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Find a local college professor who teaches marketing. .
Yeah okay, I'll get right on that.

Find a local college professor who teaches marketing. .
Didn't figure you'd read past the first sentence when I made the post. But actually, for any performer with college-age listener appeal and good quality recordings this could be an interesting experiment, and probably not very hard to get implemented.Yeah okay, I'll get right on that.![]()
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Excellent idea! I may give this a go. Thanks XLRFind a local college professor who teaches marketing. Ask him to use your music promotion as a class project that will study methods and results of internet promotion. You give them pics, music files, bio material. The marketing class divides into groups, competing with each other by creating promo pages on the various sites - Myspace, Facebook... and measures their success by both the number of listens on the page, and the recordings you sell that were referred by that page. Of course, you'll have to make the sales method able to determine where the sales referral came from. Dunno if iTunes can, though they'd be the preferred sales method otherwise because they're universally trustable by the consumer. Online sale would be important in addition to physical CD sales, as customers can buy singles. You'd sell many more singles than full CDs.
My music is not for college kids. There are no acoustic guitars, whiny vocals, or political themes and I don't wear fingernail polish or care about the war or poverty or the environment. I don't know who my potential audience is. Maybe nazis or assholes in general?Didn't figure you'd read past the first sentence when I made the post. But actually, for any performer with college-age listener appeal and good quality recordings this could be an interesting experiment, and probably not very hard to get implemented.
No problem there.Here is some advice I got from a local music promoter. His name is Eddie Mattingly and his company is Trinity Music Productions.
First: It must be an exceptional CD. It has to be so good that no one can deny its excellence. Not just the music but the whole package. If it looks like a home studio project everyone will think of it as a home studio project.
No problem there.Second: A good bio of the artist and a good press release statement about the CD. Now, just like it takes a professional musician to produce a good song, it takes a professional to produce the bio and press release. These have to be brief and to the point. DJs and station managers are busy and don't have time to read a book. One page is enough.
My music is not radio friendly.Third: Send the CD (without the shrink wrap - again we don't want to waste their time), bio and press release to as many radio stations that play this kind of music as you can afford.
Again, it's not radio friendly.Fourth: After about a month, follow up with a phone call (preferably your publicist) asking if they got the package and what did they think about it. If they played it, thank them and ask if you could send future CDs to them. You don't want to waste your time and money sending CDs to radio stations that are not interested.
I'm a one man band. I can't do everything at once.Fifth: This is a must. The artist must get out and play live. Always be playing somewhere new and building new fans. Word of mouth is free and effective. Plus, this is where the artist gets to sell CDs.
Here's one way to get on radio. Do a local performance - you record alone so get sidemen on guitar and bass, you play drums and do lead vox. It'd have to be something other than a bar or club, like a college campus outdoor concert, a fundraiser for a local organization, or a hired concert by a local presenter. The sponsoring organization sends out your CD's to all local radio as part of their event promo. You can make this easy for them to do by making all the promo packet materials and just having them do the printing and signing of the letter on their letterhead. Local stations may give you airplay to promote the event, where they would have otherwise tossed your CD into the round file. Those that have independent programming ability may play your music afterward also. This worked for me, and got me a couple years of frequent airplay on several local radio stations, and lots of resulting CD sales.
Doesn't matter to me what you do or don't do. My couple posts in this thread are for the most part not to you specifically but to the general subject, which is an interesting one.
And yes I do know what your music is like. You don't think punk bands play colleges?
I was in a bar the other night and I asked the barky if I could put my CD on the juke box. She gave me the “are you crazy” look. But when I asked if she cared if I came in and played it live she said yes, meaning it'd be okay.
Your stuff lends itself to a three piece band. I don’t know if you sing and play simultaneously but if you do and got the right guys I really think you could make some waves.
I once said you’d be a hit at Sturgis.
Yeah I know all the hassles of bands and shit, but what you gonna do? Styles go around and come around.
merch table?How do i.....promote my album without using myspace or facebook because I fucking hate them?
yes it is.My music is not radio friendly.
again, yes it is.Again, it's not radio friendly.
merch table?
yes it is.
again, yes it is.
Big deal. Plenty of that around already. And not every song you do has to be radio-able. Just one or two.Pretty much every one of my songs is laced with morally questionable themes .
Make an edited version. I hear them all the time. Blanks not bleeps. It only makes the listener want to buy the unedited recording all the more.and outright profanity. If you know of a radio station in Houston, Tx that will play it, I'm all ears
Make an edited version.
How do I.....promote my album without using myspace or facebook because I fucking hate them?
.....promote my album without using myspace or facebook because I fucking hate them?
It's just gonna be the greatest album that no one will ever hear.![]()