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The reality of depression and suicide has inspired artists to take part in the PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR, a music tour committed to reducing the stigma associated with mental health as well as making the access to help and hope for all safe and without fear.

Houston-based art rockers Blue October will headline the inaugural PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR–where impassioned artists join together to raise awareness and funds for depression and suicide prevention–and Atlanta-based hip-hop artist and producer B.o.B will open on the trek.

The PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR marks the first-ever tour solely benefiting suicide prevention in history. The month-long trek will launch Thursday, October 22nd at the Music Farm in Charleston, SC and wrap up with a two-night stand at Stubbs in Austin, TX November 20 and 21. See the full PUTP tour itinerary below; tickets are on sale now. To purchase, visit: http://www.putp.org and http://www.blueoctoberfan.com/pickupthephone/.

The PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR will launch with a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC Wednesday, October 21 at 10:00 AM. Justin Furstenfeld, the lead singer of Blue October, will be on hand to speak and perform an acoustic set before members of Congress as well as supporters of the tour partners 1-800 SUICIDE, PostSecret and TWLOHA.

Justin–who has struggled with bi-polar disorder most of his life–will be calling on Congress to fund both creative writing and art therapy programs as alternative options for mental health. The press conference will also urge Congress to fully fund the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act which provides the funding behind the majority of the suicide prevention programs in the United States today. The press conference is open to all on a first-come first-served basis, to RSVP, email TWLOHA: PUTP@TWLOHA.com.

The PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR is created through a partnership between the non-profit organization To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), the largest charity on MySpace and Facebook: Postsecret.com; Synclive.com; and 1-800 SUICIDE The National Hopeline Network.

Through 1-800 SUICIDE–which provides a life-saving service that is private and confidential for people in need–callers are routed directly to the closest crisis center in their immediate area so that quick referrals to behavioral health services and other supports can be offered. Since 1998, 1-800-SUICIDE has received over 3.6 million calls and rescued more than 4,000 individuals who had already initiated suicide plans.

The spokesperson for the PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR 2009, Justin Furstenfeld personally understands the struggles those who are affected by mental health issues face on a daily basis. “It has taken 20 years to have the chance to do a tour focusing on mental health issues which have been a daily battle for me for most of my life,” explains Justin.

“It’s great to finally be a part of a positive, progressive-thinking tour for an important cause which will make a direct impact and help people in desperate situations that need it the most.” In a strange turn of events in his own life, Justin worked at a mental hospital one day and, after suffering a breakdown, became a patient in a hospital the next.

Justin–who has taken medication for the condition since he was a teenager–now teaches creative writing at a mental hospital to young adults affected by mental health issues, self-abuse issues and sexual abuse. Through personal experiences and music, Justin challenges young minds to channel their emotions and anger into creative writing and art versus taking their frustrations out on themselves or the world around them.

He performs his art around the world, sending a message of hope to thousands who know and trust his message because he fights the same battles they fight every day. Justin is living proof that if you reach out and allow yourself to be helped you can lead a beautiful life filled with love, family and career.

“In moments of bravery and confusion and honesty, people turn to 1-800-SUICIDE–over three million of them,” points out Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA).

“The folks at the Hopeline Centers have been answering those calls for ten years, picking up the phone when it’s mattered most. Now to help those who will not pick up the phone, together with 1-800-SUICIDE we are launching the first 24×7 online emotional support network called AliveIM!, which will soon be available at www.suicide.net.”

To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA)–a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide–exists to encourage, inform and inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

Since 2006, TWLOHA has responded to over 100,000 messages from people in over 40 different countries and have invested over half a million dollars directly into treatment and recovery, including $50,000 to help fund the AliveIM! support network.

In another innovative move, the tour has partnered with Synclive.com to air live performances from the artists via the Internet as well as provide an immediate online confidential connection for fans in need. Synclive.com will create an essential connection for concertgoers in crisis who are unable to approach a booth at the show in-person either for direct help or to volunteer for the online counseling program.

Formed in Houston in 1995, the rock five–piece Blue October have released five studio albums and sold over 2 million albums. The group released their fifth studio album Approaching Normal (Universal Motown), the follow-up to their 1.3 million-selling Foiled album; it spawned the hit “Hate Me,” which reached #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, followed by “Into the Ocean,” a # 1 video on VH1 about a the metaphorical contemplation of suicide itself.

Approaching Normal debuted at # 13 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in March 2009 and produced two top singles: “Dirt Room,” which rocketed to #6 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart marking the group’s third Top Ten singl, and “Say It.”

