- Are You Still Blasting Out Press Releases & Stuffing Envelopes and Wondering Why You are Not Getting Reviewed?
- Just say NO to putting an end to illegal music sharing.
- Investing in the music industry...
- Songwriting Tips: Create Psychological Distance
- Proper care and maintenance of networking sites
- Play with your instruments and toys, learn them inside and out
- 3 Ways To Make Money Now - Playing Covers, Playing Sessions & Playing Live
- Picking a studio, engineer or producer - discount the silly list of names.
- A Shilling for Your Thoughts
- Spotify isn't available in the states yet. Can someone please tell me what's so earth-shattering about it?
- the economics of American Idol - based upon your experiences, does the music industry operate like this or not?
- Your digital music industry future…
- Template for Writing a Music Business Plan
- announcing MTT Stats
- How can an artist be original?
- MTT Radio Update
- The 1-2-3 Music Store
- A Lesson In Building Community (Or A Love Letter To Rob Gordon & What Are Records?)
- “Where have all the musical geniuses gone?”
- Twitter 101 For Musicians - Free PDF
- "True artists couldn't give a damn if no one hears their music..."
- MTT Radio (experiment)
- Invest in live show gear or invest in making a better record - which is more important?
- Are you content with your content?
- "Does all this shit have anything to do with the music business?"
- Beware of Fringe Fans: Appreciate Them, But Don't Let Them Distract You
- artistspaid.com
- Zimbabwe Legit featured on Music Think Tank
- Top 5 Ways to Track Your Social Media ROI
- The Song Adoption Formula
- "Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do"
- Remember the mullet? I guess the trends are accurate?
- Look, Lurk, Leap! A Musicians Guide For Finding Managing and Reading Music Blogs
- Barking
- Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote.
- Basic Marketing Principles For Artists - Part 3: Increase the Amount of Money That You Charge
- Preparing for a Vocal Recording Session
- Miles Davis Album Art - hot web site to check out
- Fame at any price. Tell the best story and win the contest...
- What artists should know about Stereofame
- Show success before asking for help
- Please contribute to HypeBot's Success List...
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
- Basic Marketing Principles For Artists - Part 2: Increasing the Frequency of Purchases
- The Hector Letter
- What's your songwriting process?
- How Do I Get Booking Agents To Take My Band Seriously?
- What artists should know about thesixtyone
- 7 Insider Tips On Getting More Gigs For Your Band
- Popular Music Think Tank Posts
- Tighten the low end of your mix with a frequency analyzer
- Don’t go over the self-promotion cliff; crush your local radio station instead.
- Basic Marketing Principles For Artists - Part 1: Increase Your Fanbase
- What makes a good "manager" in the DIY world?
- Is Jango payola?
- What artists should know about Jango
- Is A&R Still Necessary In Today's Music Industry?
- Forget MySpace: How To Build The Ultimate Website To Interact With Your Fans
- The New Music Gatekeepers: Fans & Workload
- Who owns Music Think Tank?
- 8 reasons to release a follow-up EP
- Defining the Music Industry Crisis
- How to use iTunes to drive up your iTunes revenue
- Crime and Corruption: Recognizing Unethical Practices in the Music Business
- Songwriters are taking it on the chin. What’s the solution?
- The End of the Music Album as The Organizing Principle
- Artist will put a tag cloud on her back to raise money for her next album.
- Is a Last.fm Powerplay campaign right for you?
- iTunes and AIG? Don’t think so.
- Add MP3s to your Music Think Tank posts
- EMI is screwed. Utterly screwed.
- Fan-Funding & Donation Sites: 9 Ways to Raise Money for Your Next Music Project
- Social Media & Online Marketing For Musicians - 10 Questions For an Expert in the Trenches
- Keep your mixes consistent by using a reference
- Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic: Evolutionary Traits of The Music Industry
- Remember the mullet? File sharers are next.
- practicing with limitations - material and how to deal with it, part I
- download music business legal documents for creating your own 360 deal
- What artists should know about Last.fm
- Small is the new big, and why house concerts could save touring artists.
- Musician’s SXSW South by Southwest Survival Guide
- Give 'em something they can feel!
- My song sucks? You must be an idiot! What’s the right way to review music?
- 10 Predictions for Radio's Next 5 Years
- What successful Internet marketers know and what musician marketers don't
- Sell More Cds at Shows By Not Naming the Price
- practicing with limitations
- MIDEM Conference Video Interviews
- Artist Path to Market Post #2: Navigating the Hype Machine
- Real in-store CD distribution: still working for anybody?
