music marketing

The Ultimate Indie Bundle also includes the INDIE VENUE BIBLE – a MASSIVE directory that lists 30,000 live music venues in the US and Canada!

You’ll find THOUSANDS of venues, festivals, colleges, bars, coffee shops, restaurants, house concerts, theaters, clubs, halls, churches and book stores – any place you can land a gig!

At the end of the day you’re a musician first and a marketer second. It’s always okay to bring in some outside help, but knowing the most common marketing mistakes musicians make will help you set yourself above the crowd by embracing the new opportunities available to you for promoting your music.

This is how DICKIE’s bio starts: DICKIE is a contrast in design. To pair a mid-forties gray-mopped “hang-it-up-already” pop songwriter and a striking mid-twenties classically trained violinist is simply a formula for deserved obscurity. But in practice, the balance proves a brilliant alliance.

I’ve been familiar with all BandCamp, Reverbnation and SoundCloud throughout their development but never really took the time to weight the positives and negatives of each.

Like the seed that has to push through the shell and then through the dirt to find the sun, success doesn’t happen from a leisurely walk on the beach. It’s an acquired habit of pressing up against what makes usun-COMFORT-able, and sometimes pushing through our fear can knock us completely horizontal.

Besides being a performer and a recording artist, you are also a business owner in charge of booking, dealing with contracts, marketing, PR, inventory management and much more.