8 No-BS tips to improve your music career dramatically
All musicians have this one question: how to improve your music career? How, really when the music industry is one of the most congested industries there is today. There’s greater competition among music acts that being talented doesn’t guarantee you the big success that you are hoping for. There have been a lot of undiscovered […]
6 Things Musicians Should Do to Achieve Music Career Success
How do you break through the clutter and achieve music career success when everyone’s making music including your 5-year-old nephew? If you’re an up-and-coming musician, here are the things you should do to level up your music career this year: #1 SINGLES, NOT ALBUMS It’s very difficult to gain a fan base by overloading them with […]
Music Career Advice: How to Stay Creative
Most of the time, we look for music career advice and techniques on how to improve our chances of success but we forget that what’s more important is how to create really great, inspired music. There will be days when you won’t have a single drop of creativity left in our system. Sometimes, these days […]
5 WAYS YOU UNCONSCIOUSLY SABOTAGE YOUR MUSIC CAREER
There are so many talented musicians who stop making music because they’re not able to launch their music career or they’re stuck in a career plateau. It’s such a waste because most of them really have a strong potential to become big, yet they just don’t have any career map. And, most of all, many […]
Music Career Tips if You Want to Level Up
If you want a music career that’s more than just weekend gigs at your local bar, then you gotta do the hustle and really treat this as your life’s calling. The brilliant rapper Kellee Maize wrote a list of tips on Huffington Post on how she “made it” in music. Here are the most important points from […]
5 New years resolutions that will fire up your music career in 2015
It’s 2015! And although you’ve failed to fulfill some of your resolutions last year (and the years before that), I’m sure you’ve accomplished some of the things on your list, too. The start of the New Year is a great time to review what you’ve become and what you’ve done so far and plan your […]
Types of people to avoid in your music career
After years of helping indie musicians, we’ve seen and heard how when they’re getting started in their music career they’re being ripped off by different people- from managers to event organizers to publishers and all other sorts of sleazy creatures. It shouldn’t take years to sharpen our senses when it comes to detecting leeches. All you […]
Shortcuts to Music Career Success
Those who say that there are no shortcuts to success either lack career know-how or are simply lying. Of course there is a shortcut to everything and that includes your music career. Instead of focusing on talent alone, think of how you can achieve big leaps in your career so that it won’t take you […]
Practical Tips on Balancing Your Music Career with Everything Else
“Is it possible to raise a family well, maintain a high-paying job and have a career in music?” “Of course!” says many struggling juggling artists. But it is not for the weak. It means less sleep, less time with the kids and a lot of HARD WORK. It means knowing which ball to catch and […]
17 Famous Martin Atkins Quotes on Music Career
Martin Atkins is a former drummer of PiL, Pigface, Ministry, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails and more. He’s also an accomplished entrepreneur and a bad-ass DIY music marketing guru. Atkins has taught at Columbia College in Chicago where he instructed the course “The Business of Touring”. Atkins has written the book Tour:Smart which he calls “the first real book on […]