Online Music Lessons with Live Music Tutor

In this video, I discuss the online music lessons offered through Live Music Tutor and the array of opportunities for music teachers online. From finding music students to being able to become a reputable music tutor online, Live Music Tutor offers a system that delivers a reputable, secure and technologically advanced way to teach and learn through online music education.  

Before any Live Music Tutor Teacher can begin teaching music online, they go through an online application process that is reviewed by a music team as well as a background check. After they’ve gone through a rigorous vetting process to make sure they meet the criteria to be one of the Music teachers online for Live Music Tutor, LMT gives this instruction the LMT Certification. 

An LMT teacher who is certified to be a music tutor for the site will have access to finding music students online looking for LMT teachers that could be anywhere in the world.  

Finding the best teachers for online music lessons has turned in to more and more of an issue as any one of any ability can claim to be a teacher and turn on a camera. With the LMT application and audition process, students and parents of students can feel safe and secure that they are getting the right lessons from the right people in the comfort of their own home and on the schedules that work best for them.

LMT offers music teachers a chance to give the best online music lessons to students that could live anywhere in the world. At the same time, the opportunities for these music teachers by giving lessons online with this technology allows them to continue to simultaneously purse their own dreams in the music they are making.

For more information about Live Music Tutor and become a certified LMT teacher to give online music lessons with LMT, visit: http://livemusictutor.com/

Loren Weisman Tips – No More New, Updated or Latest in your leads

Here is a simple tip and I am putting my name on it, hence being called a Loren Weisman Tip. Stop using the linear and overused words to promote a visit to a post or a click through to something!!! No, I did not come up with this tip and it is pretty obvious, but still all too commonly ignored.

These are bad words. Bad words like what George Carlin used to say. By opening up with Click for the latest post, the new update to my video blog, check out this new link up today, or anything else like that becomes bad music marketing and redundant ineffective social media promotion.

So we identified the problem, now for the ranty Loren Weisman Tip. Yup, talking in the third person for a second, but testing out an content concept and not that arrogant! Anyways, Think about using a creative or short phrase that will draw in the person to click through, read, listen to or watch what ever you are posting for that day, but also a lead in that will draw some one in in another week, or month or year.

The compounding of uniform content that will draw some one in that day, but also can draw some one that is scrolling down a page down the line is going to be that much better for your music marketing and your social media promotion.

I was on a so called “marketing expert’s” page where every damn post is started with latest update, new post or new link. I kept scrolling down and saw it over and over and over again. This is ineffective and after the post is no longer the newest, it’s a lie. 

Create lead in’s to draw your fans and potential fans in for that moment but also for moments far off and down the line.

The Artists need to learn the Music Business of today. 

When it comes to the artists guide to success for themselves in the music business or any other, it all comes down to the person. If you are doing the right work, learning how to use the right tools and honing your craft from a creative side, a business side and a marketing side, you will find a better path than those that don’t.

Expecting everything to come to you, taking the short cuts and expecting others to handle the music business side of things, the marketing and promotion and everything off of the stage, will keep you off the stage. Or worse, it might take away all your profits from the stage.

Learning your instrument, learning your craft and learning the business is crucial and required today, even if you get that illusive record deal. A great deal of what I cover in The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business, 2^nd edition touches on many of the factors you might not have thought of. Here is a description of the music business book that is coming out on August 13^th, 2013.

A music industry insider demystifies the artist’s journey from passion to profession. Both practical and inspiring, The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business provides comprehensive details on how to launch and sustain success in today’s music industry. From production and performance tips to marketing and career-building advice, author Loren Weisman serves up lessons culled from his twenty years as a working musician and a music-business consultant. Aspiring musicians will relate to Weisman’s struggles while benefiting from his professional counsel.

Specifically, readers will find lessons in:

• Creating the best plan for their career
• Touring
• Booking gigs
• Performing
• Recording, from preproduction to postproduction
• Branding a band
• Fundraising and working with investors
• Marketing and promotions

Written in a straight-talk style that could easily pass for backstage conversation, and filled with entertaining stories about working musicians, this updated edition of Weisman’s earlier work is the new bible for success in the music business.

