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Band Promotion – Life Size Vinyl Stickers and Other band Promo Ideas
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New repositionable vinyl stickers offer bands some excellent new promotional tools.
Promoting your band with vinyl stickers is a new way to get people talking. Vinyl stickers may be custom made with your band logo or life size photos of your band in action and of the band members.
What’s this new vinyl sticker material called? FotoSticks. Repositionable and reusable vinyl stickers that won’t harm walls. You can stick them up just about anywhere and then take them down and move them somewhere else. Assuming that they get dirty, just was h them off with warm water.
You might give away free and inexpensive smaller vinyl stickers while selling life size stickers to create a promotion that funds itself.
Booking Your Band
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You’ve brought together three or four of the optimum musicians in town, and they’re jamming to your tunes. You’ve spent days and evenings writing and rewriting lyrics, and you’ve been working hard to optimum your sound. Lastly, after a lot of months of practice, you are ready to reap the advantages of your hard work. But how do you begin?
Art Of Band Creation
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No wonder we all seek to express ourselves in some way. To achieve success in music we need a band, as a solo career is no longer popular. And now you are amidst decisions how to choose the performer members to share you dazzling ups.
Start Your Own Scene
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I hear a lot of people complain that their band can’t really get anywhere because there’s not much of a scene where they live. However I don’t see a lot of people doing anything about it. If there’s going to be a scene, someone needs to have the vision and initiative to start it. So if you don’t have a booming scene where you live – start your own! Here’s how:
How to RUIN Your Music Career in 7 Easy Steps
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Everybody wants to know the easy, proven steps to music success. Therefore, most experts offers tips and strategies to help you reach your goals in a positive light — including me.
Well, it’s time to shake things up and serve a new audience — which explains why this post takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the dark side: How to destroy your music career in seven easy steps …
Posting and announcing your gigs.
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So you have a show and you want to promote it. Many artists take this pretty simply. They post on their website, announce it on Myspace, share it on Facebook, sometimes list it on Craigslist and then maybe send it to a local music magazine. There is this idea that people will just make the effort to find out about you. Now in some cases that can be true, but with each gig and show it is much more effective to pull those that already know you, reach out to those that might be some what familiar with you and connect with people that have never heard of you before.
4 Ways to Get Signed
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For 99.9% of the bands out there their goal is to sign with a record label. Call it an acknowledgement of the hard work, a badge of pride for the years of sacrifice, gutting it out on the road, a platform for personal expression , delusions of money, whatever – the goal is to get signed. The truth is, getting signed is pretty damn hard on one hand and incredible easy on the other. Easy because in today’s industry there are hundreds of thousands of bush league labels and so called “label executives” looking to nickel and dime you. Assuming you have good judgment, stay away from these clowns. As for the beneficial situations, getting signed to a record label is pretty damn hard. There are layers upon layers of gatekeepers to push past in order to eventually, hopefully, sit down with the right person, the decision maker, in order to make your 10 minute pitch. If you can make it this far God bless you; but remember you need to deliver something different to standout because there are thousands of potential replacements waiting outside the door. If you can get in the door I’ll reveal the tricks to stay. Unfortunately in today’s industry, and you can argue with me until you’re blue in the face, but your actual music isn’t the dealmaker. Here are the 4 things executives will be secretly evaluating besides your music. Arm yourself with these tricks and impress the decision makers while increasing the chances you’ll get signed:
The Pursuit of Success in the Music Business
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For some the pursuit of success in the music business is nothing more than a quick dollar hustle. For others it’s more about fame and notoriety than art or financial independence. Some just like to express themselves through music and would love nothing more than to make enough money to do it full time. Others, while having respect for the culture of music are driven by the entrepreneurial opportunities available and see themselves creating and owning the next Universal Records. Maybe it’s a combination of all the above. No matter which description fits your situation the best, success in meeting your objectives will largely depend on how you answer the following two questions which are:
How To Encourage Your Independent Record Label
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We’ve located quite a few ways to promote our independent record label, new released music and new artists. Having your business information available to your targeted audiences is the central key. There has to be visibility!
Avoid Album Art Atrocities
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Your artwork is the gateway to your music
You only get one chance to make a good first impression. Why put your worst foot forward with amateur album art? Far too many independent artists put 110% into their music and production, only to slack on the other details surrounding their “product.” Imagine you’re in a super market and trying to choose a breakfast cereal. Brand X may be the greatest tasting thing since the invention of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but you’re never going to try it if it comes in a bland box with a washed out, pixilated photograph on the front. Now imagine Brand X comes in a blank white box with Sharpie magic marker writing on the front. (Yes, we get CDs like that at CD Baby all the time). Chances are you’d assume the FDA should be notified, and quickly.