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On this site you will find more than one gigabyte of selected documents containing inspiration and advice on self-marketing for your success as a musician. There are also more than three hours of realistic and practical business information for musicians in videos alone. Simply watch them online, listen to them, take the MP3 and PDF files on tour with you (
) or read the transcripts online to get marketing tips from professionals for your musical project.
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Video: How to Establish Your Band in the International Music Business
Or: How to sell 300.000 copies of your debut album
Here is the Bandologie interview with Mikel and Noah of the indie rock band The Airborne Toxic Event on “How to Establish Your Band in the International Music Business.” These musicians sold 300,000 copies of their first album release. In our conversation you will learn about plenty of useful ideas and get an understanding of how Noah and Mikel's band sold so many records:
33:55 minutes | transcript of 7,746 words
- Read the transcript of this interview
MP3 Download this interview as an MP3 file for your mobile phone or your MP3 player: MP3 version (right mouse click, “Save as”) PDF Download this interview as a PDF file for your mobile ebook reader: PDF version (right mouse click, “Save as”)
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/airborne
Business talk with Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails
40:44 minutes
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/trent
Bob Ezrin: “This is About Art”
One of the world’s most successful music producers speaks to the next generation of music creators.
You now have a chance to learn from one of the best: Bob Ezrin produced records such as the legendary Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, Alice Cooper’s mindblowing “School’s Out”, KISS’ amazing “Destroyer”, Peter Gabriel, Deftones, Jane’s Addiction, 30 Seconds to Mars and various other great artists. Check out his speech:
59:49 minutes | transcript of 10,295 words
- See all 6 Videos and the transcript of this speech
- Jump directly to part 02
“Serving Your Fans—the Trent Reznor Case Study”
from American business expert Mike Masnick
How to make $750,000 within 2 days of album sales as a musician:
15:46 minutes
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/mike
Video: “Can We Make the Music Industry Cool Again?”
Nils Kolonko, author of Bandologie, gives the keynote presentation at Popkomm, Germany's biggest music fair. For subtitles click the CC icon.
17:48 minutes | transcript of 2,563 words
- Read the transcript of this speech
MP3 Download this speech as an MP3 file for your mobile phone or your MP3 player: MP3 version (right mouse click, “Save as”)
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/nils-popkomm
Video: Billy Corgan From The Smashing Pumpkins Shares His Insights on the Music Industry
Interview about the music industry with Tony Wilson (former label owner, Factory Records) and Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins. This one will blow your mind. It gets stunning from 08:00 on. This interview may contain the most “Smashing” insights into the music industry that you'll find on the Internet.
40:04 minutes
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/billy
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~ Derek Sivers Section ~
Derek is a musical entrepreneur, musician and simply a great guy. If you want to know more about him and his work, check out sivers.org.
PDF Here you can download the ebook “How to Call Attention to Your Music” by Derek Sivers (right mouse click, “Save as”). Thank you Derek for sharing this with musicians around the world so openly.
Uncommon Sense–video series
Press play once to see eight videos about entrepreneurship from a very creative and successful guy. In this video series Derek Sivers shares his learning's from over ten years of his personal experiences. Highly recommended. Enjoy.
Anything you want–video series
A great video series by Derek Sivers. Here's my favorite, “If it's not a hit, switch!” The video deals with the issue of perseverance as a musician.
Here are all seven video of the series:
Shortcut: www.bandologie.com/derek
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Note: I am working on this. February 27, 2012.
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