After many years of touring and meetings with organizers, we know that there is something that you as an organizer may wonder about. Especially if you are new as a stage plot designer, so here are some explanations and tips.

The room

We play on a flat floor and we have the seats for the young audience with us. If you have a very large stage that meets our measurement requirements, we can play on stage with the audience sitting on stage. Just make sure that it is safe for the audience to go up on stage and that it is accessible to those who, for example, is in a wheelchair.

Load

Should we be on another floor, there should be an elevator. Keep in mind that some scenography elements can be large and long. Talk to us if you feel hesitant. The best thing is to be able to load straight into the game room.

How important is it that you follow our local measurements?

It is very important that you measure so that the room keeps the dimensions we need; otherwise, the scenography will not go in. Do not appreciate and think that “we usually have a theater here”. Be on the safe side and measure. We usually have a stage sketch that we send out. There you can see what it looks like with the scenography set up. If you have photos on the premises (mobile photos are enough), feel free to email them to us.

Ceiling height

In order for us to have space with our scenography and our light stands, you need to measure the ceiling height from the lowest point. Are there hanging lamps, projectors or anything else in the room? Maybe it’s possible to tie up?

Blackout

If we want blackout, it is because we have lighting that the show depends on. If it’s too bright, much of the magic disappears. We usually write that it “should be so dark that you can show a movie”. It does not work with ordinary curtains that are drawn unless there are special blackout curtains.

Elen then?

If we need 16 amps, it does not work with 32 amps even if you could believe it. This is what a so-called glove can look like. The red lid says if it is 16 A or 32 A or something else. The outlet should be close to the venue, but if it does not – contact us. We have a cable that is about 20 m long with us and we can bring another cable if needed.

Is construction / carrying assistance important?

Yes, it is! We always state on information sheets and in contracts if we need carrying assistance. We carry and build every day sometimes when we tour. If we get help, it makes it very easy. The construction time is also based on the fact that, whenever we request it, we have carrying/construction help.

It should be adults who can help carry and build before the show, and after the show when it will be torn down and carried again.

Does anyone need to receive us?

Yes! It needs to be a person who knows the room, knows where the electricity is, knows where we can change and who can show us emergency exits, fire extinguishers, etc.

Audience safety

The organizer is responsible for the safety on site and for the safety of the audience. This means that there must always be someone responsible from the organizer on site during the time there is an audience in the room.

It’s important to understand that people won’t just follow you when you release that mixtape, album or single.

To cultivate a fanbase you have to be someone worth following. Someone that your fans will look up to, and in turn be inspired by you…

How Do You Define Music Marketing?

The simple answer is that music marketing is defined as how musicians effectively build an audience of fans and build rapport with these fans over time through effective communication.

Obviously, with musicians, the ultimate goal is to sell more music, sell more beats, sell more t-shirts and concert tickets. We all can agree on that.

Your audience will want to invest in you, to follow your story, and will want to feel part of the journey.

Just being original, or different won’t suffice. You need something that will attach your personality to the music.

How To Tell Your Story

How many times have can you post the same songs and the same album covers over and over again on social media and expect people to follow you.?

It’s crucial to understand that storytelling is the ESSENTIAL ingredient when it comes to music marketing. If you are struggling to decipher what storytelling is with the music industry look no further than the artist that inspired you.

Try and record yourself asking questions that will help to draw the story from you.

Consider Who?, What?, When? and Where? Method?

• Why Did I Make This Record?
• Who Helped Me Make This Record?
• Where Did I Record The Song?
• What Was The Mood Like In The Studio
• Was It Hard Or Easy To Write The Record?
• What Went Through Your Mind When You Heard The Final Recording?
• How Does This Album Differ From The Other Songs Your Have Made Before?
• Who Inspired You?
• When Did You Get Started In Music?

This is the main strategy I use over at The Corporatethief Beats when I am promoting my hip hop beats.

These are some simple questions that your future fans might ask? Also the help you cultivate a narrative around your music career.

Rather than relying on the music to promote the music, now you are using the power of story and content as a promotion tool to share your music.

Then you can record this into mini segments like for stories or shorts for sites like Instagram, Twitter and Tik Tok.

Long-form content can be added for sites like Facebook, Instagram TV and YouTube.

Remember We Live In The Times Of The SCROLL BUTTON. !!!

Most people will scroll past with the volume on mute. It might be a good idea to add subtitles or graphics to the video just to BREAK THEIR ATTENTION SPAN…

Building Your Narrative

One of the major mistakes that we musicians make with social media is that we treat it like PROMOTIONAL MEDIA.

