Best way to submit your tracks to a label

After I got the 12347263524273725 mail from someone asking me to make sure Anjunabeats got his demo I decided to write this.
So labels actually check out the demos you send over, most of them even pay someone to listen each and every track that gets sent to the office(they are called A&R and they are VERY patient persons), now, asking to an artist of a label to ask the label to ask the A&R to listen your track isn’t the strategy that will get you signed, for a few reasons.
1) Plenty of people already thought about this strategy already, messaged this artist who already had enough of these silly requests who will never contact the label for you.
2) introducing yourself rather than being introduced by someone else is a great thing, gives you more credibility, clearer deals (believe some ppl between you and the lable might be jealous and be more of a pain than a help),
3) The less you “own” to people, the better, you never know what kind of situations life will put you thru, it’s rather bad having someone telling you, you are there because of me…whatever!
I’m with you that this might be like a very dark vision of life but I’ve been into discography for over 8 years now and I saw a lot.
You are also right when you say that being considered when you are a total stranger takes longer and its harder than being introduced by someone else, but is also true that when you have REAL talent you get what you deserve!
Now let’s leave behind the possible bad things that might happen to you and let’s focus on how to promote yourself a little in order to have more chances with getting heard and signed eventually.
Most important of all things be realistic! If by comparing your track with a track signed on the label you are sending your demo to, you notice a HUGE gap in therms of quality, well maybe try improve your track and make it a little “tastier” and good sounding before sending it over, because if you keep sending average stuff the A&R will associate your name to something that ain’t worth listening and this might make it way harder for you, if your track sounds average but the melody you have there it’s the ultimate bomb, keep it on your hardisk, improve your productions skills and go back to it when you feel ready to turn that bomb melody into a bomb track.
Second most important thing, makes sure the style of your track matches the style of the label you are showing your music to! You can’t really send a dubstep track to a house music label, I mean you can but we are trying to increase your chances to get considered here.
So what if you produced a track which is great but is not quite the genre you usually produce, you have this tune and you have no idea which label you can send it to.
Well here a bit of research comes handy, you can simply surf around beatport.com listen to some random music till you find a some tracks similar to your one, now all you have to do is google the name of the labels those tracks are signed to and send them your stuff (other suggestion, send 1 mail at a time, not the same track to 800 different labels).
Other small things (yet important) you can do are : send full length & finished tracks, if something has to be fixed, fix it before you send it, also, show you are always keen to follow the label suggestions in case they are interested and ask you to fix a certain part of the track.
Do not overload them with tracks, 2 are enough 1 it’s way better, make sure your contact detail are correct(!!!), try to resist the temptation of showing the world your new track before you show it to the label, they LOVE exclusive stuff (kinda easier to sell), last but not least, if the label you wan to contact has a forum, hang around there for a while, show what you can do, try to get them to know you before you even contact them, a forum is a great source of information for a label, so if you think they are not watching you, you are very wrong.
Many other things should be said but this post is long enough already, just don’t forget to make music to have fun and not to become “famous” cause one single sign will hardly make you rich or famous or surrounded by girls ;)