Have you ever pondered music? I don’t mean thinking about the notes or the beat or the even the instrumentation. I mean have you pondered it?

To ponder: to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully: He pondered his next words thoroughly.

Think about what music is. It’s intangible. It’s really indefinable. It has no shape, yet it shapes thoughts. It has no function of its own, yet somehow helps us function

Music has the power to stir feelings…

…And of its own accord cannot fulfill any of them. It isn’t necessary to perform our daily duties, but how many places of business do you find with no music. I certainly don’t remember many. Music cannot comb your hair, brush your teeth, or tie your shoes, but it may ease you through those mundane tasks and make you forget about the time.

You don’t need words to find pleasure in music. You don’t need status. You don’t even need people around. It is not poured from a bottle, shaken from a cannister, or even dolloped from a 5 gallon bucket. Still; it can be as refreshing as champagne, spicy as cayenne, and rich and decadent as gold ring homemade vanilla ice cream. (you Texans will really know what I mean by that final reference)

Music appeals to fewer than our five senses, but it additionally appeals to more than our senses. When you study musical structure, it makes perfect logical sense. But when you try to explain why it “moved” you, remarkably ofttimes you can’t quite convey it satisfactorily.

It was not because it smelled, tasted, felt, sounded, or looked so nice. It has been what it did to your cerebral cortex. Or might be it hit you in the “gut”, but it didn’t actually hit you, and it was not actually your “gut”. See what I mean? You cannot put your finger on it. In fact you cannot touch it at all. You just know. You know?

Why in the world am I going on and on about music? Thanks for asking.

Music is a form of creative copy, too. It is an al the majority optimum way to ingrain an idea into the minds of your target market. Because without exception there has always been this common chord. ( prefer my musical metaphor?) people love music! No surprise… It is extremely versatile, dependable, believable, and yet inexplicable.

I’m additionally a songwriter. I take the same octave countless other artists use and create my little piece of semi-immortality to satisfy…what? Me? an fans? A paycheck? All of the above? None of the above? The answer is yes to all the questions. I’ve written tunes for each of those purposes. And each one has been satisfying in its own way because each one involved the intangible little friend of mine. Music. I’m not sure why I’m so moved by this unseen companion, but I do know this:

Music is a gift from God. It, and your thoughts, can never be stolen from you, forced out of you, or driven away from you…as long as you want it; you have got it. How incredible is such a gift. Yeah, all of us can live without music, but

It would not be nearly as joyous an existence.

To your musical satisfaction…

In light of the digital music revolution, Internet music stores are hurriedly finding themselves irrelevant. Now that customers are able to quickly purchase individual songs from I-Tunes and other sellers of digital downloads, customers need a really wonderful reason to purchase an entire compact disc. After all, if you only like one song, why pay for everything else? The following article will suggest some creative examples that Internet music stores could use to ramp up their sales.

1. offer Sample Music Clips: This seems apparent, but it’s amazing how few stores actually offer this. Many people want to try it before they buy it, so offering a 30 second sample of songs will greatly increase sales.

2. Search by Song Title: many Internet music stores discover that customers ofttimes search by song title when they can’t remember the musician or album name they’re looking for. Adding a search by song feature (or better yet, search by lyrics) might dramatically increase the occasions that your customer will find what he is looking for.

3. Visitor Reviews & Ratings: A short paragraph written by a professional music reviewer is simply not enough. Customers want to know what other “normal” people contemplate the compact disc. Let them rate and write their personal reviews of a compact disc. This will empower your visitors and produce a sense of On-line community.

4. Show Them What is New: Do not make your visitors sort through tons of pages just to find a new release. Show them what’s new from the start.  Many visitors do not know exactly what they’re looking for, so a suggestion would be much appreciated. For instance, C28′s Christian Music seller shows highlights of a CDs of Christian Music on their home page.

