Musicians Cooler

Today I found a free ebook “How to Become Popular on YouTube without any Talent. I’m about half way done with this book and so far its full of good practical hands on knowledge. You can check out it here

I just found out about a new FREE resource for musicians called Gig Donkey. Here are some of the features: gig calendars for your website band rehearsal scheduler with reminders track your pay (or lack of) create set lists and print them for gigs manage contacts manage inventory fan e-list signups for your website or mySpace upload song lyrics shall we go on?? I’ve got [...]

If you are trying to find members for your band you can keep visiting sites like Craig’s List, or you can go there once, and subscribe to the site VIA RSS. It’s so cool. this video will show you how. For more tips an insights into starting a band check ou my book “Get your band [...]

Today we have the return of “multi-link Monday” We are talking www.artistdata.com is a great tool that allows you to put your schedule in one place and have it posted all over the Internet like myspace, facebook, sonicbids, fanbridge, and more. Check it out at www.artistdata.com (free with a more advance version for a small free). www.musformation.com [...]

You might remember Fantasy Island. Every week you would hear “Smiles everyone smiles.” Well I started the new year with Buddy Guy at the House of Blues in Cleveland (front row). Buddy is 72 years old (ish) and has won 5 grammys, and is in the rock and roll hall of fame. He has inspired [...]

When it comes to starting a band, you need to have a clear picture for those people you are recruiting. With this in mind, you should be able to explain the style of music you want to play. You should have at leas t 10 songs selected that you want to play. This way people [...]

It’s Thanksgiving and people are now in the mindset to buy stuff. People call tomorrow “Black Friday” and its one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Stores have crazy sales, and people line up at 3 in the morning to get in. It’s crazy. You can do the same thing. I wrote about this [...]

This is show 255 of the Musicians Cooler and originates at www.musicianscooler.com Today we got an email from Scott of the band “megaphone” and he talk about how he has created a new sites for band looking to get their music into the Rock Band Video game. You can find it at www.rockbandyourrockband.com Scott said, “I also [...]

I recently update a club’s website (www.northsideclub.com) after they came under new management. Now I did the old version of their website (you can see this on the from page of marketingmusician.com) but it was literally one of the first sites I ever did, and it looked like it. The owner was very cheap and [...]

Today we talk with Paul Bordenkircher the man behind Song Manager For Bento. This software helps you organize your music publication efforts. Every detail — key, tempo, genre, key, lyrics, and a general description of the track — can be maintained in SongManager for Bento. It also records when your songs were registered, whether it’s the [...]