If you’re struggling as a DIY musician getting little to no attention, no traction, and no audience growth what should you do?  Well, you need to reflect because chances are you might be sabotaging your own career in some way.  In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing, we look at five possible ways where you could be going wrong and give you strategies as to how to get things back on track.

Do you ever feel like giving up? It can be disheartening at times as a DIY musician given that your growth and progression is often slower than you’d like.  On today’s deep dive we look at how you might need to ‘reframe’ your outlook, especially when if you are comparing yourself with to a major artist.

Being a fan of a musician or artist can be a somewhat passive affair.  Ideally we want our fans to be engaged with ourselves and our music.  The more engaged they are, the more likely they will be to consume it and buy whatever else we are selling.  In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing, Sheldon and Greg look at ten easy ways to get your fans engaging and interacting with your music career. They are:

Streaming is dominating the musical landscape and singles seem to be the basis to build your musical career.  But where does that leave EPs?  Should you even bother looking at albums these days if people aren’t buying them?   In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing Deep Dive Sheldon and Greg look at all the options and offer some advice for the DIY musician on what to release and how often!

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Many of the marketing activities that musicians use to market their music can cost a fair amount of money. In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing, Sheldon and Greg give you an overview of some of the best FREE resources musicians can use to market their music.

Being a DIY Musician is a busy occupation or pastime, or at least it should be if you’re doing it right!. What happens when you can’t find the time to spend on all the aspects of being a DIY artist? What services should you be looking at taking on. In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing Deep Dive Sheldon and Greg look at the reasons why you should be ‘hiring in’ and who you should be looking at taking on.

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Musicians make a LOT of excuses as to why they don’t market their music.  In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing, Sheldon and Greg look at five reasons why musicians resist marketing with suggestions as to how to get around those issues.

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Festivals are a great opportunity for musicians to play in front of a new audience and establish yourself on the live circuit. However if you don’t have a booking agent and you don;t know who to contact at a festival how on earth do you get yourself on the bill?  In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing Deep Dive Sheldon and Greg explore the research steps you can take to find festivals to play, how to find the person to contact and how best to ask them for a slot.

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A lot of musicians think that email lists are as outdated as MySpace and Bebo but they couldn’t be more wrong! In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing, Sheldon and Greg look at why email marketing is so important for musicians, how to get one up if you haven;t got one and then how to get the best out of one.  It’s an essential episode.

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Apple recently released Apple Music For Artists giving musicians stats on their music streams.  We already have Spotify for Artists and have access to data from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and of course Facebook.  But what should musicians do with all this data and how can they use it to actually advance their career? . In today’s 30 Minute Music Marketing Deep Dive Sheldon and Greg give you three things you can action to help push your career forward.

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