Music artist promotion can be trickey and difficult at the best of times, however one of the biggest reasons why some bands will never make it anywhere is because they are scared of making mistakes.
Check out this clip by Derek Sivers - This clip outlines very clearly what I believe to be as the number one music artist promotion mistake around.
Whatever it is, bands either want to get it right all the time from the very beginning or they are just to scared to do anything and therefore mess everything else up in the meantime. Derek talks about this very well in this clip.
