Quick tip 28 Statistics
Lets face it, statistics are boring, but most of us musicians still stare at them all the time. You think you don’t? When was the last time you checked how many followers you have on Facebook? or how many likes…
February 11, 2015
Quick tip 25 Twitter
Posted at February 6, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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Twitter is just after introducing a group messaging. You can message up to 20 people at the same time, and no one else will see this. You can make powerful use of this in promotion. For example you could make…
Quick tip 24 Think long term
Posted at February 5, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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Pretty much anything you do in the music business is for the future. What you record today, will not be out in some cases until months from now. The bookings you do today are usually for shows anything up to…
How not to run a festival
Talk about going back in time… One of Ireland’s top music bloggers Nialler9 brought to my attention something the organisers of the Killarney Festival of Music & Food were planning to do. The festival have some large acts, like Jools…
Let the life get on the way
There are days no matter what you try to do, you feel like you are not getting anywhere. You have a good plan but everything seems to get on the way of the execution. And I am not talking about…
Quick tip 15 Support act
Posted at January 23, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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We all dream about being a support act for some big acts. We feel this would be our big break. Too often the reality is something very different. Remember that scene in “Crazy Heart” (great movie, that portrays the life…
Quick tip14 Instagram
Posted at January 22, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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This is quite effective little trick you can do to put text on your Instagram, Twitter or Facebook photos. Download an app called InstaQuote. There is a free version that leaves a small watermark on the picture, or paid version…
Quick tip 13 Facebook
So if you followed my last Facebook quick tip, you should have at least one video uploaded to your Facebook page (not profile, but page). Now here’s a small thing you can do to make it easier for people to…
The Right Time
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Let’s talk about “the right time”. I have heard this over and over again over the years, I even believed this my self for years. “I will release my album and it is going to be a great one, once…
Quick tip 12 Pick the right venue
Posted at January 20, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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You have new album coming out and you want to do an album launch show in your home town, or you just haven’t done show in your local scene for a while. So you are thinking to book a venue…
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