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20 (Mostly Free) Tips to Promote Your Play or Musical

My guerrilla marketing methods were developed over the last 20 years as a best-selling author. I’m applying those same techniques now on my maiden voyage as a playwright.

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MAKE TIME


1. Schedule fifteen minutes a day to self-promotion. Put yourself in your calendar. With only fifteen minutes every day you’ll make major strides and create a habit.

 

ORGANIZE YOUR MATERIALS


2. Add an email signature. Email signatures are a great way to promote your play. Change it up.

3. Order business cards. Ask for other people’s and hand yours out like candy.

4. Actively collect email addresses. Be relentless.

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ABBY STOKES
ABBY STOKES

is a best-selling author, playwright, and performer. Her award-winning solo show, A GOOD GIRL DOESN’T: a comedy that takes you from here to paternity, will open at the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of a solo series “Gretchen Cryer Presents True Stories” in spring 2020. www.AbbyStokes.com