Nakatira
That Norwegian Bastard
Dumbest shit I've heard, playing live is everything, thats were one can make some cash too.
your band sucks to much for you to experience it
Dumbest shit I've heard, playing live is everything, thats were one can make some cash too.
your band sucks to much for you to experience it
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Greg_L
Banned
Dumbest shit I've heard, playing live is everything, thats were one can make some cash too.
your band sucks to much for you to experience it
We'll make more at our next gig than you will in a year. That's okay though, you carry on "living the dream" with your faggy jumpsuits, transsexual guitarist, and your flute.
Nakatira
That Norwegian Bastard
We'll make more at our next gig than you will in a year. That's okay though, you carry on "living the dream" with your faggy jumpsuits, transsexual guitarist, and your flute.
Yeah like being a suporting act at uncle albert pays well.
Btw I dont make any money with my band, all the money goes into the band, so that we never have to pay for thsirt, banner and cd priniting
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Greg_L
Banned
You have no idea.Yeah like being a suporting act at uncle albert pays well.
Btw I dont make any money with my band, all the money goes into the band, so that we never have to pay for thsirt, banner and cd priniting
Happy hour started early today, huh?
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UrbanKlass
New member
serious?
Ok, so for those who are interested in music marketing in todays ever-growing internet world - I'm going to let you in on a few things.
1. Spend money to make money - you get out what you put in, if you're looking for free means of promotion, choose another niche/business whatever.
2. Everything is free for the listener at first - you can't expect people to pay for your music in mass quantity until you've gained their respect as an artist.
3. To gain respect, relate to them - if you're writing the same old bollocks as every other musician it gives listeners nothing new to think about. It's as tiresome as hearing lil wayne 'rap' about money, drink and drugs or ludacris jumping on another terrible track about 'love' with that beiber kid.
4. The music industry is just like any other industry - give the consumer something for nothing to catch their interest, once you have their interest, feed it over and over. Keep them wanting.
To plan your marketing is easy, to actually do it is often not. Find inspiration and motivation and do what you got to do.
Just for the record - myspace is no longer deemed useful in music promotion. Facebook on the other hand, is an extremely powerful tool for marketing when used properly. We started up and tested a 'fanpage' with Facebook, ran specific promotion campaigns, and saw the fanbase shoot from 3 to 481 in 6days. Then we stopped all promotion and left the page hanging by itself, and in the next 7days we only saw an increase of 6 fans. A lot of decent online promotion is expensive, but it's the fastest means to get heard by many.
Hope this helps some of you...
Ok, so for those who are interested in music marketing in todays ever-growing internet world - I'm going to let you in on a few things.
1. Spend money to make money - you get out what you put in, if you're looking for free means of promotion, choose another niche/business whatever.
2. Everything is free for the listener at first - you can't expect people to pay for your music in mass quantity until you've gained their respect as an artist.
3. To gain respect, relate to them - if you're writing the same old bollocks as every other musician it gives listeners nothing new to think about. It's as tiresome as hearing lil wayne 'rap' about money, drink and drugs or ludacris jumping on another terrible track about 'love' with that beiber kid.
4. The music industry is just like any other industry - give the consumer something for nothing to catch their interest, once you have their interest, feed it over and over. Keep them wanting.
To plan your marketing is easy, to actually do it is often not. Find inspiration and motivation and do what you got to do.
Just for the record - myspace is no longer deemed useful in music promotion. Facebook on the other hand, is an extremely powerful tool for marketing when used properly. We started up and tested a 'fanpage' with Facebook, ran specific promotion campaigns, and saw the fanbase shoot from 3 to 481 in 6days. Then we stopped all promotion and left the page hanging by itself, and in the next 7days we only saw an increase of 6 fans. A lot of decent online promotion is expensive, but it's the fastest means to get heard by many.
Hope this helps some of you...
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Greg_L
Banned
Lol. Great thread. 
Chili
Site Moderator
...Facebook, ran specific promotion campaigns, and saw the fanbase shoot from 3 to 481 in 6days. ..... A lot of decent online promotion is expensive, but it's the fastest means to get heard by many.
Hope this helps some of you...
I wouldn't pay any money to get 481 likes on Facebook.
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Greg_L
Banned
Gigging and touring is a joke too. It's all pointless. All that matters is luck and sucking ass.
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Greg_L
Banned
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JeremyGilbert
New member
The first step of marketing your music online will be creating a website to sell your music online. Your website will both show off your talent to the visitors and convert them into fans who buy your music.
Good online marketing campaigns are usually backed with powerful email management system called auto-responders which are very useful for storing your contacts and scheduling emails to go out to your new subscribers telling them your music.
Good online marketing campaigns are usually backed with powerful email management system called auto-responders which are very useful for storing your contacts and scheduling emails to go out to your new subscribers telling them your music.
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JeremyGilbert
New member
The first step of marketing your music online will be creating a website to sell your music online. Your website will both show off your talent to the visitors and convert them into fans who buy your music.
Good online marketing campaigns are usually backed with powerful email management system called auto-responders which are very useful for storing your contacts and scheduling emails to go out to your new subscribers telling them your music.
Good online marketing campaigns are usually backed with powerful email management system called auto-responders which are very useful for storing your contacts and scheduling emails to go out to your new subscribers telling them your music.
mjr
ADD -- blessing and curse
Hey Greg. Have you tried guerrilla marketing? I'm sure there are music stores/bars in your area. Print up some fliers, and ask the bars/stores if they'll put them up for you. Go to a music store with a few CDs with 3 or 4 of your songs on them, and just ask if the manager will allow you to just give them away.
Bob Baker usually has some pretty decent ideas. Music Marketing Promotion Tips, Book Promotion & Sales, Self Publishing, Online Branding, Bob Baker
Have you considered setting up your own website (not MySpace or FaceBook)? Then, you could just use whatever marketing materials that you have, and put your URL on there. Along with samples and where to buy.
Are there any upcoming festivals/parades/events in your area? What about showing up there and doing something similar? Go with maybe 100 or 200 CDs with 3 or 4 songs, and just hand them out.
You could always have a "street team". People that you get to do your promotion work for you.
Maybe you could make up a few t-shirts. I dunno, I'm just throwing ideas out there. But if you wanna go the website idea, hit me up. I might be able to help...
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samson smith
New member
OK sir, if you don't want to promote your music by MySpace and facebook. Then the best idea to communicate with the people that are following you and to a certain extent, the more posts you make the more people are check out your profile. It helps you to promote your music.