There’s been a lot of bad press for Adobe’s Flash technology in recent weeks, but new website Navigaya reminds us why people got excited about it in the first place. Billed as a content discovery service, it’s focused mainly on music videos at launch, running in full-screen and pulling videos in from sites including YouTube, Vimeo [...]
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Navigaya unveils whizzy Flash music videos service
Posted by @altair02 on May 12th, 2010
Posted in Music, Music & Marketing, News, Tips, Video 
Tags: Flash, Navigaya, Video, Video Call, Youtube 
No Comments »GQueues: a Google-Oriented Task Manager
Posted by @altair02 on May 11th, 2010
TIP (thanks to LifeHacker) By itself, task manager GQueues is pretty handy—a list-oriented task manager with sub-tasks, due dates, assignments, tagging, and other neat features. But its integration with Google sign-in, Calendar, and Google Apps make it more than just another to-do app. Not everything that GQueues offers is free, as email/SMS reminders, task assignments, [...]
Promote Your Band on Facebook in Just 2 Clicks
Posted by @altair02 on May 11th, 2010
Facebook is a critical promotional vehicle for Artists, as there are more people (and potential fans) using the site every day than almost anywhere else on the internet. As a result, ReverbNation has recently added a new feature that allows any Artist to capitalize on the free promotional opportunities at Facebook in just 2 clicks. [...]
The Potential In Mini-Albums
Posted by @altair02 on March 3rd, 2010
As Billboard previously reported, Blake Shelton’s new release, “Hillbilly Bone“, a six-song mini-album, hits stores today. USA Today is taking note of the uptick in country mini-albums (or EPs, or collections that generally have fewer than ten songs). Luke Bryan, the newspaper points out, released his second “Spring Break” digital EP today. And “country’s Josh [...]
7 Ways to Destroy Your Music Career
Posted by @brunotm on January 7th, 2010
Everybody wants to know the easy, proven steps to music success. Therefore, every expert offers tips and strategies to help you reach your goals. Well, it’s time to shake things up and serve a new audience — which explains why this post takes a look at the dark side: How to ruin your music career [...]
Ten Tips that Every Musician Should Apply to Their Career.
Posted by @altair02 on November 20th, 2009
Loren Weisman, on his own blog, wrote an interesting article that everyone should take a read. “As the holiday season approaches, and we get in to that thing about good will to all, all those other quips about being better people for a moment—which personally, I think should go through out the whole year and [...]
UK sales of music, DVDs and videogames
Posted by @altair02 on March 9th, 2009
These are numbers of UK sales of music, dvds and games. They show the growth of games sales on last 5 years. And it will grow up much more. If are a new band take a look at this table. You’ll might consider developing a game in the future. Don’t need to be for consoles, [...]
Exclusive material
Posted by @brunotm on April 7th, 2008
Win emphasis on MySpace, look always launch materials for its exclusive articles. This will attract the fans and new people. Also look to new friends always the same style of sound of his band, because you can “steal” some fans.
Special Holidays and Events
Posted by @brunotm on March 31st, 2008
Get a copy of Calendar of Events to discover all sorts of holidays and “awareness weeks” that apply to almost any business. The idea is to scan the list and see how many of these events you might be able to use for a charitable gig, a networking opportunity, or sources for paid performances and [...]
Partner With Your Local Record Store
Posted by @brunotm on March 24th, 2008
Contact a favorite local independent record store, and ask them to donate a few gift certificates. Tell them that in exchange, at concerts you will promote their store as a supporter of local music and even pass out circulars for the store at your live shows. On the back of the gift certificate include your [...]
