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# 11 Reasons Why Your Music Self-Promotion Isn’t Working
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/11-reasons-why-your-music-self-promotion-isnt-working/
- Published: 2013-06-14T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-06-14T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: So you’ve been promoting your music and haven’t seen any results…Are you wondering why your efforts aren’t working? You might be only concentrating on social media when you should be. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/06/11-reasons-why-your-music-self-promotion-isnt-working.html
- Author: admin
- Tags: Music Think Tank, arts, Bands and Artists, James Moore, Music Marketing, music, Natalie Cheng, promote, Promotion, self-promotion, Social Media, Unsigned Band Resources, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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So you’ve been promoting your music and haven’t seen any results…Are you wondering why your efforts aren’t working? You might be only concentrating on social media when you should be promoting in various ways or just spamming people. Check out more reasons why your music self-promotion may not be working on **James Moore**’s [Music Think Tank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/11-reasons-why-your-music-self-promotion-isnt-working.html?ref=hypebot.com) post.

“Put yourself in the blogger/editor/etc’s position upon opening your email. **Why should they take an hour of their time to promote you?**” ([Read On](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/11-reasons-why-your-music-self-promotion-isnt-working.html?ref=hypebot.com))

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