How To 101: How a label can represent their artists

Let’s Talk About Permission

So, we all know that SPAM stinks. In every sense of the word. But how do we, as digital marketers, keep from falling into the dreaded can of spicy meat substance? Easy, we get permission to contact people, before we send them emails. That is why we have opt-in generators on web-pages and social-networking sites, [...]

ROI–Do you know your Return On Investment?

Another Planet Entertainment (APE) had been blasting their e-mail list without the ability to track how effective those sends had been. Getting past spam filters presented another problem. Using tracking features within FanMail, Another Planet was able to clean-up their list and in turn base sends on past behavior. Streamlining the process and using information [...]

So Many Artists, So Many Emails

FanMail client SCI Fidelity Records maintains subscriber lists for over 20 artists on their roster. To enhance communications and continuity throughout e-mail sends, SCI Fidelity uses the masking tool within their FanMail Advanced account. Sends are shown as from the particular artist subscribed to. Using this feature, SCI Fidelity Records has been able to enhance [...]

The New Rules

That was then, this is now – the new rules in email marketing. Download the PDF

Deliverability Top 10

The Direct Marketing Association’s White Paper on the Top 10 things you can do to assure deliverability. Download the PDF A must-read for those artist management, fan marketing, publicity, or in anyway involved in web-based and email marketing.

Anatomy of Successful Fan Engagement

You can go to home depot and buy all of the best and most expensive tools they have on the shelf. It won’t make you a great carpenter or craftsman. The same is true for great marketing. Being on every single social network, having every widget and chasing after every new shimmering online fan tool, [...]

Subscribers Rule Unleashed

I first heard about this concept in San Francisco last summer from my friend Jeff Rohrs and I didn’t really believe it. Big ROCK hands, screaming fans, street interviews. My man Jeff was talking crazy. He was definitely not mumbling the corporate speak which usually surrounds the subject of email marketing. No, Jeff wasn’t crazy [...]