What is your marketing strategy ?

[SUNZ]

real talk: i'm trynna see if i can get down with this viral marketing sh!t to grow some buzz.

[Big Jo]

you know what i would do? i'd do beatmaking tutorial videos on youtube. they're free to do, fun to watch and show off your skill/beats.

that's how boon doc got really popular

[Aje]

Damn, you know what...I've never thought about "marketing". I'ma phucking moron and don't tend to think about these things.

I couldn't do a beat turtorial because it takes me way too long to do a beat sometimes and I produce with headphones...and I don't feel like bitin.

Someone just the other day asked about my marketing strategy...and I thought to myself, "What the phuck is this guy talking about? My marketing strategy is to make hot ass beats...I ain't tryina sell hamburgers or cars." But I thought about it some more and was like, "Man, he's right.".

Shyt, yo, I only took economics in college not no marketing. I don't know but I've better think of something.

[FrostBite]

I should be good at this seeing as my degree is in marketing

[Big Jo]

I should be good at this seeing as my degree is in marketing

how you doing with that? cop a good job out the gate?

i'm 17 credits away from a marketing degree myself

[Aje]

I should be good at this seeing as my degree is in marketing
how you doing with that? cop a good job out the gate?
i'm 17 credits away from a marketing degree myselfy'all need to get on the payroll...I mean, damn...

[The Nastiest]

Marketing strategy? No hablo ingles....

[FrostBite]

I'm actually still in the program. I went to college for 3 years, didn't know what I wanted to do, so I just took a break and worked for a couple years. Then last fall I went back to school to finish up. I just go one night a week, its a pretty nice program. My job right now sucks, so I can't wait to finish up school and move the hell on.

[Ke$eSoprano]

real talk: i'm trynna see if i can get down with this viral marketing sh!t to grow some buzz.

very good idea fam, I think about it alot...

[lildap]

drop my album...

[N0 Thanks]

I'ma phucking moron

Basically, i been trying to tell you that for the longest :)

To answer the thread starters question though, people tell me i'm wasting beats doing it but I get a decent amount of exposure off of remixing popular songs.

I got close to 1,300 plays over a couple weeks on my latest remix, I usually get a few hundred a day and then i stop promoting it. It's worked pretty good so far. Even if you don't like the original song that much, take it and make it better.

Then drop a comment on the group or artists profile saying, "People are loving the remix i did of your song ******".... This works both ways because the 'sheep' type fans will immediately go "other people like it, i gotta check it out too!" and then the people that just happen to like the song but have gotten a little tired of the original, will find a new refreshing version to get brainwashed by. Then you throw in a small tag stating your name (because you never know who might end up hearing it outside of the internet) and your set.

Also, after you've posted the song a few places and emailed it out, go to google and type in *artist song title and your name* and then see if you come back in the results. This way if someone hears the track somewhere else and comes home and puts that in google, they'll find you and then discover everything else you got going. If you don't show up in google, you gotta spread the word a bit better.

[Aje]

Basically, i been trying to tell you that for the longest :)Well, hot damn...you were right!

:sad:

*eats paste*

[Big Jo]

y'all need to get on the payroll...I mean, damn...

aje... i would LOVE to have some kind of lucrative career either marketing or managing within the enertainment industry... flipping intellectual property... somethin dope like that

but chances are i'll be selling stapler parts or some wack ass sh1t like that once i graduate :dry:

[Aje]

aje... i would LOVE to have some kind of lucrative career either marketing or managing within the enertainment industry... flipping intellectual property... somethin dope like that
but chances are i'll be selling stapler parts or some wack ass sh1t like that once i graduate :dry:nah, b, phuck that. I wouldn't mind having a dude like you in my corner (pause). You don't take no shyt...that's a necessity in these shark infested waters. Me, on the other hand, I'm a phucking cupcaked ass retard who doesn't know when to say no till it's too late.

[DJ TEKNIK]

nah, b, phuck that. I wouldn't mind having a dude like you in my corner (pause). You don't take no shyt...that's a necessity in these shark infested waters. .


:yes::yes::yes:

[The Nastiest]

nah, b, phuck that. I wouldn't mind having a dude like you in my corner (pause). You don't take no shyt...that's a necessity in these shark infested waters. Me, on the other hand, I'm a phucking cupcaked ass retard who doesn't know when to say no till it's too late.
repeatan: no

or, for variation, you can try "hell no" "no muthafucca" "hell no muthafucca" "fucc outta here" "yeah, right" "fucc i look like?" "fucc wrong wit u?" "eat a dikk" "ill pass" "thanks, but no thanks" and many more.

just practice saying it to people you know and love, they'll understand (if you explain it to them, preferably before you wild out on them)

[Aje]

repeatan: no
or, for variation, you can try "hell no" "no muthafucca" "hell no muthafucca" "fucc outta here" "yeah, right" "fucc i look like?" "fucc wrong wit u?" "eat a dikk" "ill pass" "thanks, but no thanks" and many more.
just practice saying it to people you know and love, they'll understand (if you explain it to them, preferably before you wild out on them):laugh::laugh:

[SUNZ]

Basically, i been trying to tell you that for the longest :)

To answer the thread starters question though, people tell me i'm wasting beats doing it but I get a decent amount of exposure off of remixing popular songs.

