
Explore foundational music marketing principles and internet strategies, learn how to build your list and master social media posting, while addressing overwhelm for long-term success.
Bob Baker shares guerrilla music marketing and a DIY, fan-first approach that built a loyal fan base through local press and online resources to empower independent musicians.
Build and leverage your email list as your top music marketing asset by offering valuable tips, collecting names, and regularly following up to convert fans into paying customers.
Build comfort with marketing and sales by embracing practice, like learning an instrument, until technique becomes effortless and you achieve flow.
Leverage social platforms to grow your audience, but own your list by offering a VIP club with call-to-action incentives and free bonuses on your site.
Learn the octopus marketing formula, centering an owned artist website as the hub, with outposts like Facebook and YouTube and tools such as CD Baby and ReverbNation driving traffic back to your site.
Post regularly on social media, since followers rarely see every update. Share varied content: studio moments, concerts, influences, and genre resources to serve fans and reinforce your identity.
Embrace technology in music marketing by becoming a consumer of tools, reading blogs, and starting to write and publish your blog posts for podcasts or YouTube channels.
Discover how to turn one-way posts into engagement by asking fans questions, responding to comments, and using calls to action to co-create and vote on fan-driven choices.
Navigate music marketing overwhelm by finding your balance between social media activity and songwriting and practice, using available tools without distraction, and doing what you can with what you have.
Reframe marketing as strategic sharing with predisposed fans, focusing on authentic engagement, sharing music with those who resonate, and social media interactions rather than announcements or interruptions.
Take action to gain feedback, build a fan base, and align daily tasks with clear goals and a higher mission that inspires fans for long-term music success.
What's next? Continue your education with all of the free resources at Bob Baker's TheBuzzFactor.com website.
In this free course (with more than 4,000 students!), I give you an overview of the foundational music marketing principles every proactive musician should know. The course features 11 short videos. In them I cover:
I want to extend a big thanks to Jonathan Sexton and the Artist Growth team in Nashville for editing these video lessons and making them available.
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I can't wait to share these Music Marketing 101 principles with you!