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Summary: AMMMMMMAAAAAAZZZZZING!
Review: In all seriousness, this was a fast read (it's only 100 pages), but it was packed with great ideas and some neat articles too. (NOW is NOW is one of my fav new bands, but people who only like Britney Spears and Boy Bands probably haven't heard of them yet. Probably 'cause they Rock!)Some of the material was pretty generic and could work for promoting anything, but there were so many ideas I had never thought of before and I think I'm pretty good at this self-promotion game. Our shows (bars and parks -- park shows are a neat idea I got from this book) have been packed as of late, and our self-pressed CDs are moving a little faster than they were last week. Thanks to the Buzz team. You were a big help!
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Summary: Poorly Edited and Nothing New
Review: It looks like the publisher has a whole series of "Buzz Your..." titles, and it looks like minimal effort was put into customizing the content of this book for the promotion of digital music. Although there's a bit of general commonsense advice, this book is really just an ad for the buzzyour.com website. It's so poorly edited there are spelling errors, despite the authors admonition to spell-check every document you produce while promoting your product. There are even contradictory statements within one page! E.g., on the top of p. 22 he states "Fliers work, and they're economical." Later on the same page, he says, "...pass out free tapes or CDs... This works better than flyers, which most people will throw away or ignore." (Yes, he spelled it both "flier" and "flyer".) Save your $9 and find another book.
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Summary: A FEW THOUGHTS ON BUZZING MP3S
Review: Just a few thoughts. I wish this was a printed book, I don't like EBOOKS, but I can see why it works in this format The IDEAS are AWESOME! The TIPS were very helpful! I liked the stories and interviews! Very inspirational! I love knowing what I know now, and I feel like I'm doing a much better job BUZZING MP3s all over the web without creating ENEMIES!
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Summary: my fav chapters are
Review: The best chapters: Online Buzz Tips, The Buzz Plan, Brainstorming, Dos and Donts of Buzz, Top Publicists give advice, Other Musicians Got Buzz, Now is Now, and Rock Band Live's Fan Club! This is a great little eBook, and it taught me a lot! Not a page was wasted! I'm glad I found this before we actually started promoting our band! It saved us a lot of headaches!
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Summary: Nearly 100 pages of tips for bands
Review: This book is short, but packed with a lot of great tips and stories. The chapters include quick steps to getting started, bands that have made their names promoting via the web, tips for promoting offline and online, an interview with the director of Friends of Live, the fan club for the rock band Live, brainstorming better tips, and an entire section filled with top publicists tips. Although some of it seemed to be common sense, there was some awesome ideas in this book. My only complaint was a lack of rap musicians examples, but that could be fixed in the next edition. Check it out ASAP!
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Summary: Solid Advice
Review: This book, as all of the "Buzz Your" books do, starts with a rehasing of Seth Godin & Malcom Gladwell. If you're familiar with their works, much of this book will be familiar to you. If it's not familiar to you, Seth Godin & Malcom Gladwell's advice is solid and 'cutting edge' advertising. While I'd prefer to go back to the original, the material here is certainly well worth reviewing. The remainder of this book is solid advice on what to do to "Buzz" your music. A checklist of sorts, if you're serious about promoting your music, this ebook is worth the download. Why? Because you're bound to forget, or not think of one or two or a dozen of the items on this list. So, while you're reading it you may react with a sort of "duh! that's obvious" or "oh, I never thought of that." Either way, you'll benefit because odds are you haven't actually *done* all of the things in this ebook.
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Summary: Buzz Your MP3 reviewed by Mike T of NJ
Review: This is a nice little book. Maybe a little too short, but it has all these chapters: what buzz is, tips for promoting offline and online, an interview with Friends of Live the offical fan club for Live, brainstorming better (some tricks and tips), rules for promoting online and the best web promotion tricks, quick steps to starting your promotions, stories about bands that have made their names promoting via the web, a little story about the band nowisnow, and something from these NY publicists which felt like it was more for books but really worked for music, too. I actually met the author once, and he's a pretty good guy. Probably can't play a guitar to save his life, but he knows how to promote stuff. Seriously. He started PR work when he was in high school and we all were screwing around with metal mag! He's worked for publishers and authors (and bands) and he designs cool websites and stuff like that. I would have hired him to promote my music if he wasn't so expensive but now I have his book! Ha! The author sometimes posts free PR tips on his website and the last time I checked, one of them was about writing free articles to promote your music...
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Summary: Independents Unite
Review: This is surely a book for every independent artist who chooses not to accept the path of going through established labels to get thier music out there.
There are some GREAT ideas in this book which I found incredibly useful to jump start my career. I always hated the channels I had to go through just to get my music heard by the masses. With the help of this book, I no longer have to. Thanks, Brian!
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Summary: a guide to promoting for beginners
Review: This was a very well done guide to promoting music. My son has a band that he's trying to promote and I bought this ebook for him last week. He was very excited about the ideas in this book and he's trying some of them as I write this. He's already arranged two gigs that he's very happy about. I highly recommend this guide!
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Summary: The best I've read!
Review: To keep it short and sweet, this is one of the best books on promoting any sort of service or product that I've ever read. I cannot recommend this ebook enough!
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