5. News Section: Keeping your customers informed about what is new and upcoming will produce a buzz around your new releases. Having a news section is a great way to get your customers excited about upcoming music. like it or not, digital music is here to stay. Internet music stores must find a way to evolve or they will immediately find themselves irrelevant. If properly implemented, the ideas above will serve as a nice starting point for starting this evolution and in the end, will hopefully increase sales.

The Internet has revolutionized the way we do business. You can start  an Online business for less than $100.00 and start earning a decent amount of income off of it. Because of this, there has been an explosion in the ‘ Internet Marketing’ world. I do not contemplate myself an Internet marketer, but I’ve studied many of them and have learned some ‘out of the box’ techniques that you can efficiently apply towards bands. Here are just a few of the many suggestions I can give you:

• Give first One way to get something from other is to give to them first. In music, one way to build a fan base is to performance at Venues that do not charge a cover and invite individuals to come as your guest. You definately do not want to performance a lot of Venues for free, so you need to somehow communicate that you are doing this for your listeners in the absence of  saying it outright. You may say, “Hey guys, just to show you are appreciation, Flaming Onions would like to individual ly invite you to this special concert just for you! It is totally free, so bring your companions and we’ll see you there!” They will come, because they believe that this is a gift from you and the will not want to miss out!

An additional way to give first is through our products. Giving away products has gotten a lot easier since the development of the Web. Digital music is HUGE! Better yet, it expenses nothing to duplicate.

Have you thought about giving away one or two songs from your new album? What do you think would happen if you did, and left your fan’s preferreds available only if they purchased it? first of all, they are going to love the fact that you gave them part of your album for free! It’s al most like a free trial that they get to keep. Because you were willing to do this for them, they’ll be more like ly to buy it from you. Give first, and they’ll give back to you!

• Cross-selling/Up-selling Have you ever gone to McDonalds, ordered a burger and received the question, “Would you like fries with that?” Have you ever ordered one of their value meals and received the question “Would you like to Super-Size that?” What you heard, while innocent enough, was an amazing marketing idea that has been used by Web merchants everywhere !

It is a way to increase sales to the same customer (who has bought a product) by introducing other products in your product range. If customers buy a Flaming Onions compact disc, you can ask Assuming that they want to buy a Flaming Onions t-shirt as well.

Seems simple enough, but let’s think a little more out of the box. Let’s say the Flaming Onions’ CD  sells for $15 and brings in a profit of $10 per album. Let’s furthermore assume that their t-shirts sell for $10 and bring in a profit of $6 per shirt.

What If the Flaming Onions Value Pack (consisting of 1 autographed CD, 1 tee shirt, and  the album emailed to them in MP3 format with bonus track for their iPod and a desktop background pic for their computer ) sells for $25? I’m willing to bet that this approach sells more. The digital products, as I mentioned above, cost virtually nothing to duplicate.

You profit would be the same, but I guarantee you would sell more!

• Email List This is could the most important tool that’s used by Web organizations. Web Marketers swear by email lists and base many, if not all, of their systems around them. The idea is simple, you provide a list for fans to keep track of your band and all they have to do is give you their Name and email address.

You now have a way to directly communicate to them, and better yet, they wanted it! You may  encourage  upcoming shows and album releases. You may create contests and drawings for those that are signed up. You may give those who are signed up a special discount on merchandise. The possibilities are infinite. One thing to recall is to only send them things they would want to know. They signed up to hear more about you, so they do not want to receive any forwards stating that If they sign up for this offer, they may receive a free laptop, blah, blah, blah! Do not abuse your list. Take care of them. This is an elite group of individuals who wanted to be a part of your success, so treat them that way.

Music marketing is by and large difficult for the majority artists, that’s something we need to realise. Marketing yourself, being confident to allow individuals to listen to your tracks and the majority vital ly, handling criticism takes a bit of time to get used to. In the majority of cases though, marketing plans do fail. you might have a excellent sounding track, but if it isn’t marketed properly then it will just be white noise.