Blue October is Justin Furstenfeld (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Jeremy Furstenfeld (drums, percussion), Ryan Delahoussaye (violin/viola, mandolin, piano, backing vocals), C.B. Hudson (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Matt Noveskey (bass guitar, backing vocals). Due to their hard-won and loyal fanbase, the group now tours all over the world. Check out www.blueoctober.com and www.myspace.com/blueoctober.

Hailing from Atlanta, B.o.B. also known as Bobby Ray is a hotly-tipped hip-hop artist and producer who will release his debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray via T.I.’s label Grand Hustle (Atlantic Records) in 2009. B.o.B. appeared on the covers of XXL and Vibe magazines as was hailed as part of “Hip-Hop’s class of ‘09” (XXL, 12/08). B.o.B describes his music as a fusion of influences ranging from 80’s, techno, rock, funk and du-wop. Check out www.bobatl.com and www.myspace.com/bobatl.

Recently, acclaimed actor James Earl Jones recorded a Public Service announcement for the PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR; click here to view: http://www.preventsuicide.us/hopeline-new/index.html.

Following are the confirmed dates for the PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR 2009:

DATE CITY VENUE

10/21 Washington, DC Capitol Hill – PUTP Press Conference

10/22 Charleston, SC Music Farm (no B.o.B.)

10/23 Charlotte, NC Fillmore

10/24 Hilton Head, SC Shoreline Ballroom

10/25 Atlanta, GA 99X (Blue October radio show)

10/27 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Live

10/28 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution

10/30 Orlando, FL House of Blues

10/31 Tampa, FL The Ritz (Ybor City)

11/01 Columbia, SC Headliners

11/02 WASHINGTON, DC 9:30 Club

11/05 Rochester, NY Water Street

11/06 Boston , MA Reason to Live Tenth Anniversary Concert

11/07 Napa, CA Hot AC (Blue October radio show)

11/10 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion

11/12 Chicago, IL House of Blues

11/13 Detroit, MI Royal Oak

11/14 Kalamazoo, MI State Theater

11/15 Cleveland, OH House of Blues

11/17 COLUMBIA, MO Blue Note

11/18 Tulsa, OK Cain’s

11/20 Austin, TX Stubb’s

11/21 Austin, TX Stubb’s

Partners for the first-ever PICK UP THE PHONE TOUR 2009 include:

1-800-SUICIDE – National Hopeline Network

About the National Hopeline Network 1-800 SUICIDE (784-2433) and the Kristin Brooks Hope Center (KBHC):
After losing his wife, Kristin Brooks to suicide in 1998, Reese Butler founded the Kristin Brooks Hope Center (KBHC), which created the National Hopeline Network 1-800 SUICIDE.

In 2000, Reese gained the support of the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and obtained more than seven million dollars to expand and support the National Hopeline Network which is comprised of 200 community crisis centers in 48 states.

Callers in crisis to 1800-SUICIDE are routed to the closest crisis center in their immediate area so that quick referrals to behavioral health services and other supports can be offered. Since 1998, 1-800-SUICIDE has received more than 3 million calls and rescued more than 4,000 individuals who had already initiated suicide plans. www.hopeline.com

About To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA):

In 2006, Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story, a glimpse into a friend’s life and her first steps to recovery from drug addiction, self-injury, and depression. The story, titled To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA), and t-shirts Tworkowski printed to help pay for his friend’s recovery, started a movement, not only within his local Orlando, FL community, but one that was swiftly embraced by people everywhere.

Realizing a strong need to bring these mental health issues to light, Jamie created TWLOHA–a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide–and enlisted bands such as Paramore, Thrice, Anberlin, Switchfoot, Bayside, The Almost to spread TWLOHA’s message.

Jamie and TWLOHA joined national and international touring bands spreading their message of hope before bands took the stage each night. In August 2007, MySpace awarded TWLOHA the winner of their “Impact Award” for “Community Building,” TWLOHA garnered the most votes in the history of the Impact Awards.

To Write Love on Her Arms began with one broken girl, one painful night; addiction, depression, self-injury. It is the realization of what life can be when people commit to meeting a need. “A friend of mine told me there is no such thing as suicide prevention. This is an attempt to prove him wrong, to say that love can change a life. We can hold back the darkness. Rescue is possible,” says Tworkowski. www.twloha.com

About Synclive.Com:

Synclive.com is a highly interactive music and entertainment Internet community that allows users to broadcast their live performances, as they happen, over the Internet to a worldwide audience. Synclive.com is currently reaching 127 countries with over 1 million video views a month. Shows can be broadcast from anywhere, at anytime. Synclive.com offers artists a tremendous promotional platform for worldwide exposure.

