If the answer is a definite yes, then TAXI is one available approach. TAXI sends its members biweekly tip sheets of requests from music companies. Members send their submissions directly to TAXI, where its staff of music industry professionals screen the submissions for those that are right on target for companies requests. Appropriate submissions are forwarded to the companies by TAXI as solicited material.
TAXI then notifies members regarding which companies have received submitted materials.
Members whose tapes were not forwarded for a particular solicitation receive a written critique from the TAXI reviewers that will tell them exactly why the tape was not forwarded and how to improve it. Laskow had presented on a music industry panel at the Philadelphia Music Conference and gave the NJSA seminar before returning to Woodland Hills, California, where TAXI is located. Although I hadn't made previous arrangements, when I introduced myself as the volunteer coordinator of The Princeton Songwriters, NSAI to Michael Laskow, founder and President of TAXI, he graciously agreed to an interview for The Princeton Songwriter's web site. We spent about 40 minutes discussing his company and his career in the music business before his presentation that night about TAXI to the New Jersey Songwriters Association and area songwriters. He found his way into the music business, starting at the very bottom and working his way up to significant heights.