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Posts dealing with community-building, promotion, and marketing for independent musicians

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Highlighting musicians and bands who are leading by example, when it comes to utilizing web-technologies to build strong relationships directly with their fans

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Thoughts to help musicians and bands avoid distractions and harmful behaviour, and to keep the focus on what’s really important

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Articles on using interactivity in the online and offline spaces as an important tool for audience engagement

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Features describing online services and websites that could be of use to musicians and bands in the modern age

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Build Your Community Online By Thinking Like A Fan
February 14, 2009 – 2:38 pm | One Comment
Build Your Community Online By Thinking Like A Fan

There’s a lot of talk these days about community-building, and many look to that as a modern strategy for spreading a band’s music.  While I do believe that it is a great strategy, many bands tend to overthink or underthink this strategy – some are too selfish, and for some reason it seems all natural behaviour of interaction and human nature can go out the window when it comes to promoting a band.
To build a …

Building Fan-Band Relationships In 420 Characters Per Day
February 7, 2009 – 10:16 am | 10 Comments
Building Fan-Band Relationships In 420 Characters Per Day

So you’ve signed up for Twitter.  Congratulations!  It seems to be all the rage right now in the music industry.  Bands and industry people are registering for the site like crazy.  So how do you make this Twitter thing work for you?  How can you use it to help promote your band?
The key is to make sure that’s not your only goal.  What you should be trying to do is become part of a community …