It is a great way to promote new music, a new tour, new merchandise, and stay intimately connected with your fans. Shows are streamed live, recorded and stored at the artist’s discretion for future on demand viewing. Our most used tool is the embedded player which allows an artist’s live and on demand shows to be placed on all of their websites so fans can watch the show in the artist’s environment. Synclive.com is free for artists, fans, and venues to use and is open to all genres of music and live entertainment. www.synclive.com

About PostSecret.com:

Called “the most trusted stranger in America,” Frank Warren is the sole founder and curator of the PostSecret Project: A collection of nearly 500,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice.

The PostSecret.com site now receives more than 1,000,000 visitors every week. In 2005, the All-American Rejects approached Warren about using images of actual PostSecret images in their “Dirty Little Secret” music video. They offered Warren $1,000, but Warren instead asked them to donate $2,000 to 1800-SUICIDE where Warren is a volunteer.

The donation was made and the music video became one of the most requested on MTV. The National Mental Health Association presented Warren with an award for his work in raising public awareness of Suicide. The PostSecret project has now raised over $210,000 for 1800-SUICIDE. PostSecret was awarded the December 2008 “Myspace Impact Award” and donated 100% of the proceeds to 1-800 SUICIDE. Look for the new PostScret book titled Confessions on Life, Death and God due out October 6. www.postsecret.com

For more information about the PUTP tour, visit:

• www.putp.org
• www.hopeline.com
• ww.twloha.com
• www.synclive.com
• www.postsecret.com

There could be different views as regards music but one fact can’t be ignored that it has a exceptional effect on our emotions. When a child takes birth, it starts reacting to the many sounds in its surroundings such as toys, human voice and others. At times, when you see someone shouting or screaming with joy, it simultaneously affects you and fills you with joy.

Next, scientists have proved that music also effect the development of human brain too. When a baby is born, it has billion of brain cells, over times these cells grow stronger. It has been proved that children who grow up listening music have strong music connections. It affects the way of your thinking, for example, listening to classical music boosts your spatial reasoning and if you learning by playing with an instrument, it has effect on certain thinking skills.

It is true that music makes one smarter? Not all the times because music controls some cells of the brain for a specific way of thinking. After listening to classical music, one may expeditiously perform some spatial tasks such as adults may expeditiously solve jigsaw puzzle. This is because the classical music pathways are similar to the pathways used in spatial reasoning. Listening to classical music, these pathways are “turned on” and are ready to be used. This is how you may solve puzzle expeditiously but finals for a short time following listening to music. Playing an instrument likewise stimulates the spatial skills as research has proved that music training establishes new pathways in the brain.

Use of classical music. The structure of classical music is much complex as compared to rock, jazz or pop. Child who listens to classical music quickly selects out the structure and recognizes any classical music he has heard before. Therefore, listening t o classical music has a varying effect as compared to other forms of music.

How to nurture your child with music? You can efficiently advocate your child to build his love for music by playing music for your child, singing to your baby, start taking early music lessons, sing with your child or advocate your child to learn music education at the school.

Music has been an inevitable part of our day to day life. Be it the chirping of birds, babbling of babies or the rhythm of nature you will find music everywhere. When you listen and hear sweet music tunes you are left behind with the weaving magic of one of its kind.

It’s around 50,000 years back that music has evolved and now it seems to be an integral part of our body and soul. Music plays a excellent role in our lives:

1. It has been found in a research that children listening to music are more like ly to become engineers, doctors and PC professionals because of the fact that music learning develops certain important areas of the brain responsible for reasoning and language. Therefore, it’s furthermore known for sharpening memory of an individual.

2. A child who has taken birth from the womb of a mother who had listened music is much intelligent than others.

3. Music is used expansively in a lot of therapeutic purposes so as to repair mental problems and other learning disabilities in a person. It also repairs diseases such as hypertension, brain trauma and provides relaxation during stress.

4. It teaches a person how to coordinate, self express himself, work in a team, and follow discipline.

5. Even plants are known to thrive towards music as they too respond to sound in the same way as a human does.

6. Music brings a devotee closer to his god and this is the reason why religious hymns lifts up heaviness of the mind and frees the soul.

