Music marketing and promotion guide.

Music marketing and promotion: Getting through to your fans

Music promotion can be quite a challenge. One fatal mistake that many musicians make is to try to reach everybody at the same time. They waste a considerable amount of time and money trying to force everybody to embrace them.

If you want to succeed at music marketing and promotion, you must follow a different path. First of all you need to define your unique identity as a musician. You must discover what it is that distinguishes you from everybody else, in clear and unambiguous terms. Don't be just another pop, rock or hip hop act. Be yourself, and know yourself.

Now that you know who you are, the next step is to know who your fans are. What is it that excites them? What is their culture? Where do they hang out? What is their lifestyle like? I try my best not to alienate myself from my fans. After all without fans you are no where. I try to mix with them sometimes, so as to 'feel' them.

Music marketing and promotion also includes clearly identifying what your fans want. Refine your act, and hence your songwriting, to suit their wants (not their needs). Give them what they want!

The mistake that a lot of songwriters and musicians make is to force their own preferences down people's throats. It doesn't work in the regular business world and won't work in the music business. If you take music as nothing but a hobby, ignore me. But if you're running a business, you should see some light in my position.

Now that you know who your fans are and what they want, you need to find out through what mediums you can reach them. Find out what newspapers and magazines they read, what websites and forums they visit, what radio stations they listen to, and so on.

Do your music marketing and promotion through the mediums which you've identified and selected. In other words, since you know where they are, you go where they are.

Don't try to promote your music to everybody. Start by targeting a specific group of people and carry out your music promotion.

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