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# Test Your Knowledge Of Music Promotion
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/test-your-knowledge-of-music-promotion/
- Published: 2019-12-17T14:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-17T14:11:40.000Z
- Description: Just promoting your music is fairly straightforward, but doing so efficiently and seeing actual results requires a little more nuance. In this quiz we assess just how much you know. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/12/test-your-knowledge-of-music-promotion.html]
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Just promoting your music is fairly straightforward, but doing so efficiently and seeing actual results requires a little more nuance. In this quiz we assess just how much you know about contemporary music promotion.

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*Guest post by *Bobby Owsinski* of [Music 3.0](https://music3point0.com/2019/12/12/music-promotion-quiz/?ref=hypebot.com)*

It’s fairly easy to promote your music these days, but being efficient and getting results require you to do more than take a shotgun approach. The following questions are designed to test how much you know about today’s music promotion. Ready? Let’s begin.

#### 1\. The three parts to promotion are:

A. communicating, interacting, measuring

B. omni, cardioid and figure 8

C. followers, clients and customers

D. fans, interaction, engagement

#### 2\. Record labels sign an artist because:

A. they love the music

B. there’s an audience or potential audience

C. they love the look

D. they have to sign someone

#### 3\. How many friends does the average Facebook user have?

A. 155

B. 13

C. 22

D. 312

#### 4\. The Theory of 22 states that:

A. every musician is on 22 social networks

B. every artist must create at least 22 videos to succeed

C. a person with a complaint will tell an average of 22 people

D. a person who likes something will tell an average of 22 people

#### 5\. People with good news tell an average of:

A. 3 to 5 friends

B. 6 to 12 friends

C. 22 friends

D. 155 friends

#### 6\. Traditional media is made up of:

A. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

B. Google, Apple and Amazon

C. newspapers, magazines, radio and television

D. YouTube, Facebook video, Vevo and Vimeo

#### 7\. Social media is really:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/media-998990_640.jpg)

A. online video posts

B. online word of mouth

C. Facebook and Instagram posts

D. your website and mailing list

#### 8\. What is a brand?

A. It’s higher quality than what’s found in advertising so it looks better

B. a type of advertising

C. the inverse phase law

D. a promise of quality and consistency

#### 9\. Things that might identify a brand include:

A. if it’s based on carbon or silicon

B. the color and font

C. the color burgundy

D. traditional or social media

#### 10\. The 3 reasons why an online strategy is necessary are:

A. efficiency, effectiveness and message control

B. efficiency, effectiveness and thought control

C. measurement, engagement and message control

D. engagement, effectiveness and message control

#### ANSWERS

| 1\. A | 6\. C  |
| ----- | ------ |
| 2\. B | 7\. B  |
| 3\. A | 8\. D  |
| 4\. C | 9\. B  |
| 5\. A | 10\. C |

How did you do? If you got any wrong you might want to check out the latest edition to my [*Social Media Promotion For Musicians* ](https://amzn.to/2veVJfP?ref=hypebot.com)handbook that covers all of the above in depth and much more.

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