7. It is also used for meditative properties used for training, repair ing, exercising and releasing tensions.

8. people perform better when music is played because it erases the mental tension and introduces lightness in the body.

9. Music and tunes have always captured feelings, passions, agony, and distress more freely during love and romance.

10. It’s furthermore used by scientists to map behavior and functions of the human mind.

Classical music is known to soothe and open the channels of the mind whereas rock music  sets your pulses to racing and chants might send you to trace. The future of music business has also taken manifolds in the recent times due to these advantages. Music has divergent effects upon many human beings depending upon the use.

Music business has change d a lot with upcoming technologies. One might find these changes in the form of traditional business models or hike in sales of CD’s whereby changes have provide d new artists, independent artists, labels and music businesses with new opportunities. Today, the music industry has the advantages of selling music Web, wireless technologies, develop Web record company, and open an Web music store.

Availability of digital music downloads directly from the Web to the hard drives of PC’s has raised the issue of music piracy. There are thousands of websites providing free music download services. There are legal music download websites whereby they allow you to download tunes when you pay a minimal charge in return. You can compare these websites and find which allows you to download music at the most competitive rates.

You might find the difference among diverse music download programs with the help of file sharing programs. The question is that really these music download programs are free or not? a lot of of these music download programs have lots of ad wares, spy wares and pop-ups that you should be cautious of. The difference among file sharing and free file sharing program is that with the payment you make. Programs prefer MP3 advance, mp3 music subscription offer you with technical aid, security from popup, spy wares, privacy protection and money back incase you are not happy with the program.

Because of illegal copying of music files and sales in the market many music organizations have brought law suits but still many file sharing program allows users to be anonymous. people are confused as to the legacy of free music downloads. They still think that which place of the website allows downloading and burning of free music. Is file sharing legal and following downloading are they at any risk? Therefore, you should avoid different file sharing programs like P2P, KaZaa, Limeware which allows free downloads but violate copyright laws. These downloads are tunes from the compact disc  put on the Internet by people not having rights from the company or authorized music company.

Progressive rock music first came to life in the 1960s, as an electric, ambitious and imposing rock music style and in less than a decade, the whole world embraced this form of rock. Although the 1970’s were thought to be the perfect years of progressive rock music, this type of music has not died, and to this day individuals fill stadiums to listen to progressive rock bands. This form of rock started in England and soon conquered the whole of Europe with its grandiose style, influenced by jazz or classical music.

Rush and Kansas where the 1st two artists that adopted the European rock style and brought it to America, where rock was mainly influenced by country or rhythm and blues music. Rush is a Canadian band formed in the 1968 in Toronto, Ontario. After its birth, this progressive rock music band was faced with many challenges until the year 1974, when it finally achieved its definitive form. Rush embraced the progressive rock style and took it to another level, due to its members’ instrumental skills, eclectic motifs and complex compositions. The three band members, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, began by playing heavy metal that was inspired by blues and moved on to encompassing modern rock or hard rock, until they have established their own form of progressive rock music.

Rush has been not only a excellent example of progressive rock music, but additionally an model for many other musicians. This progressive rock band has influenced many excellent musicians, such as The Smashing Pumpkins or Metallica, and they have additionally paved the way for progressive metal artists such as Dream Theatre. Rush have in company d many music styles in their songs and, with every album, they have grown and evolved as a band. The rough times they have gone through at the beginning of their career only made it possible for this band to be where it’s now, promoting their nineteenth album, Snakes & Arrows, released in 2007.

Progressive rock music is fortunate to have known a band such as Rush. Since 1974, when the band released its 1st album, called Rush, they have managed to release no less than twenty-four gold records and fourteen platinum records, placing the band on the fifth place in the top of the consecutive gold records by a rock band. Nonetheless, for Rush, gold or platinum albums are not enough, for they care a lot about the message they’re sending out there, as well as about their listeners. The live performances that Rush gives are truly amazing, as this band accurately describes all the tunes that they perform. On stage they recreate various sounds through the use of digital samplers; they play their primary instrument and also trigger sounds with their available limbs, so every song they perform can be identical to the one on the album.

Since the year progressive rock music came to life, Rush has always found a way to deliver this form of rock to people’s hearts, mixing numerous sounds and using eclectic lyrical motifs, but always staying true to rock and what they believe in.

When it comes down to the time when you want to sell your beats you must have the proper contracts. Yes, this should be a part of your studio in a folder put away, even if it collects dust. Hey, anything may happen, P. Diddy may come knocking at your door, although Bad Boy Records contracts with their performers are thought to be to be sometimes “questionable“.

