The recent news that the world’s leading music company Universal Music Group (UMG) and social crowdsourcing platform Talenthouse are to enter a partnership is the latest in the Big Four’s utilisation of social networking for promotional purposes.
If you’re an independent artist, let’s face it; unless you have a full-time booking agent and a strong marketing team behind you, you are in charge of sales and marketing.
The latest in social networking meets music business model websites is to be entrusted with using the investment to develop an e-commerce platform for music artists to sell their music.
Bill Knowlton of the We Love Metal blog talks to Dotted Music’s Alex Gilbert about the future of print media, digital marketing, music journalism, places to party out in Canada, and – of course – metal!
GigsWiz, the “next generation ticketing service” where artists, promoters and venues work together to sell more tickets for live music events, has announced their official launch at New Music Seminar.
The opportunities for indie artists have never been greater. And yes, the waters on how to be successful have never been murkier, but that’s only because there are so many wonderful options to pursue, avenues to follow, methods to use and results to achieve.
