Members Facing Failure Posted February 2, 2006 Members Share Posted February 2, 2006 Let me tell you...when you're doing the self booked diy tour and all that craziness....emailing the newspapers, music magazines, radio stations, etc in all the towns your going to is a {censored}ing pain in the arse. Thank god for the musicians atlas and the indie bible. And thank god for byofl.No real point to this thread, just sharing that this part of the job sucks ass. Oh to be able to afford a GOOD manager... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LateGreats Posted February 2, 2006 Members Share Posted February 2, 2006 It is SO worth it, though. A little press goes a long way, especially if you hit a publication that a lot of people see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Facing Failure Posted February 3, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 3, 2006 yeah. I know that it's probably going to pay off, which is obviously why I'm doing it....but I'll be good god damned if it ain't tedious work. This is seriously the most drawn out boring thing I've ever had to do for band business type stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SanDiego333 Posted February 4, 2006 Members Share Posted February 4, 2006 I've worked in the publicity / PR / marketing industry for nearly 25 years and have been doing research on breaking out on my own as a musician rep / publicist. Any of you care to share what would be most important to you from a manager / PR agent? What would you look for? What makes it worth the $ cut? Why and /or why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Facing Failure Posted February 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 6, 2006 Originally posted by SanDiego333 I've worked in the publicity / PR / marketing industry for nearly 25 years and have been doing research on breaking out on my own as a musician rep / publicist. Any of you care to share what would be most important to you from a manager / PR agent? What would you look for? What makes it worth the $ cut? Why and /or why not? My band's going on a 10 day east coast tour.....Thus far I've done all the bookings, creating of promotional materials, figured out the expenses, and I've spent all my free time sending out emails to newspapers, radio stations, college radio stations, local music magazines, webzines and other assorted online media and I'm still not done with those emails, plus I've gotta send out the press kits, tour posters, handbills, flyers, cd's, etc to the venues along with any of the places I'm emailing that want/need any of those things. But we're a pretty much unknown new band, we're unsigned, etc...so we're doing this all out of pocket and without any sort of connections or any sort of guarantee that any of this will help us out in the long run. If I knew that a PR/publicist could get us some guaranteed SOLID radio play and some good media buzz for all the towns we were hitting without question, like, the rest would just be internet buzz, and you can get your friends, myspace, and livejournal to take care of that. Cause if we had some way of knowing that we were guaranteed gonna be able to have that media buzz....people are stupid, man...people will come if the radio and the media says it's the cool new thing. And then it's up to you for longevity. I'd take a pay cut for some solid press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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