Find a dealer is difficult. It can take months and months before finding a distributor and secure, which is not a simple process for independent labels or not particuliers.Ne discourage or give up, keep plugging, even if you can not find a distributor after months of research. Dealers get a lot of packages on their desks every week, it is essential that you contact them first before you send them to a package. When calling a distributor, you can do it right the first time, or it may take several weeks to a real person to get you no parler.Si first contact, and send a package for non-applied, it can be discarded or sent back unopened. But one can think: “My product is awesome! You would never do that with me.” Sorry to bad news, but your package may never open. In fact, it can never go over the reception desk without permission. So why do not pay attention that your product is a much better chance when we first heard has permission? For those of you that you never make cold calls think you need to get over it or call a friend not for you. Getting through the first call is always difficult, but you’ll see that you are calling more and more, it is easier each time. They are many people who apply for it to compete. If you do not call, chances are very low that you never entendu.Si after the first call, you still think you’re too embarrassed, try a sign and make your call as a sign. Becoming “Jick Wicki from” “Nagawicki.” (You never know, it could lead to a career more action!), Including a match.Il is important that you submit your CD to a dealer who sells music. The person who is not necessarily to send the person responsible for final decisions. From the moment you start contacting them, it can be six to eight months to get to the actual product in their hands before and finally, to hear the right dealer. When you finally reach it, there can be months, some have their database. Here are some tips for finding a dealer: • On your first call, tell them your name and your labels. If you do not have a name picked, make-up. • Learn more about the presentation and distribution policy. • If the only act on an independent label is a problem cause Ask. Many dealers are not products of independent labels, at least three to fifteen CDs in their “stable have.” In addition, many dealers do not take if you have already placed an antenna. The Catch-22 is that many radio stations, so they can play an independent artist, will do so only if they meet the national distribution. • Ask what they want in the press. Some want to give a complete press kit with CD (sending a headshot, if not explicitly required), while others simply a letter with a summary of recent events, targeting need ideas, and excerpts from the review, if you have any. It is important to find this information in advance. We discovered after much wasted time and money that many dealers have the letter. They had opened the package, read the tear sheet, and discard the rest as soon as we began to call often, they called again the whole package. What a waste of resources! • In your letter, press kit / they want your “SRP” know who is your retail price. For those of you who do not know retail and wholesale trade, retail trade is the price that consumers pay at a music store and wholesale is the price the dealer pays the owner of the produit.Ma proposal for SRP is $ 11. 98-12 $. 98th You do not want the market price. If you look at a music store, CD’s are the most important artists of the label “on sale” for $ 11. 98th Distributors will usually last for 40-60% of your SRP as their cut (which is usually at 40% $ 11 x 98th Gives you $ 7. 19 per CD), and music stores mark your SRP $ 1. 00-4 $. 00th If you set your SRP at $ 11 98 and the bank has an additional $ 2 00 would be at $ 13 to the price of your CD, the cost to consumers. 98th However, if you set your SRP at $ 13. 98 and the store adds $ 2. 00, the consumer price: $ 15 would be. 98th What price do you think a consumer who had never heard of you have to pay more? • Check to see that kind of music they distribute. • Imagine you when they ask, your music is on a radio station in particulier.Il dealer that you play on certain stations before you distribute must be played. If the station is not playing your kind of music that you Have your product, money and time. Let me give you an example why this is another key issue. We asked all these questions, except this particular case. Then we sent the package off when we contacted them later, they asked us if we played at a certain radio station. non.Il We said, proved that the only station playing alternative music. when our country CD / Jazz you can see the problem. When we contacted about this told not to disclose it to country music. We asked if they have stopped distribution of country music. The gentleman we spoke during our first phone call said he was planning to country music in the company present, but he had not had the chance. He did acknowledge that we are never played on the station to which they need an antenna, so he abandoned it. A prime example of wasted time, effort and money! • Find out where the arm reaches distribution. Ask for specific countries and regions. Some distributors only distribute in certain states. If your satellite radio, live concerts and promotion in those regions, they can not help you. • What is the best time to reach them? • Who are the big stores they distribute too, and in what areas? Call several shops and check their references. If the stores have never heard of them, they can not be an authorized dealer. Register your product from an unscrupulous person may try to arnaquer.Ce is a sampling of what you must do to get a dealer. Remember to set your iTunes music list, Sony Music and other online retailers. Once you actually a dealer, a playground is quite different and a lot of work but worth it.