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Live Gig

How to Prepare for Your First Live Gig

Whether your first live gig is ‘headlining’ at your local pub or trying your hand at an open mic night at the rock club in town, preparation is everything. What do you need to do to prepare well?

Ilpo Resound

MGT50: 6 Reasons Artists Procrastinate (And How To Overcome Them) – Resound

Ilpo Kärkkäinen, a.k.a. Resound, talks about procrastination and his new WeSpin course called “Smart Productivity for Musicians – Accomplish More as an Artist and Live a More Meaningful Life”.

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5 Tools Used By The Pros To Kick Start Your Music Marketing Efforts On A Budget

Marketing your music is a daunting and time consuming task, with a lot of conflicting information on the best practices. Here are five tools used by the pros that you can use on a budget to start marketing your music today.

Eric Louis

MGT49: Promoting Your Music With Facebook Ads – Eric Louis

Eric Louis, a digital marketing consultant and a DJ, shares his findings on how A-list artists promote their music through Facebook Ads, and how you can benefit from Facebook Advertising yourself.

Budi Voogt

MGT47: Taking A Record Label To The Next Level – Budi Voogt (Heroic Recordings)

Budi Voogt, the founder of Heroic Recordings, talks about the impressive recent growth of the company, his new music business course, and SoundCloud (and if you should keep using it).

tape.tv

MGT46: Tape Express, Music Video Heaven For Indie Music – Conrad Fritzsch, Jakob Fricke (Tape.tv)

In this WeSpin Recipes podcast episode, we talk to tape.tv’s CEO Conrad Fritzsch and Project Manager Jakob Fricke.