10 ways to boost record sales overnight!!!
Author: Kenny Love
If you are like most independent recording artists, one thing that you can always use is more CD sales. Below, are ten alternative unique actions that you can take now to begin tripling your CD sales overnight.
A. CD Gig Sale Co-Op
I've mentioned this one in a previous issue, but it bears reiterating. Basically it works this way: Arrange a cooperative agreement between your band and similar bands, say 2-3, whereby you each agree to promote and sell each other's CDs at each other's respective gigs. You also stipulate a sales price and an agreed upon number of units.
B. Distribute Samples At Genre Nightclubs
Here, you will contact club managers in your area whose deejays either play your genre of music or host live bands in your genre. This works best in clubs that specifically have deejays and do not have live bands. You ask the club manager for permission to distribute your samplers to club patrons. Even better, is if you agree to pay the club a small fee for allowing you to do so.
On the sampler, simply include approximately 2 minutes of each song. Naturally, these sampler discs are CDs that you will "burn" in your computer or you may choose to have your samplers manufactured. You also want to be sure to leave your website address on the sampler's cover, as a file within the compact disc, and on the sampler's label itself.