Advertisement Placement
If you are looking to do an advertising campaign to accompany your release, special event or next step, Stark Profiles can advise you on the best publications and sites to house them. We can then coordinate with the institutions to secure you the best rates and hand-hold deals available. For more information on this service, please click here.
Awareness Campaigns
The objective of the Awareness Campaign is to break the ice and build up the profile of a newer artist or label in advance of a more event-specific campaign. This is run in tandem with a bespoke mailout to the 300 contact-strong press database, which presents the artist in a cutting-edge, image-led fashion. For more information on this service, please click here.
Biographies, Rewrites & Updates
Whether you’ve already conquered the trance universe or are just beginning to, your artist biography is what sells you around the world. Over the last 18 months Stark Profiles PR has written the biography’s of a host of trance and progressive names - Cosmic Gate, John O’Callaghan, Roger Shah, Leon Bolier, Menno de Jong, Rank 1, Solarstone & Wippenberg among them. For more information on this service, please click here.
Dedicated Press Contact
For a small monthly fee Stark Profiles becomes the professional handling agent for all your press enquiries. You link SPPR via your web pages and e-mail signatures and you have a press agent, improving the professional interface of your music operation in an instant. For more information on this service, please click here.
E-Flyer Campaigns
From time to time you’ll have a track, big-name remix, event or other piece of work that (outside of the confines of your other major campaigns) requires spotlighting. Our e-flyer campaigns take that information direct to the inboxes of the people who will want to know about it. For more information on this service, please click here.
Essential Mix Campaigns
In the 12 months between Sept 08 & Sept 09, Essential Mixes were thin on the ground for trance DJs (with only A&B, Markus Schulz, Sean Tyas, PVD, Armin & Sander van Doorn stepping up to the turntables). Yet getting them is a vital step into the big leagues. If you’re occupying this space then we can mount targeted Essential Mix campaigns aimed at getting you into the minds of the people that matter and ultimately locking you a mix. For more information on this service, please click here.
Fanbase Surveys
Ever woken up at 6am and thought to yourself: I wonder what the fan really thinks about that? Away from the bear pits of the forums, or the cosy face-to-face feedback, that is. Well, there is a way to find out. For more information on this service, please click here.
Forwards & Introductions
Tim Stark has been writing about electronic dance music for the world-renowned DJ Magazine, since 1999. In that time he’s written forwards & introductions for some of the world’s biggest dance artists, including Above & Beyond, Solarstone & The Thrillseekers. Why not intro your next compilation or artist album with a forward from Tim Stark? For more information on this service, please click here.
Monthly Newsmailer
The monthly newsmailer is one of the most popular services provided by Stark Profiles. Fans who are not kept in the loop on a regular basis always have the potential to have their musical minds drawn elsewhere. The only thing better than having them go to a website and read about your musical activities is to actually deliver your info straight to their inbox. For more information on this service, please click here.
National & International Print Press Campaigns
If you’re looking to take your compilation or artist album to the next level, Stark Profiles can promote your interests to the world’s printed dance press. We’ll work on securing you interviews, features, box-outs and competitions that will raise the profile of your release or artist enormously. For more information on this service, please click here.
Press Releases
One of the cornerstones of everything you do is how it’s presented to a prospective audience. As an individual artist you’ll have specific motivations for putting into motion the projects you undertake. Getting this across, as well as all the other elements that comprise them is as almost as critical as doing it in the first place. For more information on this service, please click here.
Review Campaigns
Every track, album or compilation you do is a special event, a building block in your career and one that should be aiming to achieve maximum magazine review coverage. If you are looking for a starting point at print press then the review campaign is it! For more information on this service, please click here.
Special Event Campaigns
Events take place throughout the dance music calendar that present DJs, labels, clubs and producers with significant opportunities to stand out. The WMC IDMA’s, DJ Magazine’s Top 100 DJs & Clubs polls & the Trance Awards are just some of them. If you’re looking to push through in these areas we can tailor bespoke, image and/or video-led campaigns to give you that significant edge. For more information on this service, please click here.
Syndication of DJ Mixes
If you produce a monthly DJ mix, Stark Profiles can make it work a lot harder! We hold a database of 100s of radio DJs worldwide, who broadcast shows on both well-known and underground networks! For more information on this service, please click here.
Web Campaigns
Effective Web Marketing is now considered the universal key to getting the message about your particular happening out to the greatest number of people possible. We benefit from extremely close relationships with an impressive number of websites, spanning the trance and progressive spectrum. If you have an event, compilation, album, major release or big-name remix in the pipeline, we are ready to make sure that info gets the coverage it deserves. For more information on this service, please click here.
Wikipedia Overhauls/Page Creations
Wikipedia is the resource that alongside your own website, MySpace & Discogs returns the highest hits when the public Google’s your name. Keeping it in shape and up-to-date is becoming increasingly important. We can take care of it all for you! For more information on this service, please click here.
