Here is a simple checklist for effective band promotion, if you want to gain some of the company entertainment and marriage entertainment party market:

Band Promotion Checklist

• A catchy, relevant and memorable name always advocate s. It is worth putting time into choosing a name that spells out what you do.

• A professionally recorded demo either live or studio. If your demo doesn’t sound great, then you can as well give up! Clients do have ears and they can lack the imagination to ‘picture’ what you can sound like.

• A professional designer website is a must these days. Cheesy websites with flashing backgrounds and banners are out. A MySpace.com page is no place to direct a potential corporate client in my opinion.

• (TASK: contemplate a corporation that you would prefer to become a client of yours. Now go to their web site and have a look. That is what their benchmark is and that is what their event and marketing staff are looking for.) Invest in a quality web site for performer promotion!

• A picture paints a 1000 words. A excellent photo is mandatory. Locate a professional photographer and get some shots taken for your performer promotion.

• Biographies are something that you need to devote some time to writing and re-writing for nice band promotion. You need to mention your accolades and achievements, while likewise being concise and to the point. Don’t be afraid to ‘brag’ a little. Musicians are generally coy or modest in this area and need to  encourage  themselves a little bit more assertively.

• A professional video may really get potential clients particularly interested in your band. Occasionally they may call and book you just on the strength of your video. Once again, if you’re meaningful about band promotion, you really need to give your clients this impression. Invest!

• Get some advertising. Advertising may take a lot of forms. A great deal of entertainment bookings are transacted Internet. Magazines, yellow pages, newspapers may be effective although niche directories which are optimised for search engine visibility may be  surprisingly fee effective. You may learn google advertising secrets through certain websites on the Web. Web marketing is an artform in itself, so be patient and get good advice.

• Posters, flyers, postcards, direct mail, telemarketing and networking are all other forms of band promotion you can definitely benefit investigation.

Below are 5 “Guerilla” ways to  encourage  your band Web :

1. session -up a MySpace Music Page

MySpace.com isn’t just for children, in fact the majority MySpace.com users are in their late adolescents to early 40’s – likely the demographic your band is looking to market to. MySpace.com music pages allow musicians the ability to post information about upcoming events and even upload their songs. The Black Eyed Peas, U2 and Don Henley are just some large names artists who have leveraged MySpace.com for promoting their band.

2. Start a Blog

Blogs are simple and free to start. They allow you to connect with your listeners on a more individual level. Blogging is a wonderful way to build word of mouth advertising and help for upcoming shows.

3. Establish a Profile on Last.fm

Last.fm is a website perfect for performer promotion, it logs every song you performance and like MySpace, you could upload songs to your performer profile for individuals to listen to and comment on. Last.fm allows you to build communities and connect with audiences from all over the world.

4. Flickr

Band promotion is made easy with Flickr. A one step upload process allows you to share photos of your performer with companions, family and listeners.

5. Post on YouTube

Do you’ve any video of your performer playing live? Throw them up on YouTube, it is free and people are bound to watch it. The Web offers countless ways to assist you with your performer promotion endeavor s.

Unleash your creativity now and explore the guerrilla in you!

I am going to lay out a couple of easy -to-use performer promotional suggestions for you…

Successful band Promotions Establish With Your Marketing Abilities

Tricks To Selling More CD’s At performances

1st make sure at every performance you are placing your CD  sales table in the correct place. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen artists who session up their CD  sales table in the darkest corner of the Venue.

Think about it for a moment…If you were at a Venue and listening to a band. Then, out of the corner of your eye… You happen to see a table performance up with CD’s for sale. Except, it’s in the corner, and away from all the action at the Venue…Would you go check it out, or even think about it?

When you get performances at a new Club the 1st thing you must do is scope out the place for the the majority strategic spots available for your compact disc  sales table. Heck, there are some artists that  set up their table right in front of the stage! Yet another great place for  set ting up your compact disc  sales table is by the entrance to the bathroom of the Club…I know it may sound strange, but contemplate it. Everyone there is bound to pass by your compact disc’s, and if you’ve one of your “Street Team” members selling compact disc’s at the table. Then, recruit another “Street Team” member to literally walk straight up to individuals asking them “Do You Have The compact disc  Yet?” at the Club while you’re playing – Your compact disc  sales will go through the roof!

