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Website Linking

We have a "Linked Pages" area that directly links to common Australian Based Blues Information sites, that provides information on Australlan and New Zealand Blues Artists, Bands' Biographies, Photos, Gig Schedules, Management, and CD Sales.

If you wish to link your Australian or New Zealand Blues Artists/Bands, then please contact the Webmasters of these information sites and arrange it through them, as this is their speciality.

Further Thoughts on Your Promotion

Raising your profile is an extremely important aspect to promotion and it cannot be left to your Manager to do it alone.  They have to work very closely with you and you with them.  It is a team business of identifying exactly who is the target audience and why they are the target audience.  This then leads onto exactly which buttons that they need to be pushed so they will appreciate you/your talent/your music.

Only then when you and your Manager/Promoter have identified these buttons, will you then be able to recognise the buttons that turn them off (and these buttons are even more important - as if they are EVER turned off, they are VERY hard to turn on again)!  On the Linked Pages - Information Sites - GM Arts, has a very good 10 point system that is well worth reading and seriously working on.

Having got this far, it is then vital to realise how much these same people (your target audience) can afford to spend as as fair thing, and what venue they would attend.  This then tells you if your 'formula' is correct or not, as if you come up with an appreciative crowd that can't or won't at least cover the evening's total expenses twice - then the formula needs to be seriously reconsidered - unless you like working/playing for nothing!

Including CDs in the promotional formula is an essential these days and it is vital that you choose a very good (highly recommended and experienced) sound mixer. Your first impression lasts longest.  Your CD must be the best that you can present - for it is that on which you will be initially judged - unless if you do something else to demote yourself (like be late, be poorly dressed, swear inappropriately, be intoxicated, lose the train of the conversation etc.)  This is where Managers should aspire

Simply sending a CD to a DJ or a venue is not nearly enough, as you probably don't know them like a brother or sister, and most get several CDs per week to consider.  Not only does your CD have to stand out visually, but there needs to be multiple copies there, and a bio about yourself/the band, and something about where you have been and are going to be playing, and something about the recording(s) so that the DJ can virtually read it out on air - they simply can't make a story from nothing - and they won't.  So it is up to you (and your Management) to present them with a professionally assembled promotional pack.  Remember it takes at least nine (9) positive consecutive meetings before before any meaningful relations are established.