Monday update:
I spent a few hours on Saturday filling out a spreadsheet with names and addresses of people and publications I thought might not throw my new CD in trash immediately. Billboard, Magnet, Tape Op, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Illinois Entertainer, etc. From the spreadsheet, you have to perform a mail merge to get your labels, something that saves a ton of time, avoiding handwritten labels. Let me just give props here to my wife for handling this task. From there, I unfortunately decided to hand write notes to each contact, as if to annul the immediacy of the previous task:
"Hey, please listen to my CD. Write nice things about it. Talk about it in your brand, so people come to my brand."
This is the unfun part. I have 480 CD's sitting next to the cat litter in the basement. I need to get people to hear my music. Why, my brother asks. I'm not really sure. That's just what you do. Paperwork. Spreadsheets. Unit-pushing. Yuck. I completely understand why bands hire people to do this stuff. If I ever doubted there was a 'true artist' in me, I'm finding him now, and he just wants to write new songs.
If anyone's interested, I had a friend (Scott, comment-poster here...) begin to revamp the missionfromdog.com site. It's only a page for now, but it's up, and I'm taking orders. Have a look.
2 comments:
I know what you mean about promotion. I realized that to promote my book, I had to at least have some of it available for public consumption. In a fit of mad boredom, I redesigned my website last night and posted the first third of the novel.
I gave you plenty of shout outs on the site. In news, and music. I will also link from my home page. This should help you get indexed by Google.
I showed the design to some colleagues at work, and they like it. Very "art deco" meets po-mo. Or something like it. Areos says hey. Next time I'm over I will pick up some CDs for him and me.
Thanks for your help - love your new site - looks really slick.
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