The ten best ways to market your music on the web
The ten best ways to market your music on the web
1. Have music. People don't want to hear or watch you talk about your ideas about music, they want to hear the music and judge for themselves.
2. Soundcloud. While it seems that it is dying a slow death, it is still a great way to get music out to listeners for free.
3. Facebook. Sadly, it seems to be moving toward having to pay to be seen by anyone on it, but still a good way to connect to fans.
4. Internet radio. Get out your music to internet radio stations. They will love to have your music if it is up to their standards and fits their format, plus they can have the bragging rights of discovering you before anyone else did.
5. Spotify, last.fm, pandora, soundclick, etc. Get your music out to the sites that stream or make custom music experiences.
6. Have shows. So people can see you in action and you have new things to talk about besides your fabulously recorded songs.
7. Make friends with other musicians, artists, DJ's, VJ's. It always is a good thing to see how you can help other artists, including those of other mediums, and most of the time they will help you back at a later date, not that you can always count on it, but it is amazing what will pop up unexpectedly from past kindness on your part.
8. Be easy to be reached. This means make sure you have your contact info on everything that leaves your hot little hands.
9. Get your music on the digital download sites. The fastest and easiest way to do this is to sign up with companies like cdbaby.com or tunecore.com and have them post your music onto the sites such as amazon.com, iTunes, rhapsody, napster, emusic and administrate it. That way you keep tabs on who is buying your music and from where, but you don't have to do the collection of the money.
10. Have fun. Lastly, enjoy the process of making music and make the best music that you can. Once you can do that and wrap up doing the things in the other steps, you will be able to make money in your sleep and have a great way to spend time the way you want...
1. Have music. People don't want to hear or watch you talk about your ideas about music, they want to hear the music and judge for themselves.
2. Soundcloud. While it seems that it is dying a slow death, it is still a great way to get music out to listeners for free.
3. Facebook. Sadly, it seems to be moving toward having to pay to be seen by anyone on it, but still a good way to connect to fans.
4. Internet radio. Get out your music to internet radio stations. They will love to have your music if it is up to their standards and fits their format, plus they can have the bragging rights of discovering you before anyone else did.
5. Spotify, last.fm, pandora, soundclick, etc. Get your music out to the sites that stream or make custom music experiences.
6. Have shows. So people can see you in action and you have new things to talk about besides your fabulously recorded songs.
7. Make friends with other musicians, artists, DJ's, VJ's. It always is a good thing to see how you can help other artists, including those of other mediums, and most of the time they will help you back at a later date, not that you can always count on it, but it is amazing what will pop up unexpectedly from past kindness on your part.
8. Be easy to be reached. This means make sure you have your contact info on everything that leaves your hot little hands.
9. Get your music on the digital download sites. The fastest and easiest way to do this is to sign up with companies like cdbaby.com or tunecore.com and have them post your music onto the sites such as amazon.com, iTunes, rhapsody, napster, emusic and administrate it. That way you keep tabs on who is buying your music and from where, but you don't have to do the collection of the money.
10. Have fun. Lastly, enjoy the process of making music and make the best music that you can. Once you can do that and wrap up doing the things in the other steps, you will be able to make money in your sleep and have a great way to spend time the way you want...
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