Bitly: Keep Your Links Short & Sweet

Nic Robertson February 15, 2012 2 Comments

Motivation and Music: What Makes You Tick?

What would you say right now if I asked you WHY you make music?

Is it to fulfil some deep and confounding creative desire that dwells within? Is it a way of picking up more chicks at parties? Is it a good business opportunity you identified which can make you a quick buck? (if it is in fact the latter, then fantastic – you are one of the lucky ones)

You might be surprised at how many musicians out there don’t actually know why they do it; they just do. Now don’t get me wrong- it is absolutely fine to make music for the love of it and nothing more. Allow me to rephrase my question. I guess what am I really getting at is this:

Nic Robertson February 12, 2012 2 Comments

Hootsuite: Keeping All Your Eggs In One Nest

Hootsuite is, without a doubt, the most popular Twitter management dashboard around. It allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts, schedule messages and tweets, track mentions, analyze your followers, and produce detailed reports.

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Nic Robertson February 9, 2012 4 Comments

Why You Need a Music Marketing Strategy!

We artists sure are a creative bunch of people!!! While many of our friends and colleagues drag their feet through life, seemingly blindly, we draw inspiration from the never ending kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that seem to dance around us everywhere we go; finding new ways to channel and capture these amazing experiences – perhaps in the form of a lyric, a song, or a picture.

This is one of the most wonderful things about being a creative soul, but unfortunately it can be our downfall as well. While we are thoroughly engrossed, stirring this bubbling pot of imagination, it can be all-too-easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.