Originally Posted By: rockstar_not



Now that I have submitted the first one, I do feel like it's going to be an interesting journey, and your advice is going to help me at least take step two and hopefully many more.

A friend of me that has been highlighted in TAXI's blogs and recent placements suggested using the http://www.hitlicense.com/ promotion website and service.

Do you use any promotion sites to go along with the licensing? It seems this might be part of the equation as well.

-Scott


I no longer use any sites where I have to buy a subscription or join as a member to get the leads. It's reasonable to pay a small submission fee per song submitted to the lead services. And yes, there are a few that will send you viable leads for free. You pay a submission fee slightly higher as a non-member. I'm OK with that. That keeps everybody and their brother from sending every song they have ever written to every lead and overloading the email servers.

The film music network is one to investigate. I have also researched the independent libraries and have a publisher in Europe who is handling some of the songs and music I have written, on the other side of the pond. All of these are out there on the internet for you to find and use. The European publisher regularly sends me emails with his current and future musical needs for artists and film/tv deals. Several I am with here in the states do the same thing. Once you get passed their quality standards test/evaluation, they put you on their email list for projects coming down the pipeline to which they plan to submit the music they represent.


Big libraries are good in that they have a huge number of clients looking for music, but they also have an astronomical number of songs to choose from. You are the small fish in the big ocean.

Small libraries, where the owner knows you personally, and has good industry contacts can easily be a great deal. The owner can and will push YOUR music and promote it to the producers. That's the kind of thing that happened for me when I had 70 cues in several shows. The library president pushed just one of my songs to multiple people and they all used the song. You gotta get into a library where the owner has the street cred to make it happen for you or else your music simply sets and collects dust.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 06/12/16 03:51 AM.
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