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Posted by Administrator
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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Distributors have sales people who call buyers
at the retailers and get them to order inventory of their labels CD’s and stock
them in their stores. Retailers will
often tie the amount of inventory they order to the amount of money the
distributor is willing to pay in marketing programs and advertising with them.
These marketing programs include special product placement within the
retailer’s stores, listening posts, giveaways and promotions, and often include
print and online advertising. Distributors have a staff to coordinate the
retail marketing programs with their labels, agree to marketing budgets, get ad
artwork and send retailers the artist one sheet summaries of the release and
promotional CD’s to the buyers at the retailers. The costs of these marketing
programs are charged back to the record labels and usually become a recoupable
expense against the artist’s royalties from sales .
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Last Updated ( Monday, 05 November 2007 )
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