| Any musician knows that making it to the big time is | | | | You want to be able to give a good pitch to potential |
| hard. If all you want to do is play then there is plenty of | | | | gig locations. There are promotional flash drives that |
| opportunity locally. You have to get started close to | | | | work incredible for this. You have your band name and |
| home anyway no matter how far you plan on going. | | | | logo imprinted onto the outside. You can pick a variety |
| One idea to get more attention is using a promotional | | | | of colors as well. If you have some that go with what |
| marketing campaign. This is a very easy and simple | | | | you wear or that match your logo, then use those. The |
| idea. All it means is getting some products, like t-shirts | | | | best part about the flash drive is that you can put so |
| or flash drives, customized. You can give these to club | | | | much different stuff on there. You can put pictures, |
| owners in places that you want gigs and sell them to | | | | video, and sound recordings. The people that you are |
| fans. | | | | trying to get work from will learn a lot about you from |
| Of all the millions of items that can be used for | | | | this. |
| promotions, you will want some that are visible. It | | | | If you don't have a lot of visual recordings yet, don't |
| works well if you can manage to pay for the initial | | | | panic. With the cameras of today it is a cheap option. |
| investment of products with sales. Because then you | | | | All you need is someone with a steady hand to do |
| will still be getting the advertising benefit of people | | | | some recording. If you have a computer geek close to |
| wearing your logo or name around town. If you have a | | | | the band, like a brother or sister, they can edit what |
| fan base they will buy shirts and hats with your logo | | | | you record to keep it from being too static and boring. |
| and photo's on them. You do need a logo. Take care | | | | Making money doing what you love is a wonderful |
| of that right away. Even if it is your band name done in | | | | thing. Don't go into music thinking it is your ticket to |
| an image like font, you need something. You will do | | | | stardom. You can always try to get on one of those |
| well with photographs of the band too. The company | | | | reality talent shows if all you want is attention. If you |
| that will make the stuff will tell you what type of | | | | just love music and would like to make some money |
| images that they need. | | | | at it then you can do that close to home. |