Still all is not lost.

The main reasons why music marketing fails is that

1) there is always some money involved, and

2) all of us market our music.

They all sound a bit strange.  That I understand, but my plan is for you to get over these hurdles and to get your music out there without any hassle. I will take each of the above points in turn, but remember they’re interlinked:

1) Money marketing. This is bad. The economics of this is so: you have to sell slot of tracks to get back the amount you spent on marketing, then you need to sell a few more to make any profit. The problems is, why are all of us invest ing so much money on music marketing, or, why are all of us invest ing any money on marketing at all?! The Internet has greatly reduce d the cost of marketing by 100 %. Yep, marketing ought to be free, then any tracks that you do sell is pure profit. There are so a lot of music marketing strategies, some of which are easy ideas that are not being utilised.

Here are some fantastic free marketing strategies are not being used, at all. How about leaflet distribution, flyers, making a mailing list then advertising your new tracks on that (they already like your tracks because they have signed upto your mailing list). Applying to competitions will always bring in some much necessitated traffic as competitions generate 1) leads and interest from the host web site, 2) your tracks will get viral marketed just if it has become in the top 3. Viral marketing is just another way of spreading interest, all the people who voted for your tracks will recommend the great track that they heard, and you name spreads. 3) You can always advertise the fact that you got in 1st, second or third in X competition (always state how a lot of other competitors were there as well- coming third out of four entries is virtually nothing to  promote  really).

Assuredly the very highest quality  advertising strategy is…give away your MP3s for FREE! A easy technique that encourages your tracks. individuals then trust you, they love quality items, they assume then, “hmm, if this is free, and it is good, what would his selling tracks be like?” Free stuff sells pay good s, fact. Give away alot of free stuff…MP3s being the main one, and then be patient.

Once you have finished your free marketing, start again. Just keep on promoting yourself by free processes. It gets your name banded around, people will see your Webpage link and click on it growing your traffic. It might not too successful in the 1st few months or might be even a year, but stick with it, gaining visitor confidence will best ly prevail.

2) The above is great, but why’d any person buy any track from you in the 1st place? To most surfers you are faceless, they do not see you on the music videos, so why should they buy anything from you?

Harsh words I understand, I’m sorry, but it’s true. That is the real reason why there are thousands of wonderful groups and performers out there in Internet land marketing away, spend ing cash and showing virtually nothing for it. They marketed first, wanting cash, and their visitors are literally saying “I don’t think so”. You then become the banner ad- looks really wonderful, but never gets the click.

What you need to do is produce content within your website. easy as that. without content you’re just another website that the visitor has no real reason to come back to. Content furthermore boosts the opportunitys of you being select ed up by the search engines. Please note:Google, and the other large search engines have stated that their thousands of calculations per website includes content search. This is a fundamental statement, even if you’re a music website giving away your MP3s.

If you’ve ever looked for MP3s within the search engines, there are about 6 million websites dedicated to the term MP3. At this point, your one website has to be found by a visitor, the opening s are wonderfully low. Nonetheless, if your website has content focused keywords, such as ” good guitar riffs”, “how to gig” etc, then you will be choose ed up much efficiently than a easy MP3 search. Within the various pages that you’ve created you put, “download free guitar MP3s” or something that suits your music, and you then advertise your MP3s through the “back door”. Content will likewise bring back the visitors, they love a website that they’re interested in, they sign up to your news-letter, and then you email them with new updates, your new MP3s etc. Then you start to establish your own little buzz, you establish people willing to listen to your tracks.

A sideline to content is always relevant, up-to-date content. offer ing tapes with your tracks on is music marketing suicide. I’ve seen these actually being offer ed on some website s. offer ing a tape states that 1. You’re not up-to-date hence your sounds won’t be, 2. You’re offer ing poor quality, hence your tracks won’t shine, and 3. You have to pay out for the tape (postage and packaging etc). individuals on the Internet want things now, not tomorrow, offer ing MP3s, even short WAV files is giving the visitor what they want- immediate access to your tracks.