The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business delivers the “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music.

Maybe you should take a peek to make sure you are keeping an eye on all the things that you will need to be attending to when it comes to your career in music. 

TAG2nd Music Biz Tips – Populate!

So I guess we are adding TAG2nd music business tips to the video series. Haha. For those unaware, there is a little a site I have listed above for http://themusicbusinessbook.com where you can see the adventures of the advanced reader copy of TAG2nd ARC or The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business, 2^nd Edition Advanced reader copy as it travels around and prepares for its 8-13-13 release. So now we are adding the idea of TAG2nd Music Business Tips to the mold too.

For the TAG2nd video tip of today, it is all about the best social media marketing and promotion steps to take when you are first launching a social media site and the best way to get new fans.

The problem is that once you open or start up one of these sites and ask for new fans to like, follow, or friend you, when you have nothing up there, you really aren’t deliver the best social media or social media marketing to push your music, your brand or your page.

Put up some tweets on a twitter page that lead to some videos on a YouTube page or posts on a Facebook page or pictures shared on a Pinterest page. Give a fan a little taste of what you are about and give them an actual reason to like you. Other wise you are telling people to like something they don’t even know about on a page where nothing is up to capture or maintain their interest.

Populate your pages, give them content and give those new fans and old fans a reason to follow you.

Woodbury Walking Dead Set – More than meets the eye

For those of you that watch AMC’s The Walking Dead, you might recognize a background that is called Woodbury in the show. It is a gated community for lack of a better description, where  the Woodbury Walking Dead bad guy and resident crazy dude runs a small militia. Well, not going to dig to far in to the Walking Dead TV Show, but it is a key scene location in the last couple seasons.

The town is Senoia Ga and it is beautiful. What is displayed as the Woodbury Walking Dead post apocalyptic town is a beautiful town. A small building that is part of the set stands even when they are not shooting the walking dead and there are some Hollywood style, stay off this area signs that are placed around familiar locations.

But when it is Woodbury, it looks like a compound with a town inside it. Zombies in cages and in a war torn ruin is the presentation. The antique shops, of Senoia Ga, are replaced with very bland doors and broken out windows with wood covering them. A lot goes in to the transformation of Senoia GA in to Woodbury from the Walking Dead. Time, money, production, development, direction and execution to make something appear a lot different from what it usually is.

The point is, that whether it is a Woodbury Walking Dead set or your favorite artist, you mighty not be aware of just how much goes in to the production, the change and the work to make one thing appear as another. Making assumptions based off of production, budgets and time you may not be aware of can be a detrimental mistake.

Before you follow the model or method of someone else, make sure you find out as much as you can about what is happening behind the scenes before you make decisions based on only appearances that could end up to be a horrific shocker to your outcome or your career. 

Music Industry Book: TAG2nd Release Date: 08-13-13

Click the link below for the full press release on the new music industry book coming out in August from Loren Weisman. 

The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business provides comprehensive details on how to launch and sustain success in today’s music industry. From production and performance tips to marketing and career-building advice, author Loren Weisman serves up lessons culled from his twenty years as a working musician and a music-business consultant. Aspiring musicians will relate to Weisman’s struggles while benefiting from his professional counsel.

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/The-Artists-Guide-to-Success-in-the-Music-Business-by-Loren-Weisman-slated-for-national-release-in-August_2013-05-0508-001.shtml

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Consultant, Producer & Coach Loren Weisman works to help, assist & consult independent artists, businesses, musicians, labels & managers to achieve sustainable success. He has been a part of over 700 albums as a drummer and music producer. Loren also maintains TV productions credits for three major networks as well as serving as a media consultant for many businesses in and out of the arts and entertainment fields. Weisman has seen and stayed up to date with the constant changes in the music industry over the past two decades as well as keeping up with the pulse and motion of marketing, promotion and social media in today’s world.

For more information or to hire Loren for speaking engagements, seminars, consulting, coaching or other services, visit: http://lorenweisman.com/