Promote your band with these Marketing Ideas

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Promote your band with these new marketing ideas.section and best of all easy management. Or if you
This is a paper on how to promote your band, overwant to cheap out just have a myspace site for
the past 12 months I have been in contact with anow.
hundreds of bands looking to become famous in LA.6. Make a professional music video for your band or
Everyone wants to be a overnight hit! Well it allgig. This will help with promoting your band. High
comes down to being discovered! You can be thequality Video can be found at many locations for a
best band in the world and if you don't marketcrew with experience one west coast call
yourself right well good luck! Lets analysis fortune310-694-8350 for east coast goto the best New
500 companies. Take a look at there budgets Theyyork production company click link or goto
dump 35% to 65 % or more of their profits back7. Saving the best for last Another great way to
into marketing and advertisements every year.promote your band is by making a music ringtone, or
Becoming and remaining number one requires a lot ofpolyphonic ringtone for example you can download a
work. Advancing to more and more new customersnickelback ringtone and wow free advertising
not only requires more and more marketing buteverytime someone calls that person and bam there
keeping the old ones happy!is a song on your phone. You need help making your
Wanting to Promote your band with Liveown mp3 or polyphonic ringtone please goto Music
performances and marketing new ideas well youRingtone Central By making a ringtone like nickelback
have come to the right spot.you can have your song ringing all over the world!
Once people have bought a bands music CD and theirYour goal is to continue to reach more and more
tee shirt, and seen the band live now what? Note,locals. Develop more ways to attract people's
promoting a band is a lot of more then just t-shirtsattention. Always have something on you to
and cds hell anyone can do that! You need topromote yourself with like the above exmamples of
promote your bands music in many ways, just lookmini dvd discs, music ringtone downloads and flyers!
at fortune 500 companies they email, do giveaways,In an area with one million people, if you are getting
mini dvd discs promos, cold calling, internet marketingless than 100 people to every show, perhaps you
etc. You must do at least 3 forms of promoting tocould be doing much more to reach more of the
get a response out of your audience. The newsiestpeople in the community?
one for bands is music mp3 ringtones which we willIts tough out there, and you must be relentless
get into later.every day to meet new people, shake hands and
We will go over many ways of promoting your band:hand out your mini DVD discs or if you can't afford
1. Great item that I have seen so far are mini DVDmini DVD discs get free business cards by going
discs called pocketreels. GOTO for more info on howonline to an online print shop like gotprint. Oh and
to pick them up. These mini dvds can go a far waysmile at people who are passing by you on the
just think what people would do if you handed themstreet and in stores when you are out shopping alone
a mini dvd. They go crazy and they are superor with friends, in bars carousing. Go out and meet
impressed! Place a nice music video of your band onnew people. Walk up to people, introduce yourself-
it and see how many new customers you receive atHi, my name is Scott I play at ___ ___ place on
your next show!blank night. What do you do? Here is my promo disc
2. Having a photograph or videoagrapher at your(mini DVD) with my video or here is my business
next show will help promote your band. They cancard with my website on it. You can download my
take pictures and or videos and upload the images ormusic ringtone (or my mp3 ringtone) for free at this
videos to your website which can boost mailing listsaddress. Hand them a card with the information on it.
and a fan club! This will compele your fans to comeNote always test all information you hand out before
to your next show and bring more friends or soak inhitting the road. Nothing is worse then a fan going
the opportunities for fame and the live musichome and trying to download your music ringtone
experience itself. For video or photographer outletsand it not working.
call PR Productions at 310-694-8350 for CALIFORNIAOnce or twice a week, you hit Kinko's, or the copier
only. They have the best crews around but they arenext to your office desk and you photocopy flyers
not cheap. Shoots start at $400 + editing.and any designs you've created for promotion of
3. That brings us to a mailing list, each visitor to youryour demos, etc. Better yet think ahead and goto
website should have their email address collected.much better deals then Kinko's. (EXAMPLE 5000 post
This will enable you to send them useful informationcards for $99 full color first side!)
like when your next show is going to be.Remember go armed for battle you would not go
4. Promoting your band is not easy so do your self ainto a war forgetting your gun would you? Make sure
favor and get a good publicist to promote your band.you have mini dvd discs, your own music ringtone
A good one can get you in 3 to 4 magazines andsongs, postcards with music info, website and
newspapers in one month for free, of course youpublicist! Good luck and most of all have fun with
have to pay the publicist but it will be well worth it. Itwhat you do! BLOG your experience at Hope all this
can range from $400 to $2000.helps!
5. Promote your band by creating a really coolMasters degree in Business, BS degree in Computer
website! Check out to make yourself a website withScience. Lived in LA for 2 years doing business
a CMS system. CMS stands for Content Managementconsulting for various firms industries include: Utilities,
system A good website will cost: starting at $1000music, video.