I've been thinking about band promotion lately, or rather the complete and total lack of it. I've come up with some questions that bands should think about:

• Are you on Myspace?
• Do you have a real web page in addition to Myspace?
• Do you hand out fliers?
• Do you hand out demo CDs?
• Do you sell demo CDs?
• Do you have a full-length CD?
• Do you have an email list?
• Do you actually send emails about your shows to your list?
• Can you name ten of your fans that you did not know before you started gigging?
• If you search for your band's name on Google, are you the top spot?
• Do you send out press releases to the local press/blogs/radio?
• Have you bookmarked yourself on the social bookmarking sites (ie Del.icio.us)?
• Do you have clips available on your website and/or Myspace that users can listen to?
• Do you have full songs that users can download from your website and/or Myspace?
• Have you written an effective biography of your band?
• Does every personal email that you send have your URL in the signature?