Jill Sobule The Latest Musician To Embrace New Music Business Models
Last month we wrote about musician Kristin Hersh embracing a version of the new business model we suggested for musicians way back in 2003. It's a model where the musician can actually embrace file...
View ArticleAn Outsider Gets A Peek Behind The Scenes Of The Music Industry's Mindset:...
I'm writing this on the way back from MidemNet, where I had the chance to present a case study on why Trent Reznor's various experiments with business models represents the future of music. I know...
View ArticleYet Another Musician Offers Tiers... Including A Backyard Concert
Way back in 2003, I put forth a potential business model for the music industry that encouraged free file sharing. If I believed in the old saw that "ownership" is everything -- perhaps I could have...
View ArticleJill Sobule Shows She Can Create A 'Professional' Fan-Financed Album
We've written a few times about Jill Sobule's business model experiment last year, where she was able to get fans to pre-finance her album, by offering tiered levels of support that all provided...
View ArticleMy Keynote At The (RIAA Sponsored) Leadership Music Digital Summit
In mid-March, I had the pleasure of giving the second day keynote talk at the Leadership Music Digital Summit. It was a lot of fun, and generated some really fascinating discussions (as always). There...
View ArticleJill Sobule Talks About Her Experience Connecting With Fans, Giving Them A...
With our CwF + RtB experiment in full swing, we've asked some of the participants involved to provide some guest posts, including their thoughts on the experiment itself. Jill Sobule is a well-known...
View ArticleAuthors Take Up The Tiered Support Models Also
Another day, another example of content creators embracing the business models we've been talking about -- and once again, this one is outside of the music industry. Recently we wrote about movie...
View ArticleMusic And Marketing -- You Need Them Both
A couple people have sent over Bob Lefsetz' recent post, where he bashes some of the "extreme marketing" efforts from musicians lately. In fact, he picks on quite a few of the examples that we've set...
View ArticleThe Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)
I'm at the Midem conference this week, and in preparing for it, Steven Masur asked me to write up a chapter for a book he was putting together of thoughts from various thinkers for a gathering of the...
View ArticleHow Musician Ellis Paul Got 300 Fans To Give Him $100,000 For His Latest Album
Yet another great blog post by Ariel Hyatt, exploring how musicians are embracing the concept of focusing on the true fans to build a modern business model -- this time looking at how musician Ellis...
View ArticleJill Sobule Goes Into The Studio With CwF+RtB
Singer Jill Sobule was one of the more high profile musicians to successfully embrace a crowdfunded album using a tiered approach, successfully raising the money for her last album in less than two...
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Historically Dumb Censorship: Wal-Mart's Refusal To Sell Jill Sobule's Album...
Singer Jill Sobule recently discussed a story from back in 1997, when Wal-Mart refused to carry the album she released that year -- because of the cover art. I'll let Jill tell the story: When I was...
View ArticleIf You Behave Like Your Own Fans Despise You, They Probably Will
So we recently had a bit of a debunking of writer Ewan Morrison's nearly 100% factually incorrect discussion of what the failure of ACTA in Europe means. Morrison made a few responses on his Twitter...
View ArticleJill Sobule The Latest Musician To Embrace New Music Business Models
Last month we wrote about musician Kristin Hersh embracing a version of the new business model we suggested for musicians way back in 2003. It's a model where the musician can actually embrace file...
View ArticleAn Outsider Gets A Peek Behind The Scenes Of The Music Industry's Mindset:...
I'm writing this on the way back from MidemNet, where I had the chance to present a case study on why Trent Reznor's various experiments with business models represents the future of music. I know...
View ArticleYet Another Musician Offers Tiers... Including A Backyard Concert
Way back in 2003, I put forth a potential business model for the music industry that encouraged free file sharing. If I believed in the old saw that "ownership" is everything -- perhaps I could have...
View ArticleJill Sobule Shows She Can Create A 'Professional' Fan-Financed Album
We've written a few times about Jill Sobule's business model experiment last year, where she was able to get fans to pre-finance her album, by offering tiered levels of support that all provided...
View ArticleMy Keynote At The (RIAA Sponsored) Leadership Music Digital Summit
In mid-March, I had the pleasure of giving the second day keynote talk at the Leadership Music Digital Summit. It was a lot of fun, and generated some really fascinating discussions (as always). There...
View ArticleJill Sobule Talks About Her Experience Connecting With Fans, Giving Them A...
With our CwF + RtB experiment in full swing, we've asked some of the participants involved to provide some guest posts, including their thoughts on the experiment itself. Jill Sobule is a well-known...
View ArticleAuthors Take Up The Tiered Support Models Also
Another day, another example of content creators embracing the business models we've been talking about -- and once again, this one is outside of the music industry. Recently we wrote about movie...
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