Relevant content is just as necessary as current content. If you have a rock website stick to rock related Web pages. If I has been into hip-hop I wouldn’t go onto your rock website and look at hip-hop related articles. I know that this seems obvious, but scarily this has been done. It additionally has another effect. The search engines see topic specific websites as just that, topic specific. If you stray away from your chosen topic it will not look good for you with the engines. They will see that your relevance has lower d and so to will your page ranking.

Content isn’t that simple to accomplish. It comes with time, you need to tweak, track whether that has done any nice to your traffic or click throughs. You could additionally just be writing alot of drivel. Content needs to be “Search Engine Focused”, you need to honestly drive individuals to buy from you, you need to have a one to one style ( like you are talking to a friend), and definitely not be boring. Nearly forgot, you need to assess who your fans is. Are they young, middle aged, technophobic? You writing style ought to cater for your fans. For instance, a younger fans will like more colour, more tech information, a friendly banter, and up-to-date chart acts. Generally if you write as you would talk to a friend then you’ll be on safe lines.

1. Start A Search Engine Friendly, simple, but Effective web site. Do not overpay or use excessive flash animation. (Flash Animation is bad for ranking in the search engines)

2. Create a MySpace! Join MySpace.com Music Groups and get the word out. Network and add as many friends as possible. Then do Bulletins and Messages to all your friends about shows, new songs, etc. There are even “FriendBlaster” programs you might get to add massive friends to your friends list.

3. Make your songs, pictures, bio freely available both on your MySpace.com and website.

4. Upload your tunes to as many band promotion websites as possible. last.fm, ourstage.com, American idol underground, to name a few. Do a search, there are dozens of places to upload your tunes for free or for a small fee.

5. Advertise on Free Classifieds such as Craigslist. Craigslist has a musicians section where you can post information on upcoming shows and events, or create links to your MySpace or web site directly from Craigslist using hyperlink HTML code or just by placing http:// in front of your web site address. also try UsFreeAds, and other similar services where you can get 100  percent Free listings.

6. Write Expert Articles and submit them to EzineArticles.com, GoArticles, and other Article Directories. Write in the music category about something you have knowledge of, and then you get a moment to include a link to your web site at the bottom, where you may ask individuals to listen to your songs or visit your webpage or MySpace.

7. Network on Musicians Forums and Message Boards. Just search for music forums, and talk to others. You could often include a tagline with your MySpace or web site address. The more traffic to your web site the better.

Do not forget ! The idea is to get as many individuals interested long enough to listen to your music, and perhaps come out to a show or tell a person about the song. The way you do this Online is by getting as many individuals to play an mp3, which generally will be done on a promotional web site that you produce a profile on, or by a person who has visited your web site or MySpace as a result of your marketing endeavor s. Get as many individuals as possible to your webiste by creating as many links as possible, and by telling as many individuals as you may about the band, the music, etc.

You should furthermore be familiar with the process of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which may advocate bring in “organic” traffic to your website. But one of the the majority important factors to this, is links to your website, which is what all of us have discussed here. You may furthermore utilize Pay Per Click in Google AdWords or Yahoo! Search Marketing if you’ve a band that is essential a business, i.e. you performance for pay, performance at marriages etc.

Thanks to the Internet, it is easier than ever for new bands and performers to be located and to sell their music directly to listeners. How do you get started and what’s the optimum way to  encourage  your band? Here are some tips:

One of the first places you’ll want to vis it’s MySpace. By now, any person has heard of it and millions and millions of individuals have their personal accounts. But I bet you didn’t know that MySpace offers a special type of account just for promoting a performer or artist? It is called MySpace Music and it’s completely free to sign up. With this type of account, you could add up to 4 full songs to your account for individuals to listen to while they’re reading your MySpace page. This alone makes a MySpace Music page worthwhile to performance up, since getting individuals to listen to and discover your music is the main goal of the majority new musicians. Include a link to buy your compact disc  from your own website, iTunes or other music seller and you have got a exceptional way to increase sales.

