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How Music Retailers Can Connect with Young Musicians

by Octave Media | Oct 16, 2018 | Audience Building, Music Merchant Marketing, Social Media, Strategy, Video Marketing

Young musicians are quite literally the future of your business. So it’s important to know how well you’re connecting with them. How do they view your brand? Are you a destination for local young musicians – in-store and online – or do they overlook you?...

An Instrumental Twitter Lesson For Music Retailers and Brands

by Octave Media | Oct 9, 2018 | Music Merchant Marketing, Social Media

While Twitter’s reputation has taken some hits lately – mostly due to a contentious political environment – its use continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Twitter currently has 330 million monthly active users, a 4% increase over last year. More than 13...

Music Retailers: How to Find the Right Social Media Marketing Agency

by Octave Media | Sep 18, 2018 | Music Merchant Marketing, Social Media

Social media is a vital part of your marketing plan, but are you getting the right advice about how to handle it? The internet is bursting with marketing tricks and tips – unfortunately, your results may vary. There’s a lot of bad advice out there.   A...

Social Media Accounts for Music Retailers: How Important Are They?

by Octave Media | Jun 12, 2018 | Music Merchant Marketing, Social Media

For music retailers, there are many excuses for not doing social media: We don’t have time. It doesn’t drive sales. It distracts our employees. Our business plan is fine without it. We’re here to tell you that all of those reasons are absolutely untrue. Sure, maybe 10...

5 Ways Music Retailers Can Build Audience Through Social Media

by Octave Media | Jun 5, 2018 | Audience Building, Social Media

Social media can be a strong driver of traffic and revenue for music retailers. But a social media strategy takes a real devotion to the time-consuming tasks of posting, reading comments, responding to fans, and not getting lost in a never-ending pile of...

Video and Social Media: The New Best Friends of Music Retail Stores

by Octave Media | May 22, 2018 | Music Merchant Marketing, Social Media, Video Marketing, X

Remember when the first music video rocked the music industry? The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” was released in the summer of 1981 on MTV. It was one of those moments in music history when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again – and it...