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A2IM Member: Discounted Registration for The Hollywood Reporter; Billboard’s Film And TV Music Conference (October 29-30, Beverly Hilton, LA)

The Hollywood Reporter & Billboard’s Film And TV Music Conference
Oct. 29-30, 2009 – Beverly Hilton, LA

SAVE THE DATE!
SPECIAL RATE FOR A2IM MEMBERS

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Oct. 19, 2009 — Tech Day presented by our New Media Committee was yet another success.  Our third installment included thought-provoking presentations from A2IM members appliedSB, Audiolife, FanMail Marketing, Insound and Topspin with a networking mixer that followed.  The presentations were based around the recent release of an Email Marketing White Paper (composed by Jon Satterley of Roadrunner Records) and a Direct to Fan (D2F) White Paper (composed by Edith Bellinghausen of Razor & Tie), both whom moderated their respective topic presentations.  A lot of you have been requesting presentations from each of the presenters.  See below for a copy of each.  We’re still awaiting a copy from a few of the presenters, so please revisit periodically as this post will be updated as the remaining presentations are submitted.  We’d like to thank A2IM’s New Media committee for inviting our presenters and coordinating this portion of the event.

Following the presentations, the room transitioned into a networking mixer featuring presentations from Americ Disc, Audiolife, CD Velocity, Disc Makers, Music Manufacturing Services, & Ross-Ellis where our members met fellow manufacturers & members over cocktails and treats.  We’d like to thank our NYC chapter chairs Lori Hon (Gray V), Stephanie Jo Klein (ObliqSound) and Hyla Urbany (ADA) for all of their hard work coordinating this portion of the event.  We’d like to especially thank Stephanie Jo for securing our donations to the event:  Cellar No. 8, Crispin Hard Cider, LARABAR, Ricola USA, & Snow Beverages.

A BIG thanks to Audiolife for sponsoring the entire event!

Video: Tech Day (Please excuse the production value as it came from a built-in laptop webcam angled below the stage.  We will be improving this for future events with higher quality live and recorded streams.)

Photos: Tech Day & Mixer via Flickr

Feedback: As a follow up, we’d greatly appreciate if you’d fill out this 10 question survey.  Thank you.

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CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2009 will take over New York City from October 20-24. Bringing together more than 120,000 music fans, industry professions, filmmakers and artists, CMJ will take over more than 75 of the city’s legendary nightclubs and theaters for five non-stop days and nights. Headquartered at New York University’s Greenwich Village campus; don’t miss your chance to participate in New York City’s largest music festival. CMJ ’09 will showcase more than 1,300 artists with career-launching performances. Past chart-toppers to grace the stages of CMJ have included Arcade Fire, The Hold Steady, Eminem, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M, The Killers, Green Day, Foo Fighters and thousands more. CMJ ‘09 will also host exclusive nighttime parties, daytime exhibit areas, registrant lounges, a technology fair, artist and press lounges, meet and greets, panels, seminars, mentoring sessions, community initiatives, networking events, Q&As, film premieres and special events. REGISTER NOW to take advantage of our A2IM members-only badge discount special of $250 for CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2009 by May 15, 2009 ($135 off the current advance rate of $385 and nearly half the walk-up rate of $495). From May 15 to June 30, the A2IM discounted rate will be $300. From July 1 to October 12, the A2IM discounted rate will be $370. Register at

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A2IM would like to invite all A2IM members to a Tech Day Event and cocktail party on the day prior to the CMJ Festival (NYC, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 starting at 3:30pm).

Hosted by the A2IM New Media Committee, this Tech Day will feature presentations and question & answer sessions on the topics of Email Marketing and Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Marketing.  Mark your calendar so that you can attend this edition of Tech Day (we’ll send another email with more specific details as they are confirmed). It will be our 3rd such event and the two previous have been very informative and no doubt benefited the members who attended.

Following Tech Day, A2IM will host a Cocktail Party starting at 6pm and open to all members.  Last February’s pre-Digital Music Forum: East and last October’s pre-CMJ Tech Day and Cocktail Party were both great successes with over 70 attendees at each Tech Day and over 130 attendees at each Cocktail Party.

Mark your calendars! We hope to see you then!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 16, 2009

A2IM At The Forefront As Indies Embrace New Models At CMJ 2009

Right now, independent labels must embrace new models, new technology, and new ways of doing business as they chart a course for the future. As A2IM sees it, with independents accounting for an ever-growing percentage of overall market share, growth in these areas is essential not just to indies, but as part of the music industry’s future viability.

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