If an individual prefers the music on your profile, they can add your band as a friend, which means they can get email notices when you add a blog or send out a bulletin. Blogging on MySpace.com is one of the perfect ways to communicate with your fans (friends), when your band has a tour coming up, an appearance, is working on new music or has any news of any kind, you will want to post it to your blog and keep your fans up to date. The more your communicate with fans, the more they’ll feel prefer a part of your community.

In addition, you may take advantage of a multitude of other choices, including listing your influences, adding a picture gallery, adding full videos, adding banners and many other choices.

Just be sure to log in usually to approve new friends and to communicate with other members. There are furthermore a lot of MySpace Groups you could join where a message board is performance up for members to communicate. Joining an emerging musician type group would advocate you to network with other new artists and even to  encourage  each other, discuss new ways to get new fans, find a person to tour with or even to collaborate with.

Yet another essential step to promoting your music Internet is to have your own web site. While MySpace.com is excellent, it’s perfect to have as many a Clubs of promotion as possible. It can be easy, with just a bit about your band and links to buy your album or it can be a major presence loaded with content. The more content you add and the more regularly you update your web site and your MySpace.com profile, the better, as individuals will keep coming back to see your fresh content and news. Some elements to think about adding to your band’s web site include biographies of the members, history of the band, news section, tour dates and appearance schedule, photos, music videos, sample tunes to download, wallpapers, icons, ringtones, links to buy your album or merchandise, discography and anything else you want to let individuals know about. You’ll likewise want to link your web site to your MySpace.com and vice versa.

Traditional radio airplay, standard brick and mortar distribution and being signed by a major record label are no longer the only means of getting your music noticed. Thanks to digital distribution and the massive appeal and simple access to the Web, unknown musical talent now has a opening  at real success. Additionally the independent musician is not stuck with the expenses of making an entire CD. They could make a single and post it on the Web, gaining very big success from one song.

With a little know how and marketing sensibility any upstart musician or experienced musical act may now achieve success, excellent success in fact on their personal. Recently, while a guest on the Sirius Satellite Radio Show The Good Life, I spoke with the host who related me that his two teenage boys get the majority of their music off the Internet and never listen to regular radio anymore.

Why? Because they could capture music from acts they wouldn’t be allowed to listen to on traditional radio. They’re tired of the same old bands and singers being played over and over again. “ Most do not have any talent ; they’re just showpieces.” This isn’t the 1st or the final time I have heard that statement from teenagers and adults a like.

For the independent artist who wants to reach a expansive er market (and you must have a nice product) and receive more exposure for their product on the Web, the first thing you need to do is market, guerrilla market and then market some more. How do you do that? There are a lot of ways that I mention in my book, The Indie Guide to Music, Marketing and Money, but here are several easy suggestions:

• Join music boards and start in on the discussion. At the end of each of your posts make sure to put who you’re and your website. Add something to the conversation, do not spam. Write stimulate ful hints and post them on the boards, etc. Assuming that the boards do not allow tags but they do allow you to post your email address, make sure it’s something with your website at the end. Have a real email address but DON’T use your central email because it will be spammed. Something like mine: raeofhope@jacirae.com

• Start networking at Local/Regional artist meetings and songwriter/ artists forums in your region. You may find them on the Internet. The meetings host artists such as yourself who party on a regular basis to discuss the music scene and present their latest creations. It is furthermore a exceptional place to get the pulse on performances you may join in on and new marketing ideas.

