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Living On Gigging

essays & reflections on crafting a creative career

Why I’m Not Freaking About Apple’s Email Privacy Changes

As someone who love love loves data, you’d think I’d be devastated by Apple’s recent announcement to limit information sent to email senders (like open rates and IP address [location identifiers]). Open rates are used to test a subject line’s effectiveness, as well as the level of engagement of the recipient. If a musician has […]

Posted in Branding And Marketing, Email, Music Industry Tagged apple, email, email marketing, fan engagement, privacy 37 Comments

Creating Email List Growth: Awareness and Gathering

The first step of expanding your list significantly is to know that it is YOUR JOB to create awareness. (I’m not talking about adding one subscriber every few weeks, or getting only 3% of your audience to sign up, I’m talking blow it up!)

Posted in Email Tagged email 17,250 Comments

Email List Engagement: How Content Is Queen

Your email list is not about selling stuff, it’s about engagement. I hope you’ve figured that out in the past few articles in this series. And engagement truly means developing a meaningful, long-term relationship with your fans.

Posted in Email Tagged email 18,045 Comments

S is for Monetize

Monetizing your email list isn’t just about selling a few more CD’s every month. Though more sales is certainly a welcomed addition to getting your email list in order! This is about taking your subscriber on a journey from fan to customer to repeat customer to advocate.

Posted in Email, Making Money Tagged email, making money, monetize 17,721 Comments

Tackling Email List Technology

Technology can be a huge block for musicians. Even if we’re tech-saavy, technology stuff can feel like a massive entry drain that takes away from what we really want to be doing.

Posted in Email Tagged email, technology 20,615 Comments

The 4 Elements of an Email List Strategy

Hey musicians, I’m talking to you when I say this: Strategy can mean all of those things, but when it comes to our careers, and specifically our email lists, strategy is simple and means this: we have a plan and we know why.

Posted in Email Tagged email 13,542 Comments

The Key STAGES of Email Marketing Musicians Need To Know

Email marketing sounds like such a yucky term. But if you’re gathering fans and want to engage with them, sorry, ya’ll, this is the way to do it.

Posted in Email Tagged automation, email, email marketing 11,676 Comments

Email Automation: The Basic Stuff Musicians Need To Know

Email automation sounds like some futuristic robotic way of accessing email in your car or something. But it’s a phrase that has been used in e-commerce, retail, and marketing spaces for over a decade. And there’s a reason for that.

Posted in Email Tagged automation, email 13,223 Comments

Market Your Music (How to write a perfect welcome email and why it matters)

A welcome email is a message that you set your email program to send out automatically, as soon as a new fan subscribes to your list. It is one of THE most highly opened emails (average email list open rates are between 15% and 25%, these emails can get up to the 80’s!) There’s a […]

Posted in Email, Featured Articles Tagged email, fan list, welcome email 14,750 Comments

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