The Sandi Thom Story: Fraud Or Smart Marketing?
Thanks to Hypebot reader Alison Noise who tipped us off to what some say is the real story behind Sandi Thom’s month of nightly webcasts from her UK apartment that. Continue reading
Atty. Rob Falk’s Band Tool Box
Throughout our entire career we’ve seen great careers derailed and many dollars lost because miof sunderstandings that led to lawsuits. Even in the new music business – perhaps particularly in. Continue reading
UK’s Sandi Thom Uses Net To Sign With RCA
A month ago we wrote about UK musician Sandi Thom broadcasting live performances for 21 straight nights from her tiny apartment. More than 100,000 people tuned in and now she’s. Continue reading
5 Hypebot Questions For FanMail’s David DeVore
Good communication with your fans is a cornerstone of the post-net music industry. But in an era of spam and email overload is email marketing still effective? Web based application. Continue reading
How The Beatles Became Famous And Why We Should Care
On his blog marketing guru Seth Godin takes a look at how The Beatles became famous and calls them a classic marketing success. The Fab Four were no overnight sensations. Continue reading
Business Week On D.Y.I. Music Promotion
It’s aimed mostly at the part-time musician and home music enthusiast, but Business Week has published and neat little guide to the world of digital music including a little slide. Continue reading
Margeting Guru Seth Godin’s Tips For Getting And Keeping Fans
Marketing guru Seth Godin has long pushed a customer centered marketing approach that translates well to the music industry. (Think country music stars standing in the rain at the State. Continue reading
Free FanMail Fan-Centric Marketing Webinar Thursday
Thursday the folks at FanMail and Jambase are hosting a free 45 minute webinar that will discuss basic fan-centric marketing strategies as well as take a look at the cool. Continue reading
Hoobastank Partners With MyLocalBands For Free Tour
Hoobastank has followed Fall Out Boy’s lead and formed an alliance with live music fan site mylocalbands.com for an upcoming CD release tour. But Hooby smartly takes the promo two. Continue reading
The Arctic Monkeys & The Potential For Too Much Hype In The Age Of Net Promo
Using the net and new technologies to circumvent the old boy/payola/corporate system and bring new music straight to the fans is a long held dream that to some degree is. Continue reading