Sharing the Gig Love Interviews, How-Tos,and more

After months and months of intense development, we’re excited to announce that the Gigsby Beta is only a few weeks away from launch. And to show the world that we’re serious about making more gigs and better gigs we reserved a booth at the Winter Music Conference in Miami.

As loyal Gigsby community members, we would love to put some names to faces and of course show you the Gigsby Beta in action – trust us, you’ll be impressed. We’ll even throw in an early Beta code for you to try it out on your own time.

Case Study: A Hustler’s Spirit mixtape by Ludacris

Savvy businesspeople recognize and envision the revenue that mixtapes can generate when marketed wisely. Ludacris, an astute businessman (and my favorite MC), released his A Hustler’s Spirit mixtape in January 2010.

Here we have part 4 of Carlos Correal’s awesomely informative interview. If you haven’t been keeping up with this interview you can read parts 1-3 here. In this part of the interview, Carlos shares some ideas on how his company Opium Group uses social media to connect with the fans and promote shows like no other. His approach is to continually set the bar higher and is moving the old slapped together gigs out the window for beautifully produced shows that impress even the most die hard hip-hop fans. There are some true gems in this one so take the time to read it thoroughly.

We’ve mentioned before that we’re big fans of Bandcamp.com (See Giovonni’s post on Selling Your Music and Giving it Away for Free). We think it’s a great way for small bands and DJs to distribute their content and provides the flexibility to charge whatever the market will bear in addition to a host of benefits not available anywhere else. So you can imagine that we’re excited to hear that Bandcamp just launched a new feature which allows bands to sell both Digital and Physical albums from a Bandcamp page.

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