Dave Claassen of BMI submitted a SXSW panel called "Profiting from Technology: Online, Offline and On Tour" that features IndieHitMaker.com, and its now a finalist up for popular vote.

Take a second and vote by:

1.      Creating an account here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/users/register

2.      Click the link inside your confirmation email

3.      Then click on each link below and select the “Thumbs Up” for both INTERACTIVE and MUSIC

Music Panel: http://snipurl.com/musicprofit

Interactive Panel: http://snipurl.com/techprofit

(Note: If your vote is not accepted, try signing out and logging back in using the links at the top of the panel picker page)

Be sure to share this with everyone and anyone you know who loves music, this is open to the public and anyone can vote - thanks for your support.

To keep up with the campaign, follow IHM and their partenrs on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/indiehitmaker  |  http://twitter.com/bram_rocks

Booking & Touring Success
Strategies & Secrets Online Course

The time is right to help you have greater success booking your tours with new strategies for these challenging times.   There is no other online course we know of like this one:

Booking & Touring Success Strategies & Secrets Online Course

The course is set up so you can listen and study all 5 modules and the 2
bonus classes at your own pace and at yourconvenience. Now you will have the convenience
of listening to all the material when you have time, no matter where you are.

Driving to a gig is a great time to take in some new ideas. Now you will have
the tools at your fingertips.

And, the author has priced the entire 12 hours of audio in 5 modules and 2 bonus classes
at only $197, but check out the discount for Indie Hitmaker.

Again, that’s a value of ($2,364.00 if you were to consult with Jeri G. by the hour.)

This 5 module online course will:

Ø Make you a better Negotiator

Ø Help you plan tours that make money

Ø Teach you the strategies Agents
use to book better tours

Ø Familiarize you with contract clauses
that can make you money

Ø Develop planning & routing templates
to maximize the number of gigs, increase
your media coverage and grow your
audience each tour

Ø Create booking habits that make it
easier to get return bookings

And that’s just for starters…

"I can’t wait to share the strategies that I’ve packed into these 5 Modules and 2 Bonus classes." - Jeri G.

Briefly, here are some of the details:

Booking & Touring

Success Strategies & Secrets

Online Course

“Listen on the course webpage or download and
listen on the way to your gigs.”

Module 1: Tour Goals & Planning Strategies

Module 2: Routing Your Tours

Module 3: Negotiation Techniques & Contracts

Module 4: Working with Presenters, Bookers, Promoters/Advancing the Gig

Module 5: Targeting Your Markets for Maximum Audiences

Bonus #1: Website Maximizer

Bonus #2: Copywriting

Bonus #3: 3 Months Free- Biz Booster Mentor Interview Series

Bonus #4: weekly Call-in Office Hours-to speak with me directly

It’s all about helping you boost your bookings
to create more profitable tours and sell
more merchandise. When you put these
techniques to use in your everyday business,
you’ll shave years off your learning curve—
and make more money, sooner.

To find out more about the course,

listen to the testimonials from people

who completed online course,

check out:
Booking & Touring

Success Strategies & Secrets

If you know someone who may benefit
from this course, or if you are trying to
train your own in-house agent—this course
will maximize their effectiveness for your
business in record time—Then, pass this email
along to them so they may also sign up.

I really am looking forward to working with
you to help you learn the Booking & Touring

Success Strategies & Secrets

so that you too, may book better gigs,
for more money and reach your touring and
career goals.

Jeri

jg@performingbiz.com

http://www.performingbiz.com

One great benefit any artist has upon becoming an IndieHitMaker client is the ability to report live show sales for Download Cards at the point of sale.

This is important for two reasons:

1. If you already have Download Cards from your favorite Download Card vendor but don't have a way to report your venue / live show sales to Soundscan, you can sign up with IndieHitMaker and report them through our system. 
2. As an IndieHitMaker client, even if you sell a Download Card at a qualifying show, report your sales to Soundscan via our system and then, your customer never downloads your track (lost/forgot about it), your sale still counts toward your venue sales total.

We've also launched a unique Chart Buster beta program to help select existing IndieHitMaker clients maximize their revenue, credibility and exposure through our IHM download card solutions, so feel free to register today at www.IndieHitMaker.com and ask your Artist Support manager about the program.

IndieHitMaker Proudly Presents:
Making Dollars & Sense In The New Music Industry
Oct 3., 2009 1PM - 3PM, A3C Hip Hop Festival @
My Sisters Room

1271 Glenwood Ave SE
Atlanta, GA 30316-1964
(678) 705-4585

The new music industry provides ways to do it yourself, remain independent, and rely on YOU to be successful. This interactive workshop will give you real solutions to get rolling immediately. From Internet Marketing to Touring, Publishing to Soundscan Reporting, you will learn tips and secrets from experts in two parts: An Intro to the New Music Biz and How to Make Money in it.

PART 1 - An intro to the new music industry
Featuring: JAWAR - "Music, Money, Hereafter: Social Media, Touring, Internet Marketing."

PART 2 - Making Dollars & Sense In The New Music Industry 
An interactive Panel Featuring:

JAWAR (Internet Marketing and Industry Consultant)

Bram Bessoff (SoundScan and Venue Reporting Expert)

Byron Wright (BMI - Associate Director Writer/Publisher Relations)

John Penn (InspireMedia - Creative Director / Producer)

Simon Horrocks (Affix Music, LLC - Founder)

John Stringer (Moderator, Partner - IndieHitMaker) 
and more TBA

Topics Covered:

·         Internet and permission based marketing

·         Tools to get the most out of Social Media

·         Is SEO Important?

·         How can Touring help

·         Why and How to leverage Soundscan

·         Making your Performing Rights Organization work for you

About IndieHitMaker:

IndieHitMaker allows any artist to report their live venue sales to SoundScan. Dedicated to driving the new music industry with innovative, cost-efficient products and services, IHM enables independent and unsigned artists the means to advance their careers and create their own success. As a non-exclusive SoundScan live venue reporting program, IHM is open to any and all artists and is a service mark of PolyPlat Records ADSD. For more information visit: www.indiehitmaker.com or call 877.99GO.IHM (877.994.6446).