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Why Your Brand Needs Publicist/PR PRo..NOW!

1. A (great) Publicist is a trained, professional writer.All quality public relations professionals spend ample hours in college writing classes, at seminars and conferences, and online learning exactly what, and how, to write for journalists, publications, and to catch the attention of executives, investors, and the general public. A great Publicist will be able to take your thoughts and information and formulate that information in to a quality, poignant piece of work that gets results.… Continue

Added by Dominique Anderson on October 12, 2009 at 6:49pm — No Comments

External Affairs (EA) Marketing Coordinator

Job Title: External Affairs (EA) Marketing Coordinator

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Catapult your marketing and event management career. Become part of the External Affairs team at SoundExchange, a Washington, D.C. - based non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio (s

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Added by MusicDish on October 2, 2009 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Big Services for Small Budgets

At VIDA we understand the public relations and marketing needs of a new business or entertainer. We have launched our packages for small businesses and entertainers. We are offering a selection of our services,that are useful for successfully promoting your brand, at deeply discounted rates. Press Kits- $400 Includes: Bio, Fact Shee, Photo(s), Previous Media Coverage, Press Release(s), Show or Tourates, Discography, Links to music, links to performances, acting or DJ resume Press Release- $10… Continue

Added by Dominique Anderson on September 25, 2009 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Mi2N Offers August Discount Special On It's Music PR Service

Leading music industry news portal Mi2N is running a special promotion for its Music PR service. For the month of August, Mi2N is offering a 10% discount on all its PR packages, ranging from the discounted prices of $8.95 for PR Express to $161.95 for PR Platinum Video - meeting the needs of various marketing budgets in today's economic climate.

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Added by MusicDish on August 7, 2009 at 7:08am — No Comments

Massive Music Announces Discounted Viral Promotion Strategies Coupled With Digital Distribution

Massive Music offers a complete solution for your music. Worldwide Digital Distribution backed up by intelligent and eco-friendly marketing options, which require no printing, no mailing, no packaging and no postage. Get you music heard with minimal impact on the planet.

Our experienced staff will create digital

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Added by MusicDish on June 23, 2009 at 3:22pm — No Comments

We help those, who help others...

Stimulus Package #1 Customer referral program** which entitles anyone in the world to make a $100 commission from the sale of a website created by Nimbus-MediaGroup.com "We believe in the power of customer referrals and we deliver complete advocacy. Discover how Nimbus-MediaGroup.coms' referral programs* transform the classic word-of-mouth concept into a powerful proactive financial tool for your business," st… Continue

Added by Nimbus Media Group on April 22, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Musicians and Artists: Don't be a rude traveling salesman

Article (c) 2009 Hits A Million, LLC All rights reserved In my previous posts on musicians and artists being traveling salesmen, I discussed why it's important to always have your music on you, what type of product to have on you, to travel to spread your brand and product, and to alwa… Continue

Added by Thedy B on April 18, 2009 at 12:30pm — 9 Comments

Search Engine Success 7 Essential Steps

Search Engine Success: Time for a Tune-Up Make your site more attractive to search engines and directories. There are many techniques used to gain better positioning in search results, but the most important are... Own Your Own Domain Name Don’t let your site be discriminated against. If you don't have your own domain a savvy searcher will be much less likely to click through to your site than if your Web address is simply www.mydomain.com. It is more professional. Also, some en… Continue

Added by David V. Thomas on February 27, 2009 at 8:28pm — No Comments

MiniMizz ::: The Series Begins

Hey y'all, I'm easing back into blogging, but they have to be mini blogs since I have a very short attention span, in addition to teaching, going to school myself and moving house all in the next 6 weeks. I've also had a few people hit me up here to ask me diff questions regarding branding that I think can benefit everyone. But I have some questions for you, too. Let's start with... how are you building your brand? Have you planned it out carefully or are you doing things as you come a… Continue

Added by Rikki on February 1, 2009 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Musicians Must Be Traveling Salesmen - Pt. 3 Your Music CD

I've been blogging about networking offline for awhile now. Thank you for all of your great comments indicating that these blog series have been extremely helpful in stepping up your networking both online and offline! Remember that I gave you over 30 places where you can network offline i… Continue

Added by Thedy B on January 19, 2009 at 9:48am — 4 Comments

Traveling music professionals must carry samples!

