Author CCM Magazine Staff

(JUNE 2011) With the recent explosion of social networking, most people have set up an account with Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare. That's a wonderful first step but do you know how to use those accounts to maximize and unleash the marketing power that social networking holds?

Congratulations to all the winners in our premiere CREATE! Songwriters Contest! Enjoy listening to the winning songs below!

Thank you to all our participants in this year's CREATE! Songwriting contest! Check out some of the songs from our fabulous contestants!

(JUNE 2011) A mini-devotional based on Building 429's "Glory Defined."

(JUNE 2011) A devotional based on Laura Story's "Blessings"

(JUNE 2011) If you're an independent artist, there are a lot of things you have to think about in order to enhance your career. You do everything you can to perfect your music by focusing on your songwriting, production capabilities, and overall artistic direction. You use various promotional...

(JUNE 2011) Lead singer of Grammy-nominated and Dove award winning band, Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash is the newest vocal coach to join the prestigious Brett Manning team! Leigh is best known for hits like: "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes" and is passionate about using her years of...

(JUNE 2011) To sign or not to sign…that is the question! As we roll into summertime, most artists are gearing up to hit the road and looking forward to the next leg of their tour schedule and if they're wise, they're also thinking about the next leg of their career. One of the biggest career...

(JUNE 2011) This month I decided to respond to a question that was emailed to me from Daniel H. He asks: "I had a Producer tell me that if we recorded a project, I would own the songs but he would own the actual recordings…is that true?"

(JUNE 2011) Uncertain of victory or utter annihilation the one thing I could not do was not show up. Like some unwritten code in my DNA as a man-child, I had to at least be there, to not run from the challenge, I may not have been able to walk away from the scene but at least I would show up.