Business Management
We at 5 Star Promotions see a lack of business understanding hampering the growth of independent artists everywhere. Our mission is to, first and foremost, help you understand and set up your business properly. Using best business practices and understanding the primary business rules required to market and promote yourself is the only way to succeed. We don’t just do it for you, we help you learn and understand. Knowledge is power, especially in business and most especially when the business is YOU.
Website Design
5 Star Promotions knows the best place to promote you is www.you.com. Yes, your own website on your own domain name is the best form of fan traffic. Web stats are provided to our clients on a monthly basis so you can keep abreast of your web traffic and the sources that are driving that traffic to your site.
Press Releases and Press Kits and Biography Writing
5 Star Promotions has a professional writing team that will work hand in hand with you and your artists to help write the perfect biography that sums up who you are what you do and why you do it. Present your band to industry professionals with your best foot forward. Before they hear the very first note of your music, they see and read your printed material.
E-Mail Blasts
5 Star Promotions Email Marketing Team will help create a visually engaging email to send to your fans, radio personnel, Industry Execs and more on a regular basis. Your email list is the best possible ‘home’ for all of these fans. It gives the Artist the most flexibility to communicate, make offers, and conduct their business, regardless of which network the fans come from.
Social Networking Integration and Training
Since the invention of myspace, social networking sites have become the outlet musicians have been looking for to interact with potential fans all across the globe. To this day social networking is the backbone to any successful marketing venture. Utilizing the popularity of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and of course Myspace along with other Social Networking Engines 5 StarPromotions helps you reach and gain new fans daily.
Professional Photography
5 Star Promotions realizes that without professional quality images the whole process is impossible. From web design, flyer and album cover design and beyond professional images are the key to professional artwork. We keep very high standards and our team will not work with camera phone pics, facebook album pics or any pics not of professional quality and size. Our photographers are on deck ready to bring your best face forward.
Professional Video Production
5 Star Promotions has a pool of talented Videographers ready to make your next production a cinematic experience for your fans. While any guy with a camera can shoot a video, only a professionally trained team of videographers can provide a film-quality production that will make your fans stand up and notice. Our video team utilizes high quality equipment and top shelf software to finish your production to perfection.
High Quality Graphic Design
5 Star Promotions has an award winning in house graphic team as well as partnerships with several design freelancers that specialize in urban graphic design that will provide our clients with Top Notch Professional graphics sure to get you noticed.
Radio Submissions
5 Star Promotions will guide you through the process of submitting your music for airplay at various radio outlets in a professional manner. We utilize a list of online radio contacts, college and major radio contacts as well as professional DJ’s from all over the world. Our professional team will help you set a budget for radio play and advertising as well as helping you submit to thousands of free radio outlets.
Music Production Services
5 Star Promotions can assist in setting you up with a professional quality studio in your area for recording, mixing and mastering of your tracks, full album, or mixtape. Professional sound is key when promoting your product.
Marketing and Promotion
5 Star Promotions Marketing team will help you secure the best advertising and promotion of your events, albums, mixtape, or single. We utilize both online and offline marketing strategies to get you the widespread promotion you need to make your next venture a complete success. From viral video promotion, vehicle wrap advertising, web banner advertising, flyer promotion, cd giveaways and more. Our artist promotion department will concentrate solely on getting your music heard in a vast array of markets using social networking, e-blasting, and in person contact. We specialize in building your web presence through radio promotion, blog placements and web promotion. We work with a limited number of artists at one time to ensure that you get the proper time and attention from out staff.
Music and Video Distribution
In addition to online promotions of your video with super charged viral promo packages and submission of your audio tracks to various online and radio music sources, 5 Star Promotions will help you secure digital distribution for your music. Once you’ve taken care of the business aspects and started your promotion campaign, it’s time to start selling your music. 5 Star Promotions can help with online distribution as well as physical distribution. Our professional team will guide you through the correct process of music distribution and the business aspects of collecting your royalties and avoiding the mesh of scandalous would be A&R’s and payola kingpins.