I got close to 1,300 plays over a couple weeks on my latest remix, I usually get a few hundred a day and then i stop promoting it. It's worked pretty good so far. Even if you don't like the original song that much, take it and make it better.

Then drop a comment on the group or artists profile saying, "People are loving the remix i did of your song ******".... This works both ways because the 'sheep' type fans will immediately go "other people like it, i gotta check it out too!" and then the people that just happen to like the song but have gotten a little tired of the original, will find a new refreshing version to get brainwashed by. Then you throw in a small tag stating your name (because you never know who might end up hearing it outside of the internet) and your set.

Also, after you've posted the song a few places and emailed it out, go to google and type in *artist song title and your name* and then see if you come back in the results. This way if someone hears the track somewhere else and comes home and puts that in google, they'll find you and then discover everything else you got going. If you don't show up in google, you gotta spread the word a bit better.
You should look into SEO(search engine optimisation) so your name comes up in google when they use key words

[Imo Reign]

What I've been doing this week is promoting on myspace and message boards. When I put up a track on myspace, I post a comment on every single page on my friends list asking for them to check it out.

Within this last week alone I had about 1200 views, but the damn myspace player kept fuccin up and people couldnt hear the track.

This actually lead to a well known rapper PMing me asking me to send him some joints. Hopefully this leads to something.

[NippleTits]

i leave the condom behind after im done smashing

[Cash&Khaled]

Which websites do you post on besides sohh ? been trynna get an allhiphop account for like 1 yr but they never send the email to activate my account.

[FrostBite]

i leave the condom behind after im done smashing

:laugh::laugh:

[N0 Thanks]

You should look into SEO(search engine optimisation) so your name comes up in google when they use key words

SEO only works if you own a website. I ain't went all out on my website to even want to advertise it like that. You don't need to do nothing special but spread your word on the internet.

If you heard my Ryan Leslie Remix of Diamond girl somewhere while you were out, you'd know Ryan Leslie, you'd figure out the song would have to be called 'Diamond' or 'Diamond Girl', then you hear my tag 'JH'. Go home, put those words in google 'ryan leslie diamond girl jh' and you found me.

[Imo Reign]

Which websites do you post on besides sohh ? been trynna get an allhiphop account for like 1 yr but they never send the email to activate my account.

I've been postin mainly on message boards for emcees rather than producers. Letsbeef.com, source, etc. cuz I figure thats where the customers are at.

[SUNZ]

can u drop the names to the msg boardS ?

i found a hiphop website bigger than sohh, its somethin like rapmusic.com or somethin, i forogt to bookmark.. but it had mad users online

[SUNZ]

can u drop the names to the msg boardS ?
i found a hiphop website bigger than sohh, its somethin like rapmusic.com or somethin, i forogt to bookmark.. but it had mad users online
trynna remix 100 tracks for our EPK

[Big Jo]

I've been postin mainly on message boards for emcees rather than producers. Letsbeef.com, source, etc. cuz I figure thats where the customers are at.
smart

[velocity05]

i'm 18 and about to start a degree in music industry management

i wana be an entertainment lawyer that shops beats

i basically thought what i would want as a producer

did some research

and found out they are gold dust

so thts the niche i'm going for

but as far as my marketing

i'm not doing it so much anymore

i'm developing a sound and the right team then going full force

the music biz dnt want u in dribz and drabz anymore

they want the finish product

so make sure thts wat u r advertising

[JackNickelz]

My marketing is very easy.

Thanks yo Myspace I've met a bunch of people from various area. Producing tracks for them and asking for nothing more then production credits have helped me out now that I'm charging. From Guys in Texas to Canada to the UK. I've also made it a habit to carry beat samplers with me everywhere I go, so if I hit a show, I got something to shop. I also have offered my services to radio stations looking beats for their drops and segways. I'm also a member of alot of beat sites and enter contests every chance I get. One contest introduced me to a guy named Sean Sharp who into turn introduced me to the guy who used to run Scratch Mag, who now runs Nodfactor.com. That ended up getting my Hydrosonic producer's profile. I've also joined Ludacris' site Wemix.com. It may be a slow way of doing things, but bit by bit I've got clients who come to me for tracks, off the strength of the work I've put in. I even was able to get Apathy from the Demigods to talk to me about some work. So in other words putting myself out there and giving away a beat or two had paid off marketing wise for me.

Always had a knack for music but one of my best strengths is my business mind