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    These are general updates from Matthew Ebel Entertainment. For more personal updates and musings, check out Matthew Ebel’s blog at www.matthewebel.com/main.

    Success in the Music (or any) Business

    August 24, 2009 |

    The 1980’s are still trying to make a comeback, bringing their overinflated sense of self-importance with them.
    ast week I was featured in a WBUR on-air segment about performing live via UStream and selling my songs as a fan-driven Subscription Service rather than just making round pieces of plastic every year or two. The people [...]

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    Subscriptions are the Answer to Obsolescence

    August 4, 2009 |

    Music itself is an art of expression, but few artists are only able to express themselves via one medium. I know many, many musicians who are accomplished painters, actors, or authors. They are musicians by trade, but their blog posts and web comics should be winning awards. Why aren’t more artists capitalizing on their talents? Don’t they realize that their fans want to support them?

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    How Much For Four Seconds?

    July 22, 2009 |

    As a fan of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, I’m forced to watch commercials from time to time. I don’t mind, I get my content for free without paying for cable… I can stand 30 seconds of ads between segments. (Don’t push it, tho, if it gets [...]

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    Categories: Advertising, Blog

    Wait, another blog? Really?

    July 19, 2009 |

    Yes, yes, another one. This time it’s personal. No, scratch that, actually this time it’s business. All business. Matthew Ebel Entertainment is the official business name for pretty much everything I do. It’s who my clients make the checks out to and it’s the raised lettering on my business Visa.
    o, [...]

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    Matthew Ebel Featured on WBUR

    August 24, 2009 | |

    One of NPR’s largest and most influential affiliates, Boston’s WBUR recently featured Matthew in a segment about innovative independent artists. Journalist Andrea Shea attended both a UStream concert and Matthew’s 2009 VIP Beer Bash, interviewing and photographing for the segment.

    You can hear the radio segment, see extra video footage, and read the comments at WBUR.org

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