• Music Promotion

    Do or Die: The Band-Fan Relationship

    Recently on my book marketing blog, I talked about why author publicity is more important than book publicity. The same is true in music promotion – the image of the band or artist far outweighs the publicity of any specific album, song, or product, and it relies on the always-important band-fan relationship. Why Build “Relationships” with Fans? The reason I…

  • Music Promotion

    Band Newsletters, Blogs, or Both?

    Two common music marketing tools for bands and other independent artists are blogs and newsletters. Given that their purpose is to do essentially the same thing – keep fans up-to-date on your goings on, do you really need to use both? Unfortunately there’s no simple yes-no answer here. While on the surface, they do the same thing, there’s more to…