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CD Duplication: 5 Reasons Why You Should NOT DIY

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Burning CDs from your desktop computer can be leaned in less than 5 minutes. Heck, almost anybody can do it! Aside from that, the prices of CD duplication equipment (aka CD burners) are also going down, down, down that almost anybody can buy it. Buy some cheap CDs and cases, borrow a decent printer, you’re [...]

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20 April 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Album Art Concepts: Balloons

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Balloons signify celebrations, childhood enthusiasm, and playfulness. Balloons are often used as subjects in paintings, photographs, and other forms of art not only because it appeals the eyes but also because it awakens old memories of childhood. Here are some album artwork with balloons. Maximum Balloon: Maximum Balloon These Are The Good Times People House [...]

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18 April 2011

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Music is dying. Music is Thriving. Which is it?

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Music is dying if you believe the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Music is a growing business if you believe Apple, Google, Spotify, Yahoo Music, Artist Direct, My Space Music, Pandora and hundreds of other options. They’re right – all of them. The ‘good ol days’ are gone. Everything lives in phases – music [...]

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18 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Graphic Designers: Get to Know Custom Packaging Materials

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If you want to become a CD packaging designer, then it is very important that you know how materials work. Designing custom CD packages require not only brilliant concepts and good software skills-you need be an expert on the materials, too. It is not like printing posters or printing CD covers using templates. In designing [...]

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16 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Vinyl Record Lovers to Celebrate Today!

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Ed Girardeau was about 10 years old when his parents gave him his first 45 rpm record. Ed Girardeau owns about 20,000 records and says he enjoys hunting for rare albums and discovering the art inside the sleeve. Record lovers are celebrating Record Store Day today. <img src=http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-02uqnnIGWyZdo.gif style=”display:none;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”Quantcast”/> It was [...]

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16 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Typographic Movie Posters that Pack a Punch

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A poster should be imaginative and witty or else it’s just another piece of marketing trash. It should get people’s attention the second they see it. And the image and message of the poster should retain in their heads for at least 5 minutes after that. Designers do this by making really brilliant designs. They brainstorm [...]

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15 April 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

10 Great Music Marketing Ideas

Here are 10 music marketing ideas from the Music 3.0 Internet Music guidebook. It’s easier to sell your music if you add extra value to it, so it helps to think outside the box when it comes to distributing your music. Thanks to Bruce Houghton of the great music blog Hypebot for numbers 7 through 10. 1) Develop a package [...]

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14 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Merch Concepts: Bowling Pins Art

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If you’re trying to come up with the coolest merch for your movie and your movie has interesting characters, why don’t you make something like this! Coolest. Merch. Ever. These are bowling pins meticulously painted and glued with fur, hair, and accessories to resemble the important and interesting characters in the movie Big Lebowski. This set [...]

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12 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

The Blog Model of Film Distribution

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It’s pretty clear that traditional indie film distribution is broken. It’s even more clear that bitching about it isn’t going to make the old days (which I was never a part of) come back. When I made my first movie three years ago, I was hoping to get it on iTunes, Hulu, and Netflix. I [...]

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12 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Top 3 E-mail Marketing Don’ts

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Mispelled Names We are all vain and we automatically hate people who forget our names, mispronounce our names, or misspell our names. It makes us feel like an unimportant, irrelevant, ugly doormat. So if you want people to hate you and your film, band, or business…well, you know what to do. I get it why [...]

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9 April 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

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