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The Ultimate Guide to Selling CDs, Vinyl and Merch on Your Own Website

The Ultimate Guide to Selling CDs, Vinyl and Merch on Your Own Website
Music Blogging | Music Business | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing | Selling CDs

Your band's website is the headquarters of your online presence. Set it up to sell CDs, vinyl and merch that your fans will love!

Selling CDs and merch at your shows

Selling CDs and merch at your shows
Music Business | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing | Selling CDs

Whether you’re a rising local artist or an international touring musician, selling merchandise at shows can be a significant revenue stream and perfect opportunity to engage directly with your fans. Here are some tried-and-true tips to boost your sales during live shows.

7 Effective Ways to Rock Your CD Sales

7 Effective Ways to Rock Your CD Sales
Music Business | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing | Selling CDs

As an independent musician, you know a tangible CD carries with it a sense of authenticity, a connection to your artistry that digital formats can't fully capture. It's the physical proof that you actually did it; you recorded your songs! The next thing to so is sell them to your fans. Here are 7 effective outlets to do so.

Shine on Promo

Shine on Promo
Music Business | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing | Radio Promotion

Hearing your song on the radio is something that most artists dream of at some point. Shine on Promo is a radio promotion company that helps independent artists promote their singles, EPs, and albums to College and Specialty stations and has secured several #1 spots for their clients on the coveted NACC chart. We spoke with Robb Haagsman about how to do a proper radio campaign, how long it takes, if radio is even relevant anymore and how radio coincides with touring.

Featured Artist: Basic Printer

Featured Artist: Basic Printer
Featured Artist | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing

Basic Printer features driving synth runs, whimsical hooks, and quirky samples - a sound that is anything but basic. We chatted with Jesse from Basic Printer about synthesizers, authenticity, social media and email marketing.

Q & A With Our Mastering Engineer

Q & A With Our Mastering Engineer
Atomic Disc | Music Career | Recording Studio | Vinyl

Interview with Tom - our chief mastering engineer about what mastering really is, mastering by a human vs. computerized algorithms, how to communicate clearly with your mastering engineer and much more...

Why Does It Take So Long To Make Vinyl?

Why Does It Take So Long To Make Vinyl?
Atomic Disc | Music Business | Music Promotion & Marketing | Selling CDs | Vinyl

The production times of vinyl seem to get longer and longer. Why is that? Will it ever get better? What should you do while waiting for your vinyl to be ready?

How To Succeed After You Create

How To Succeed After You Create
Music Promotion & Marketing | Podcast

We had the great honor of talking with Corrin Campbell, co-founder of Indepreneur about the ins and outs of marketing your music. Corrin is a fabulous artist in her own right. She has successfully created three companies in her career and in this podcasts she talks about Indepreneur, the #1 online resource for self-marketing, independent artists who want to build a sustainable revenue model around their artistic passion.

Raster vs. Vector Graphics: What's the Difference?

Raster vs. Vector Graphics: What's the Difference?
Creating Graphics | Infographic | Raster | Resolution | Vector

Similarly to music, the world of design is vast. Raster? Vector? What are these strange words? What does it all mean?! As musicians we recognize the importance of strong design and the role it plays in complementing our work - from great album artwork, to T-shirts and all the great little tidbits your fans gobble up at your merch tables. 

14 ways to advance your music career from the comforts of your home

14 ways to advance your music career from the comforts of your home
Music Business | Music Career | Music Promotion & Marketing

A lot of what it takes to have a successful music career can be accomplished from the comforts of your own couch, wearing your pajamas. This article outlines 14 things you could do right now!