What do street teams do for bands

Having groups set up for specific cities will help the members feel more connected with each other and can even get together to come up with ideas on what to do. Having a forum will help each other stay in connect and have easy access to anything they have a question about and maybe even before they ask it. Make sure to reward them for their help and that they know you appreciate all that they are doing for you.

If you get the right people to work on your team, they will do anything to help you out, so you want to make sure you can do anything to show your appreciation. It will be hard to get noticed without their help. Michele Enoch is a music business graduate from Musicians Institute who has managed and promoted bands for years. She is now working on her photography and helping performers advance in their career.

Her passion has always been music and she is exploring all aspects of the industry. Michele appreciates all kinds of music and seeing music in all kinds of environments. She enjoys crocheting hats and toys, reading and writing mystery and horror stories, taking pictures of everything she can, food from around the world, and adorable animals.

She is always on the look out for anything new and exciting. Your email address will not be published. Offline Street Team Having a street team on the streets is still very important.

I'm a music business professional with an innate interest for music and subcultures! It allows your street team to feel exclusive, while giving everyone a place to communicate, exchange ideas, and collaborate.

Once street teams are established, weekly challenges should be enacted to ensure members remain active and invested. Managers should come up with weekly challenge ideas. Street team recruitment should be ongoing.

If this does not sound feasible, there are companies located nationally and internationally that have their own street teams established and will distribute your marketing materials.

Most of these sites require you to get a quote. Street teams are a fun and exciting way to promote music. When you're looking to build an offline street team, you'll need a few people from the same rough area to join.

This is because they'll have to go around together and promote your music. If your fanbase is strongly focused in one area this won't be an issue, but due to the internet probably gathering you fans from all different sides of the world, chances are your fanbase won't initially be that concentrated. Offline street teams also usually aren't very effective all year round. It's much easier to get people willing to go out and promote you during summer time, but come winter when it's cold and raining, you'll find a lot less people willing to do this.

It's because of this that an online street team is best to get started with for most musicians and bands. Even if you don't have any two members from the same rough area, each member of the team can perform their tasks by themselves from the comfort of their own home. As your fanbase builds and you start to get more targeted to certain areas, it makes sense to build an offline street team around that area.

But initially at least, you may want to start online. So assuming you've a good level of talent, you've something to promote and you've money to fund your street team, it's worth getting one set up. But a street team is no good unless you have something for them to do. Due to the nature of the music industry, you should always be able to find tasks for your online street team to do.

Promotion and general marketing is an ongoing process. There are always people who haven't heard about you and your music before, so more marketing will help reach these people. I won't go into full details on tasks they could be doing in this guide as it's quite a big topic. Instead I'll do a whole guide on this side of things in future. Make sure you're signed up to the Music Industry How To newsletter to be informed on when that's out.

Now, on to the core aspect of any street team: the street team members. Fill your street team with lazy unmotivated people and it really won't be worth your time. Not only will you be spending too much time trying to get these people to do anything, but it'll also cause a lot of stress on your part.

So pretty much the opposite of what you want to achieve, which is freeing up your time, making things less stressful and getting more done. Now, unless you're a big established name with a good sized fanbase, member selection is hardly ever a straight forward process.

There are two reasons for this:. Now I'm not going to say it's easy to get members of your street team, as it can be a frustrating and timely process.

But it's still a good idea to get started. Even if you add two new people to your street team a month, that's still two new people who are spreading the word about you. And if you start out with an online street team, they don't need to wait till you've got a certain amount of people until they start promoting you.

Even with one member you can set them up to start spreading the word about your music right away. Chances are, these should be your main two targets when you're looking to recruit for your street team. As much as people may like you, this usually isn't enough of a reason for them to do so.