An Indie Musician's Guide to World Domination

Artists and music industry professionals are busy people. Planning the logistics of touring; making complex business decisions; maintaining inventories and designing products; all these things take time. Oh yeah – and top-selling albums don’t write or record themselves. At least, not yet. (For a scary peek into the possible future of music composition, follow this link.)

Nowadays, artists are also expected to build and maintain a relationship with their fans through their websites, social media accounts and other online forums. The trouble is, building a following on ONE website takes a lot of time and effort; maintaining vibrant communities in a dozen different places requires full-time attention. Many musicians are discouraged and frustrated by the sheer amount of time they spend in front of their computers.

Is this why we wanted to be musicians? To spend hours updating tour schedules, posting status updates and photos on every social network that pops up?

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There’s been a lot of lip service paid in the last couple of years to the alleged “downfall” of the music industry. I get asked about it all the time in interviews – how we, as an independent band, view the rocky present and cloudy future of the biz. I thought some of you might be interested in a bit of an insider’s perspective on the situation… at least, the situation as it seems from where I stand.

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