Scam Alert: Don’t Pay For Music Promotion Until You Read This After you finish your mixtape and have your mixtape cover artwork created by a professional. The next step is promoting your music. When it comes to promoting music most artist are clueless, on how or where they should promote their music at and there’s nothing wrong with that you’re a musician not a music marketer. But what you don’t want to get is fall victim to the quick fix syndrome and end up getting scammed by a bs music promoter/music promotion company.
For example, there are these fake music marketing companies/fake music promoters who promise you they can help your music career by increasing your Facebook likes, Instagram Likes, Youtube views etc. These people prey on indie artist selling them a dream that their services really will help their rap career and it’s fucked up because you could be spending your hard earned money on real music promotion that will really help your career.
The artists who do business with these type of people or companies are suffering from the quick fix syndrome. Instead of building a solid team of people that will help build their music brand and gaining fans organically, they rather pay for a service that can allegedly build their brand at the push of a button. Trust me it will never work. The way to build your fanbase is to connect with people and drop quality music.
Here are some common signs to watch out for to make sure your not getting hustled by a music promotion company or music promoter: They will work with artist without hearing any of their music first. This means they will work with everyone. That’s a strike right there. A music promoter or company shouldn’t be willing to work with anyone. If they have quality connects they wouldn’t want to send them shitty music, that would be a bad look on their name. They should always want to hear your music first to make sure they can get results for your project.
Do they offer “email blasts”?
More Bullshit, this is usually another sign of someone trying to take advantage of an indie artist who doesn’t know any better. Especially the email blast where they promise to get your music to major record labels, music blogs, magazines etc. I want you to find me one artist who says they received a record deal or even an interview from a music blog from using an email blast campaign. Nobody exactly! Mixtape Music Marketing has to be real and organic than that.
Fake Twitter,Facebook, And Instagram Likes There are companies out there that can get you genuine likes and views, but when someone promises you a certain amount of real likes within a certain amount of days is a liar. Getting real Facbook likes takes time and getting fake likes from these type of companies/promoters can get your profile banned and kill your social media marketing campaign before it even gets started.