Recommended Resources
Below is a list of suggested tools, books, and other resources you can use use.
Royalty Collection Services and Performance Rights Organizations
Music Software
Drums and Sample Sound Kits For Logic, Ableton and More (Drum Samples)
Ableton Live Production Software (www.ableton.com)
Soundgine – Get your own beat store. (www.soundgine.com)
Nugen – Professional Audio Mastering Software (www.Nugen.com)
Gemini Pro Audio DJ and Audio Equipment (www.geminidj.com)
Music Tutorials and Submissions
- Music X-Ray – Submit Your Beats & Songs.
- Indeproducer – Great Music Blog For Artists & Producers.
- Mr. Mig Logic Pro – Tutorials
Professional Music Production & Beat Store
- MaxxBeats – Producers with over 400 Superstar Music Artist Credits (Remixes, Song Mixing, Song Mastering, Custom Beats, Beat Leases, Exclusive Beats)
Music Promotion Services
- HeadHunter Promotions – Gets you on the Billboard charts & mainstream radio.
Video Production and Video Promotion
- iFameTV – Get on iFameTV and be seen worldwide.
- CheTownFilms – Music Video Production company.
Web Analytic Tracking
- Clicky – The best website tracking tool out. It gives you live traffic results. ( Used for Hip Hop Makers )
- Google Analytics – Track website visitors.
- Site Meter – Track website visitors.
- Crazy Egg – Crazy Egg heat map lets you collect more than 88% of the data you would using a traditional eye-tracking process.
Tools You Can Use Everyday
- Dropbox – Dropbox lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
- Evernote – Great FREE note tracking too to track your ideas on multiple computers, or a mobile device.
- Clicky – Website traffic tracking tool.
- Google Calendar – Schedule my month.
- Teuxdeux – Task planner.
- E.ggTimer – I use this to set little times to focus. Example: Spend 30 minutes researching a topic.
- Digg Reader – Used to follow all my favorite RSS feeds.
Favorite Websites
- Smart Passive Income Blog – Tips on creating passive income.
- Digg – Find popular news for the day.
Books
- 4 Hour Work Week – Great ideas on how to look at how you spend your time to get the life you desire.
- The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It
- The One Minute Millionaire – The Enlightened Way to Wealth – Great motivational book.
- Getting Real – The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
- Rework – Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.
Learning Online
- SkillShare – SkillShare offers thousands of online courses from music to marketing to design.
- Udemy – Hundreds of paid and free online course to improve your skills.
- Tuts Plus – Video-based courses to help you learn creative and technical skills.
Miscellaneous
- WordPress – This is the software that we use to run this site. It is the quickest and easiest way to launch a web site.
- Google URL Shortener – Free URL shortener service.
- Buffer App – Simplify your social marketing routine by scheduling posts on all of your social media networks.
- Share Tally – Tally up shares, tweets, likes, and more.
- Shared Count – Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
- SharesCount – Track social shares of your website. See how it’s spreading on social media.
Music Marketing Graphics
Hip Hop Makers Membership – Over 80 music marketing graphics to download instantly. Get access to all print, web, and social graphics.
View Graphics
Graphic Design, Video, And Audio
Graphic River – Affordable graphics for Photoshop, Templates, Textures, Vectors, Icons and more.
Video Hive – Royalty Free Video Files. Stock footage, motion graphics, project files.
Audio Jungle – Massive collection of sound effects, royalty free music and stock audio.
Music Posters
These music posters are $20 each and include FREE shipping.
Marketing Tools
Music Stock Photosaeczane.com/vigrande/