• You know all that annoying spam snail mail you receive with pre-paid postage envelopes inside? Why not save the envelopes and put a little note inside that states since they were kind enough to share their information with you, you’re returning the favor. furthermore, with any bill or any correspondence you send out that’s official, include a one sheet or little card that has a blurb about you and your music (watch the weight; you don’t want to add more postage). Make sure to put your web site on whatever material you have.

• Create your own podcast and post it on all the podcast websites.

• Why not send your music to divergent podcasts. Ask permission 1st. Send them to your web site where they can hear a sample or two; and If they are receptive to playing your music on their podcast, send it along. If they use your music in their podcast, you can have gained new fans and sold more CD s.

The most vital thing you might do is to performance live. Go to Wal-Mart, Starbucks and other Local/Regional shops and ask if you might put on a free concert there. Anywhere and any place that will let you play, do! Ensure to have a sign up sheet where individuals might sign up for your newsletter. Then create a newsletter and send it out once a month at the most. This is a form of “Buzz Marketing” additionally known as “Viral Marketing.” At the end of the letter make sure you include your webpage of course. Tell your fan base they might pass it along to whoever they want.

This is a eminently very tiny list of things you might do. The time for the indie artist is now. Take advantage of it!

Jaci Rae’s grit and determination have brought her from an impoverished childhood to a career as an award-winning singer, No. 1 perfect -selling author and entrepreneur who’s toured around the world. Jaci shares her down-to-earth recommenndation as the relationship advisor/expert/dating coach for igniteromance.com, savvymiss.com, lovingyou.com, loveisgreat.com and lsinglescafe.net

She’s the author of The Independent Guide to Music, Marketing and Money, as well as Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life One Touchdown At A Time, Shop for a Day with Jaci Rae How to Get Almost Anything for Free (not published yet) and Collista’s Search for the True Meaning of Christmas (not published yet).

Here are some quick ideas to make your viral promotional materials stronger;

Sex sells

This is true but do not overestimate it. You’re selling your music not your body.

Having said that make sure you look attractive in the pictures and videos you use. You could furthermore show off your body a little but do not over do it. It could not give you the results you want.

Be larger than life

Whatever you do, make sure it is something your listeners may look up to or aspire to be. If you present yourself as “just another person ” that’s how you’ll be perceived. I’m sure you may think about many pointers to make you look even cooler than you already do.

Don’t forget ; in show business perception is reality.

Label your stuff!

Ensure you band name or better still web site address can be obvious ly seen on all your materials. That way, when fans like your promotional materials they know where they can get more.

Little would be more annoying to you, than getting a lot of downloads and individuals forgetting where they got them from.

Put endeavor into it

People make the mistake of thinking viral marketing is about doing little and getting a lot in return.

Your audiences must find pleasure in whatever it is you’re giving them.

You likewise have to make sure you create stuff that truly represents your band image. Yes, it will take some time and quest. If you do not believe in it do not do it!

Be original but a bit “generic”

Your promo materials should stand out but in a way that fits you genre. You know perfect what type of things your fans prefer. Creating images and logos that individuals naturally drift to in your genre will make your work spread faster.

You may even make screensavers or wallpapers that only contain themes your listeners prefer and easily put your name or Web URL on them!

Promoting your music Internet has never been as easy as it is now. In 2008. And for fans and bands a like, this is incredibly exciting.

Why is music promotion easier now for the average performer, band and songwriter? Why has been it hard before?

There are two key reasons why music promotion was hard before.

1st ly, music production and distribution was largely the domain of five large record businesses.

Between them they controlled a catalogue of some 3.5 millions tunes (2004). This catalogue of tunes took over seven decades to compile. And they were only growing their catalogue by a negligible 36,000 or so albums annually.

Secondly, their power has been based on controlling an offline based, bricks and mortar music industry where audiences purchased expensive compact disc’s from record shops.

How easy do you think it was to get your tunes noticed, produced blockbuster-marketed in those times?

Why is it easier now?

