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Music Business: Memphis Music Foundation

Music Business: Memphis Music Foundation

What is your name and position?: Elizabeth Cawein, Communications Coordinator for Memphis Music Foundation

What is your band/or company name?: Memphis Music Foundation

What tips do you have to help musicians develop a social media following? : At the Memphis Music Foundation we work with artists through our core program, the Memphis Music Resource Center.

Membership is free, and from the time the artists join we conduct a full artist assessment with them to determine where they are, where they need to be and what the next steps are to get them there.

One of the big pieces of that puzzle for everyone we see is social media. Social tools like Facebook and Twitter are the best way for our artists to market themselves because they are free tools that allow an artist to reach their fans exactly where they are. My approach when working with an artist is to first teach them how to use Twitter, and then to teach them how to grow a Twitter following and move those people not only to Facebook, but to action. READ MORE »

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Music Business: EPiC Measures LLC

January 10, 2011 Music Business
Music Business: EPiC Measures LLC

So we asked readers about how they have used social media – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. – to promote music.  Here is the first response in the series:

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Music Business: Diego Brown Project

January 19, 2010 Music Business

What is your name and position?: Arash Afshar aka (Mr)Arash What is your band/or company name?: Diego Brown Project, Proof of Life Entertainment What tips do you have to help musicians develop a social media following? : Most musicians drag their feet and don’t want to be perceived as “selling out” by promoting themselves. In [...]

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