The links below are mostly to PDF documents (articles abstracted from external websites and presented in PDF document format for convenience)
- Create a perfect music page for your website
- Content marketing (promoting your music in creative ways)
- Demos – From demo to hit song – how the process works (Nashville)
- Demos – Get your demo heard (professional tips)
- Demos – Guidelines for presenting a demo recording
- Demos -How good does a demo have to be?
- Demos – The ten worst song demo mistakes
- Digital distribution options (Ari Herstand)
- Discmakers Blog – short useful articles about the promotion side of music
- Distributing your self-funded album: excellent analysis of your options (Ari Herstand)
- Distributing your self-funded album: Bandcamp
- Distributing your self-funded album to all digital outlets: CD Baby
- Distributing your self-funded album/single to all digital outlets: TuneCore
- Distribution: what to look for in a distributor
- Electronic press kits
- Email lists – how to build them up
- Email marketing – the best promotional tool
- How songs get playlisted: BBC Radio One
- How to build a music career
- How to get your music noticed
- How to promote your CD
- How to give great interviews to the music press
- Identifying your song when submitted as an mp3
- Looking for gigs (advice from an Irish venue manager)
- Make your music photographs tell your story
- Managing tours – keeping the show on the road
- Marketing your music – 110 tips
- Music workshops: How to choose, prep and “work” music industry workshops
- Music Xray – Targeting music professionals
- Networking in the music industry – seven tips
- Open mic opportunities in the Dublin area (including singing clubs)
- Open mic opportunities in Dublin – a useful 2016 Facebook resource
- Playlists – the evolution of third party playlisting
- Promoting your music: Ten top tips (incl. social media)
- Promoting your songs (ISA article)
- Promoting your songs – getting your leg in the door (ISA article)
- Promoting your songs on the Internet (ISA article)
- Promoting your music with radio stations
- Promoting your release on the Irish market
- Radio stations (Ireland) – reference list
- Radio stations (Ireland) – official list (BAI)
- Record labels – make them come to you
- Releasing your first record: a single, an EP or an album?
- Sending your music to the press: tips
- Seven effective strategies to get your music noticed
- Social media: how to use them to create a fan base – also look at the article above called “Promoting your music: Ten top tips (incl. social media)”
- Tip sheets (subscription services listing publishers seeking new songs) – see “Miscellaneous Articles”
- Social networking comes with a heavy energy tax
- Spotify playlists – five things to do before pitching your song
- SubmitHub: putting your music before Bloggers, Labels, Spotify Playlisters, YouTubers, Radio Stations, Influencers
- The $150,000 Music Degree – excellent music industry guide by Rick Barker & Wade Sutton
- Trying to get a record deal
- Virtual concerts – how to organise one
- What makes a retailer accept your CD?
- What every website press section should contain
- ‘When you’re in the music business, you’re in the technology business’
- Why indie musicians make CDs
- Why music videos don’t cost €500
- Why songwriters should pitch their own songs
- Writing a vision statement
Peter Grant (centre), the legendary manager of Led Zeppelin who was an instinctive genius at artist promotion