6 Different Ways To Book A Tour Date (Even In Cities You've Never Been To)

How would things change if you could book great gigs in great cities everywhere?

If you could snatch up better venues in less time?

And if you could curse a lot less while doing it?

It’s possible.  I’ll show you 6 ways that any independent artist can use.

But first let me tell you a little about 23 year old Brandon (me) and how he (I) learned an important lesson in efficiency and humility.

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Are You Getting The Most From Your Current Fans?

It’s deliciously tempting to ignore everything and obsess about getting more fans. 
 
It’s natural to want more fans.  It’s not even a bad thing.
 
But what if you aren’t getting the most out of your current fans?  Is getting more fans going help?
 
It’s easy to think that more is the answer.  We do a simple math equation…

• More fans = more people to sell to
• More fans = more people to fill a venue (and venue owners like that)

But adding more fans isn’t always the answer.  

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The Email That Will Get You Access To Anyone

Somebody always has something that you want.

• Better distribution methods
• A particular person’s contact info
• Knowledge you want to have in your brain
• Etc
• Etc
• Etc

It’s just a matter of getting access to it. For me and lots of other independent artists, emails are the most efficient way to go about this, and this one email in particular has opened a lot of doors. 

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3 Areas of Networking That Successful Artists Master

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

You’ve heard this worn out cliché before.

Now, I won’t disagree (that much) with it, but I will say that we give waaaay too much credence to the last half of the phrase and exactly zero to the first half.

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6 Things You'll Learn Recording An Album That Nobody Will Tell You

The studio. Such a glamorous and misunderstood beast.

You’ve googled the crap out of it…

“recording an album”

“what to bring to the studio,”

“how to prepare for the studio,”

“what Instagram filters take the best pretentious studio shots?”

“do craft beers clog up my vocal chords?”

 …and you’re about as read up on it as could be.

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Impractical Advice For A Better Music Career

Get to the top through hard work and determination. I guess that’s one way. But what if you didn’t have to?

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Haggle Your Way to the Stage: 4 things to know when negotiating with venues

Like citizens of a lot of developed countries, it’s not engrained in us to haggle.  The price posted is the price paid.  But my trip to Hawaii – while not the traditional negotiating experience – opened my eyes and I began to look at the world through hagglers’ eyes.

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