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How to... Promote your music
Promotion: Hire professional PR
01 Introduction
Promotion is all about building a buzz on a record.

Hire professional PR
"Tastemakers and pluggers have the ability to change the commercial potential of a track. They are essential in the promotional campaign of any commercial track.
Phyllisia Adjei
Project Manager
Soul2Streets

Professional PR companies are expensive and can be choosy about who they decide to take on so it's only really worth thinking about if you are planning to put out a track on your own or through an independent label.

Read on for:
How PR works
Why it's important to have strong tracks
The need for market potential
Approaching PRs
Cost
Do you really need it
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