According to our last survey, "What's your most effective marketing technique?", posters/flyers and word of mouth are still the favored method of reaching an audience (33.33% and 31.25% respectively). E-mail and giveaways are still a good deal behind those methods (12.5% and 10.42% respectively). Street Teams and Press Coverage are tied with a paltry 4.17% (so why do I bother?) and direct mail and other methods of marketing tie for last with 2.08%. Nobody chose benefit concerts or table tee-pees as their most effective marekting technique. Our next survey asks, "What's Your Connection?" speed so we might better be able to serve you in the future. We've shyed away from fancy graphics on this site with the belief that most of you dial-up to Michiganbands.com. Let's see where we end up. Oh, and click "Read More" below for words of wisdom from our average survey respondent.
Words of Wisdom
from your average Michiganbands.com respondent (based on our existing polls so far)
"Hi. What I really want from Michiganbands.com is more smart-ass polls for bored musicians. And please, don't ask me to submit articles, because I really don't have anything important to say about music. However, if you must know, I started playing music between the ages of 11-15; anything to keep my hands busy during puberty. Now that I'm all grown up, I don't mind doing a gig for free if the exposure's decent. You see, I want everybody to buy my band's CD - though I've only bought a couple by unsigned artists myself. Our band's formula for marketing success is "do it the old-fashioned way"; with flyers, posters and yes, my big fat mouth."
According to our last survey, "What's your most effective marketing technique?", posters/flyers and word of mouth are still the favored method of reaching an audience (33.33% and 31.25% respectively). E-mail and giveaways are still a good deal behind those methods (12.5% and 10.42% respectively). Street Teams and Press Coverage are tied with a paltry 4.17% (so why do I bother?) and direct mail and other methods of marketing tie for last with 2.08%. Nobody chose benefit concerts or table tee-pees as their most effective marekting technique. 
