Less Is More: Why You Should Pitch Your Music To Fewer Publications

This article appeared first in Sonicbids. 

Logic dictates that the more music bloggers you reach out to about your band, the more coverage you’ll receive.

Not necessarily.

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Happy New Year from Music Think Tank & Hypebot.com!

 

Happy New Year from Music Think Tank & Hypebot.com!

Thanks for reading and contributing to the conversation! If you would like to contribute a post, read the guidelines and post a summary on the MTT open tab. Every week, several posts will be moved from the MTT open tab to the main MTT page and featured on Hypebot.com so if your post seems to be “missing”, your post may have been moved to the MTT main page and will be published soon.

It’s a new year and fresh start! What are your plans for the new year and what projects are you working on?

What improvements or suggestions do you have for Music Think Tank and Hypebot?

Let’s make 2012 great!

Happy New Year!

—Natalie (@ncswim881), MTT Community Manager, and the rest of the MTT & Hypebot crew

Music Think Tank Logo

I just passed this logo over to Bruce and Kyle at Hypebot, but it occurred to me that others may need it also.  Without further introduction, may I present…the Music Think Tank logo (as a PNG).

What If You Owned Music Think Tank?

It’s been a few months since the Hypebot team has taken over the stewardship of Music Think Tank. In that time, we’ve published some really spectacular material along with a couple of things that did not deserve to be featured in this thoughtful forum. Along the way, we’ve learned and are (we hope) slowly improving how we do things and the quality of the content.  But now that we’ve got our bearings, it’s time to ask for feedback: If you ran Music Think Tank, how would you do things differently?

For example:

• Should we more or less selective with the articles that we publish on the home page?
• Does the current level of self-promotion in some posts bother you or is it payback for sharing their content?
• Are there additional voices that you wished were represented here?
• Are there topics that you wish we’re covered more on MTT?
• Do you listen to MTT Radio and if so, how can we improve it?
• (Your great idea here.)

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