Today I want to share a tip with you that will easily increase your placements by as much as 50 percent over time.  The tip is to ALWAYS follow up with people you´ve submitted your music to.  Always! I can´t tell you how many times in this business I´ve sent music to someone and didn´t get a response back until I first followed up.  It happens all the time.  It even happens with people I have established relationships with.  My first licensing deal probably wouldn´t have happened had I not followed up and to this day I make sure that I always follow up with people I´m working with.  

 

Don`t assume that because you´ve submitted your music to someone that the ball is in their court.  In this business, the ball is always in your court.  Consider it your responsibility to remind the person you´ve submitted your music to to listen to your music.  Most people will actually thank you for this!  Don´t take it personally if you don´t get a response right away.  Trust me when I say that it´s just the nature of the licensing business. 

 

Here´s an actual email correspondence between myself and a supervisor I work with to give you an idea of a real life situation.  In this example, the music supervisor actually is following up with me, but this serves as a great example of how busy people get in this business:

 

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The upcoming workshop about how to get your music in TV and Films will be starting on June 27th. The workshop includes phone coaching, email coaching, daily licensing leads (three a day), video tutorials about the music licensing industry, my ebook, The A To Z Of Music Licensing, eight audio interviews with music licensing professionals, The 2011 TV and Film Music Business Directory, A new member's only forum, sample licensing contracts.... and more!  

This course is the only one of its' kind that I'll be offering this summer and you'll finish the course with plenty of time to license your music in the upcoming Fall TV season, which is when a lot of decisions are made as to what music gets used in the new season.  

 

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