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Successful event websites

3 Ways to Build Successful Event Websites That Sell Tickets

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People go to an event website to get information from a trusted source. It means they must trust your website before they visit it, especially as they are likely to be more familiar with other ticketing websites out there. Building that trust is vital to take unfamiliar site visitors to committed attendees, so how can we make people trust our website enough to purchase tickets for an event?

Filip Matous, a renowned Digital Strategist and author of How to Get Your Website Noticed, made a webinar on how to add trust signals to your website to make people visit more. Here are the key pointers to have successful event websites that sells tickets:

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Social Media Developing Talented

The Correlation Between Social Media and Developing Talented Electronic Music Artists

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In today’s society, Social Media plays a big role in people’s everyday lives as well as business. Social Media is also turning out to be an important vehicle for bringing to light the talent of new electronic music artists, through making them known to fans and promoting their brand.

Electronic dance music is over saturated, so you need to be clever when you are attempting to reach your potential fans, media outlets, labels and managers to pay attention to you. It is not enough for artists to keep posting their music on their YouTube or SoundCloud accounts over and over. It is not enough for artists to wait for their manager to make a move. Production Music Live explains why this is: “Your post isn’t just competing with another producer’s post – it’s also competing with a meme and a cat video someone shared. No wonder why the link to your music gets lost in this stream – it’s just not the most engaging post.” Artists need to keep this fact in mind in order to navigate the social media stream. Here are some factors that may improve social media standing and lead to developing the career of talented electronic music artists:

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Finding and Winning Competitions for DJs and Producers

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Guest post by Eric Louis

Whether you’re an aspiring DJ, producer or both, competitions are a great way to hone your craft and get noticed. The nature of competitions forces you to do two important things: you have a deadline so you have to get your work done in a set time frame, and you have to put something out there for the world to hear.

Winners of these competitions usually get a release on known labels and other prizes like Dj/production related software and hardware, as well as exposure that could translate into new bookings and opportunities.

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What I Would Tell My Younger, Producer Self

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Guest article by Eric Louis. Eric has been DJing since 2003 and after a 5-year break, put out 3 tracks on New York’s Nervous Records and in 2015 won Victor Calderone’s Remix Contest, scoring a release on Victor’s MATTER+ label.

If I could turn back time and impart some wisdom to my younger self here’s what I’d say:

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Quick Promoter Tips on How to Sell Out Your Show

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The role of the promoter has changed over the years. That is to say that more often than not, in today’s electronic music scene, DJs and producers are finding themselves doubling up as promoters of their own parties. Starting a label may sure be a way of releasing music, but the real money is in monetizing the label brand with organized showcases and parties the same way some of the most respected imprints have been doing for years. The likes of Cadenza, mobilee, Dirtybird, Knee Deep in Sound, Suara, All Day I Dream and Diynamic are just a few examples that come to mind.

Selling out an event is always the ultimate goal for any promoter, and if you’re already selling out events the idea is to always be able to do it faster than before. There’s industry techniques and skills involved in speeding up ticket sales, especially when you’re battling with small budgets, tough competition or are an emerging brand in an already existing market.

Here are some important tools at your disposal:

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10 Ways To Increase Productivity In Your Home Studio

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In today’s electronically-advanced world anyone can produce music in their bedroom studio. Creating a recording studio at home has never been cheaper and a simple home studio, if properly organized, can provide great sound quality for your productions when starting off on your career.

Studio productivity is a key element in achieving success as a music producer. It takes a lot of determination, trial and error, initiative and drive to maximize your output when making music. Hence it becomes imperative to set-up your working space and habits in a way that minimizes procrastination.

Setting up your workspace and workflow so that you can start work right away and aren’t hit left, right and center by a million distractions helps tremendously in ensuring you achieve your production goals. We asked several industry professionals for their advice on how to increase productivity in the studio, and used the information to compile some key tips to help you getting tracks finished:

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How To Stay Healthy During A Week Of Partying

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Amsterdam Dance Event, The BPM Festival, Miami Music Week and Burning Man are just some of the three-plus day party series that are now a staple in every electronic music fan’s calendar. Whether you’re heading to one of these iconic events or to an action-packed three-day weekend festival, we know you’re facing an uphill battle to keep your body healthy and in shape.

Sure, feeling like crap may be inevitable at some point during a party marathon, but depending on your eating and hygiene habits, it could be minimized to an almost non-existent point. Need some key tips on how to do it? We can help!

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