Mark Vidler, of Go Home Productions in the United Kingdom, summarizes the advantages of the new music environment.

“You don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Web. You don’t need a record label, because it is your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording studio, because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.

In just 37 words, a artist has just related you what things have differ d.

Web marketing pioneer, Mark Joyner, observes on his easy ology blog that You do not need a label. You do not need an agent. You do not even need a very big budget. Some people do this on a zero-dollar ad budget.”

In just 27 words, a marketing maven has given you three success secrets for promoting your music Online.

Let us put the experts aside for a second and bring it back to you, the songwriter, the musician, looking to make music to share with fans.

In the beginning when you are holding down a day job, scores and hundreds of audiences will make you feel famous.

When you have played to hundreds then you will want to play to thousands of fans. When thousands have viewed your videos or downloaded your music, then it will feel normal to shoot for millions of video views, downloads and sales.

And you know what? In the Web age, going for millions of fans is just that: normal.

Let’s look at just one specific Internet development that underlines the new normal.

MySpace started in February 1999. In February 2008, MySpace has performer profiles numbering 13.4 millions. Musicians typically register for three profiles so 13.4 million profiles actually represents around 4.45 millions performers and bands.

That is quite several.

Each profile offers their visitor an average three songs to listen to. Which means that on MySpace.com alone, there are about 13.4 million songs posted.

That’s 13.4 million tunes.

Did you notice what just happened? In nine years (less than one decade) MySpace has compiled more songs faster than the record organizations.

Nearly four times more songs seven times faster!

What a record company nightmare. Worse, this is only one Web site that’s buried them. What about all the other music website s?

iTunes for example, are up to a million paid music downloads. Daily.

Has the game vary d or has the game vary d?

Has promoting your music Web just got easier or has it just got easier?

Even if you are currently sleeping on your buddy’s couch, you can  encourage  your band with little or no money. ( You will need a computer and Web access)

Free music marketing (as the name suggests) doesn’t cost money, but it will take some time, creative and determination. Ready?

1. Get an Email Account. Free email accounts are available from Gmail, Hotmail or a lot of other web-based email businesses. Simply go to their homepage and sign up for an account, and you will be up and going in minutes.

2. Get a MySpace Page. You could get the performer a MySpace website for free. There you could additionally load up some of your songs, photos, etc. Once you’ve your website up email all your companions and fans to come check it out and add them to your friend list. You could then contact them all at once to announce future gigs, song releases, etc.

3. Get Something to Sell. You cannot make any resources if you do not have anything to sell. When you are playing performances, even free ones could make you resources by selling stuff to the audiences. Make sure you have copies of your music on CD  or a flash drive to sell. You could also sell merchandise with your band’s name and logo on it. You could do this Online for free by session ting up a virtual storefront at CaféPress.com. They’ll give you a little store front web site and show how your logo looks on multiple items you select. Once an individual buys the stuff, they handle all the billing and shipping and send you a check.

4. Get a Sponsor. No, not an AA sponsor! I mean a company sponsor who will give your band resources to  promote  their company. Establish off by looking for “Angel” sponsors. These could be parents, grandparents or friends of the family who have a little extra resources to invest in your career. Then look to organizations who would benefit from advertising to the listeners you will be playing to. Auto dealers, clothing stores, soft drink or beer distributors, are likewise a wonderful prospects. Show them that their resources will be going directly into the creation of the marketing materials, and not the band beer fund! For example, you put their logo with yours on T-shirts, flyers, posters, banners, etc., in ex differ for them paying for the cost of creating those pieces.

5. Alert The Media. Contact Local radio and television station and offer to performance any on or off air get togethers or get togethers they are having. You might or might not get paid this time, but having your name on the minds and lips of the Local movers and shakers might only endorse your career. With a little work you might market your music for free and keep all the rewards yourself. people are doing this right now, and so might you. You just need to pick up several marketing tips, tricks and techniques prefer the pros use.