Thinking Outside the Box
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It’s Thanksgiving and people are now in the mindset to buy stuff. People call tomorrow “Black Friday” and its one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Stores have crazy sales, and people line up at 3 in the morning to get in. It’s crazy.
You can do the same thing. I wrote about this in a previous blog post
Two Artist that are thinking outside the box are Anne Roos who is a celtic Harpist and author of the book “The Musician’s Guide to Brides” (great book by the way). She loves E-cards. She happen to notice that one ecard company uses instrumental music. She contacted them about using her music. They liked her music so much they have hired her to do some exclusive music for their cards.
John Solitro who is a solo guitarist/vocalist who just got paid a NICE amount of cash to play a YOGA session. He played an hour and walked out with a wallet full.
He was also looking for ways to make his press kit stand out. Well most people come up with a “one size fits all” press kit to hand out to bookers and club owners. If you’re just playing locally now, you can take your computer and make them personalized. Instead of “To Whom it May concern” start off with the person’s name. Then point out how you checked out their club, and what you liked about it. This shows you have done your homework. You could go to the club and take pictures and work that into the press kit. It shows that you did some homework.
There are more tips about making a press kit in my book “Get Your Band Out of the Basement.” and in the “Black Friday” theme you can get the book for $7.99 now through the end of the month (A savings of $5.00). This applies for both the ebook, or the unabridged audio book (both available for immediate download).
November 27th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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November 27th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Thanks for the post, and the deal on the book. I mentioned it on our website in a Black Friday deals for Musicians post.
http://detone8.com/black-friday-deals-for-musicians