(c) 2009 Hits A Million, LLC All rights reserved. In my last blog entitled Music professionals must be traveling salesmen, I talked about always being ready to sell your music. Let's take that step another step further. If… Continue

Added by Thedy B on January 19, 2009 at 9:47am — 2 Comments

Why do you work to get your music on the radio?

For many people that write and perform, they believe they have arrived once they get their music on the radio. One thing that artists should understand is labels call the departments that get music on the radio the PROMOTIONS department. Getting your music on the air is supposed to promote it for sales. Now I do understand some feel getting their music on the radio is a good way to get noticed by record labels (and it is), but ones primary reason to getting on the air should be to SELL records.… Continue

Added by Renard Michael Mayfield on January 16, 2009 at 1:01pm — 9 Comments

Promotion time or Perfection time?

Is right now the right time to promote yourself or perfect yourself???? With the internet being so easily available to aspiring music professionals, many see various websites like MySpace, Youtube, Facebook Hitsamillion.ning.com as being an open playing field for online promotions, advertising, and marketing. Many artists are told that they HAVE to promote themselves to get heard. Many believe that if they just got heard, then it would open up so many d… Continue

Added by Thedy B on January 5, 2009 at 12:17am — 2 Comments

Be a TRAVELING musician

What I'm about say is probably not new to you. Some of you may do this and some of you needed a reminder. So I wrote this away. Next do you TRAVEL to perform your music? In my last posts on musicians being traveling salesmen, I discussed having samples of your music and music for sale with you at all times. However, the assumption I made is that you, as an indie artist, are out actually traveling with your music. Do you go offline and perform your music? Or are you only looking to be heard onli… Continue

Added by Thedy B on January 4, 2009 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

Music professionals must be traveling salesmen

In one of my prior blogs entitled, "Is MySpace making aspiring artist miss opportunities?" I advis… Continue

Added by Thedy B on January 1, 2009 at 2:21pm — 9 Comments

5 Ways For Independent Artists AND Labels To Make Their Music 'Count'

Part One "Register Your Music With SoundScan" How many of you are familiar with Nielsen Soundscan and the important role the company plays in the music business? For those of you that may not have heard of them, SoundScan is an music industry service that tracks retail and alternative sales of music. The company is owned by Neilson (who also owns Billboard and BDS - a radio tracking service). We will discuss the importance of those companies at a later date. SoundScan is an important se… Continue

Added by Promote an Artist on November 24, 2008 at 1:09am — No Comments

Selling CDs, a lesson from the Majors

Verizon Pumps Up Volume on New Beyonce Album

For the first time, Verizon V Cast Music subscribers could get advance downloads from Beyonce’s new album, which drops tomorrow Verizon Wireless is offering its customers downloads of tracks from Beyonce’s new album through it… Continue

Added by Promote an Artist on November 18, 2008 at 1:11am — No Comments

Promoting your CD and a worthy cause.

I wanted to share this tidbit with the HitsAMillion family. I know your brain will start thinking up some ideas about what else can be done. Peace & Blessins Lessinz LifeLessinz Entertainment

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Added by Life Lessinz on October 31, 2008 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Get your Company Logo on 10,000 Fliers for $25

Costs: $25 for the small banner, ex: light $50 for the medium banner, ex: club bash $75 for the long banner, ex: apple $100 for 1/2 pg ex: Obama How many Fliers will my company be placed on? 10,000 Where are these fliers going? To clients, networking events, in relevant newspapers (ie: Creative Loafing) etc. When will they be distributed and where? The Fliers Promotion will begin Black Friday at Malls in Atlanta, GA and Detroit, MI they will then be utilized in some post card promotions, ema… Continue

Added by Nimbus Media Group on October 27, 2008 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Lyrics Marketing

For all of you who were at the Hits A Million Chat time when I discussed getting money for using product names in your lyrics, I mentioned that I would provide the relevant contact information to you. As I mentioned, this agency is looking for lyrics which target brands and companies. Well, as promised, here's the website with all the contact information: http://lyricsmarketing.com. Continue

Added by Thedy B on October 22, 2008 at 1:29am — No Comments