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Back To Work At Indie Band Guru

Ok everyone, it has been a very busy summer. Tons of great festivals and local shows. We met many excellent new people and learned of some fantastic ideas to get your band known. But now let’s get back to work. Indie Band Guru will be adding a bunch of services to the already very useful […]

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Great Promo Ideas From Last Nights Vice

I love it when I come across a band who has great music that also understands that they have to work hard to get known and are willing to invest both time and money in the band to achieve thier goals. Let Indie Band Guru introduce you to Last Nights Vice, a phenomenal rock band from […]

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Get Yourself On YouTube. Lil Daggers Show You How.

  Here is something every band should do. Get videos of yourself up on YouTube! It is damn easy and great promo. One of our favorite hard working bands, Lil Daggers from Florida, show just how easy it is. Video your live show and use some free editing software from the web, and you can […]

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Is Your Album Really finished?

Thanks to technology today it has become so much easier to actually record an album of your own.  A good band with a decent ear no longer has to shell out a ton of money for the privilege of recording in a studio.  You can now have your own studio right in the basement and […]

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Repetition = Band Name Recognition

It is true in every type of media, Repetition = Recognition,  just look at commercials.  Seeing or hearing something one time really won’t help it sink into a persons consciousness.  But seeing or hearing something repeated over and over will work its way into the human mind and deliver the desired effect.  Recognition. Now lets apply […]

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New Promotion Opportunity for Indie Musicians – Immitter.com

The Plan: Provide an Apparatus that Introduces Indie Artists’ Music to Listeners looking for new independent music — Immitter.com presented their plan for a new internet startup at the 2010 DEMO Conference in Los Angeles, CA this past weekend.  Immitters’ specialty is music; its platform is the Internet. Immitter proclaims itself as the Internet Music Transmitter. […]

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Indie Music Marketing Competition Is A Joke

So, if you didn’t know already, Indie Band Guru has been around for a while helping market independent bands, both online and through diverse guerilla marketing strategies designed to capture the attention of fans in different ways. We had been very, very selective in the bands that we have worked with limiting it to 1 […]

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The Catch 22 of Playing Gigs in NYC

authored by Marc Montfleury (aka Eloh) of Indie Band Guru  It’s 9:30 pm on a rainy Saturday night. You have spent the last two to three weeks sending out sending out bulk emails, passing out flyers, texting everyone in your circle. Your Facebook, your Myspace and your Reverbnation pages are stock full of event invitations […]