Top 20 Thorny Bleeder Marketing Advice Blog Posts for 2011

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Here's a year-end roundup of the Top 20 Music Marketing Articles I published this year, all of them original and exclusive content to Thorny Bleeder. These are listed in order of the number of views each blog post had, thanks to my Google Analytics data.

1. Change Your Thoughts. Change Your Mind. Change Your Life.

2.
Danger! Do Not Use! Words To Avoid In Your Band Bio

3.
8 Ways To Get 100 Visitors A Day To Your Website

4.
Here's Why the Number of Facebook 'Likes' Don't Matter

5.
Top 10 Ways How To Feel Miserable As An Artist

6.
A Modern Musicians Handbook - The Do's and Don'ts

7.
Engage Your Audience. But what the hell does that mean?

8.
Top 10 Ways To Sell More Merch

9.
10 Career Tips From Hank Moody & Californication

10.
Top 10 Ways To Break Up Your Band

11.
What NOT To Do When Marketing Your Band

12.
Innovate. Dare To Be Different.

13.
8 Steps To Get Your Band Noticed

14.
People Don't Wait In A Digital Queue

15.
The International Dude Of Leisure's 3 Rules of Success

16.
Facebook: The Musician's Playbook

17.
Top Barriers Limiting You From Your Dream Job

18.
Top 31 Ways To Suck At Social Media Marketing

19.
How Do You Grow Your Fan Base? It's Not Rocket Science.

20.
Don't Let Your Past Dictate Your Future

I wanted to keep this post dedicated strictly to marketing advice tips, so I left off a number of other highly read articles which I published in 2011. But if you're intrigued, you can read the year's Top 2 non-marketing posts
here and here.

—Brian Thompson



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