How to Sell Merch and Music at Shows Without Being ‘Sales-y’
A quick and handy guide for making the most out of every merch table sales opportunity, and how to not let the myths of selling get in your way.
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6 Crowdfunding Projects that Should Be on Your Radar Right Now
We’ve scoured the internet for music- and audio-based projects in need of funding, to share 6 with you that we’re sure you’re going to love.
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Your Email List Is Still More Important Than Your Social Channels. Here’s Why
We just launched a new online course with Bandzoogle called How to Create a Killer Musician Website, and made it free. Part of the reason we made it free is because, to us, having a website to serve as a home base for all your musical things is necessary, and this is essential knowledge for any…
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5 Crowdfunding Journeys We’d Love You to Support Right Now
+ What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll help you reach them. Tell us what you’d like to achieve and learn more about Soundfly Mentorship here. If you’re looking to support the next great cause, there’s no shortage of places to donate your time and money. Whether you’re looking to help a friend…
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6 Fresh Tips for Selling Out “Old” Merch
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. If you’ve ever been on the road or toured for an extensive period of time, you know that #merchlife is real. Merch isn’t just an…
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8 Music Crowdfunding Campaigns We’ve Got Our Eyes on and Why
It’s all about the story. Fundraising experts will say this time and time again: “People fund people, not ideas.” In other words, when asking for money, what tends to get through to your audience the most is having a compelling and personal story, and a drive to succeed, not necessarily a great business idea. When it…
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8 Effective Ways to Get More Playlist Followers on Spotify
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. By Laura Buckler Spotify promises to make music “available to anyone.” This enormous platform is already streaming millions of songs made by talented artists, and as with any…
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Independent Radio Promotion Guide: How and Where to Find Radio Stations to Pitch
One of the biggest questions I get asked by artists concerning radio airplay is where to find lists of stations to contact. This is a misnomer. For the sake of argument, let’s get away from the idea of a borrowed list as being something that helps you. The reason we’re not going to focus on a…
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4 Reasons Why You Should Focus on Small Music Blogs… Not Big Ones
Everyone wants major press placements. I get it. There’s a lot of clout that comes with a feature on Alternative Press, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, etc. However, in their quest to shoot straight to the top, emerging bands are missing a vital component to career growth: small, indie blogs. There are a lot of reasons…
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A Complete SEO Checklist for Musicians
It’s not easy figuring out how to start optimizing your band’s presence in search engines. So we took all of our SEO (“search engine optimization”) advice and broke it down into one handy checklist. For details on how to do each of the things on the list, you can refer to Bandzoogle’s “Complete Guide to SEO for Musicians” eBook.…
