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You can probably contact a few local radio stations and inquire with them about doing jingles. It's best to have some samples you can provide so they can hear what you can do.


You can, but this is typically a "slow boat." There are MUCH faster ways, that are just as effective, or I feel much more effective.

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I've heard a few custom jingles on some small local stations for small town businesses. The jingles vary in quality from nicely produced to "what the heck were they thinking".....One the other day had me shaking my head. A girl was singing the jingle and it was pretty bad. Tuning issues, rhyme issues...and way to long in length to be memorable.


I deal with this all the time. There are the people who do not know much about music who try to do their own jingle. I always get asked "Did you do..." with this grimaced look on their face. NO! lol

I think even more dangerous are the musicians/songwriters who know music, so they think they can write a jingle! The cost of one of those jingles is usually substantial AND IT DOESN'T WORK! The writer and the business are too close to it, so they think it is, but there are tests that can be done that PROVES it's not the case...regardless of their opinion of how great their jingle is. You show this to an advertiser and one other thing and it rocks them to their core! Costly, unnecessary mistakes.

Just like in anything it's important to know your craft. To charge someone who knows less than you because they think you're an expert, if your not, is unethical to me. Unfortunately, it happens all the time.

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Last edited by HearToLearn; 05/15/15 06:08 AM.
Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

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