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If you’re looking for something a little different for your website, whether it be for marketing or for pleasure, you’ve got to check out Animoto

It turns your photos and videos into movie preview style videos. They look better than just about anything else I’ve seen. Enjoy!

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I’ve just finished working on a product with Music Marketing GURU, Bob Baker, author of the best-seller Guerilla Music Marketing. It’s called “7 Secrets to Making Real Money with Your Music.”

Check it out, I think you’ll like it!

http://www.bob-baker.com/music/make-money.html

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For those of you who haven’t heard the OaKs, you’re missing out. Check them out at www.myspace.com/wearetheoaks

Anyway, they are great people and great musicians, I got this from Matt Antolick today, the OaKs drummer and I figured I’d share it. You don’t even have to give anyone your email address to help them with the first part, it will literally take 10 seconds. Take a minute to help them out, they’d really appreciate it and so would I.

thanks for your support!

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Hi everyone.

It’s Matt from the OaKs. We’ve had the honor of being featured on this month’s BMI Podcast. Not only that, but we’re up for a really important prize — whoever is voted the favorite band on this podcast will win a CD Dupilcation package from Discmakers. We could really use that, we’re almost completely out of the first printing of Songs For Waiting! The address is:

www.bmi.com/podcast

And you DO NOT need to enter an email to do this. Just click the button next to The OaKs and you’re ready to go!

We’re also in the running to be a part of the 2008 Lollapalooza Tour! Round one of voting has just begun, and you can vote here :

http://www.sonicbids.com/lollapalooza08/BandProfile.aspx?candidate_id=4816

Now, you do enter an email for this one, but only to confirm the vote. This keeps things legit and all.

If you can find it in your heart to do this, we’d be so thankful. So thankful, in fact, that we’ll give you a code to download The OaKs new and acclaimed album, Songs For Waiting, for FREE. These are 256Kbps Hi-Res MP3s with no restrictions.

And for those of you in the Orlando area, we’re playing a FREE ALL AGES in-store performance at the Virgin Megastore in Downtown Disney this Sunday, June 8th @ 7pm. Bring the family and friends. This will be our last Orlando performance for a while as we are preparing to write towards the next album(!)

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Nick Nanton, Esq. with Conrad Dimanche, originally uploaded by ndnproductions.

I met Conrade Dimanche last year for the first time at the 4th Quarter Entertainment Music Industry Seminar. You may recognize him from MTVs hit show Making of the Band. Conrad is Senior Director of A&R at Bad Boy Records. I have a lot of respect for Conrad, he’s a hard worker and for all the hype that his boss (Sean Combs, a.k.a. P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Diddy, Sean Jean, etc.) creates, Conrad understands that hard work and No B.S. is at the core of creating great music and great artists.

It was great reconnecting with him this year and speaking on panels with some other great industry folks. If you missed it, shame on you. Check it out next year.

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Tim McGraw PreShow Party, originally uploaded by ndnproductions.

Up close and personal with Tim McGraw at the pre-show party to kick off his first show on the 2008 Live Your Voice Tour. It was great to see Tim again and the show was great!

Be on the lookout for Tim’s new singles. You won’t be disappointed.

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but at least it will be a broken multi-platinum record.

I know I’ve already posted twice on this blog about Colbie Caillat. And I don’t know how to explain it other than I just know when I hear something special.

My prediction is her record “Coco” will be one of the top 3 records of the year and maybe the biggest record from a new artist period. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, you need to do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. Its definitely this year’s “room for squares.” Its so even tempered and intimate you can’t help but love it.

I guessed that Daughtry would have the biggest record last year, and I was right, but I didn’t post it before it happened so I don’t expect you all to believe me (Although on January 27th 2007 I can prove that I was already touting it!)

Let’s see what happens. Good luck Colbie…my money’s on you!

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Check out this article from CMJ that certainly opens your mind to this as a new model and possibly makes it the “highly coveted prize” of today (similar to how major label record deals used to be sought after)

http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=54047375

I’ve had great experience with licensing music for television. It has really brought some great revenue to some of the band I have worked with.

Special thanks to Matthew Antolick from the Oaks for sending it my way.

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I’m in Nashville right now finishing up producing a record for Hanna Peterson at the County Q recording studio. We worked with an amazing band, here’s the highlights:

Paul Scholten – Drums/Band Leader
Alison Prestwood – Bass
John Jarvis – Piano/Organ
JT Korenflos – Electric Guitar
Steve Sheenan – Acoustic Guitar
Glen Duncan – Fiddle, Banjo, Mandolin
Monty Allen – Backing Vocals

Many thanks to Jimmy Dulin, engineer/Pro Tools wiz for making the record come to life. I’ll post some video and audio clips online shortly.

As for some good food for thought on how to do things differently and make money in music, check out these Web sites:

www.mixaloo.com/

www.sellaband.com/

www.discrevolt.com/

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most of you have heard me preach this same message, but this guy gets more press than I do, so maybe you’ll believe him

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.htm

when you’re ready to discuss “The New Model” for the music business let me know…

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Those of you who talk to me on a semi-regular basis know that I’m a broken record when it comes to the following concepts:

1. Make people feel like a “member” of your band and you will have a very lucrative fanbase

2. Make sure you have a product to offer at every price point for those who would really like to spend money with you.

That being said, here are two artists that really “get it” and are using these tactics to finance their records. This is exactly what I’m talking about. This is how you make money in today’s market and allow your fanbase to get involved and really get a chance to participate with you.

Check out these acts that are allowing their fans to help finance their records:

Scott Andrew
www.saveyoufromyourself.com

Adrina Thorpe
www.myspace.com/adrinaexperimental

And here’s the best part, these artists have done the heavy lifting for you and created a new model for you to try out. So here’s the next lesson: Don’t be stupid and try to think of something totally different, just take what they have done and make it your own.

Let me know how it works out for you, I’ll be looking forward to hearing of your success.

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