Friday, August 23, 2013

Take Another Little Piece Of Your Heart….And Put It In An Email


If you love music, but not enough to learn to play an instrument, you may have found yourself on the business side of the industry. Maybe you tried being a musician and just got frustrated and needed a more reliable way to support yourself. Maybe you shattered every bone in each of your hands in a bizarre merch-transaction gone horribly wrong. Either way, I won’t judge you. Many aspiring managers, PR reps and so forth utilize email blasts to reach a large number of potential clients with a limited amount of effort. This is known as a “throwing spaghetti at a wall” (...and seeing what sticks) strategy. It’s a legitimate tactic that can work well. But some would argue that you’d get a higher positive response rate with much fewer personalized and researched emails. This would involve spending a lot of time skimming through unsigned bands for ones that you sincerely want to work with/for, then making you’re offer sound like it was written just for them (which it was) and give them the sense that you really enjoy and believe in them. They’re both fine ideas but no solid way of knowing which is better. In fact, it’s probably beneficial to at least try both. There isn’t necessarily a good a reason you can’t do both at the same time. For more a passionate (one-sided) appeal to the slow-and-steady method, follow the link below:


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