Tag: music marketing
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Fox Lake Illinois crystal store
I had some time to spare while I waited for the Metra Train in Fox Lake today so I walked to a crystal store to look around. I bought a crystal while there and had a nice conversation with the lady working there. I saw their bulletin board on the wall near the entrance so…
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Why your playlist isn’t getting followers
Music streaming platforms have complicated algorithms monitoring listener behavior, song performance and playlist engagement among many other streaming statistics. I have read that the Spotify algorithm also monitors blogs and other online media to gage off-platform performance of songs and playlists. There are so many things the algorithm is designed to determine and many of…
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Someone scanned my music marketing coffee mug QR code today
I was walking with my playlist promotion coffee mug today and someone asked me about it so I said “scan it”, and they did. The QR code took them to the coffee mug playlists page on submittoplaylists.com When I first designed the coffee mug artwork I was hoping that it would stand out enough to…
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Independent Music
‘Indie’ does not refer to a style of music as it was originally developed from the shortened form of ‘independent’ which was used to describe bands who were independent of any major commercial record label. These bands were signed to small start-up labels or who for one reason or another they chose to publish their…
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I ordered playlist promotion bumper stickers!
To further promote the pinboard playlists on submittoplaylists.com I have ordered bumper stickers for my car. The url to submit to playlists website is printed on the sticker along with the QR code that can be scanned with most smartphone cameras. Hopefully this will spread the word to local bands and artists looking to promote…
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The new music business
All the cables, cell towers, satellites that make streaming possible from nearly anywhere. The landscape for independent artists has become a beautiful field of color, a deep blue ocean, and an open gate with no keeper A book with blank pages that we can write. A new world of audio where having a record deal…
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One of the most effective music marketing campaigns I have ever launched as a DIY musician
I didn’t think much about it at the time, but looking back I can say that this is one of the most effective music marketing campaigns I have launched. I have tried so many things on other platforms including key word bidding, newspaper advertisements, sending CDs to radio stations though the mail, and many more.…
Coffee & a Playlist 