Ben McGarvey's guest appearances

Ben McGarvey

The Savvy Musician Show

SNS Online

Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!

Jeff Goins

Lynda La Plante

Suzanne Paulinski

Paul Thorn

Peter Tatchell

Andy Levine

Esther Rantzen

Biddy Baxter

Suzi Quatro

Armistead Maupin

Alex James

John Challis

Beatrix Potter

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Ty Richards

OwlTail

Ben McGarvey makes Folktronic music under the name Minute Taker. His music career started out the traditional way - playing shows and flirting with record labels. After joining the Savvy Musician Academy, he learned how to build his career online. Now he’s selling records and seeing his online engagement grow. In this interview Leah and Ben talk about focusing ads, data mining, the necessity of marketing and how marketing can build your confidence. Important things to remember:    Ask your fans who they think your music is inspired by and use that information to target your ads. Data mining helps you read your audience's mind so that you can build the perfect ad. Perseverance and research is the key to success.   Revisit the highlights:   00:20 - Minute Taker 04:20 - The Goal is to Share It 07:21 - Social Media Growth 11:00 - Superfan System 12:38 - Data Mining 18:22 - Focusing your marketing.

Ben McGarvey makes Folktronic music under the name Minute Taker. His music career started out the traditional way - playing shows and flirting with record labels. After joining the Savvy Musician Academy, he learned how to build his career online. Now he’s selling records and seeing his online engagement grow. In this interview Leah and Ben talk about focusing ads, data mining, the necessity of marketing and how marketing can build your confidence. Important things to remember: <ul> <li>Ask your fans who they think your music is inspired by and use that information to target your ads.</li> <li>Data mining helps you read your audience's mind so that you can build the perfect ad.</li> <li>Perseverance and research is the key to success.</li> </ul> Revisit the highlights: 00:20 - Minute Taker 04:20 - The Goal is to Share It 07:21 - Social Media Growth 11:00 - Superfan System 12:38 - Data Mining 18:22 - Focusing your marketing.

Selling Your Music Confidently with Ben McGarvey - SMS017

"McGarvey is a young singer/songwriter with that rarest of things in the genre; imagination." – Clash"Epic, otherworldly sounds in an intimate show, with digital trickery framing trad folk singer-songwritery fare." - The Guardian"McGarvey has locked himself away in his bedroom and crafted songs of true otherworldly magic and splendour." - Manchester Evening News"A haunting take on modern folk." - Red OnlineIn this, the first of two Manchester based SNS Onlines, Nick Randell visits locally-based alternative songwriter/producer, *Ben McGarvey, AKA Minute Taker, to talk about his musical inspirations, his song writing process and that indefinable creative 'spark' that goes into developing and releasing his own particular brand of music.  With many examples of Minute Taker’s work taken from his first two critically acclaimed albums, Too Busy Framing and Last Things, plus an exclusive/live performance from Ben, this is a show to be enjoyed by both fans and newcomers alike! SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter(ScratchNTweet).Big kiss, ScratchNSniffers! - Nick Randell X*Follow Ben on http://www.minutetaker.net/[Photo by Jamie Alun Price]  Thanks go to Paul Thomas.EXTRAORDINARY LIVES. ONLINE.

"McGarvey is a young singer/songwriter with that rarest of things in the genre; imagination." – Clash "Epic, otherworldly sounds in an intimate show, with digital trickery framing trad folk singer-songwritery fare." - The Guardian "McGarvey has locked himself away in his bedroom and crafted songs of true otherworldly magic and splendour." - Manchester Evening News "A haunting take on modern folk." - Red Online In this, the first of two Manchester based SNS Onlines, Nick Randell visits locally-based alternative songwriter/producer, *Ben McGarvey, AKA Minute Taker, to talk about his musical inspirations, his song writing process and that indefinable creative 'spark' that goes into developing and releasing his own particular brand of music. With many examples of Minute Taker’s work taken from his first two critically acclaimed albums, Too Busy Framing and Last Things, plus an exclusive/live performance from Ben, this is a show to be enjoyed by both fans and newcomers alike! SNS Online continues to offer an eclectic range of quality programming - free to download - to all like-minded people out there in cyber-space. These shows are independent podcasts produced to the highest professional standards and are non-profit making. So please enjoy, download and share these shows on all your lovely social media - as essentially that is our advertising! And please, please, please...offer feedback on the 'SNS Online' FB page or Twitter(ScratchNTweet). Big kiss, ScratchNSniffers! - Nick Randell X *Follow Ben on <a href="http://www.minutetaker.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.minutetaker.net/</a> [Photo by Jamie Alun Price] Thanks go to Paul Thomas. EXTRAORDINARY LIVES. ONLINE.

SNS Online Series 2 - Ben McGarvey (Minute Taker)