Tag Archive for the term: indiebiz

September 24, 2009
Indyish today released a new page dedicated to featuring the most useful How To posts from 3 years of independent artists blogging on the site.
These posts are featured along with a collection of the best indie advice guides available through Amazon for everything from promoting your own events, booking tours, publishing zines, [...]

San Francisco Artists Launch “Indie Abundance: Music, Money & Mindfulness™” Tour: Chantelle Tibbs, Deborah Crooks and Emily Bonn share music and more.
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San Francisco, CA, August 3, 2009 – Chantelle Tibbs, Deborah Crooks and Emily Bonn, three San Francisco based independent musicians, announced the launch of ‘Indie [...]

Tips for contract negotiation – things we’re learning as we bump on down the road and try to survive the crazy freelance flow.
Before I get rolling on these freelancing tips I should say that a lot of this stuff Elran and I learned from each other. Some of these tactics come naturally to me, [...]

For all artists, finding money to fund your artistic project- no matter what it is- can be a huge ordeal. This is particularly difficult in central Canada, where grant committees such as FACTOR, Canada Council for the Arts/Ontario Council for the Arts, VideoFACT, BravoFACT, etc., receive applications by the boatload. Making it through the panel [...]

Sometimes life shifts gears from sexy tango, to choral collectivity, and that’s nice. And then sometimes it’s more wrestling inspired. Like a pile drive, which is the less elegant way of saying “it never rains but it pours” and that is the land we’re currently living in.
We’re moving Indyish headquarters April 1; our next [...]

Two bits of news from this week that give quite the impression as to the state of indie business – there is serious pressure forcing incredible, historic, fierce institutions to close or adapt, and when they adapt, they go web…
During the ’60s, Cody’s stood at the center of the Free Speech movement and became [...]

Here’s a rant on indie filmmaking from a maker who loves to create and see indie movies, an indie filmmaker who will continue indie creating for love, in all likelihood, but nevertheless argues that the indie film business model is over. I would agree that most business models that emerged before the real muchness [...]

Risa’s link to this Gotham Jungle article is the beginning of a discussion worth having. The dichotomy of major vs. indie isn’t a very accurate one. There’s the majors going the way of the dinosaur, and quite frankly, none of us participating in this site should be concerned with majors. There’s major indies, small indies, [...]

In recent days a wash of indie found it’s way to me:
Gotham Jungle helped unpack the question, Major vs Indie Labels, what is right for you?:
One of the biggest and perhaps most distinguishing differences between indie and major labels is that indie labels let artists keep the rights to their work. Large labels have [...]

A collection of quotes and their accompanying links from selected news items discovered this week pertaining to independent business… or IndieBiz.. or biz-nas, I guess, if you prefer.
First up, Youtube and RumbleFish strike deal enabling 25 000 new songs to be used in Youtube videos:
Dubbed the “iTunes of corporate America” by CNBC, Rumblefish is providing [...]