Members SaintJames Posted November 12, 2013 Members Share Posted November 12, 2013 My band will be playing a couple of shows next month halfway across the country. The venue doesn't allow merch sales, but we still want to have a way for people to remember our name after the show and hopefully start to establish a following there (there's potential for this gig to be a regular thing). I've thought of doing 3 or 4 song demos on CD-Rs, full color printing on the discs and then putting them in paper sleeves. Disk Makers does this for a pretty reasonable price (around $1 a disc + the cost of sleeves). I figured I'd see if I could get some other ideas that might be cheaper since we'll be traveling on our dime there and back and don't have a ton of money to spend on this. Has anyone had any luck with like business cards with download codes on them or something like that? Any other ideas? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toober Posted November 12, 2013 Members Share Posted November 12, 2013 Provide pen and paper so people can give you their email address. Then you can always remind them of your band website and when you'll be around again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Howie22 Posted November 13, 2013 Members Share Posted November 13, 2013 I've been toying with the idea of those collapsible beer koozies for some time. Seems like they come in slightly under a dollar for smallish orders at most places. I'm sure you could do better if you were ordering several hundred or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMKEYS Posted November 13, 2013 Members Share Posted November 13, 2013 I would just pass out business cards on break that has contact info and your website. The best and most inexpensive thing you can do is play your asses off and mingle and spend some time with the people at the venue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SaintJames Posted November 13, 2013 Author Members Share Posted November 13, 2013 TIMKEYS wrote: The best and most inexpensive thing you can do is play your asses off and mingle and spend some time with the people at the venue. True that! And of course, we'll definitely have a clipboard out for a mailing list sign up.We do have a ton of CD Baby download cards from our last album that never sold and we were toying with the idea of handing them out... I'd just hate to give them the whole enchilada for free. And it seems the vast majority - of least the demographic of people that typically like us - still want a physical CD that they can pop in the car stereo on the way home and not just a card that they have to go to a website, put in a code and wait for a download first in order to hear anything.I think I'm still gunning for the demo CD. Perhaps a Bake Off or Band Garage Sale will help finance them, LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Christhee68 Posted November 13, 2013 Members Share Posted November 13, 2013 I saw a band play that had a roll of stickers with their band name/logo on them. They made a big production out of it. "It's butt sticker time!" the frontman would say and he would encourage all the ladies in the audience to come up to the stage and he would slap a sticker on their behinds. It seemed like fun and people walked out of their with their sticker. Another band I saw had a sheet of paper for you to put your email address. They would give everyone a sticker for signing up for the email list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMKEYS Posted November 13, 2013 Members Share Posted November 13, 2013 Christhee68 wrote: I saw a band play that had a roll of stickers with their band name/logo on them. They made a big production out of it. "It's butt sticker time!" the frontman would say and he would encourage all the ladies in the audience to come up to the stage and he would slap a sticker on their behinds. It seemed like fun and people walked out of their with their sticker. Another band I saw had a sheet of paper for you to put your email address. They would give everyone a sticker for signing up for the email list. I have some friends that did nipple stickers during spring break on south padre island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twostone Posted November 20, 2013 Members Share Posted November 20, 2013 Christhee68 wrote: I saw a band play that had a roll of stickers with their band name/logo on them. They made a big production out of it. "It's butt sticker time!" the frontman would say and he would encourage all the ladies in the audience to come up to the stage and he would slap a sticker on their behinds. It seemed like fun and people walked out of their with their sticker. Another band I saw had a sheet of paper for you to put your email address. They would give everyone a sticker for signing up for the email list. I used to pass out bumber stickers minus it's butt sticker time. Doubt it would fly gigging in all age family type of joints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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