Tag Archives: independent label
20 Ways To Market Your Act Or Your Music For Little Or No Money
© 2011 Vinny Ribas You can make YouTube videos at home. Build your own channel. If you play covers, videos of you performing those songs can drive attention to you as an artist. You can then lead your fans to your original music. Build relationships on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. People who ‘know…
“Using Innovation To Set Yourself Apart From Other Independent Artists” by Vinny Ribas
© 2010 Vinny Ribas The biggest thing that you, as an independent artist or musician, can do to for your own career is to find a way to set yourself apart from the pack. In a world of copycats and knock-offs, this may seem an impossible task. However, hundreds of thousands of artists have found…
Celebrate Yourself!
© 2010 Vinny Ribas With all of the ‘don’t do this’ and ‘don’t do thats’ that we are deluged with daily regarding your career in music, it is easy to become overwhelmed. The truth is that, if you are serious about your music, you most likely do a lot of things right every day. For…
Planning To Be Famous
© 2010 Vinny Ribas Let’s say you and your band members pooled your money and spent $1,000 on a really cool music video. And low and behold, it went viral on YouTube and was seen by 1,00,000 people in a week! Then David Letterman decided to air it on his show, reaching countless millions more. Now, because…
Where Did All Of My Fans Go?
© 2010 Vinny Ribas These days the music market is more fickle and ever changing than ever. Your fans have an uncountable number of choices regarding the music they want to listen to and ultimately buy. And they themselves are changing. They grow up, take on different roles in life, find new interests etc. As…
How Much Money Should I Spend On My CD?
© 2009 Vinny Ribas Any time that someone prepares to record a CD, chances are the first question that comes to their mind is “How much will it cost?” However, that is often not the right question to ask. Too many artists pay much more than they should for their recording project, not because the…
You Are The Label
© 2009 Vinny Ribas For many years, the top of the mountain for any recording artist was a major label record deal. And for some, it still is. However, many others are finding that the independent road suits them better, and for various reasons. For some it is the idea of controlling all of their…