Free promotion tools

A big part of being an independent artist or band is the endless self promotion. You need to get your music to people and you don't have a team of professionals to do it. The music part is easy but the website, flyers, press kits are difficult to put together if you don't have the design background or resources.

I have found a few free tools and articles to help you in the promotion of your band. These tools will assist you in putting together a great looking kit, some top notch flyers, and some great photos.

Create cool photo's with Loonapix. I'm sure you already have band pictures and the standard group shot is a necessity but how about a few cool shots for the website or a flyer. Just upload your picture, select the effect or frame you want and in an instant you have a cool looking picture you can download to your PC.

Don't have a logo? Maybe you just want some cool text with your band or website name without having to go to a graphic artist. Try some of these online logo generators.

I created the text below with the Web 2.0 free logo generator. It's pretty basic but it does look good. Great for a bumper sticker or a CD cover.

This one was done with Cool Text. Again the logo itself is simple but the color and font options are pretty cool

Lastly, I found these articles on what to include in your press kit. I thought they were informative. We're musicians not professional promoters so we need all the help we can get.

http://mediawebsource.com/presskit.htm

http://www.getsigned.com/presskits.html

Scott