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10 Tips For Indie Artists: How to Effectively Send Out Music
Making it in the music industry is very hard for indie artists and without presenting your properly it can be impossible. An artist can see themselves working for years and never move to the next level.
1. Always put a subject that gives the receiver a clear idea of what’s in the email.
2. Always introduce yourself and be sure to leave your contact info.
3. Don’t CC a bunch of people on the email. If you are sending it to a few people BCC so that everyone’s email addresses are not visible.
4. When forwarding a message, delete the previous info that shows who it was already forwarded to. (You don’t want everyone in your business.)
5. Do not send a whole album/mixtape full of tracks. Pick 3-5 that show you at your highest potential and send those.
6. When sending music to a DJ, radio station, etc – always be sure to send the ‘radio edit’ (clean version) first, as well as the explicit version. You don’t want to limit yourself. You want to be able to have your music played in clubs as well as on the radio etc.
7. It’s usually better to send a link to your songs instead of sending an mp3. You don’t want the person to have to download your track before they even hear it. Pay attention to how the sender wants to receive music, some people specifically ask for links. If you are sending to a gmail account, you might be safe sending mp3’s but you are always safe sending links.
8. Try to personalize each email instead of sending a generalized mass email. (Save that for your mailing list!) You will always get a better response talking to each person directly instead of sending the same message to a bunch of people and hoping that someone responds.
#GetPersonal
9. Always have a pretty clear idea of what you would like to accomplish with that person before you send the email. If you want them to just listen and give their opinion let them know. If you need help with promotion, tell them. Never just blindly send someone music without a goal in mind.
10. Always… ALWAYS proof read your emails before you send. Good grammar is more important than you think!
-If you follow these few small steps you will be on your way to getting a much better response!
The Run Down on Promoting Music
For a lot of recording artists, the desires of possessing a successful mixtape will continue to be that, just a aspiration. Why? Due to the fact most artist, sadly, do not recognize how to advertise a mixtape on-line and offer it. Learning how to sell a mixtape is a issue of studying marketing and advertising and revenue techniques as well as possessing a effectively designed prepare. A lot of rappers attempt to uncover totally free ways to promote songs on the internet,even so, in order to have a successful release you will want some upfront funds to invest into your project. Let us take a appear at some of the elements you'll have to take into account in your budget before you start mixtape promotion.
How To Make A Mixtape:
Assuming you will be releasing an all first mixtape AND have ready a composed program of motion, the following should be viewed as when financing your undertaking:
Defeat Leases and/or Exclusive Conquer Charges
Recording expenses
Graphic Style and design Expenses
Cd Duplication/Replication Costs
Tunes Videos
Miscellaneous Promoting Fees
Beat Leases, Unique Beats
If you do not make your own beats, you'll need to allot an volume of income for purchasing conquer leases or exclusive legal rights to beats. Whether or not you get beats on-line or offline is entirely up to you.
Let's use these figures for sake of instance:
You acquire ten beat leases on-line @ $50 for each lease with a distribution restrict of two,500 units.
Cost: $500
You obtain three distinctive beats on sale for $250 per instrumental with unlimited distribution rights.
Cost: $750
Recording
Your recording costs will change depending on the recording engineer you choose as nicely as the studio spot. If you are a do-it-your self musician and are capable of recording your own vocals, then you are going to conserve big listed here. In any other case consider the next practical figures:
Recording Rate: $50/hour with a minimal booking of 2 hours.
Let us say it normally takes you and the engineer 3 hrs to report and combine one tune.
For a mixtape of thirteen songs your expenses would be 39 hours x $50/ hour
Value: $1950
Audio Learning
Let's say that you use discmakers audio learning companies for your mixtape. Your expense for thirteen melodies would run $599.
Total recording expense: $2549
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