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Martin Atkins: Nobody gives a sh*t about your band!
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Martin Atkins is one of those people whose mode of communication is slightly more, um, vivid than most. He also offers incredibly helpful insights, both in his book, Tour:Smart, and his 18 minute presentation today pretty much stole the show.
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How to Grow Larger and Go Further Afield
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Martin Atkins’ experience from a recent Tour: Smart event: A guy came up to me after my Tour:Smart event in Traverse City. He plays on his own, without a band, has a CD, etc. He’s trying to expand his base outside of Traverse City which is, literally, the end of the line in [...]
Martin Atkins: Ideas I like
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Yesterday I was at The Baltimore Music Conference and met Keith Center from a DC based folk-core band called The Dreamscape Project ….Sometimes bands that aren’t obviously, rabidly perusing POP success really fail at the merchandising side of things. These guys don’t so I wanted to blog about them and remember their great ideas……
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The Necessity of Touring for Independent Musicians
Martin Atkins
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Martin Atkins has a 30 year career in the music business that includes touring with the bands Public Image Limited, Killing Joke, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and Pigface, owning an independent record label celebrating its 20th anniversary with over 350 releases, and is an instructor at Columbia College Chicago teaching The Business of Touring, [...]
Triumph in the Face of Adversity
Martin Atkins
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It turns out that Nike is right. You can JUST DO IT. If, when faced with a less-than-ideal situation, you find yourself immediately getting defensive or rolodex-ing the million reasons (and people) who are responsible for your lack of action, movement forward, success, or blowjob - then STOP. Stop everything.
If you’re [...]
Martin Atkins: Free is the New Black
Martin Atkins
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Martin Atkins has a 30 year career in the music business that includes touring with the bands Public Image Limited, Killing Joke, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and Pigface, owning an independent record label celebrating its 20th anniversary with over 350 releases, and is an instructor at Columbia College Chicago teaching The Business of [...]
Finding Sponsors at SXSW
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If you’re going to SXSW to get signed, you should know from reading my last blog post that it’s not going to happen. If you’re going to SXSW to get crazy ass drunk every night instead working your crazy ass off networking for five sleepless nights, stay home and sit on your crazy ass.
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