can you promote too much?

[genocide roach]

so here's a funny question. we were recently told we promote too much for out shows. is that even possible?

and besides, all we do is hand out flyers at shows and put up flyers around town. which is more than most bands around the world do.

but can you really promote too much? ever? i mean, if youre proud of your music, shouldnt you let me people know whats going on?
~gR~

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I'd say that at least 99,99% of the world's population don't even know you exist, so you should definitely promote more.

 

[Einherjar86]

Who told you that? Because from the sounds of it, you're doing fine. If anything, you might want to promote more, over the internet and stuff. I don't really think you can promote too much, personally.

Was it a rival band that told you that? Because they might just be trying to fuck you over.

 

[genocide roach]

nah, no rival band or anything.

we promote over the interwebz too. especially teh myspaces.

and i agree with cherko. no one knows us, so we must promote until we have world domination!
~gR~

 

[Vegard Pompey]

and i agree with cherko. no one knows us, so we must promote until we have world domination!
~gR~

Just my point.

By the way, any chance of getting your songs in decent quality? MySpace compression is ghey.

 

[genocide roach]

buy our cd (will take a couple weeks for reproduction)? or i can send you a free cdr
~gR~

 

[The Ozzman]

There is such thing as over saturation in terms of advertising, but it depends on how broad the scope is for advertising. I think you're fine though since the flyers have been passed out in small quantities

 

[skeptik]

Of course you can promote too much. If you promote a lot, people will start getting fucking sick of you and not even ever listen to your band just because you're so annoying.

 

[Einherjar86]

I don't listen to you anymore because you're so annoying.

 

[waif]

You haven't reached oversaturation. If you had adds on TV, in the newspaper, and on every billboard and message board in a 50 mile radius, that would be oversaturation.

Promote more.

Btw, how much for the demo and what's the art gonna be?

 

[genocide roach]

I don't listen to you anymore because you're so annoying.

me or nec?

Btw, how much for the demo and what's the art gonna be?

itll be $5, and we dont know what the art will be like. we have an idea of what we want, but no one to do it for us. if ANYONE is interested, please PM me. we are willing to pay
~gR~

 

[Einherjar86]

Nec.

And I was joking anyway.

 

[Vinder]

Once you get on MTV. It's too late. You've been over advertised like McDonalds in India

 

[skeptik]

You haven't reached oversaturation.

relative tbh imo

 

[False Joe]

itll be $5, and we dont know what the art will be like. we have an idea of what we want, but no one to do it for us. if ANYONE is interested, please PM me. we are willing to pay
~gR~

I'll probably hit you up in July sometime for it.
Can't afford it right now

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Of course you can promote too much. If you promote a lot, people will start getting fucking sick of you and not even ever listen to your band just because you're so annoying.

My feelings exactly. There's some band on myspace who keeps sending me event invitations to a bunch of shit that I really don't care about and that I can't imagine anyone caring about. I've received invitations to "DEMO RELEASE PARTY!!!," "EP RELEASE PARTY!!!," "CD RELEASE PARTY!!!," "NEW T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE!!!," etc. and it's so fucking annoying. In fact, any time I have an event invitation these days, I just assume it's that band and delete it from my events without RSVPing or viewing the details, because I think they've monopolized enough of my time already. Ironically, despite all the over-promotion, I don't even remember their name