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"Hip Communications for Cool Clients"
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34 years old
DETROIT, Michigan
United States
Last Login:
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Inside a MySpace Success Story: Q&A with artist Ingrid Michaelson. Her music has been featured on Grey's Anatomy and recently the Old Navy "sweater" commercial. She tells Fran Vincent how Myspace.com helped her find success.

Electronic Musician's column copyright basics for musicians looks at what you need to do to protect your songs and instrumental compositions.

Welcome to the world of music licensing. Although there are dozens of types of music licenses and possible scenarios, understanding a few of the major concepts and how to secure or grant a license helps protect you and your compositions.
MySpace.com is a valuable marketing tool for musicians. It is becoming a necessity for any musical artist — whether signed and selling or unsigned and hopeful — to have a profile on MySpace. Learn how it can help you gain a following, promote your recordings and gigs, and expose hungry Web surfers to your music.

Email is one of the most inexpensive ways to promote yourself or your band. When done respectfully, legally, and with consideration to your audience, it will help you build your image, as well as a fan base that looks forward to finding out about your performances and recordings.

To be a great singer, you need more than technique and
talent: You need confidence. Fran Vincent offers some
ideas for getting your inner singer "out of the shower and
into the spotlight."
Click here for additional Web sidebar on "Interpreting a Song."

American gospel music shares its roots with blues and
country, but has unparalleled passion. It has influenced
rock, R&B, country, pop and jazz. Fran Vincent tells us about its history, its stars, and its future.

Call and Response Techniques: Musicians have been "talking" with sound for thousands of years. Fran Vincent shows how you can get in on the conversation.

The Printed Song Goes Digital: Learn How to Use New Technologies to Your Advantage.
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HELP ME ROCK THE VOTE AND PLAY THE DNC PARTY!
WE'RE ROCKIN' THE VOTE!
Click the Rock the Vote Widget below to REGISTER TO VOTE!
Hey all, help my artist Nicci Nix register the most voters by August 14!!! The artist who registers the most voters gets to open the Rock the Vote Party at the DNC in August! THIS IS A NON-PARTISAN THING, SO JUST REGISTER AND REPRESENT REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU'RE VOTING FOR!
Forward the link below to everyone you know!!!!
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Welcome to Retro Island!
Retro Island Productions is a unique marketing, publicity, and entertainment consulting firm based in Detroit Rock City.
Retro Island specializes in:
- Marketing and PR for music, entertainment and lifestyle brands
- Graphic, Web, and Social Media Design
- Strategic Counseling
- Music Industry Coaching and Workshops
Retro Island helps new labels launch their brands and break artists by developing and executing a marketing and publicity plan of attack.
We also work closely with creators in the fields of fashion, beauty, film, and technology, which enables us to help clients develop partnerships and promotions for their target markets.
Retro Island is also a music business consulting firm, offering one-on-one coaching for artists and industry executives. You can also learn in a group setting at any of Macomb College's music industry classes taught by RI owner Fran Vincent.
Ready to find out what you need to do to be competitive and get your music to the people?
Email Retro Island today and we'll work with you one on one -- ALL MUSICAL STYLES AND GENRES WELCOME! Consulting can be done per hour, per project, or you can add us to your team and keep us available whenever you need us.
So who are we and where did we come from?
Fran Vincent, Retro Island's president and founder, works with artists, music biz hopefuls, professionals, music companies, gear manufacturers, and publishers in the US and Europe. She has assembled a star team of professional music industry graphic designers, marketers, publicists, writers, and consultants to help YOU take your project to the next level.
Retro Island is now on DetroitCity.com!
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Present and Past Clients
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Nicci Nix
Pop Artist
San Francisco, CA
Scope: Marketing/PR, Music Biz Consulting
Midisoft
Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
Scope: Marketing/PR, Development Consulting, Music Biz Consulting
U.M. Music Press
Miami, FL
Scope: Publishing Administrator, Marketing/PR, Contracts, Negotiations, Royalties
Von's
Digital
Orlando, FL US
Scope: Web site/MySpace critical review and evaluation, Music Biz Consulting
Electronic
Musician Magazine
New York, NY
Scope: Writer
University
of Miami, Music Business and Entertainment Industries Program
Miami, FL
Scope: Curriculum Design Consultant, Professor, Guest Speaker
PowerFX
Stockholm, Sweden
Scope: Public Relations, Web site critical review and evaluation
InTune
Magazine
New York, NY
Scope: Writer
Mobile Business
Information Group
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Scope: Music Licensing and Research
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Who I'd like to meet:
If you are an artist or a company and are wondering what you need to do to be competitive, how to get your music, product, or service into the market, how to utilize the media to your advantage, if the marketing materials you already have are competitive, or if your Web site is consumer-friendly, contact us for a free consultation. There is no obligation and we are happy to spend some time with you. =)
LET'S BE FRIENDS!
There are too many spammers on MySpace! So, we don't approve friend requests from people with private profiles, no info on their profiles, or those involved in pushing free ringtones, pharmaceuticals, weight loss products, MLM etc.!
Retro Island Productions are not attorneys. All of our music business coaching work is done to the best of our knowledge and is for informational purposes. A qualified entertainment attorney is invaluable and we suggest that EVERYONE in this business have one!
Leave us a comment! Tell us what you want to know about the business, and perhaps we'll post some answers for everyone!
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