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Music Industry Contacts

It’s all about who you know in the music business. It’s all about your contacts. You have probably heard these two phrases said over and over again in relation to many businesses, but it is ten billion times more so when dealing with the music business. Unfortunately, gaining and keeping good music industry contacts can be very difficult-almost impossible-if you are new to the world of professional music. The people you need to know and keep in touch with to begin and further your career are promoters, A&R reps, media outlets, and so forth; and the more people you know, the better. In dealing with the music industry-even minimally-you will begin to aggregate a network of music industry contacts. How is it that you approach them best in order to further a successful music career? Below are the most effective tips at how to deal with music industry contacts in order to gain ground in your music career.

1. Do Not Take Them for Granted- First and foremost, never ever take your professional music contacts for granted. As a beginner, you are on a learning curve, but it should be learned quickly that the people you know will take you places, and the lack of this most probably static. This said, know their importance, pay them the necessary respect of regular contact, and stay on good terms with them.
2. Concentrate on Just a few- The best way to start building up a solid list is through quality not quantity. Though it may seem best to pith as many contacts as possible at once, two things are amiss with this approach. First, you may forget just who you approached, and be unable to follow up to all of them. Second, the contact that you are trying to reach will probably notice that the materials you are sending are not personal-if you are sending out excessively, you will most probably use an impersonal template, and they will reject you based upon this.
3. Organize Your Correspondence- Though you may be sending out great materials about your music talent to a variety of promising contacts, all of this effort goes to waste if you are not keeping track of when you sent what, and what you sent, and what the response was. You need to know all these things so that when one contact does call back, you will know what progress has been made as far as your correspondence with them. Not being organized not only shows a potentially priceless contact that you do not care enough about them to keep tabs on contact info, but also that you are unprofessional, and not someone they would like to work with. A simple spreadsheet with dates, names, contact info, and correspondence updates filed on your computer will keep you organized as to your contacts.
4. Follow Up- Make sure that you put yourself on a schedule to follow up with contacts you have reached out to. Organize this into your chart. Follow up with them in the same manner that you originally contacted them if this worked; if not, follow up by another means. Moreover, always make sure that you are following up according the convenience of the contact. Do not call them every day-instead, follow up in agreeable time increments, such as one or two weeks after the last call, email, or correspondence.

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