It’s time to build a narrative around your project with words, photos and videos over which you have complete control.

The core issue I have with social sites like Facebook and YouTube is that we are competing with advanced algorithms for attention.

The sad reality is that the draw of related content on the same page makes it all too easy for someone to ‘click away from your content to something else.

One way around this is to Build A Website and an Email List.

Click here to learn about effective music marketing, learn how to build an artist website and email marketing for musicians.

Learn How To Curate Content

Your site can be your social hub where the focus of your fans is solely on you. You can create a website for a couple of bucks today…

It doesn’t have to be complicated, either. Many sites are now Curated Content sites or Content Aggregators where they syphon popular content resources in from sites Reddit, SoundCloud, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.

Consistency is key. So your site needs to update a couple of times a month. And it needs to be promoted with the use of your email newsletter and social sites.

There’s got to be a reason for your fans to come back and visit your site repeatedly. Your site’s audience will give up if there’s nothing new to see for weeks on end.

Use your site to push your story with a new blog post or video. If your audience knows they are getting new content every couple of weeks, they’ll spread the word.

How To Outsource Your Music Marketing?

Let’s face it marketing promotion is a pain in the butt…

There are simply too many tasks for one person to focus on. It’s so easy to burn yourself out or spread yourself too thin. There is just never enough time to create and manage every single site.

Some of the most successful musicians have one secret weapon when it comes to music marketing. Outsourcing!!

Outsourcing the majority of the grunt work within your music marketing is the best solution. Hiring help to do mundane, repetitive music promotional tasks is something that will free up a ton of your time.

Here are 2 of my favorite places to outsource…

Onlinejobs.ph This is my preferred method of outsourcing my music marketing tasks. All of the freelancers here are from the Philippines.

Filipino’s influenced by American culture. Their level of English is very high. This is a significant reason why I outsource all my work to the Philippines. Filipino’s are incredibly hard working.

Fiverr is a global online marketplace offering tasks and services, beginning at $5 per job, hence its name.

This site is primarily used by freelancers who use Fiverr to offer services to customers on a global scale. … You can find a freelancer to carry out Graphic Design, like logos, or artwork.

You can hire virtual assistants and social media managers. You can find people to distribute your mixtape to hip hop blogs who will post your music.

Some of the services here are amazing, and some are complete trash. Please read the reviews before purchase or hiring anyone from Fiverr.

Never be afraid to try new things and hacks to help you in promoting your music. When things get rough and hectic, you can always hire someone to assist you with your task like a virtual assistant who will work on your music marketing strategies.

If you found this article to be an eye-opener please feel free to share this with someone you think will benefit from it.

Keep your chin up and keep working hard…

Daniel Hartnett, aka The Corporatethief Beats, is a hip-hop beatmaker, songwriter, and music marketing blogger from Dublin, Ireland.

More and more people are familiar with classics and new comics.  Digital comics are published in CBZ and CBR reader formats. This is a ZIP and RAR used exclusively for comic pages. Digital publishing has made it easier than ever. You can buy the new issue as soon as it’s released online, or you can download the old issue for free at the public library.

Digital comics are published in the form of CBZ and CBR.

However, I think it would be even more convenient if there was a digital version that could scroll pages and use bookmarks, like a paper magazine.

In other words, CBZ and CBR digital comics belong to the area where e-readers of electronic ink lose to reading apps on Smartphones and tablets.

In this way, CBR and CBZ digital comics are not the e-readers of e-ink, but the reading apps of smartphones and tablets.

There are two types of Android CBZ and CBR reader:

1. A universal Android eBook reader app that supports multiple formats including CBZ and CBR
2. An Android reader app designed exclusively for digital comics available in CBR and CBZ.

Choosing the best CBR or CBZ Android reader is up to each user, as there are many possible factors.

In this review, we will introduce an Android reader dedicated to comics and a universal e-book reader compatible with Android smartphones and tablets that are compatible with CBR and CBZ.

FullReader

Supported formats. CBZ, CBR, PDF, DjVu, FB2, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, RTF, DOC / DOCX, HTML / HTM, XPS (OXPS), ODT, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, MP3

FullReader is a free Android reader for ebooks, documents, and magazines. This reading app can open and read comic files in CBR, CBZ, PDF, and DjVu formats.

When this free app acts as a CBR reader, it supports horizontal and vertical manual and automatic page-turning.

