Thanks,
M.Dancy

Best,
Marvin

Also, he wrote a great set of articles for the indie music community called "Radio Promotion 101' I believe you can find the series on www.indie-music.com.....

Have a touring band in those areas of targeted play.
Know what times of the day or night your adds will most likely be placed and determine if a few spins between 3 and 5 in the morning is worth the money and excitment over getting plays. (Plays should result in sales,,,,,so also make sure your product is in stores in those areas of play). Your competing with all the other artist for people's money. Many will do all the right things and still not get good results that would make the promotion expenses worth it. If you are not doing what the very experienced ones are doing, then the chances for good results drop dramatically, just about to nill.

Check that the stations are "reporting stations", and are in the PRO's lists of their scientificly conducted surveys to have at least a mathmatically chance of being surveyed. Not all plays will be counted for as is. It's an average based on the type of stations and the spins your song gets at the time of any survey. Many stations will not be surveyed though.

Radio play "alone" can be very empty in meaning and results, so please make sure all of the above are in order, plus some things I'm probably leaving out, or just don't know yet. But from my hands on experience in this, (half a hand at best), and to help prevent some bad feelings you could have in the future, please do your radio business homework as much as anything, if not more, not just who is good at it. The promoter can't go on the tour, or many other things the artist needs to do to make it all worth it.

Try http://www.sonicbids.com Through them I submitted two songs to
http://www.iradiola.com. Within hours after I submitted them my songs were put on the play list and started playing. This station is an independent station in Los Angeles, CA. It is 104.7 FM. It doesn't have a strong signal and I don't know exactly where it's located but I hope it's in a highly populated area. The station is also on line and you can go there by using the URL above.

Hope this Helps

Paul