MTT Weekly Recap: Celebrating Derek Sivers’ New Book
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Don Austin: Why the Confusion? It Has Always Been About the Business Blake Easter: What are you waiting for? Wicked D Harrison: Online. Continue reading
Why The Confusion? It’s Always Been About the Business
How are you treating your music career? Are you just playing shows and not worrying about financing your career? Even if you’re a great musician, it does not mean that. Continue reading
Ariel Hyatt’s Music Marketing Basics: Newsletters, Products & Polls
Ariel Hyatt, fresh from the ASCAP Expo in Los Angeles, has some music marketing lessons for all artists. As many know, making it in the music industry is very hard.. Continue reading
Thank You Elliott Smith
Why did you get into the music business or why are you trying to get in? On Music Think Tank, independent musician, Padma Gillen, shares his opinion about the current. Continue reading
The New Music Industry is Not Coming
According to Taurean Casey on MusicThink Tank, the new music industry is already here. Different business models are reshaping how we market and distribute music. Change is inevitable and the. Continue reading
The Music Intern: Five Tips for Success
(UPDATED) For those hoping to break into the music industry, the place to start is an internship. Landing one is like getting access to an exclusive club, but interns need. Continue reading
The Realities of Making a Living with Music in 2011
On Music Think Tank, Bob Baker is about to give you a dose of reality with his post. His rant is in response to all the posts about the doomed. Continue reading
How To Actually Make $50,000 a Year As a Musician
On Music Think Tank, David J. Hahn responds to the earlier MTT post about how musicians can make $50,000 a year. People are trying to give advice all the time. Continue reading
10 Marketing Lessons I Learned From KISS
On Music Think Tank, Michael Brandvold has made a post about his involvement with building and managing the KISS website. As an avid KISS fan, Brandvold learned several marketing lessons.. Continue reading
Bob Marley Sells Out, Competition & Pricing, Microfunding, And The 50 Most Read MTT Posts
This week on Music Think Tank, we explore selling out and microfunding. Dmitri Vietze posted about Bob Marley and selling out which caused a debate among the MTT community. According. Continue reading