Anybody On the Board Members Of Taxi?

[Renegade Studios]

Just wandering if anybody has had any experience with them!

Would You recommend them?

Good Or Bad feedback will be gladly appreciated!!!

Thanks

[shackman]

No experience directly, but anecdotally: spend loads, get little in return. Same as most online "promotion services". Their main aim is to make money - but not for you.

[Renegade Studios]

yeah Im reading the previous posts (which I should have done first!)

[TonyB]

Their batting average is quite, quite, quite low. not sure if I can name anyone who was signed or had their song bought recently.

[whomper]

Originally Posted by Renegade Studios

Just wandering if anybody has had any experience with them!

Would You recommend them?

Good Or Bad feedback will be gladly appreciated!!!

Thanks

appear to be least worst of the options
nobody is going to make you rich and famous

best i can say is that they appear to be more honest than alternative type pr/agent services

it really comes down to you promoting yourself
whether book authors or musician/composers

they are all in biz to make money for them
if they can help you that is a plus for both of you
but they will not give up their profits
to ensure yours - as if that were possible

they are affiliated with discmakers which makes me
think they are not an outright scam - faults are just
teh result of the marketplace - too much crapola
and too many big egoed wannabees - with too few buyers -
and too little truly good content for sale - at least content that would appeal to enough of the buying public to make the music a commercial success no matter how good/bad it is

[brandondrury]

I think Taxi has good intentions. I think they want all of their clients to profit from them.

In the end they are a lottery ticket distributor. Few people have the talent to make robo pro stuff. Even fewer people just happened to make exactly what X paying company was looking for.

The whole thing is a roll of the dice and the odds are against you, but I do think they are fighting for you.

they are all in biz to make money for them
if they can help you that is a plus for both of you
but they will not give up their profits
to ensure yours - as if that were possible

I think if they could increase your chances of profits, they are going to do it. I think magazine ads and newsletters is nice for them, but the best promotion for them is when someone lands a big deal.

When they got that Crossfade band signed (had a big song or two on rock radio) that was a big deal. In recent years things seem to have slowed down for them.

Brandon

[TonyB]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

I think Taxi has good intentions. I think they want all of their clients to profit from them.
....

When they got that Crossfade band signed (had a big song or two on rock radio) that was a big deal. In recent years things seem to have slowed down for them.

Brandon

That's the point I was trying to make. I couldn't remember the "most famous" recent act but you got it (Crossfade).

I have a couple of friends who are Taxi members. They keep trying and trying. They're more into the background/video game music genre. Still trying.

Taxi's batting average is really low. I'm sure they go to the plate with all intentions of hitting a homer, but there just seems to be too many strike outs for me to personally spend my $$$ on the membership dues.

[whomper]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

I think Taxi has good intentions. I think they want all of their clients to profit from them.

In the end they are a lottery ticket distributor. Few people have the talent to make robo pro stuff. Even fewer people just happened to make exactly what X paying company was looking for.

The whole thing is a roll of the dice and the odds are against you, but I do think they are fighting for you.


I think if they could increase your chances of profits, they are going to do it. I think magazine ads and newsletters is nice for them, but the best promotion for them is when someone lands a big deal.

When they got that Crossfade band signed (had a big song or two on rock radio) that was a big deal. In recent years things seem to have slowed down for them.

Brandon

agreed

they are trying to help
but there is little they can really do

some places are pure scams
taxi is reasonable and not trying to suck out every dollar from your wallet
although they clearly are in business to get a hunk of your wad but would like you to be successful unlike some places that only want your money.

the dirty truth is , whether books , movie scripts,or music, there are no real producers visiting all these display sites and wasting their time crawling through loads of krap hoping to find some new star.

it is up to you to do your pr and get your name known.
contacts is teh name of the game.
in books you get nowhere without an agent
catch 22
now you have to get an agent FIRST
used to be (long time ago) you only had to get a publisher

for music you need to get to the A&R guy
so if you dont know one meet somebody who does
else your chances of getting your demo heard
are fat slim and none

if you cant meet people
then better play a lot and get press
the big boys do read the trade rags
if you are pullign crowds in town after town
they will come find you
but if you could do that you wouldnt need them would you
catch 22

this is all luck
taxi may add 0.001 percent to your chances

[garageband]

Done this. Don't waste your time - it's not even so much about the money. The bigger concept is "Don't let anybody tell you No that can't tell you Yes".

[brandondrury]

The other side to this is expecting a magic solution to all your problems for $300 (or whatever it is now). For maybe $30,000 you could really get your music out there....maybe. Maybe $300,000. $300 doesn't mean dick in marketing land for any real business. People shouldn't kid themselves. If you are doing Taxi, your goal is to profit.

So while $300 is a real chunk of money, from a business perspective it isn't. Most of us have spend more (maybe exponentially more) on cables. If a person is serious about starting a serious music production business, they go all out and spend some serious bucks marketing just like a web design business, a car dealership, or anything else.

Brandon