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Category: Promotions
The Ultimate Secret Weapon for Submitting Your Music to Lots of Internet Radio Stations
We offer an extra resource to help you get more responses from your radio pitch, the Radio Pitch Template. If you need help figuring out what to say to radio stations and how to get them to respond, download our Free Radio Pitch Checklist and Template here. Every musician’s ultimate desire is to have their […]
7 Holiday Marketing Tips for Musicians If You Don’t Have Christmas Music
Hey guys! Before you get started, we have a Holiday Marketing Guide for Musicians you can swipe for help customizing and organizing your Holiday Marketing Campaign. Click HERE to get it. The holidays are a time of good cheer and gift giving. It’s around this time of year, when people are frantically searching for affordable […]
The Best Way to Generate Your Own Leads for Private Music Gigs | How to Get More Private Gigs
As an independent musician getting gigs is a prime source for earning money. There are all sorts of gigs you can get depending on your genre, but the best paying gigs by far are the private ones. These are gigs where you are hired to perform for guests at a private function such as weddings, […]
5 Insanely Effective Ways to Promote Your Upcoming Show
So you booked your show and you’re all set to rock the house out. You’ve got your set list and you are super excited to put on a great show. Congratulations! You’ve gotten through half the battle. The next step is to promote the heck out of this awesome gig so you can play to […]
3 Unique Ways to Attract Music Fans
Being an independent musician is a fun job. You get to write music and share your art with the people who love it. These people are a lot more than just fans. The dictionary defines a fan as “a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing.” The […]
When PR Hacking Goes Wrong: What Musicians Can Learn from the Jussie Smollett Scandal
The actor Jussie Smollett from Fox’s primetime drama series, Empire is in hot water. As of 2/21/2019, Smollett turned himself in to police custody for allegedly filing a false police report. On the police report, Smollett claims that he was attacked by two masked men who shouted ‘racial and homophobic slurs’ while pouring an unknown […]
How to Find Time to Promote Your Music and Everything Else
If you’re an independent artist, time is a currency. If you’re not looking at your time that way, you may be leaving money on the table. Every minute you spend promoting your music, booking yourself for shows, and exploring avenues to earn money directly relates to how much money you make as an artist. The […]
Artist Feature: Jon Magnusson Swedish Singer/Songwriter
We love independent artists and we love to feature them here on TheCraftyMusician.com! Today we’re featuring Jon Magnusson a Swedish singer-songwriting who not only does his own music, but supports other artists with their music as well – a theme we here at The Crafty Musician know all about. Read on to find out more […]
How to Generate Your Own Physical Mailing List for Free
Have you considered incorporating physical mailings into your marketing tactics? If not, you’re missing out on a valuable avenue of outreach especially when it comes to marketing upcoming shows in cities where you don’t have a following. Even though letters and postcards are considered a thing of the past as they take a backseat to […]
5 Music Career Hacking Webinars to Watch Now
01/25/2018 – I believe that the most successful are those who strive to be the greatest students. Armed with education and knowledge, you can do many powerful things. That’s why I make effort to spend about an hour or so per week to watch (or listen to) something meaningful, helpful, uplifting, or enlightening for my […]