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This lens is filled with music marketing tips and self-promotion ideas for independent songwriters, musicians and bands. It's all about helping you get exposure, connect with fans, sell CDs, and make more money with your music in this ever-changing era of self-empowerment and self-expression.
For more tips and tools, visit these web sites:
TheBuzzFactor.com
MusicPromotionBlog.com
MusicMarketingBooks.com
To your success! -Bob Baker
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Bob's Books, Audio CDs, Special Reports, and More
Over the years I have written and published many music resources in a variety of formats, including these:
- MySpace Music Marketing
- How to Promote & Sell Your Music on the World's Biggest Networking Web Site
- How to Use Video to Promote Your Music Online
- Produce Music Videos on a Shoestring Budget, Become a YouTube Superstar!
- Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook
- 201 Self-Promotion Ideas for Songwriters, Musicians and Bands on a Budget
- Guerrilla Music Marketing, Encore Edition
- 201 More Self-Promotion Ideas, Tips & Tactics for Do-It-Yourself Artists
- Music Marketing Crash Course CD
- 1,001 Ways to Promote Yourself, Make Money & Live Your Dreams
- Killer Music Press Kits
- The 29 Most Important Elements in Creating Sizzling Music Publicity Materials
- 50 Ways to Promote & Sell Your Music on the Internet
- Ideas, tips and tricks you should be using to gain wider exposure online
- Online Music PR Hot List
- 120 places to submit press releases, get reviewed, uncover PR connections, and promote your music on the Internet
- What Every Musician Should Know About Self-Promotion
- The 29 Key Principles of Independent Music Marketing
- Unleash the Artist Within
- Four Weeks to Transforming Your Creative Talents into More Recognition, More Profit and More Fun
- Branding Yourself Online
- How to Use the Internet to Become a Celebrity or Expert in Your Field
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Guerrilla Music Marketing Action Planner: Know What to Do, When to Do It, and How
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Bob's Most Popular Music Success Articles
- Outrageous Music Marketing Ideas
- Here are some creative, off-the-wall ways to promote your music.
- Marketing Lessons from an 8-Year-Old Girl
- What really matters when it comes to creating and promoting your music.
- The Power of Personality
- You have a choice: be bland and boring, or communicate with pizzazz.
- What's Wrong with American Idol?
- Bob Baker's updated manifesto on the popular "reality" TV show.
- Four Ways to Attract More Music Fans Faster
- Confused about how to find fans? Read this and you won't be anymore.
- The First Question You Must Answer When Promoting Your Music
- Are you committing this grave mistake with your music marketing?
- Who Do You Sound Like? (And Why It's Important)
- Do you hate to compare yourself to other artists? If so, read this right now.
Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook
This is my best-selling title. The book that is primarily responsible for me being able to make a living as a self-published author. A new revised and updated edition just came out in spring 2007. I'm very fond of this book ... and so are the thousands of people who have benefited from it over the years.You may have seen it in the major motion picture
"The School of Rock" starring Jack Black ... and in VIBE, Music Connection, Electronic Musician and American Songwriter magazines.
"The most directly applicable, start-tomorrow, creatively inspiring book I've ever seen on promoting your music!" -Derek Sivers, president of CD Baby
Top Indie Music Promotion Resources
- Bob's Free Indie Music Tips Ezine
- A potent dose of ideas and inspiration -- delivered three or four times a month.
- Artist Empowerment Radio Podcast
- Marketing ideas and inspiration for musicians, artists, writers, and more.
- Derek Sivers on Marketing Your Music
- The founder of CD Baby shares his top promotion tips.
- How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet
- Learn how to set up a web site, create an online buzz, and sell a lot more CDs.
- The Indie Contact Bible
- A directory of 9,000 print, radio and Internet sources of exposure for your music.
