ace off's List: MUSIC

• (10/26/07)!
• So, where Sonicbids comes in is they have a system for you to set up an electronic press kit, or EPK, on their website. Then all you have to do is send a link to your EPK to the promoter or talent buyer,
• I admit an EPK like this is a good idea for a regional or national level act who already has interest in them, so they can send the link to clubs who already know who they are instead of a hard press kit, but for us wee indie folks it’s not worth it
• Sonicbids works out deals with festivals and clubs to offer you what seems like an exclusive line on getting booked! Hey, neat! If I join Sonicbids I can get on all these awesome festivals and get entered into all these contests and shit
• • ALLOWING CHEATING????  how does that work? no explanation 
    
    THE PROMOTER DROP BOX---WHAT IS THIS ABOUT
    
    HAS SONICBIDS addressed these issues
    
    14 MILLION USERS????? 
    how many spanish language bands from mexico central and South America do they have??? 
• ach one has an entry fee between 5 and 30 dollars
• you pay Sonicbids just for the account, you take a $5 or $25 hit to submit.
• there are fourteen million users on Sonicbids and they’re all paying that money and submitting their EPK just like you are,
• the bands who won all cheated their asses off, as I heard from an unnamed source. It really sucked because I was doing great and winning for most of the contest, but the cheaters took over, and it could have been easily prevented. Sonicbids allowed the cheating, however.
• do it the old fashioned way. Get in a good room in your home town and play it every six weeks and promote your ass off.
• Build concentric circles. Put asses in seats. Build a network of contacts. There really is no other wa
• Don’t even think about using the Promoter Drop Box feature, though.
• • CHEATING MENTIONS AGAIN HERE
• ou allow cheating.
   The only thing I had a chance of winning I got into because I had a contact at the promoter, and I didn’t win that one because all the other contestants cheated on your contest and you allowed it.
• it’s worth it for regional to national level acts who send out a lot of press kits, but the smaller indie artists like me are getting kind of preyed upon.
• , and never ever to use the promoter drop box.
• submission fees are set by the promoter to be equal to or less than the cost of sending out the physical press kit.
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• We also encourage that promoters use the submission fees they receive and apply it to their event or for compensation to selected artists.
• submissions fees and the subscription fees are two separate entities.
• subscription allows you to build, edit, and email your EPK as much as you want whenever you want, saving money and time over physical press kit costs like CD duplication, supplies, and postage.
• “Email My EPK” tool, “Community Forum,” and “Artist Search” tools as these are great ways of connecting with other artists, managers, promoters, and bookers.
• folks suggested to me that I should spend some time on the Sonicbids forums meeting people and doing gig swaps

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