I’ve witnessed friends take a shot in the dark down the promotional route with 100% of them moving onto other professions, but once in a while you meet an individual who defied the statistics.
If you’re an independent artist, let’s face it; unless you have a full-time booking agent and a strong marketing team behind you, you are in charge of sales and marketing.
Every band is creating a Facebook page, so why shouldn’t you? But, while your tutorials may have answered the “how,” no one has answered the question, “why” and “for what purpose?”
This particular piece will be about dealing with the bigger companies such as large scale venues, international promoters and record label managers.
SoundCloud launched the beta release of Takes Questions, a new experimental product that enables anyone to take questions and leave answers in audio, from their own customisable webpage.
Unless you’ve been fortunate enough to be backed by a major record label, chances are that you can’t afford to ignore the necessary and looming evil in a musician’s life that we all know as money.
