It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Aside from spreading good cheer, Christmas is also the best season to thank your fans, promote your music and sell a merch or two.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the time of year where people are \u201crequired\u201d to buy stuff for family and friends. It\u2019s also the time where everyone\u2019s got more money to spend and a lot of time to waste. So take advantage of the holidays by doing full-force music marketing. Here are some clever holiday marketing ideas for bands:<\/p>\n
Christmas Music Video.<\/strong> \u00a0Don\u2019t cringe. I\u2019m sure when you think of Christmas music videos, you\u2019ll think of Backstreet Boys and Justin Bieber and Britney Spears. Erase those images in your head because you can still be cool with a Christmas video. Your song doesn\u2019t even have to do anything with the holidays as long as it\u2019s theme is Christmas. \u00a0Make it fun! Think \u201cWhat Would OKG Go Do?\u201d<\/p>\n Christmas album.<\/strong>\u00a0 And why not! Just come up with three original songs and some covers. Make sure you get your CDs done before November to avoid the rush. Since this is a special album, put it in a special CD packaging or you can even release some on Vinyl.<\/p>\n 12 Christmas Giveaways.<\/strong> Give gifts to your fans \u201c12 days before Christmas\u201d style. On the first day, give away one Vinyl record. On the second day, give away two t-shirts. On the third day, give away three\u00a0 concert tickets.<\/p>\n Go Caroling. <\/strong>Visit the houses of some of your fans and perform on their doorstep.They\u2019d love you to bits for the extra effort. But this is tricky, make sure you\u2019re already have hardcore fans (and you\u2019re doing it to make them happy) because if you\u2019re not (just a few people showing up during gigs, only 500 facebook likes) people will think you\u2019re too cheap.<\/p>\n Christmassy website.<\/strong> You don\u2019t have to go all red, yellow and green. If you\u2019re a metal band or you have a definite color scheme, stick to it! But at least have a subtle falling snow effect or a crazy Christmas picture or whatever. The point is, don\u2019t ignore the season.<\/p>\n Christmas Newsletter.<\/strong> Just remind your fans how much you appreciate their support by giving them an e-mail newsletter. Make it short and sweet. Don\u2019t try to promote anything for once. This e-mail should be for them, not for you or for your career. For them. You can even add a video clip of you guys singing for your fans wearing Christmas suits.<\/p>\n What other holiday band promotion can you think of?<\/p>\n Photo Source<\/a><\/p>\n _______________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is a custom CD\/DVD and Vinyl Manufacturing facility based on both sides of the US. We also print and manufacture band merchandise and promotional items. If you need an Instant Quote on a project AND you want\u00a0FREE SHIPPING<\/strong>\u00a0( free shipping on all quotes from the blog) \u2013 Then\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Aside from spreading good cheer, Christmas is also the best season to thank your fans, promote your music and sell a merch or two. It\u2019s the time of year where people are \u201crequired\u201d to buy stuff for family and friends. It\u2019s also the time where everyone\u2019s got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-manufacturing"],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}