Q&A: Landing Page Best Practices For Musicians

August 29, 2012

In today’s Q&A we were asked by one of our subscribers about what we feel are some of the best landing page practices for musicians. If you’ve been following Music Marketing Manifesto for any stretch of time, you know that we feel the absolute best landing page practice is to use what’s known as “squeeze [...]

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How To Make More Money For Each Album Sold

August 26, 2012

Just a little catch up first for anyone who is new here and still unclear about what makes the marketing strategy we focus on at MMM a bit different from what musicians typically do… Music Marketing Manifesto is based on a strategy that is known in marketing circles as “direct response marketing”. Instead of simply [...]

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Turning Articles Into Fan Traffic By Encouraging Social Sharing

August 13, 2012

Every now again we come across students of Music Marketing Manifesto, who are totally putting in the work that is required for success, but get a little stuck when the results are not as positive as they would like to see.  Such is the case for our Estonian friend, Joonas K., who wrote to us [...]

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MMM Podcast Episode #7 – Kickstarter for the “DIY Musician” With Kat Parsons

July 24, 2012

Recently I reported on Amanda Palmer’s astonishing Kickstarter success, when the indie artist raised over 1.2 million dollars to help promote her upcoming album/book release. However many readers pointed out that Amanda Palmer is by no means your average musician. She has a major label past, a huge following, managers, publicists, and a reportedly large [...]

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Amanda Palmer Raises Nearly $1,000,000 with KickStarter – Shattering Previous Records.

May 28, 2012

If you’re a member of the Insider Circle, or even a long time reader of this blog than you’ve no doubt heard me talk about Amanda Palmer. Amanda is a singer songwriter, painter, author and all around rock n’ roll warrior. In my opinion she is hands down the most interesting independent artist out there, [...]

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Attack of the Penguin – Search Engine Optimization As We Know It Has Changed.

May 15, 2012

This is one of those things that I really hemmed and hawed over writing about here on the Music Marketing Manifesto blog. It’s something that is incredibly important, but I honestly don’t know how many musicians actually care… You may or may not be aware of the fact that Google released a massive update to [...]

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