May 31st, 2012 4:12 pm

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The Power of Vulnerability – How Amanda Palmer Raised A Million Dollars

In about 6-7 hours, Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter campaign will come to an end. By then she will have raised well over a 1.1 million dollars for her upcoming project. Her target by the way was $100,000. It’s fair to say that she has obliterated her goal. None of this is net of course but she [...]

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May 25th, 2012 9:50 am

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June Rock Your Net Sessions

“Charles Alexander’s workshops are a joyful evening of goal setting, career planning and social media know-how that are a must-have for any independent artist…” – Lydia Hutchinson, Founder of Performing Songwriter We present the June Rock Your Net Workshops, this time around we’ll also be presenting an intermediate level hands on seminar. The first introductory [...]

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April 25th, 2012 12:41 am

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The Future of Fan Engagement

This past few months I’ve been looking at where the future of fan engagement and perhaps even music discovery will take us. I am intrigued. My appearance on a panel at Nashville’s Leadership Music’s Digital Summit has prompted me to put this thoughts down in a post. It’s fun to play, "So what’s next?" A [...]

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April 10th, 2012 2:46 am

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Podcamp Nashville for Artists

(Some parts of this post were featured on my 2011 PodCamp related post. They still apply this year) I have a confession to make. I’m actually an artist masquerading as a tech geek. I come at all of this tech, digital marketing, web development & pod/bar-camping from the perspective of an artist, musician, songwriter and [...]

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March 12th, 2012 11:05 am

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Free Facebook Music Marketing Guide

Hello there Here is our Facebook Music Marketing Guide. Along with the guide we also want to give you some of my (Charles Alexander’s) music. We hope you enjoy! When you enter your email you’ll be sent a link to confirm and download the zip file. As part of the process you’ll be entered into [...]

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24. February 2012

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FA2012 – Facebook Music Marketing Guide

Thank you for attending the "High Tech For Medium Tech People" and/or "Website Derby" panels at Folk Alliance. As promised, here is the "The Guide To Marketing Music on Facebook." Click on "Get It Free" and enter your email address, you’ll then receive a link via email to download the file. You’ll also receive Charles [...]

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22. February 2012

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Folk Alliance – Web Derby Panel

I’ll be co-moderating a second panel called "Website Derby." This is gonna be so much fun. This Derby focuses on both artist and business websites. Our web savvy panelists will be critiquing your website and advise you on what they think you could do better. Charles Alexander, Outsidetheboxmusic.com (m) Wayne LeeLoy, Topspin Media Matt Urmy, [...]

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22. February 2012

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Folk Alliance – Tech Panel

I’ll be on two different panels at Folk Alliance this year in Memphis. The first one is called “High Tech for Medium Tech People.” I’ll be amongst some august company. (from the Folk Alliance brochure) Friday, February 24th, 12:30 pm. High Tech For Medium Tech People (Heritage 1) This group of high techers will enlighten [...]

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28. January 2012

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The Gift of Community

We’re about halfway thru the latest Rock Your Net sessions. Wednesday night I was emphasizing the importance of community in any artist/songwriter/musicians’ marketing efforts. That’s when it hit me. The generosity of community has been so vital to the success of Outside The Box Music and Rock Your Net. I hope you’ll indulge me and [...]

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22. January 2012

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Life After SOPA

On Friday, Congress finally gave up trying to pass an ill advised piece of legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) it’s sister bill in the Senate. Rep. Lamar Smith from TX, SOPA’s main sponsor pulled the bill saying, "I have heard from the [...]

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