Confessions of a Starr

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2010-11-05T15:54:00.001-05:00

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Soulja Boy Tells Wall Street Journal His Internet Marketing Success Secrets

2010-11-04T17:34:00.002-05:00

Multiplatinum rapper Soulja Boy, who has 2.5 million Twitter fans and has been watched more than 500 million times on YouTube, talked to WSJ's Lee Hawkins as part of "WSJ Weekend Conversations. " The 20-year-old rapper discussed his Internet marketing strategy for his forthcoming single, "Speakers Going Hammer," and performed the single for a crowd of fans.

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Positioning: Soulja Boy told the WSJ that as a high schooler he used a free music community site that incorporates social media called SoundClick to download his music. He says he "built his name" on the site, reaching Top 10 among artists and decided to expand, creating a Myspace profile where he began to get requests for performances.
Linking: He linked the pages so that users who visited his SoundClick profile would also be directed to his Myspace page, (which has now amassed more than 86 million views). With linking the pages, he says plays of his songs began to increase and, after he reached his first million, he says he then began making money from the downloads, generating over $100,000 via SoundClick with a deal that lets artists sell their songs for $1 (with 50% going back to SoundClick.) He says he averaged about 19,000 downloads per day via SoundClick.

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21 Reasons You Didn't Become a Successful Musician

2010-08-26T13:40:00.004-05:00

21 Reasons You Didn't Become a Successful Musician

Didn't Set Any Goals

Lack of Time Management

Rarely Practiced

Procrastination

Not prioritizing Goals

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

Not Knowing Where to Start

Perfectionism

Fear of Failure

Lack of Confidence

Spreading Yourself Too Thin

Lack of Money

Un-Original

Didn't Improve

Thought it Was Easy

Had a Back-Up Plan

Rather Party than Promote

No Friend/Family Support

Facebook/Twitter/WorldStar

Tried Succeeding Alone

You Stopped Believing

Musicians Ripped Off By 360 Deals

2010-02-05T17:17:00.012-06:00

Musicians Ripped Off By 360 Deals
Everyone's racing to get a record deal if only they truly knew what they where getting, "ripped off." Record companies are investing less time, money, and effort into artist but still expect artist to hand over their "masters" and of course the bigger cut. With the saturation of musicians, record labels are now taking a larger piece of the pie with 360 Deals clearly explained by Wendy Day from Rap Coalition.

If you are an artist or one day will be an artist, this is a must read.