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Breakfast Babble => Dig => Topic started by: Spacey on July 18, 2006, 12:37:18 am
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The time has come to finish up some promotion for some August shows.
The shows we need help promoting are:
Friday, August 4th
The Century Lounge
150 Chestnut St
Providence, RI
(All Ages)
Saturday, August 5th
Mill Street Brews (http://www.millstreetbrews.com/)
18 Mill St
Southbridge, MA
(18+)
Friday, August 11th
The Khyber (http://www.thekhyber.com)
56 South 2nd St
Philadelphia, PA
(21+)
Saturday, August 12th
Daniel Street (http://www.danielstreetclub.com)
21 Daniel St
Milford, CT
(21+)
Thursday, August 31st
Pre-moe.down Throwdown!
Electric Company (http://www.electricco.net)
700 Varick St.
Utica, NY
(21+)
The best place to promote is everywhere. We need posters hanging in record stores, head shops, college campuses, deli\'s, pizzerias/restaurants, gas stations. Anywhere you can find space for some handbills that is not littering or noticably illegal, leave them. Flyers need to be handed out at all local shows and festivals leading up to the promoted show. Be creative when trying to think of places to promote. We need to just get the name out there.
I will send out your choice of posters or flyers to anyone who is willing to help. I will also send .pdf files of said handbills and posters. I will also reward you kindly for helping, all I ask is that you let us know what you are doing.
Promotion is simple. Create an image of you product that makes people intrigued. Please discuss all promotion strategies, interests, ideas, criticisms, mantras, etc. and etc. in this thread.
As Always, Thank You!
Out there in the odyssey...
1) CD Samplers - Creating samplers of what we think is the Breakfast\'s best performaces to recruit new fans.
2) Creation of new Handbill/Flyer/Poster - All 3 need to be done. Not much of a difference between a flyer/handbill but I want more than the particle b. I would like to look into getting a band picture onto a horizontal flyer and fit show information right on them. Posters would be cool if each show/runs started to have its own poster. Nothing has to be fancy, just creative and different.
3) Myspace - I have an add friend bot that Derick purchased for myspace but it kills my system everytime I run it. I need to get a new computer to run it but once it does, we will take full advantage of the adding capabilities. Also, more routine myspace blasts. How much is too much? If anyone has any suggestions, comments or criticisms, feel free. That page is a great way to represent that breakfast. If there are certain songs you\'d like to see up there or pictures, stories or anything let me know.
4) September shows -
Sunday, September 3rd
The Jewish Mother (http://www.jewishmother.com)
3108 Pacific Ave
Virginia Beach, VA
(All Ages)
Friday, September 8th
Nectars (http://www.liveatnectars.com)
188 Main St
Burlington, VT
(18 +)
Thursday, September 14th
Red Square (http://www.redsquarealbany.com/events.php)
388 Broadway
Albany, NY
(18+)
Thats all folks! (for now, Stand Strong!)
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the khyber show should be well attended, i\'ve been pimping this one like it\'s my job.
well. it is my job.
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I know this sounds stupid but are these shows being promoted as The Breakfast and if so is there any reference to them now being a Trio? As mentioned in point 2 in Spacey\'s post is the band pic going to be a new one of the three?
Just wondering.
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3) Myspace - I have an add friend bot that Derick purchased for myspace but it kills my system everytime I run it. I need to get a new computer to run it but once it does, we will take full advantage of the adding capabilities.
while i know nothing about this particular thing, i can tell you that most myspace \'tools\' like this are flat out fake. the \'get a million friends\' things, the \'see who\'s looking at your profile\' things, etc... YMMV.
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I know this sounds stupid but are these shows being promoted as The Breakfast and if so is there any reference to them now being a Trio? As mentioned in point 2 in Spacey\'s post is the band pic going to be a new one of the three?
Just wondering.
my point exactly. need to have the shows known that it is a trio. there might be some people who dig it solely to see what the sound is like etc. They definitely need to get an updated press kit.
3) Myspace - I have an add friend bot that Derick purchased for myspace but it kills my system everytime I run it. I need to get a new computer to run it but once it does, we will take full advantage of the adding capabilities.
while i know nothing about this particular thing, i can tell you that most myspace \'tools\' like this are flat out fake. the \'get a million friends\' things, the \'see who\'s looking at your profile\' things, etc... YMMV.
actually, it is nothing more than a program that has nothing to do with myspace. you actually need to update the program every day because myspace changes the codes. what it allows us to do is add all the friends from certain pages, i.e. like going to Phish myspace and adding all the friends, instead of manually adding friends this will add all the friends from the page without you having to do it. Much like the "bot" we used to enhance the breakfast on the jambands poll that got some of us booted.
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I know this sounds stupid but are these shows being promoted as The Breakfast and if so is there any reference to them now being a Trio? As mentioned in point 2 in Spacey\'s post is the band pic going to be a new one of the three?
Just wondering.
my point exactly. need to have the shows known that it is a trio. there might be some people who dig it solely to see what the sound is like etc. They definitely need to get an updated press kit.
3) Myspace - I have an add friend bot that Derick purchased for myspace but it kills my system everytime I run it. I need to get a new computer to run it but once it does, we will take full advantage of the adding capabilities.
while i know nothing about this particular thing, i can tell you that most myspace \'tools\' like this are flat out fake. the \'get a million friends\' things, the \'see who\'s looking at your profile\' things, etc... YMMV.
actually, it is nothing more than a program that has nothing to do with myspace. you actually need to update the program every day because myspace changes the codes. what it allows us to do is add all the friends from certain pages, i.e. like going to Phish myspace and adding all the friends, instead of manually adding friends this will add all the friends from the page without you having to do it. Much like the "bot" we used to enhance the breakfast on the jambands poll that got some of us booted.
