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Last.fm Throws D.I.Y. Acts Royalty Bone

BUT THERE’S NOT MUCH MEAT ON IT… Last.fm today launched it’s Artist Royalty Program which gives unsigned artists the opportunity to accrue royalties directly from Last.fm. The site claims this. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/09/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (4)
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ReverbNation Passes 200K Acts

ReverbNation, a marketing and promotion for music added its 200,000th artist last week, up 100,000 in the last six months. In addition, 6000 labels and managers have created profiles to . Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/09/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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SoundCloud: Free Track Transfer

200 EXCLUSIVE INVITES FOR HYPEBOT READERS Sometimes I need to send tracks to 10 or even a 1000 people on a media lost or fan club.  Up until a Hypebot. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/01/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Copyright Office Adds Online Registration

The U.S. government can seldom be called an early adopter and the Copyright Office kept that tradition alive with their slow paper based copyright process. That all finally changes today. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 07/01/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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What Is Yahoo’s Ian Rogers Up To Now?

TOPSPIN LAUNCHES When Ian Rogers stepped down from Yahoo Music a few months ago TechCrunch declared that Yahoo! had "lost their music soul".  Lofty praise. But if passion for music. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/24/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Top 10 Indie Music Marketing Tools

Every week brings the launch of another online service to connect musicians and fans.  Beyond spending endless hours on MySpace and Facebook, what are the best affordable online tools to. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/23/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (29)
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ReverbNation Adds Twitter Support

FACEBOOK STATUS NEXT ReverbNation, a growing online marketing and promotions platform for music has added Twitter to its artist profile pages.  Member artists can import and display their Twitter posts,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/16/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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SliceThePie Adds Pandora’s Brown To Board

Slicethepie, the UK based online artist financing site, has added Paul Brown to the board, as Commercial Director.  Paul will combine his new role with his current position as Managing. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/11/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Lisa Loeb On Free Music, AmieSt, 360’s & Much More

Lisa Loeb, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, actress, and television producer, spoke to Laurence Trifon for Hypebot recently at Digital NARM. The now indie artist is embracing the digital space to market. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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FanDoodle Pays Fans To Sell Music

FanDoodle.com enables fans to distribute downloads for artists and labels and get paid for it. Unlike the Burnlounge pyramid scheme, which I understand finally went out of business, FanDoodle is. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Quotable: “Are you ready to…take control?”

".. Are you ready to climb up and take control?" "Then make great music.  Respect your audience.  Give people the tools to spread the word, never rip them off.  Know. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 06/04/2008 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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