Tag: music industry

  • How Being Busy 24/7 Can Actually Hurt Your Career

    How Being Busy 24/7 Can Actually Hurt Your Career

    + 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. Mark Cuban has this terrifying saying that I once heard him throw at a budding entrepreneur on Shark Tank: “Work like there is someone working 24 hours…

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  • 11 Music Conferences to Keep Your Eye on in 2018

    11 Music Conferences to Keep Your Eye on in 2018

    One of the coolest things about this industry of ours is all of the incredible and unique connections you can make with others who have also chosen to pursue their passions and create careers out of their love of music. The opportunity to network is all around you — at local shows, at in-person meetups,…

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  • An Examination of the Songwriter and Music Publisher Relationship

    An Examination of the Songwriter and Music Publisher Relationship

    + 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. We will now examine the music publisher and its exclusive publishing agreement with a songwriter. In addition to the standard exclusive publishing agreement explored below, there are…

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  • From Discs to Digital: The Odd History of Music Formats

    From Discs to Digital: The Odd History of Music Formats

    Physical formats have only been around since the 1870s — but in that relatively short amount of time, we’ve managed to come up with some pretty bizarre ways to release music. Each format on this list had its moment of usefulness. But looking back might make you ask “what were we thinking?” Regardless of how obsolete…

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  • How to Overcome the Obstacles of Launching Your Music Career

    How to Overcome the Obstacles of Launching Your Music Career

    It can be challenging when you decide to launch your music career, so get a jumpstart with these tips and words of wisdom.

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  • How to Diversify Your Music Income While Maintaining Your Sanity

    How to Diversify Your Music Income While Maintaining Your Sanity

    If you plan on making a living from your music, then you plan on being an entrepreneur. While many DIY musicians envision themselves more like a freelancer, focused on bringing in income from one main skill set, an entrepreneur creates multiple streams of income in order to ensure that there’s always money coming in, even…

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  • 4 Reasons Why You Should Focus on Small Music Blogs… Not Big Ones

    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

    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.…

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  • Examining Mental Health in the Music Industry: 5 Steps to Taking Care of Yourself

    Examining Mental Health in the Music Industry: 5 Steps to Taking Care of Yourself

    + 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. There is absolutely nothing in this world more important than your mental health. In this industry, especially, so many of us are hard-wired to take care of…

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  • Why Streaming Playlists Will Never Kill the Album Format

    Why Streaming Playlists Will Never Kill the Album Format

    + 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. It’s true. The album might be dead. Or at least the album as we once knew it is dead. Before you start throwing all your record sleeves…

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