How Do I Start A New Business Relationship?
gotta love this photo! Got a question for us? You can always submit it via our contact page. Here’s today’s “Ask Grassrootsy” post. ARTIST: Bridgette Perdue (Pittsburgh, PA) QUESTION: What is your advice for cold-call networking? Or, what’s the most successful approach to creating a business relationship out of thin air? How does it alter between [...]
10 Tips for Writing a Good Email Newsletter
Be personal. Just do it. People appreciate hearing from you, not a robot! Check for broken links and broken facts. Nothing sucks more than sending an email to a few hundred or a couple thousand people only to find that you’ve sent the wrong information of faulty information. Put the most important at the very [...]
Does It Really Matter When I Send Out Booking Emails?
THE ARTIST: Joshua Sanders (New York, NY) THE QUESTION: A couple of weeks ago I read a post from your archives. It said that most emails are read on Wednesdays (based on an email seminar you attended). Does that imply that an email written on Sunday is less likely to get read, or that important emails (i.e. [...]
RSS is Pretty Wonderful
As I took some time to lightly revamp the grassrootsy site this weekend (check the sidebar), I noticed that, for a number of reasons, Grassrootsy has not been a completely functional website. Yes, the information is useful, timely, and hopefully relevant on a weekly basis; but there were a couple things that needed to be changed and rearranged in order [...]
Sonicbids & Electronic Press Kits (EPKs): the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Sonicbids more or less introduced the world (and independent artists) to EPKs – Electronic Press Kits. EPKs provide a cost effective way for musicians to submit their music to potential booking agents, venues, festivals, reviewers, radio stations…etc. An EPK allows artist to post, a bio, pictures, press, upcoming shows, audio, video, and even sound requirements for [...]
Tips & Tricks for the Holiday and Any Day
Here is the second installation of Tips and Tricks. I’m thinking there will be many more to come in the future. For other Holiday ideas, read Take Advantage of the Holiday – Make Some Dough, Yo! Have a show during the Holidays? If you have a show during the holidays, chances are that you can get [...]
Drawing Traffic to your Website – Part 1
There are so many ways to draw traffic to your website(s)…and they all work. The basic rule is to update your website as often as you want people to visit. Don’t expect people to visit your site regularly if there’s nothing new to keep them engaged. DEFAULT IMAGE Change your default image (facebook) regularly. Weekly. [...]
Perception is Reality
It took me a while to figure out what my first write-up for this blog would be. But I’m going to start with something that will probably tie together any subject matter covered in this blog. Perception is Reality. I should preface this by saying that you wont be reading anything extremely profound but just some things [...]
