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Marketing Tips For Music Artists on the Road

Going on the road as a music artist is an exciting, busy, and even exhausting experience. You’ll be playing a lot and may have other obligations, too, like album signings or meet-and-greets. It’s a lot to juggle, and it’s easy for your marketing efforts to get pushed to the side during this busy time.

MGT138: Tips From An Indie Artist And Entrepreneur On Songwriting, Essentialism And Life – Steve Welty

San Diego-based singer-songwriter Steve Welty talks on finding your “genius zone,” collaborating with other songwriters, delegating work, becoming comfortable with showing up on socials, and more.

MGT137: Save Your Rage For The Stage – Bif Naked

Bif Naked, the “Princess of Punk”, talks about social media, activism, vulnerability, veganism, embracing limitations, straight edge being a true representation of the DIY ethic, and a lot more.

MGT136: An Ethical Way To Spotify Promotion – Michael Sloane (Streaming Promotions)

From avoiding companies who offer “guaranteed” streams and the differences between third-party and Spotify playlists to how the platform’s algorithm works, and why music will soon be mostly curated by robots.

MGT135: Your Shopify Music Store On Steroids – Tommy Stalknecht (Single Music)

The founder of Single Music, a Shopify app tailored for the music industry, talks on what Direct To Fan means today, the importance of great design in ecommerce, and how major artists increase “scans” on Billboard charts through their stores.

MGT133: Measure The True Reach Of Your Music – Amadea Choplin (Pex)

Amadea is the COO of Pex, a video and music search engine with a fingerprinting technology that identifies reused content – even if it’s a half-second sample in a remix, a GIF, or your song’s melody in a cover video – across the whole web.