Just be sure to have the one walking around lead the individuals who say that want to buy your CD  straight to the CD  sales table. This will allow them to go straight back into the crowd to gather more listeners for you!

Collecting Fan Email Addresses

Likewise make sure you make it easy for people to leave email addresses at your compact disc  sales table. Even better, would be to get people to give you the email in the middle of the gig. You can make up an “Email Song” then have an individual pass around a guest book where everybody leaves their email address.

If you’re not gigging your only option is to visit chat rooms and forums and talk to people and collect email addresses. Why collect all of these email addresses? simple… You will be strating a “Band Newsletter” to stay in touch with your potential listeners, and compact disc  buyers!

Let me reveal to you my 10 awesome Internet promotion secrets to get more orders starting now!

1. Start a free electronic book directory on a specific topic at your web site. people will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and might see your product ad.

2. Turn part of your web site into a members only web site. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products.

3. Add a free classified ad section to your web site. You may then trade banner ads with other Internet sites that have free classified ad sections.

4. Create two versions of your e-zine so people can pick Assuming that they want ads included with it or not. This’ll attract the people who hate ads to subscribe.

5. Publish your e-zine only on your web site. Have people subscribe to a “new issue” e-mail reminder. This might really increase your traffic and sales.

6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You could sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products.

7. offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit again and again to get the visitor bonuses.

8. Allow individuals to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return If the y’ll refer their friends to your web site.

9. Build up the number of individuals that join your free affiliate program promptly by temporally provide ing your product for free to the individuals that sign up.

10. Negotiate with e-zine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run.

May these Internet promotion secrets advocate you to make a lot of resources.

“We try to listen to our fans and they’ve been saying for years that we should play at Rock on the Range,” said Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe. “We’re really excited to play one of America’s great rock festivals.”

Corey Taylor of Slipknot says, “Being asked to headline Rock on the Range is an absolute pleasure! Columbus, Ohio has always been very good to us. The line-up looks great; the shows look fantastic. And I personally think it will be an absolute blast for everyone. See you in May!”

Presented by Right Arm Entertainment, Crew Stadium and AEG LIVE, the two-day, multi-stage music festival and lifestyle event will feature a potent line-up of more than 35 of the world’s leading bands. This year’s well-rounded mix of rock’s top artists also includes The Used, Buckcherry, Shinedown Atreyu, Chevelle, Flyleaf, Saving Abel, Saliva, Blue October, Hoobastank, Black Stone Cherry, and many more.

This marks the third outing for the annual event, which has drawn more than 85,000 people over the last two years. The rock festival features include the addition of a 3rd stage, the Jägermeister Music Stage, on-stage fan platforms — for Rock on the Range contest winners — and an expanded vendor village.

In 2009, Rock on the Range will also further increase their “Go Green” initiative via Rock on the Range “Go Green,” an online portal that allows fans to recycle old cell phones and mp3 players for free tickets and Rock on the Range memorabilia and official music festival merchandise. Rock on the Range is the first music festival to have an web-based recycling trade-in rewards component. More information can be found at Rock on the Range Go Green Website.

Tickets for Rock on the Range, as well as VIP Packages that include music festival tickets, hotel accommodations and music festival merchandise, go on sale Saturday, February 21 at 10:00 AM (ET) via www.RockOnTheRange.com and www.ticketmaster.com, all local Ticketmaster outlets and at the Crew Stadium box office. Two-day music festival packages will start as low as $99.50.

Rock on the Range: Streaming LIVE

In 2009, Rock on the Range will also be streaming the Festival live via www.SyncLive.com.  Also, by request we’ll be offering an embedded player that can be added to your MySpace, blog or website.

For up-to-the-minute info on Rock on the Range 2009, visit www.RockOnTheRange.com or www.myspace.com/rockontherange.

