Hip Hop publicist Arie Goode is here every week answering your email
questions on industry how-to's and important Do's and Don'ts.
This week's question:
Arie, I feel like my music is getting buried
in the virtual piles of emails submitted to
music editors. Is it still acceptable to submit
hard materials such as CDs, and physical press
kits?- f.c.
In one word YES!!!!.... However, with 90something
percent of popular media being independent and some
even being run out of America's dorm rooms and in
the basements of some very understanding parents
[laughing] it may be difficult to locate a physical
mailing address to submit your material(s) to.
percent of popular media being independent and some
even being run out of America's dorm rooms and in
the basements of some very understanding parents
[laughing] it may be difficult to locate a physical
mailing address to submit your material(s) to.
Yes, I said it! Despite the flash and popularity, there's
a good chance your favorite music/video site is maintained
in the comfort of someones home. At least until they get
their numbers up and sold to a larger commercial multimedia
conglomerate [laughing]... Nothing like the entrepreneurial
spirit- Anyways, I digress.
a good chance your favorite music/video site is maintained
in the comfort of someones home. At least until they get
their numbers up and sold to a larger commercial multimedia
spirit- Anyways, I digress.
For those publications that publicly list their mailing address
or P.O. Box, definitely submit your QUALITY music and non-spam
promos. Heck, some even though not widely publicized... prefer
it and I think you may have a better chance of getting your
music heard as long as it's not on cassette [wink].
or P.O. Box, definitely submit your QUALITY music and non-spam
promos. Heck, some even though not widely publicized... prefer
it and I think you may have a better chance of getting your
music heard as long as it's not on cassette [wink].
Who knows you may also grab some extra consideration points,
cause it takes more effort to package and pay for postage then
it does to click a button. There's almost something slightly
humbling about receiv ing an artists CD in the mail; ask any
editor that's normally bombarded by a virtual sea of spam.
cause it takes more effort to package and pay for postage then
it does to click a button. There's almost something slightly
humbling about receiv
editor that's normally bombarded by a virtual sea of spam.
What say you music editors? Let me know.
Good luck!
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to know? I'm here every week answering your emails on
industry how-to's and important Do's and Don'ts. Send
me an email: contactsaidarie@gmail.com and follow me
on twitter at: www.twitter.com/leirapr_ceo