Using Innovation For Setting Yourself Apart From Other Artists
The biggest thing that you, as an independent artist or musician, can do to for your own career is to find a way to set yourself apart from the pack.
The biggest thing that you, as an independent artist or musician, can do to for your own career is to find a way to set yourself apart from the pack.
If you want to become successful in the music industry, there many things you need to know and do. But even if you get all that right, you can prevent yourself from reaching big success by making critical mistakes along the way.
Let me offer you to forget about sophisticated mobile games like Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion! or Arcade Rocker and take a look at one cute branded iPhone app I disovered this week.
I’ll give you 2 great examples by comparing two rock bands I know. I’ll show you how one of these bands totally packed their next several shows and the other band missed their opportunity to do the same by making a critical mistake.
It’s not only about getting ‘new’ people to come and see your band, but even most of your own friends and fans typically don’t come to your live shows regularly which is making it harder to get bigger and better gigs and make more money.
I learned a lesson last year when I was playing my first stadium gig. Visibility, be it literally, such as highway safety colored guitars, or from a multitude of positive interactions with people, is something worth boosting.