These days, social media is one of the most important aspects of modern marketing yet many musicians lack all important social media strategy and marketing knowledge. This guide provides useful tips to help grow your audience and fanbase with social media.
Being a small and emerging artist often necessitates doing things ‘on a budget’, so make sure you have at least a rough plan on how you will allocate your money. But when doing so, it’s important to make realistic assessments; there’s nothing worse than running out of money and having to busk your way out of the poverty line. Setting a budget for touring can be invariably difficult, with many unanticipated expenses cropping up along the way…
It’s no secret that touring can be one of the main highlights of being a musician. However, DIY touring is fraught with a number of potential difficulties – many of which are avoidable when taking the right precautions. There is little in life that can truly compare to the excitement you feel when pulling into a new city, knowing you have a show to play there that evening. Should this be your first venture into life on the road, you’re likely to have a number of questions about how it all works. Touring is what YOU make of it, and should not be something you approach tepidly.
To me and quite a few others who make it tend to feel it is an other language. Sounds that resonate in basically the same way with our emotions, if not more intensely, than that of just regular chit chat. Music tends to inspire thoughts, emotions and dancing, even if people aren’t too sure where some of the ridiculous moves come from. That undeniable urge to dance comes from those phat beats, thumping bass and/or face melting riffage. This language takes over those who enjoy it, it immerses us, awakens us and satisfies our mental AND physical health.