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Come See Brendan Speak at SXSW 2012

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So it’s been a lit­tle while since the last update, but our SXSW panel was accepted and I will be speak­ing this week at SXSW, the nation’s largest music conference!

The panel is called “Give Your Fans a Rea­son to Buy; Make Direct-to-Fan Work”.  It will be held in Room 15 at the […]

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Infographic: Artist RoadMap to Social Media

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I was recently asked to cre­ate a list of all the dig­i­tal ser­vices and tools an artist can use for social media, as it’s often over­whelm­ing to com­pre­hend all the tools online when you’re try­ing to focus on mak­ing good music. So here it is.

“Social Media” is a very broad term, and I have included […]

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Vote for Our Direct-to-Fan SXSW Panel!

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March 2012 feels a long way away, but SXSW is closer than you think!  Start­ing today, you can browse and vote for pro­posed panel ideas for the Music, Film, and Inter­ac­tive festivals.

This year I took the time to orga­nize and sub­mit a panel idea that I am pas­sion­ate about, I would love to see […]

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The Industry’s Best Albums of 2011 (so far)

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I love doing these types of lists, because I always dis­cover a lot of artists that weren’t pre­vi­ously on my radar. Def­i­nitely the case in this list as well! (See Also: Top Albums in 2010 from Music Indus­try Pro­fes­sion­als).

Here are some of the best […]

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Artist Advice: How to Make Money through YouTube Ads

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This post is the final post in a 3-part series on Easy Pas­sive Income for Artists.  
Read Part One on iTunes Affil­i­ates here, and Part Two on Ama­zon Affil­i­ates here.

I was at a digital […]

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7/18/11 Music Industry Recap: What You Shouldn’t Have Missed

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Some items you shouldn’t have missed from this past week:

 

Crowd­booster — The Best Free Social Media Mon­i­tor­ing Tool I’ve Seen So Far by Clyde Smith | Hypebot.com

“Crowd­booster, which has a free basic account option ideal for DIY’ers, offers a dash­board for keep­ing up with how well you’re doing on Twit­ter and on […]

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Tools to Avoid Getting Overwhelmed by Twitter

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If you ever won­der how some­one fol­low­ing 10,000 peo­ple can pos­si­bly keep up with their time­line, they either: 1) Don’t, or 2) Use some of the tac­tics below.

If you con­tin­u­ally fol­low new peo­ple on Twit­ter, you will quickly get a cou­ple hun­dred (to thou­sands) of peo­ple you are fol­low­ing, and your Twit­ter time­line will move […]

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Spotify Being “Free” Isn’t As Great As You Think

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Mark­ing the most hyped music-service launch of the year, everyone’s talk­ing about Spo­tify launch­ing in the U.S. today.

For one, I don’t really under­stand why Spo­tify has been buzzing so heav­ily, when very sim­i­lar ser­vices such as Rdio, MOG, Rhap­sody, and Groove­shark have been avail­able for a long time.  Prob­a­bly the biggest hype coming […]

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New Site Launch: NotesforNotes.org

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We’re proud to launch a site we’ve been work­ing on with Notes for Notes, a fan­tas­tic non-profit that pro­vides youth with free access to music mak­ing envi­ron­ments so that music can become a pro­found influ­ence for pos­i­tive change in their lives.

The orga­ni­za­tion sets up free music stu­dios full of equipment […]

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Receptive HQ Now in Austin, TX!

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We are proud to announce that Recep­tive Music’s head­quar­ters are now based out of the Live Music Cap­i­tal of the World: Austin, Texas!

Well-known for being home to SXSW Con­fer­ence + Fes­ti­val, as well as the incred­i­ble Austin City Lim­its Fes­ti­val, Austin has a vibrant and […]

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