The Real Story of the Indie Artist (Part 1) In our perfect world, the Indie artist would love their music to easily reach the entire world as we want as many people as possible exposed to our music. After all, it is the main objective of marketing. Get your product out there! And this is what we aim to do, slotted in between gigs, prepping stage songs (for our cover bands), writing songs, rehearsing, and all the other day to day stuff. Unfortunately, most of us have to admit that we are no marketing geniuses. The music end we’ve got a handle on, but bringing to fruition an autograph session after a sold out concert in Japan, well.. that’s a tad challenging. So we brainstorm with our own kind, and with those we think might know, picking up tips on what strategies tend to work... and others that don’t. It’s all a daunting task this promotion thing. Afterall, we are singers and songwriters, musicians and audio engineers, producers and... what!? Now I gotta do this!?! It can truly be overwhelming. This is where the interactive part comes in... ;-). I welcome (trans: “need”) ideas, thoughts, suggestions, and most importantly your help in promoting the music. Something simple like a shout out on Facebook along with a link and/or posting an excerpt of a song on your MySpace page... would be a great help. I have other ideas as well. I would like to hear yours. There are a thousand more songs in me. Any help would go a long way in helping to get them written. Please let me know. Please let each other know... John