Being a musician means that you’re an entrepreneurial small-business.

Knowing how to balance expenditures, increase sales, build strategic relationships, and hire employees / associates (band members, agents, managers, labels, etc.) requires a significant amount of time, knowledge and resources.

The most fundamental challenge Music Talent (musicians, bands, singers, songwriters) face is DIFFERENTIATING THEIR MARKETING.

Specifically, How Do You Stand Out Above The Crowd?

TRY THE FOLLOWING:

View your music / look / theme as a BRAND.

Whether you like it or not – you must promote and distribute your BRAND via as many marketing mediums as possible (for as little investment cost) as you can budget.

Rule of Thumb: If you can think of 3 other bands / artists that have a very similar sound, look and brand appeal as you do – ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE.
You must view your audience members / customers (new or established) as if they are one MySpace / Twitter click away from following another group, and diverting their attention (and MOST IMPORTANTLY) disposable income to that other group.

When thinking about your music, your look and your theme – think different – while still being true to who you are.

Try bouncing your overall “brand” off of some new folks who have never heard or seen you before.

1) Get a feeling of the age range that is most receptive to your music / brand.

2) Understand the customers buying decision (Why did they come to my show?, How much were they willing to pay to see me perform? How much did they spend on average on my merchandise, music, etc.?

3) Keep a journal or Excel (computer) spreadsheet of these answers. Try different things, mix up your show / merchandise price point (more on this later).

4) Fundamentally, understand WHO LIKES YOU, WHO DOESN’T, and WHY.

Once you more fully get the following, you’ll be quickly on your way to increasing your fan-base, attracting attention from industry pros, and making more money.

Learning how to produce music is something that is fun and allows you to be creative, it’s frees the mind, body and soul and allows your emotions to come out in the creation of music. Producing music is always a challenge to someone who hasn’t produced music before but don’t feel pushed back because your friends can already make hot music, you can too and I have some information that will get you making music as soon as you want.

I find the best way of learning something is by watching someone else do it so if you had a mentor, or someone to guide you through problems of how to work with the music software things would move a lot smoother. I have found a website that does just that and truly, the results are amazing. Learning how to produce music within a few weeks and possibly finding a career in it in the near future is a lot of new producers dreams and is now possible.

Start today producing music today – Fruity Loops is the most used music production software, it is very user friendly and allows you to add many Plugin’s to it like advanced music programs, it allows you to mix your music and export them at industry standard. Truly a great tool to sound just as good as the big producers out there and a great way to enter the music industry, this is the beginning and hopefully I will see you reach the stars.

Those of us who like to do aerobics would be bored if
it were not for Aerobic Music. Fortunately today there
are many sites on the internet that allow us to do an
Aerobic Music Download.

There are the free download sites and of course there
are many Membership sites. You can download tapes you
can burn Music on a CD or you can order Videos. Music
is very popular and you soon learn very competitive.
For a while with Napster it was very controversial.

What kind of aerobic music download should you do? Well
that really depends on what you do with tempo and pace.
But there on one thing most everyone agrees on it must
be a 32 beat format. You have to be careful because
sometimes you may be sold a different beat that will
not work as well.

The other thing is what will be your use of the Aerobic
Music Download. Remember that Aerobic covers a wide
range of aerobic exercise, from class aerobics in a
gym, to swimming, water aerobics, pumping iron or
jogging or walking to name a few. I like to walk and
you probably see a bunch of us jogging or walking with
headphones on. Music makes the workout enjoyable and
also it does not seem so long.

What that tells you about aerobic music is that it is
most of the time enjoyable and motivating. You want it
to be that. Some say they like their aerobic music
download must to be “hot”. If you go to a gym you will
notice that the instructor usually start with a slow
tempo and then builds it up so that by the end it is
“hot”.

So what this means is when you do an aerobic music
download first make it what ever you like, choose your
tempo, and enjoy your workout. It can be any style of
music, Jazz, Country, Latino, etc..

On this site we provide you with internet links where
you can get aerobic information and where to do an
aerobic music download.

The legendary Gene Simmons, the face of the band Kiss is as famous today as he was in the 70s. The oversized costumes and cartoon-horror movie make up of the band was a rage and still sends crazed fans into a frenzy! Ear splitting amplified music, songs praising sex and Gene Simmons with his fire spitting and tongue sticking on-stage persona gave birth to a merchandising that is surprisingly a multi-million business venture. No doubt then youngsters still look for a Gene Simmons Make up for parties and Halloween!

Some simple steps to a Gene Simmons make up for rocking the party may be handy:

• Scour your closet for duds that are anywhere near the Bass God. Any black pants would be good.

• Apply clown make up or the white paint for make up. Use a sponge for applying to your face and to smoothen the paint.

• Use a black eye liner to draw the outline of the mask. Various websites can give you ideas on the Kiss masks and make up. Any number of fan websites can help you here.

• Fill in these outlines with black paint or make up.

• Draw an upside down triangle on your fore head using the eye liner, keeping the base at your hairline and the tip almost halfway down your forehead.

• Fill in the triangle with black paint or make up.

• If you have thick hair, tousle them for the Gene Simmons look or simply get a wig.

• Layer cut the hair or the wig and provide body to it with a hairspray!

These Gene Simmons make up points are sure to get you ready for the party and is quite attention grabbing. Complete the look with a pair of pants and Lycra tank top in black. Platform boots in big sizes in black or silver, a cape, spiky cuffs at your wrists and a studded choker and all you would need is a wish you could sing and play like the band. Oh, and you cannot forget to really stick your tongue out and if you could also spit fire, al the ladies are definitely going to flock at you.

This was not the first look Gene Simmons had; the make up went through a lot of phases though it always was centered on the demonic look. He began with painting the Face white with red under the eyes. By 1973, the look we know and love today was slowly piecing together, he now had a black triangular shape resembling Bela Lugosi’s hairstyle from the Dracula movie. Batwings around the eyes were taking shape, and by late summer they had tips pointing upwards. During the love gun tour, Gene had dropped the two upper points of the batwings to the tip of his nose.

Gene Simmons make up kept altering and refined over all the different tours. With or without the variations, Gene’s make up and on stage persona was always a topic of discussion and has been for all these years. Never in the history of music industry has a lead vocalist’s make up and costumes or his persona has been imitated for so many decades and with the same frenzy!