Carlson's Corner

Musicians who want to be successful need to be educated. In my two decades of performance, I have seen talented musicians fail because they didn't take the time to understand how this business works. In contrast, I've seen moderately talented musicians (myself included) have pretty successful runs simply because they understood the music business. For the entire article, please check out my latest post at JimCarlson.net: Sharpening Your Music Marketing Skills.

Hello faithful reader(s)! Been working on two web geek things: 1. A Jim Carlson Facebook 'Band' Page. Facebook's functionality keeps getting better and better. In fact, using Facebook is much easier than MySpace, especially on posting and inviting people to my gigs. [The new page allows me to invite all my 'fans' to a gig with one click....nice.] There are also areas for fans to upload photos, videos and create discussion boards. So, feel free to head over to the new page and 'fan' me! [Don't worry MySpacer's....I'll keep updating my MySpace Jim Carlson Music page.] 2. I've been tossing around creating a new marketing blog that deals with internet marketing, mobile marketing, social marketing and music marketing. The irony is that I learned internet marketing to promote my music, especially my "Out of Fashion" CD .....in time, internet marketing became my day job. So without further ado, I present my new blog: JimCarlsonDotNet ....