Promote Your Band

If you are seeking to promote your band, one of the best ways to promote is by having one or more of your band members get accepted as a Campus Man. The tools available to Campus Men perfectly fit the promotional needs that most band members need.

Promoting Each Band Member

However, individual members of bands can become Campus Men. If you want a page for your band, you simply create a group and include your band members. However, each individual band member must qualify to become a Campus Man. This approach relies on promoting individual band members' names, building name recognition for each band member.

This individual approach has its advantages. As much as you hope for success for your band, there is always a chance that your band could change its name, a member might leave, or the band might disband.

However, people don't generally change their names. By Getting Accepted as a Campus Man as an individual, you begin building up a following for yourself. If your band changes its name, you don't lose all the benefits of all the time you spent promoting. You simply identify yourself with a new band name. This also allows individual band members to have their own fan base. Your guitarist might have 1700 Fans. Your drummer might have 850 fans and your lead singer might have a bunch of different fans. In this way, people become fans of individuals and their individual personalities, as well as the band.

Build List of Fans

Before seeking to promote your first club, you should have gather a list of at least 1000 local people and have a good street team associated with you. All members of your band can pool their list of individual Fans to achieve the total number of Fans you need.

Becoming a Campus Man is an important step in building your list. It is a national opportunity that gives you free tools that put you a button away from knowing many new students on your campus. It allows you free tools to gather your list extremely quickly and efficiently.

Once you become a Campus Man, build a large number of Fans in your city. Having a ton of Fans all over the country does not help you as much as local Fans. Obviously the more, the better.

To invite people to become your Fan on CampusMen.com, you need student's email addresses. You can accumulate emails and phone lists from students you meet face-to-face in class, collect email addresses from other people's forwarded emails, and by passing out business cards to people you meet. When you pass out a business card, they contact you.

Your Next Step in Promoting Your Band

Once you have developed a huge number of Fans, hold a house party as a trial - to test your ability to get people to a gig. Find a popular apartment complex and host a party there. Invite all your Fans on CampusMen.com. If your party is a success, you know you are ready to become a club promoter. You will need fliers and they will cost you money. Don't go cheap. Printrunner has this coupon: 15% OFF Glossy Postcards- Coupon Code: MAR15POST

Tools Needed to Promote Your Band

Three musts to have: need an email mailing list (Outlook cannot be used because your emails will get blocked as spam). Sign up for a white listed email provider, for example iContact.com is an excellent, easy to use service. They cost as little as $10 per month and have relationships with all the Internet Service providers - to arrange for their customers' email message to make it through spam blockers.

Business Cards are very important. Take business cards with you everywhere. Most promoters use their business card for two purposes. Their personal and business info appears on one side and a promotional message on the other side. In this way, promoters kill "Two birds with one stone".

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Bands have "Teams"

You don't need to do all the promoting alone. Gather a team of friends and hard-core supporters who will do work for you. You become the team's leader. The stronger your team is the better response you are going to get. Your team includes you, the DJs, the band, friends who collect cover charges at the door, or girls who walk around the venue to make sure everyone is having a good time.

If ready to start on the road to promote your band, get Accepted as a Campus Man. After qualifying, consider uploading a video! Your video will go a long way toward gathering more Fans. In your video, give some insight on your band - instead of simply playing music in front of the camera. You can talk about your style of music and what to expect during a average gig, or what your band practices are like.