{"id":3106,"date":"2010-03-22T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiehiphop.net\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2011-02-28T03:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:15:48","slug":"dj-donts-5-artist-no-nos-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indiehiphop.net\/dj-donts-5-artist-no-nos-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Don&#8217;t&#8217;s: 5 Artist No No&#8217;s (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiehiphop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dj-dont.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3107\" title=\"dj dont\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiehiphop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dj-dont.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Don&#8217;t think that heavy marketing and aggressive promotion will be the solution to all your problems.<\/strong> Your music must be great. No amount of marketing will make people care about bad music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Don&#8217;t be afraid to be different.<\/strong> Biting someone&#8217;s sound and style may get you noticed short term, but the artists who have a lasting affect are those who dare to stand out and create something new.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Don&#8217;t ignore your fans.<\/strong> Focus on building genuine relationships. Nothing beats word of mouth promotion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Don&#8217;t underestimate the power of video.<\/strong> It doesn&#8217;t take a big budget to make an entertaining music video. A handycam, a little clever editing, and a creative idea can do wonders for a your songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Don&#8217;t contact blog owners, magazines, or DJs without knowing what their interests are. <\/strong>Do your homework! The more you know about them, the more impressed your contact will be with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Don&#8217;t think that heavy marketing and aggressive promotion will be the solution to all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[273,15,17],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-dj-dont","tag-marketing","tag-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiehiphop.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}