Musicians Cooler Podcasts

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For the person who needs more gigs, more fans, more CD sales for their band, we recommend the Musicians Cooler. Featuring advice on marketing, resources, managing your band, using the Internet, promotion, and everything else "band related." Primary Format : Indie Language : English Also Listed as: City : Akron State/Province : OH Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Musicians Cooler Podcasts Methings.com listings of Musicians Cooler Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Musicians Cooler Interactive Concerts Breed Intimacy This is show 255 of the Musicians Cooler and originates at www.musicianscooler.com Today we got an email from Scott of the band “megaphone” and he talk about how he has created a new sites for band looking to get their music into the Rock Band Video game. You can find it at www.rockbandyourrockband.com Scott said, “I also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Focus on Your Strengths I recently update a club’s website (www.northsideclub.com) after they came under new management. Now I did the old version of their website (you can see this on the from page of marketingmusician.com) but it was literally one of the first sites I ever did, and it looked like it. The owner was very cheap and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Song Manager For Bento Today we talk with Paul Bordenkircher the man behind Song Manager For Bento. This software helps you organize your music publication efforts. Every detail — key, tempo, genre, key, lyrics, and a general description of the track — can be maintained in SongManager for Bento. It also records when your songs were registered, whether it’s the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inexpensive, Creative, Video Insights Today we chat again with George Hrab. I saw some very cool, very creative videos that George has produced on pretty much a “Zero budget.” Brain Crack Don’t let Brain Crack stop you from doing projects. What is Brain Crack? You have an idea in your head. You say, “As soon as I get ___ or do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Baker Book Secrets Work For Music Too! (REPOST) Bob “the buzz Factor” Baker has done it again. First of all he is diversifying his audience. He is the Godfather of Music marketing, and now is taking the success he has experienced in books and teaching other authors how to be successful with his new book “55 Ways to Promote Your Book on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is MySpace Dead? This show originates at www.musicianscooler.com Adam Hoek Twitter Band Adam Hoek is using Twitter to share his music. He has set up the Adam Hook Twitter Band. A place where musicians can work together to share tracks and build songs together. Find him on twitter at www.twitter.com/adamhoek and www.adamhoek.com My apologies for calling Adam “Andrew” in the episodes. Jimmy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of the Starving Artist Today we have a chat with Miata Edoga the President of Abundance Bound a great website that teaches artist how to manage their money. It’s got great free resources, as well as many different packages and best of all Payment plans to make them all affordable. Unlike other “financial gurus” who provide a “one size [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promoting Your Band with Facebook and Twitter Today we are thrilled to have another segment with George Hrab and this time George is talking about how he uses Twitter and Facebook. George is using Facebook as an area for “Exclusive content” and when it comes to twitter he has a great plan. Deliver great content that is occasionally mixed in with a plug [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adding RSS to My Band’s Website Paul Bordenkircher is looking for beta testers for his new software for songwriters at www.songmanagerforbento.com (paul “at” mesassand “dot” com to get involved). Dave King (www.davekingmusic.com) wants to add RSS to his “normal” (non blog) based website. He tried using Listgarden, but it still had issues with Yahoo!. Any ideas Dave? Answer: To diagnose an rss feed check [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portable MySpace Player Today we talk about how to make a link to launch your myspace player. This question is from Kyle of www.myspace.com/weareaffinity To do this go to your myspace page. Click on the link in the upper right hand corner of the player that says “pop out player” A window will appear. Highlight and copy the link at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales From the Road with George Hrab (repost) Today we learn great lessons about gigging from George Hrab (this is actually taken from his “Geologic Podcast from July 23rd). This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com George (www.georgehrab.com) talks about a gig he did (as a drummer/percussionist) with a harpist doing jazz. In this hilarious tale we learn: Always get directions to the gig, and verify them before [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales From The Road with George Hrab Today we learn great lessons about gigging from George Hrab (this is actually taken from his “Geologic Podcast from July 23rd). This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com George (www.georgehrab.com) talks about a gig he did (as a drummer/percussionist) with a harpist doing jazz. In this helarious tale we learn: Always get directions to the gig, and verify them before [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website United Breaks Guitars This show originates at www.musicianscooler.com Today I talk about a video that has has 2,565,069 in a WEEK. With this in mind, you should ALWAYS be on your best behavior as this one musician is now getting NATIONAL attention with his complaint about how  an airline broke his Taylor guitar.  For more information check out www.davecarollmusic.com With [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website His Membership Site is Paying the Rent Today we are talking with Matthew Ebel about his strategy to launch a Membership site to bring in revenue between CD releases.  I had originally talked about this strategy back in April of 2007 and Matthew has been doing this for a while now. He has multiple packages set up from everything from a new live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Strategies II Today we continue looking into what it’s like to run a Christian band. We talk with Scott Walton who explains what it was like to be in a Christian band, but there are some down sides (like having people presume that you will ALWAYS play for free. What Does Dave Look Like? After receiving some constructive criticism [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promoting Your Promotion Promoting Your Band Via Facebook One way to communicate with your fans is by creating a fan page. This is near the bottom of the page with advertisements. Fan pages you can communicate with an unlimited number of fans. If you make a group there is a limit (so pages is better than groups). Promoting Your Promotion If [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paypal Micropayments increase profits by 23% Paypal Micropayments I’ve known about paypal micropayments for a while, but when I first heard about it, I didn’t think you could switch from an “old” paypal account to a new micropayment. Now you can. What’s the difference? Standard Paypal Fees PayPal charged a minimum transaction fee of 30 cents plus 2.9%. Paypal Micropayment Fees The Mircopayment option raises the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories Sell More Music Today’s music marketing lesson comes from the band Casting Crowns. I went to their concert (not knowing who they were), and ended up buying their latest (third) cd. I also received a free book written by the lead singer. Well its been a year, and today I cracked the book. It has insanely personal stories about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should I list My Music At This Site? Today we start a conversation about what to look for when you see a site that wants you to list your music at their site. This show originates from www.musicianscooler.com Tales From the Road - Stage Thud Special tales from the road courtesy of Big Al and Mike at www.projectstudionetwork.com Strategies for Listing Your Band  at Music Sites There are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CD Production on the Cheap Kinaki,vs  LuLu, vs  Vervante Reviewed Sean G of http://www.learntodjfast.com/ had a great post about the differences between Kunaki, LuLu, and Vervante. In his example he was shipping for a full color DVD printing, DVD case, full color 1 panel insert, full cover case, cellophane wrapping, upc barcode (for Amazon), 24 hour turnaround from order to manufacturing. And [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website