HELP! Helping friend promote music shop... any suggestions?

Well let's see...

You can print out flyers and post them in various places for a start.

Promote the shop through your online networking sites (friendster,FB, myspace, etc.)

You can open accounts under the name of the store. Example: Independent Music Store on Myspace, Friendster, FB

Then, if you can design online banners, put that on the profiles and ask your friends if they can support by placing links or banners in their profiles, too.

I would say that flyers are easy, cheap and directly in contact with people when they are placed into the right places, like metros, bus stops, you know, places where the possible clients go the more often. I would say that a website is vefry important, these days, many people trey to know about a hop by visiting his website. I would also propose you the idea of small posts in the news paper, it's not expensive and touches many people. Your goal is maninly to help your firned to be seen by as many people as possible. You need to be everwhere so people fro everywhere can know what this is all about. Good luck and don't forget, clear, simple, and nice. Tell people, don't make them search.

all ideas are good ideas. I would like to suggest even a letter box delivery. It is a good way to promote in the local area.

Creating a website. To keep it free of charge, they could use a free blogger site. Have people put links on profiles. Advertise it on any advertising sites.

I hope that your friend is able to keep the music shop open.

advertise a reopening of the music shop with inexpensive freebies for the first however many customers you want, serve diet sodas or coffee, hand out flyers, have a place for people to listen to records and sit and sip sodas or coffee. decorate with streamers make it pretty and inviting too.

You just said it in your topic, INDIE! Sell music that is popular, but also sell music that is Indie. Your other problem, as you probably know this, is iTunes and the internet. People are buying less CDs and music because they are online listening to it and or they are downloading it. Sadly, the music industry is dying thanks to the internet. Personally, I rarely buy CDs anymore, why? I get my music online. I buy CDs and DVDs every once in a while. Also, I am more into reading these days. When I was a music major, I loved listening to music all of the time. Now that my major is English, I am lucky if I get one to two hours out of my day to hear music.