When selling a beat, oral agreements will not hold up in court and If the musician is sued on the basis of copyright infringement, without the paper saying you transferred all rights to the artist, the legal implications would shift to the creator of the beat, which is you. If eyebrows are raised by your unexpected professionalism, just tell your potential buyers that it’s nothing personal it’s just how you transact your business.

Although you could write the contract yourself, with individual necessities of your liking, it is particularly much prefer red that a lawyer be contacted as you could write things that are too vague such as, “in the case of a lawsuit you don’t know me”. That is more comedy than business. One such individual to write this kind of individual ized contract for you is a music attorney. While initially expensive it will pay off tremendously if perhaps any legal matter pops up that reflects on you when it does not have to. Another point to think about is you only need a couple contracts for selling your beat and then you’re  set for life and could not ever again talk to that legal money swindler.

There are two primary categories of transactions that are common amidst a beat maker and an artist, one that gives “non-exclusive” rights and the other that gives “exclusive” rights. Exclusive rights are oftentimes priced much higher than non-exclusive rights. Ensure the music attorney draws up both these contracts separately.

Non-Exclusive or leased rights to an instrumental are when you sell the artist the instrumental but give limitations and restrictions on how the beat may be used. Non-exclusive rights can stop the use of the instrumental for commercial sale or promotion, strictly for mixtape use and furthermore no rights of complete ownership to resell the audio in any way. A con about a non-exclusive deal is that as a sampler you would still be held liable for any copyright infringement and not the buyer of said beat unless stated in the contract.

Exclusive rights would transfer all ownership of the instrumental to the new owner after purchase, so any legal implication would go directly to the artist. In this contract it is additionally common to demand a number of points from the  performer’s  album on top of the performance price of the actual instrumental. A point in music industry standards is equal to 1 percent of the amount of the re Club an album generates. Some beat makers may not charge a performance price at all on non-exclusive right, and only points depending on how famous, profitable and consistent the performer’s history in music retail is. These are generally the common type of deals made by beat making record producers at successful independent and major record labels.

When it comes to performer promotion, there are many divergent ways to get your name out there. But even in the age of Online radio, performer blogging, and custom mascots, one of the oldest ways to  promote  your music is still one of the the majority cost-effective: eye-catching, full-color custom vinyl stickers.

Chief among the charms of this time-tested band promotion strategy is how inexpensive it is. Custom stickers may run as little as .5 cents a pop, making them THE single most cost-effective music marketing tactic. Another major selling point is longevity. Given the right design, your band stickers will hang around a lot longer than your posters, handbills, or shrink-wrapped tour van. They’ll furthermore attend in all kinds of different places: car bumpers, laptops, guitar cases, telephone poles, you name it.

Custom stickers can additionally be considered a baseline strategy for indie performer promotion, for the easy reason that they’re all about the fans. Consider:

1) Custom stickers are cheap enough to give away. individuals prefer getting free stuff, specifically if it is eye-catching and clever. Include your URL/MySpace, it will furthermore let individuals know how to get a hold of you, download your music, buy your compact disc’s, and stay in touch.

2) Should a band sticker come to reside on one of the a lot of surfaces mentioned above—or a bike, or a water-bottle, or even the on-ramp sign for the Golden Gate Bridge—chances are, a fan put it there. This indicates to the world that you’ve listeners. This is important.

The right custom sticker design—along with music that individuals are passionate about, and genuinely want to hear—is key to achieving success with band stickers as a promo strategy. But when you sit down to figure out where your music marketing dollars are going to go, think about this: no other strategy puts as much power in the hands of the fans for such an affordable price, and no other form of marketing “sticks around” quite as long.

An independent band is ready to market themselves by touring following : putting a core band together, rehearsing new music, and recording music for a CD, or an EP. Selling products during a tour such as t-shirt s, CD’s, stickers and other marketable products are essential for a band to do to fund the project.

Booking shows may be an impossible thing for an independent band to do Assuming that the band do not know the perfect way to grab a club  promoter’s attention.  promoters and club owners generally book in advance, so it is imperative that a band contacts them months, could be a year before touring.

Bands need to produce flyers/postcards, and send them out unending ly. Not just to different  promoters, but repeatedly to the same  promoters. Sending a flyer to the same  promoter should be done every month or so to let them know you are meaningful about the opportunity, and to get them to recall your band.

A high quality color flyer does make a difference when promoting your band. Obviously, it receives more interest with solid content listed on the flyer.

