Are you a reader?
Check out these insightful books filled with knowledge, tips and tricks to fire your music marketing off with a bang!
Each one of our picks comes at music marketing from a fresh angle with ideas and opinions from respected writers.
So grab a coffee, sit back and enjoy!
Social Media Promotion For Musicians – Bobby Owsinski
Third Edition: The Manual For Marketing Yourself, Your Band, And Your Music Online
Learn how to efficiently use your online presence to promote your band, your music or yourself with the totally revised Third Edition of Social Media Promotion For Musicians.
The updated book reveals the latest insider tips on how to use both the most popular social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok in conjunction with your website and mailing list to gain more fans, followers, views and streams.
If you’re an artist, band, engineer, producer or songwriter, Social Media Promotion For Musicians Third Edition proves the newest techniques and strategies to increase your online and streaming presence without taking away precious time from making music.
This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts – Ray D. Waddell
The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show.
Working with venues, personnel, booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public relations, financial management, and much more are covered in this indispensable one-volume resource.
And the ideas and techniques explained here can be used for every type of concert promotion, including college shows, artist showcases, club gigs, as well as major events handled by local promoters, nationwide promoters, and worldwide promoters.
Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail – Mike King
(Berklee Press). Berklee expert speaks on how to market and distribute your songs and group. Sell more music! Learn the most effective marketing strategies available to musicians, leveraging the important changes and opportunities that the digital age has brought to music marketing. This multifaceted and integrated approach will help you to develop an effective worldwide marketing strategy. Step by step, you will develop an active marketing plan and timeline tailored to your unique strengths and budget. You will learn to time your marketing campaign effectively, publicize your music to traditional print outlets and emerging online opportunities, understand the current opportunities for online, satellite, and terrestrial radio play as well as navigate various retail and distribution options, both at brick-and-mortar and online options, such as iTunes, Rhapsody, and other services.
Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook: 201 Self-Promotion Ideas for Songwriters, Musicians & Bands on a Budget (Revised & Updated) – Bob Baker
The classic guide to independent music promotion (revised and updated 2013). With this manual, you’ll discover that music marketing doesn’t have to be expensive or flashy to be effective. Whether you’re promoting a fast-growing indie band, record label or solo act from your basement, the Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook gives you the tools you need to get the most out of your music career.
The Live Music Business – Andy Reynolds
The Live Music Business: Management and Production of Concerts and Festivals, Third Edition, shines a light on the enigmatic live music business, offering a wealth of inside advice and trade secrets to artists and bands looking to make a living in the industry. Previously published as The Tour Book, this new edition has been extensively revised, reorganised, and updated to reflect today’s music industry.
FVMusicBlog January 2023
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