I decided to walk the 3.5 miles from my hotel in midtown Manhattan down to NYU in Washington Sq where this year’s CMJ Music Conference was taking place. A small nod to environmental thinking, [one less cab ride], and another nod to the beauty of the city in fall. NYC seems cleaner when the wind [...]
It’s time to hit the road again. The SanFranMusicTech Summit is happening again on Monday Oct 20 and I am honored to have been invited back once more to participate on a Social Networking panel. The conference has attracted a formidable list of speakers. And here’s the about: “The SanFran MusicTech Summit will bring together [...]
I was invited to become an author for the web site, Music Think Tank, a site where musicians and industry professionals can air their views. I posted my thoughts on musicians and social media today. Regular readers of the Moose may have read an earlier version of the essay at my other blog Social Cache.
My Online Marketing Presentation About Radiohead from iaintait on Vimeo.
If every musician or music group could operate at this level, and every major record label could have had the brains and the courage to sign more bands like Radiohead, the industry would be huge and stable, unlike it is today.
For musicians, 1000 true fans may be the way to lift their sales and therefore their careers out of the flat plains of the Long Tail. Looking for information about 1000 fans, I entered ‘1000 friends’ as a search term in Google - it returned 12.2 million results. Here are the Google results.
In this [...]