Tag Archives: Music Marketing
Why Every Indie Artist Should Have A Physical Mailing List And Newsletter.
© 2011 Vinny Ribas Having a physical email list and sending out timely newsletters can transform your career! Here are some of the important reasons why!
Drawing More Fans To Your Shows
© 2011 Vinny Ribas All too often having great talent isn’t enough to get people to leave the comfort of their homes and come out to see you perform. So, here are some creative ways to draw more people to your shows. Many of these work just as well on the road as they do…
How to Lead People to Your Music in a Digital Age
by Bill Pere With the maturity of digital delivery and a proliferation of websites that allow easy uploading and legal downloading of music, the old models of making and marketing CDs are gone. The shift from an album-based economy to a track-based economy spawns many new considerations for the Indie artist when the time comes…
50 Reasons People May Not Be Coming To Your Shows
© 2010 Vinny Ribas The income for most indie artists comes from gigging and selling CDs/merchandise at those gigs. So if you are having trouble drawing people to your shows, the problem may be one or more of the reasons listed below. Be honest as you evaluate where you stand in each of these…
Interview With Publicist Chuck Whiting
Located in Nashville, Tenn., Whiting Publicity & Promotions is an award-winning communications solution for businesses, organizations, professionals and artists. We asked Chuck a few questions about PR, how artists can use it, and how he suports the arts community. 1. What uniquely qualifies you to work with indie artists? My background as a newspaper reporter, publicist, songwriter,…
The Makings Of A Music Superstar
© 2010 Vinny Ribas Superstar status is only given to a select few out of the millions of entertainers and sports figures in the world. I am not talking about the flash-in-the-pan, one-hit wonder artist. I am not talking about the artist that jumps on the latest trend and rides the wave as long as…
“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…
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…