Rock on the Range: Where Rock Lives!

This Year’s Rock on the Range Festival Lineup (Subject To Change):

• Mötley Crüe
• Slipknot
• Alice In Chains
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Korn
• Buckcherry
• Shinedown
• Chevelle
• Flyleaf
• Saliva
• Saving Abel
• Blue October
• Hoobastank
• Atreyu
• Black Stone Cherry
• Trapt
• Static X
• Sick Puppies
• The Used
• Billy Talent
• All That Remains
• Crooked X
• Pop
• State Of Shock
• Cavo Framing Hanley
• Adelita’S Way
• Burn Halo
• The Leo Project
• Halestorm
• X Factor 1
• Charm City Devils
• Drive A
• Early Pearl

The venue features artists from different genres and is relatively small with a downstair and an upstairs for viewing down on the stage.   I Have seen legendary guitar man and Dave Matthews collaborater Tim Reynolds, American Idol runner-up Bo Bice, Billy Bob Thornton, Sister Hazel, and has Hoobastank, and Red Jumpsuit apparatus coming in this weekend.  I tend to like these intimate venue where you can right in front of the stage as well as watching the show from the bar across the way.  On top of that it has a great bar upstairs that allows you to fuel up and watch the show over the railing down below.

A great place to see a show and you can visit their site at www.Freebirdlive.com and check out their upcoming shows.  This has become a staple at the beaches with top flight talent and great local bands too.  Btw, good drink specials that you can partake in, but good to have a designated driver.

Michaelson is just one of the great artists that they get through Easy Street.  She is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter, probably best known for her single “The Way I Am.” Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill,  as well as in Old Navy’s Fall 2007 Fair Isle advertising campaign.  She has built quite a following with over 135,000 friends on Myspace and touring regularly.

Some of the artists that have been through there over the years include Mudhoney, Rocket from The Crypt, Luna, Jim White, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and the Presidents of the United States of America amongst others.   Very cool in-store experience and one of my personal favorite venues.

On top of that HMV recently bought 14 stores from rival Zawi that has collapsed and is in bankruptcy. It appears to be a very good move for them as they needed a re-structuring of their model as the music business has shifted away from the CD and more towards the live touring. With this model they will be able to offset the losses with the part of the business that is really working.

Time will tell whether this was a good move, but clearly HMV had to make a move or they were going to be extinct shortly.

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PG3 turned me on the spot when he was visiting recently and you need to check it out next time you are in the area. You can get a flavor for it online as they stream live many of the shows from there on a weekly basis, but it can’t replace being there in person. One great act I saw recently online was Grammy nominee Cedric Watson, who is nominated for best Cajun/Zydeco album of the year.

The Triple Door is one of the best Live music Venues in the greater Seattle area and in the United States. They have incredible talent performing there nightly and have great cuisine from China and Southeast Asia.

The Mainstage is The Triple Door’s centerpiece. Restored and updated from the bones of the historic Embassy Theatre, this 300-seat performance space is at once timeless and modern. The classic look of the gold-framed, red-curtained stage blends seamlessly with the contemporary, sleek, uncluttered array of half-moon booths and free-standing tables.

Arranged in tiers, the Mainstage provides clear sight lines from every seat. The intimate dimensions mean that even the late arriver to a sold-out show is no more than 35 paces from the stage. And for those get-up-out-of-your-seat acts, the tables directly in front of the stage can be cleared to make way for a dance floor.

Every particular of the Mainstage—in interior design, sound and lighting—is aimed at making the show come alive for the audience. Even the free-standing chairs used in the theatre have a special quality: they’re easy to rock in time with the music.

The Mainstage is also well-equipped for special functions, from large-scale parties to corporate or media events. And, of course, there is a fully-appointed kitchen—featuring a Wild Ginger-inspired menu—and complete service bar for all food and beverage requirements.

You can check out there upcoming events for live music and entertainment on their calendar. BTW, if you are in the greater Seattle area make sure to stop by:

216 Union Street

Seattle, Washington

98101