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The Biggest Reward Your Fans Hope to Receive
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Bard Marc Gunn
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Feb 25, 2004 05:52 PST
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Bards Crier's Music Marketing and Promotion Tips
http://www.bardscrier.com/
A free guerrilla music marketing and promotion ezine for unsigned
bands by the Brobdingnagian Bards, The Original Celtic Renaissance.
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In This Issue...
1. The Bards Crier News
2. Music Marketing Lesson
3. Recommended Reading
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1. The Crier
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INTO THE WEST OSCAR PARTY
In just a couple days we'll be in Hollywood performing at an Oscar
Party. If you have any suggestions of places to visit or go while
were there? Celtic radio stations, etc. Let me know. More about it
in today's music marketing lesson.
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2. Music Marketing Lesson
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"The Biggest Reward Your Fans Hope to Receive"
by Marc Gunn, Bard
Read the full article online at
http://bardscrier.com/articles/music_marketing_20040225.shtml
This weekend, we're flying to Hollywood. We are booked to
perform at the Into the West Oscar Party
(http://www.intothewest.net/), sponsored by New Line Cinema's
Official Lord of the Rings Fan Club. We are so psyched.
Unfortunately, I haven't done nearly as much promotion for the
event as I would've liked. After five years of promoting day and
night, I'm kinda burnt out. Fortunately, our fans aren't.
So when I got an email last week from Hagar "the Horrible" (he
dresses as a Viking at Renaissance Festivals and kinda looks like
the comic strip character) saying he wanted my permission to
email the TV stations about our Oscar Party gig, I was like,
"Hell, yeah! Why didn't I think of that?"
I didn't think anymore of it until a camera crew showed up that
evening. Jim Swift from KXAN News 36's "Out On The Porch"
segment ( http://kxan.com/Global/category.asp?C=16613 ) saw on
our website that we were playing that very evening and decided to
interview us.
The interview went fantastic and ran this past Sunday. It also got
me thinking. Why on this earth does Hagar continually go out of his
way to help us? What's in it for him?
There are many reasons. I hope to go into many of them in future
articles. But let me tell ye, it's not for any financial reward.
We don't pay him a thing. Actually, he won't even accept money
or free CDs. He does it mainly for two reasons.
One, we've educated our fans to promote us. Two, and more
importantly, it allows him to "pay us back" for the joy
we've given him.
Hagar isn't so horrible actually. In fact, he's a lot like you
and me. All we want is recognition for what we do.
The biggest reward your fans really hope to receive
comes from two emphatic and sincere words: "Thank you!".
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Marc Gunn, Bard of the Brobdingnagian Bards has helped 1000's
of musicians make money with their musical groups through the
BardsCrier.com and the Texas Musicians Network. Now you can get
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3. Recommended Reading
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HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC SUCCESSFULLY ON THE INTERNET
by David Nevue
Learn the marketing and promotion methods that one musician uses
to bring in over $5000 a month in income from the Internet! There
are no 'pipe dreams' sold here. The author details step-by-step
how he finally said good-bye to his day job and starting spending
more time on his music.
http://www.bardscrier.com/cgi-bin/music_promotion/jump.cgi?ID=16
THE GUERRILLA MUSIC MARKETING HANDBOOK by Bob Baker
This hefty manual delivers 11 chapters and 7 best-selling
reports -- over 120 pages of tips and tools you can use to
turbo-charge your music promotion activities.
http://www.bardscrier.com/cgi-bin/music_promotion/jump.cgi?ID=15
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Fine Tuning
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Marc Gunn, Bard
P.O. Box 4067
Austin, Texas 78765
http://www.marcgunn.com <-- Bard Marc Gunn
http://www.thebards.net <-- Brobdingnagian Bards
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