1. performance based photo

2. The type of music your performer plays

3. Contact information in bold

4. The band’s price range to do a show

5. A couple lines of reviews from media outlets who covered past shows

Besides club s, colleges are another alternative Venue for performers to performance their music live.

The popular way to grab a college representative’s attention is by sending your flyer/postcard with a compact disc, and placing phones calls to the student activity director who handles live entertainment.

Sending your compact disc  and press release to college radio stations and newspapers is furthermore a wonderful way to make your name known on many campuses. Getting early recognition may endorse your opening s of the student activity director hearing about your performer before you inquire about doing shows.

An alternative way to book shows at colleges is by performing at the National Association for Campus Activities Showcase.

Each February NACA hosts the National Convention which brings together performers, music agencies and university entertainment buyers. The National Convention allows college representatives to see live showcases and organize co-op purchasing with neighboring universities.

Bands such as Dave Matthews performer and O.A.R. have been success stories through the association.

Performing at the convention can be costly, but can be value it in the long run for the band. In order to be on the showcase, a band must 1st become a member of the association. A few other costs come into play in order to buy a booth, register and then submit the band. An acceptance fee is additionally charged if your band is chosen to play.

Networking is key for indie artists even Assuming that they do not get chosen to play college shows at the conference. There are other businesses such as bar owners, entertainment Venue  promoters and businesses in attendance at the showcase.

Social networks might also be key to landing performances for a band. My suggestion is to check out what Clubs are popular within the indie band world. Check other indie bands’ pages and see what Clubs they’re playing at in certain cities.

Major Overlooked performer Promotional Ideas

I’m going to lay out a couple of simple -to-use band promotional pointers for you…

Successful performer Promotions Establish With Your Marketing Abilities

Tricks To Selling More compact disc’s At performances

1st make sure at every concert you are placing your CD  sales table in the correct place. I can’t tell you how a lot of times I have seen bands who performance up their CD  sales table in the darkest corner of the Club.

Think about it for a moment…If you were at a Venue and listening to a band. Then, out of the corner of your eye… You happen to see a table performance up with CD’s for sale. Except, it’s in the corner, and away from all the action at the Venue…Would you go check it out, or even think about it?

When you get concert at a new Venue the first thing you must do is scope out the place for the the majority strategic spots available for your compact disc  sales table. Heck, there are some bands that performance up their table right in front of the stage! An additional wonderful place for performance ting up your compact disc  sales table is by the entrance to the bathroom of the Venue…I know it could sound strange, but think about it. Everybody there is bound to pass by your compact disc’s, and if you’ve one of your “Street Team” members selling compact disc’s at the table. Then, recruit another “Street Team” member to literally walk straight up to people asking them “Do You Have The compact disc  Yet?” at the Venue while you are playing – Your compact disc  sales will go through the roof!

Just be sure to have the one walking around guide the people who say that want to buy your compact disc  straight to the compact disc  sales table. This will allow them to go straight back into the crowd to gather more fans for you!

Collecting Fan Email Addresses

Additionally make sure you make it easy for individuals to leave email addresses at your compact disc  sales table. Even better, would be to get individuals to give you the email in the middle of the gig. You may make up an “Email Song” then have an individual pass around a guest book where everyone leaves their email address.

If you’re not gigging your only option is to visit chat rooms and forums and talk to individuals and collect email addresses. Why collect all of these email addresses? easy… You’ll be strating a “Band Newsletter” to stay in touch with your potential fans, and compact disc  buyers!

Are sales slow? Not getting enough orders from your web site?

Let me reveal to you my 10 awesome On-line promotion secrets to get more orders starting now!

1. Establish a free electronic book directory on a specific topic at your web site. people will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and can see your product ad.

2. Turn part of your web site into a members only web site. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products.

3. Add a free classified ad section to your website. You might then trade banner ads with other Web sites that have free classified ad sections.

4. Establish two versions of your e-zine so individuals can select If they want ads included with it or not. This’ll attract the individuals who hate ads to subscribe.

5. Publish your e-zine only on your web site. Have people subscribe to a “new issue” e-mail reminder. This might really increase your traffic and sales.

6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You may sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products.

7. provide daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit ofttimes to get the visitor bonuses.

8. Allow people to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return Assuming that the y’ll refer their friends to your web site.

9. Build up the number of people that join your free affiliate program briskly by temporally provide ing your product for free to the people that sign up.

10. Negotiate with e-zine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run.

May these Internet promotion secrets endorse you to make a lot of money.