- How to Set and Reach Your Music Goals
- Music artists your route to market is as easy as A, B, C...
- Inspiring quotes about making music
- A Better Way To Book Live Music
- Going Mobile – The Future Of Marketing For Musicians
- Everyone Is Going To Help You …. If You Know How To Ask A Response To Derek's Post
- Nobody’s going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you?
- Art is An Energy
- Google Trends on Music Think Tank
- A MUSICIANS GUIDE TO SETTING AND ACHIEVIEVING GOALS FOR 2009
- Cyber Fluff Freedom
- Who is really behind the curtain?
- Fan-Driven-Private-Concerts - the next big thing?
- Want To Be A Great Musician? Act Like A Great Engineer
- Mickey Mouse logic
- The 3 dimensions of the music Long Tail
- 7 Marketing Lessons From Derek Sivers
- Attending a music biz conference? Here's the REAL way to do it....
- Music Niches: Narrow Your Net to Get More Fans
- Making MySpace Work For YOU
- Should the New Law of Music Absorption alter your music business decisions?
- 10 Websites That Are Ruining Things For My Band
- The ugly man behind the curtain in music publicity...
- The Long Fail: the cost of digital distribution
- Heard Brilliance Recently?
- Are people asking themselves questions about you?
- Who says what now?
- The KamaSutra of Music Marketing
- Can File Sharing Be Monetized By Advertising?
- Do most fans really want anything from you other than your music?
- Music Blogs - Are They The New Radio?
- Twitter is radically changing the way musicians are building communities of supportive fans around them. Are you still resisting it?
- If music was sport
- Nobody knows the future.
- 10 Mistakes Bands and Musicians Make
- Do great songs really ever go unheard?
- MTT Music - What's your advice? Should we launch MTT Music or scrap it?
- A publishing and distribution deal from the same company - is it smart?
- Great New Posts on MTT Open
- An industry with a great future behind it
- Is your album a starting line or a finish line?
- Eco-touring - survival is the mother of invention (or something)
- Social Media, Blogs and Music: Some Philosophical Thoughts
- New posts on MTT Open
- 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
- Are fan-funded models the future of the recorded music business?
- The Futility of Flogging Music
- The only thing wrong with Music 2.0 is your mental model of how it should work.
- Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music
- What does it mean to be a 'professional' musician.
- Should you go digital-only, and skip the CD?
- Could The TechCrunch Tablet Be The Final Nail In The Music Sales Coffin?
- How To Get From Full Time Day Job To Full Time Musician - Meet John Taglieri
- Songwriters who don't perform?
- From Exposure to Conversion "How to Create a Real Fan" - Part 2
- From Exposure to Conversion - 'How to Create a Real Fan' - Part One
- Digital music can’t be marketed, it can only be found.
- Measuring 'depth of interaction' or "you can't eat web-hits"
- Selling music by solving a specific need
- Does EMI uniquely understand that enabling and enhancing the music experience is where the money is?
- Build a Community to Build a Music Business - What I Learned From Cliff Ravenscraft
- Reselling music, the value of music
- The Record Industry Innovation Prize 2009
- Go Straight to the Fan!
- It's kind of not ABOUT you
- Aging with music
- Using a Momentum-Toward-Celebrity Strategy for Marketing Music
- The Myth of "Almost Zero" Recording Costs
- If I had a record label, would you be signed to it?
- Looking Ahead Into The New Music Business (aka What I Learned From Terry McBride, Again)
- 1,000 True Fans - Another Perspective
- MySpace Music & Corporate Conspiracies
- A Buyer's Market: The way we purchase online music
- What’s really keeping you from where you need to be? (It’s not piracy.)
- Crowdsourcing for Hits - is it a Mistake?
- Has Online Radio Growth Stagnated?
- Music Industry Trends have a Lesson for Radio
- Never have a limit on your income
- Bus company sues maids for carpooling - sound familiar?
- Back Catalogue To The Future
- Create Validate Sell
- Think Tank Talk Question?
- Capitalizing On Fan Feedback
- Ask the readers: What's important?
- 1,000 True Fans to Make a Living
- Save The Earth Use BitTorrent
- The Blanket License Debate
- 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Recording Your Own Album
- Was 90%. Now 10%.
- Can't try it? Won't buy it.
- Welcome to the Think Tank
- Aiming to please a few big clients versus aiming to please lots of little clients
- People are like sheep. To market music, the appearance of celebrity momentum matters.
