Yes, I’m writing about my album, again…sigh…
Many years ago, when I was an admin assistant in the direct marketing department of a small publishing firm, staff had become depleted for a spell, and I had been asked to write press releases for their products until personnel became sufficient enough to take that function over again. Unfortunately, for me, I really liked writing the press releases, and I was loathed to give it up when it was time to do so. Even more unfortunately, in hindsight, I really didn’t know what I was doing when writing said releases and the results were so awful that the higher-ups were more than happy to relieve me of said duty. It didn’t go without a fight, of course. Nothing with me ever does.
Flash forward to last night: I’m confronted with an opportunity on my Soundclick page to promote my new CD on one of their partners, myprgenie.com. They have a service which, for a nominal fee, will take your promotions and send them to any news service you’d like them to be seen in. And this month, they had a half-price deal for Soundclick members who just want to use one PR list (it’s free if you just want to advertise on their front page). So, I set myself down and wracked my brain for something relatively news worthy that I could pop into my PR piece. I initially did some research on myprgenie.com, but the results got me nowhere, because the efforts of other artists were just as bad, if not worse, than my initial stabs at release writing many moons ago. I did research on about.com on how to write one for a debut CD (I was able to find something “about” it there - get it? nevermind…). I went to Laura Vier’s site, because I remember seeing her bio there in PDF format, and I got really good ideas from viewing what her press person wrote about her last CD.
So, two hours later, after some sighing, crying, and laughing, I submitted the results to myprgenie.com, along with my credit card number.
It was ready by 6:30 this morning to view on their website:
http://www.myprgenie.com/item/1341/
In an hour, I’ve already gotten an inquiry. SWEET!
Two hours later, it’s up on Mi2N.
http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=109112
And I’m in between NightRanger and Kim Ritchey in today’s Music Releases listing. I’m just stylin’ yo!
http://mi2n.com/category.php3?cat_nb=1&page=1
I don’t know where this is going to go, yet. This is something I should have done in the beginning of the month. But I need some self-convincing to get myself out there, get past the old ways I used to promote myself online, and get in to the new. Hopefully, anyone of any import will like what they hear. But hey, I could use a bad review too.
Fingers crossed…
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