In your continuing efforts in cultivating how to start a music career, music promotion and music publicity efforts, and what-not, I want to draw your attention to a WONDERFUL resource for musicians, songwriters, Artists, and bands at: www.cmj.com. This site has a mailing list for successful music promotion and music marketing. Their continuously updated list of music festivals and song writing contests can be sent to your inbox along with instructions for easy, automated submissions of your music.
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I am constantly updated with their activities, and the amount of music promotion opportunities they provide is truly relentless. If you want to know how to start a music career, you need as many resources as you can get your hands on. The intent of this course is to gather these resources for you, all in one place.
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In keeping with the virtue of an automated approach to music promotion, music marketing, and music publicity, we must remember that, despite the much easier (and less bulky) “cyber-approach” to promoting your songs, it still requires effort. In a world that more resembles an episode of “The Jetsons” (as opposed to “The Flintstones”), let’s not forget that with better ease in getting things done comes a new form of laziness: cyber-laziness.
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The Jetson Family had a machine that could dial up a gourmet meal of turkey or steak with all the fixins’ in a matter of moments. They could even get their meal in “pill form.” Yet, when they came home from work after a long day of pushing buttons, the idea of pushing just a few more buttons to dial up their dinner was an exhausting task because, to them, that was the present-day “work” that was involved if one wanted to “eat.” They had no appropriate comparison to make regarding how much more difficult it was to take something out of the freezer and microwave it. How primitive (and yes, welcome to our own reality). Microwaving something takes a bit of work for us, a lot of work for some, but to the Jetson family, they would liken the task of microwaving food with having to grind one’s own flour and churn one’s own butter.
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My point is that all work is “relative” in terms of the task at hand, and depending on how far technology has advanced in an effort to ease the process of working. We are in the age of cyber music promotion. You can sell your music on itunes and sell instant downloads, upload your songs for consideration in music festivals, contests, and the like. You can book a gig online, send your music to a producer in London in seconds, and blast a press release around the globe in seconds. So why aren’t you doing these types of tasks? Because, as easy as things have gotten (technologically), it still requires the pushing of those buttons. SO… start pushing those buttons, and you’ll get your gourmet meal very soon. You might even grow a successful music career in the process. At the very least, you will know how to start a music career and become successful when you are “ready.”
More to come.
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