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"How to Really Get Your Music on Blogs" - Free e-book from Tight Mix Blog

How to Really Get Your Music on Blogs free ebook
Getting your music heard on the internet can be difficult as there are thousands of other musicians vying for attention meaning your music can sometimes get lost under a pile of other music, it's the internet/modern equivalent of your demo at the bottom of a mail sack at a record label's A+R deparment. One way of getting good exposure is to try to get bloggers to blog about your music. A few blog posts about your music will get some of those all important listens and gain you a few extra fans.

I came across an interesting e-book today which I thought was worth a post on here. The ebook entitled "How to REALLY Get Your Music on Blogs" is available from a blog called Tight Mix Blog and is written by Christopher Bracco.

10 Sites You Should Be Uploading Your Music To

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We could probably list about 100 places in a list of places to upload your music to, but unless you have a dedicated promotional team working for you then you're not going to have much time available to keep 100 different sites updated with your latest news and latest tracks. So what 10 places are nearly essential in having a web presence for your music. From our experience we have gained the most listeners from this list of 10 sites and therefore we believe they are a must for uploading your tracks. They are in no particular order.
  • MySpace - I doubt that anyone with an internet connection hasn't come across this site. It is almost essential to have a web presence here.

Create Your Own iPhone App for Your Music (with MobBase)

Musicians have to keep up with the latest trends of getting their music to the ears of listeners and a huge trend to come out in the last few years has been the iPhone and iPod Touch Apps in the app store on iTunes and this is only going to get bigger due to the iPad which can also use these apps.

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I have previously looked into how to make one of these apps myself, you have to register with Apple as a Developer, own a Mac and know a thing or two about programming. This is a lot to do if you're just trying to make a simple app for your own music.

Hosting and Running a Remix Contest on SoundCloud

This post was originally posted on our other site, Remix Comps but seemed like a good post to place on Producing Beats too.

SoundCloud has only been around for a short time (Since 2007) but has become one of the best known ways of distributing both a streamable and downloadable version of your tracks. Thanks to a few of SoundCloud's features it makes the site a good choice for those of you who want to run your own remix contest.

We are regularly seeing remix contest organizers using SoundCloud services as the foundation of running their remix contest. This post is to give people an idea of what SoundCloud can offer to help run a remix contest and to also a review of SoundCloud's services when using it to run a remix contest.

Running a Giveaway To Promote Your Latest Music Release

These days it is pretty cheap and simple to quickly get your independently produced CD published to look just like a professionally made shop bought one. There are a whole bunch of companies that will cheaply print up CDs, T-shirts, mugs, keyrings and posters amongst other items with your logo or photo on. So cheap in fact that it is possible to look upon these items as promotional items by giving them away in giveaways and gaining new listeners for the small upfront cost of the product. Let me explain this concept that some promotion companies have used for a long time now and how you can use it to get effective blog posts (adverts) about your music and ultimately new listeners and fans...

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