Online Music Marketing

René Pickhardt on May 15th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: After a series of successes of the German pirate party in elections there came up a big discussion on the German web about copyright in the publishing industry. see for example: we are the creators we are the citizens and I am the bad girl even new collecting companies [...]

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René Pickhardt on March 13th, 2012

The following info graphic for businesses was released by Chris Brogan and demonstrates quite well why musicians should get on Google Plus and how to use it. It is released under a creative commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Very good work!

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René Pickhardt on February 19th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recently I received an email from a musicians that wishes to stay unnamed telling me that many people out there love his music but it just hasn’t spread too far. His basic question is how can his band reach more people on the web especially with regard to a new [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Filip Stilin is the frontman of House on Mars a promesing young croation band (check out their music on bandcamp). He loves music and online marketing so he read my blog and sent me and email with a couple of interesting observations and questions. I got his permission to [...]

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René Pickhardt on January 13th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Doing charity is of course always a good way of doing marketing. But I think the important rule here is that it really has to be honest and come from the hart and not just be ment to be a marketing campaign. I just realized this after three bands [...]

Continue reading about Ebay auction by Van canto, Ordan Ogen and In Legend for charity.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: UPDATE: (Feb. 8th. 2012) the originial love language video is now linked under the official look for love Video from DJ Sammy! Glad to see that and glad to see that protest on the web seems to be heared. Now I can finally completely enjoy DJ sammy’s work without [...]

Continue reading about Look for love video: Did DJ Sammy steel the video story from jubilees Love Language video? Watch both clips!

René Pickhardt on January 3rd, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In an earlier post I have explained the need for a Facebook streaming app that has to be enhanced with some features in order to create viral word of mouth effects. Together with Yann Leretaille and Robert Naumann we programmed the facebook API and developed such an app for [...]

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René Pickhardt on November 10th, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: After building the In legend Youtube DVD I was able to convince my band mates that it is quite useful to use Youtube ads in order to reach new fans and promote our new videos. I have to say that I am not very experienced about youtube ad marketing [...]

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René Pickhardt on October 28th, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recently I was rather quiet in my blog. Currently I am writing my first research paper for SIGMOD which takes 90% of my resources. In my very limited time I had the chance to work on a very cool web project about which I want to share some insights [...]

Continue reading about First Youtube DVD online for Ballads n Bullets by In Legend

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In my German article on Facebook Marketing for Bands I mentioned that part of your good online marketing (not only on Facebook) is the communication with your fans. Especially answering fanmail and answering their questions is important. One comment on my article said that caring about all fans takes [...]

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