When this free app acts as a CBR reader, it supports horizontal and vertical manual and automatic page-turning. You can also share different pages with different apps and services. It also supports comic bookmarks.

Other features of Free Full Reader for Android.

• Cloud storage support (Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox)
• Custom network library support
• Display a shortcut for another book on the home screen of your device
• Display widgets for your favorites and recent books on the home screen of your phone or tablet
• Equipped with day & night mode.

Moon

Supported formats. CBZ, CBR, PDF, RAR, ZIP, FB2, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, HTML, CHM, UMD

Moon + Reader for Android is a free, high-performance reading app that supports the CBR, CBZ, and PDF formats used in comics.

This free reader’s file manager features a “bookshelf” skin with a list and covers display modes, tag (default and user-added) sorting, and custom collections.

As a CBZ or CBR reader, Moon + offers page scrolling in book and scroll modes, and a preview toolbar at the bottom of the book reading window for quick access to the pages you need.

The main drawback of this reader application is the lack of bookmarks for comics.

Other features of Moon + Reader for Android:

• Cloud storage support (DropBox and Google Drive)
• Synchronize your library across multiple mobile devices (such as mobile phones and tablets).
• Possibility to add default OPDS directory and own catalog
• Black theme for night mode.

These solutions are perfect for those who want to keep their comic collections separate. There are many free reading apps that support CBR and CBZ, many of which also support PDF files, and can even unzip RAR and ZIP archives.

ComicScreen

Supported formats. CBR, CBZ, PDF, ZIP, RAR

ComicScreen is the most popular free Android CBR reader and CBZ reader. There is no traditional file manager, but it’s very simple and user-friendly. Instead, there is a file browser that allows users to do their main work with files and folders on their Android phones and tablets (files are highlighted with a long press to enable options).

This free reader does not allow you to create custom collections, but it does allow you to collect files in a custom folder and add that folder to your Favorites for quick access.

This app can memorize recently read files and pages and add bookmarks.

Other features of Comic Screen Reader for Android:

• Access to external storage via FTP
• Image filters (grayscale, contrast, sharpness, color inversion)
• Reading comics from the archive (eg ZIP packed images, not one CB)
  • Image filters (eg ZIP packed image, not one CB).
  • 1-page and 2-page display mode
  • Image crop
  • Adjust screen brightness.

Astonishing Comic Reader

Supported formats. CBR, CBZ, PDF

Astonishing Comic Reader is one of the latest free Android reading apps for digital comics. This comic viewer’s file manager matches the latest design trends and also supports tags and custom collections.

The main drawback of this free Android comic reader is that it doesn’t have comic bookmarks, but it remembers the last page read in every comic book.

PDF format support for this Android Comic Reader is not very good compared to CBZ and CBR. There is no page preview, page scrolling is slow and you can use the volume buttons, but it only works with a swipe.

Other features of Astonishing Comic Reader.

• Cloud storage (Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, DropBox, ComicStreamer)
  • Built-in screenshot tool for page sharing
  • Night mode
  • Sync between different devices via WiFi (not in the free version)
  • Manga right-to-left reading mode.

ComicRack Free

Supported formats. CBZ, CBR, PDF, ZIP, RAR

ComicRack is one of the oldest and most functional free comic readers for Android (desktop version is also available).

This free Android reader file manager has multiple screens with major categories (all books, new, unread, recent) and a supported format in the default folder (path set in the settings menu). The library is automatically compiled for all comic files.

This free application allows you to jump to new comic books directly from your current reading window.

This free application allows you to jump to new comics directly from your current reading window. The last page read is remembered and the user can add bookmarks.

Other features of ComicRack reader for Android.

• Customizable tap zone for quick touch and long touch settings
  • Internal snapshot tool
  • Image color adjustment
  • Posting to Twitter from within the app
  • You can evaluate when the comic is read.
  • Browsing standard archives (if including images)
  • Sync with desktop version via WiFi (paid version

If you need to find the best reader for your Android-powered smartphone or tablet comic library, you can choose from more criteria besides being able to handle CBR and CBZ formats.

If you are a reader and have a lot of ebooks and magazines in different formats and want to manage them all in one app on your Android mobile device, you can use a universal reader such as FullReader or Moon +, or an ebook. Consider a free Android app for reading. Simply install them on your smartphone or tablet and choose the story you want to read in the library.

In any case, there are so many free variations that you can be sure to find the best CBZ and CBR readers for your comic collection and read them on your Android mobile device.