I\'ll take care of the friend adder from now on if thats cool with you. I\'ll keep you informed on what happens.
it\'s actually a pretty powerful tool, you can go in and just target anyone who is with in say 50 miles of a location and send them requests and event invites. i will try to do something with that in the next couple days to get ahead.
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try to keep it to 350-400 adds a day. there is a myspace usage limit at around 450, and if you exceed it regularly, they will ban your account for spamming.
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i think the program limits you to like 200-250 adds a day so they have that pretty much covered
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ahh, mine has a user determined limit. can yours pause between adds? i set mine to pause for 30-60 seconds in between adds cuz that will throw off the myspace bots that search for spammers.
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i think it pauses and does some random paging thing that makes it super stealth. i run eek! who do you have yours through
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myspace-suite. its one of the only ones for mac, so i\'m kinda bound to it.
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see that\'s your problem right there, get rid of that crazy mac and get yourself a virus ridden pc
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gentlemen, your room awaits you.. there\'s lube on the table next to the tissues. have fun!
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thanks dave, we\'ve been getting pretty antsy waiting for that room to free up.
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gentlemen, your room awaits you.. there\'s lube on the table next to the tissues. have fun!
and you left us the lube, i hope it\'s not any of that hot stuff.... Dave you truely are the best
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CT Shows to Flyer (http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?band=&venue=&city=&stateID=7&adv=1&fromdate=7%2F21%2F2006&todate=08%2F12%2F2006)
If anyone is going to The Slip at the Webster on Thursday night, Galactic on Friday night or the Festival this weekend, we can use your help with handing out some flyers. Also, if anyone hits up any other shows, flyer them. You don\'t need to bring 500, 400 or 300 not even 200 or 100, if you bring 50 flyers and hand them out directly to a person, that is the most I can ask. However, if you want to leave them at stores and such, bring more.
Friday is going to be a big day of promotion as a small assembled team will be hitting the Daniel Street area (20 Mile Radius) with all the promo material we can hang.
See you on the Street!
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I\'d like to meet up w/ u before Camp Barefoot... while it\'s unlikely that people will commute from VA to CT, I\'ll be happy to pass out any promotional flyers @ that gig!!!! see ya soon :)
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i could possibly flyer galactic
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I\'ll be doing some promo at Melvin Sparks at Tazza Cafe and Daddie Long Legs at the Century tomorrow. i just noticed i freak\'n miss the Les show in Providence, that would have been a good one... SHIT!!!!!!
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Derick, continue with hitting up the Century Lounge promo. It will be nice to attend the Century Lounge with 50-100 more people than last time. This time around we won\'t be competing with Easter.
Freespirit- Jew Ma\'s is in September. I will have flyers for that. The show is in VA Beach so that might be a good time to flyer, especially after/during the Breakfast set.
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CT Shows to Flyer (http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?band=&venue=&city=&stateID=7&adv=1&fromdate=7%2F21%2F2006&todate=08%2F12%2F2006)
Fuzebox is playing in Preston... where\'s Preston?
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CT Shows to Flyer (http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?band=&venue=&city=&stateID=7&adv=1&fromdate=7%2F21%2F2006&todate=08%2F12%2F2006)
Fuzebox is playing in Preston... where\'s Preston?
Casino territory.
So we will go from Milford to the Casino, lose all our maoney and head home broke.
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CT Shows to Flyer (http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?band=&venue=&city=&stateID=7&adv=1&fromdate=7%2F21%2F2006&todate=08%2F12%2F2006)
Fuzebox is playing in Preston... where\'s Preston?
Casino territory.
So we will go from Milford to the Casino, lose all our maoney and head home broke.
Flyer the casino... sounds like a losing proposition
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CT Shows to Flyer (http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?band=&venue=&city=&stateID=7&adv=1&fromdate=7%2F21%2F2006&todate=08%2F12%2F2006)
Fuzebox is playing in Preston... where\'s Preston?
Casino territory.
So we will go from Milford to the Casino, lose all our maoney and head home broke.
Flyer the casino... sounds like a losing proposition
if by flyering you mean dropping my bills onto a blackjack table then yes.
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here are a couple links to flyers, if you feel the urge to download them and print a couple out to hand out.
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=081206danielstreetflyers4to3.jpg
this is the Daniel Street flier
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=081106khyberflyers4no8.jpg
this is the Kyber flier
http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=080506millstreetbrewsflyers4lw8.jpg
this is the Mill Street Brews flier
http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=080406thecenturyloungeflyers4nd5.jpg
this is the Century Lounge flier
my bad, the page will come up faster for everyone if i just put the links
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(http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/7753/khybershowpn9.jpg)
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aniiice :biggrin: :thumbsup:
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nicely done, cobb.
the band names are kinda hard to read. how does it look when printed?
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i\'ll bring some daniel street ones to galactic tomorrow
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i was thinking the same thing, i might make them a different color.
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i\'ll bring some daniel street ones to galactic tomorrow
Rich that would be awesome.
We might either end up there to flyer or begin there, not sure yet.
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If anyone would like some flyers or posters for the Daniel Street show, I have some available. We would like to have all this material gone by the weekend. Thanks.
I also will supply anyone who is interested in promo for any show with the proper material.