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Are you a artist, singer, songwriter or performer thats wondering how you can make money with your Independent music before you even get a record deal? Well if you have, you’re reading the write article. In this series I’m going to share with you a couple of ways you can make money with your music and your additionally going to learn a few strategies to help you make even more money with your Independent music.
Let me start off by telling you that the perfect way to make money with your Independent music is by selling it directly to your audiences instead of trying to get distribution into the music stores or selling on iTunes (by the way, you’ll want to get distribution and sell on iTunes), I’m just saying selling direct to audiences is better and you get more money doing it this way (which is necessary, right?).
So now you’re wondering, How do I sell straight to the audiences? It is not prefer you have your own store, right? Well, here is a hint, its staring you in the face right now…. that’s right, the Internet ! The Internet is the  biggest  way to make money with your Independent music! Here are a few reasons why the Internet is such a amazing vehicle to use to sell your Independent music.
1. You have a group of people who will instantly buy your CD  when released
2. You can have your CDs selling with al the majority no endeavor on your part, just collect the money and ship the CD.
3. You get more bang for your buck, advertising and marketing wise.
4. You can have other people sell your CD  for you and only pay them when they sell the CD s!
How amazing is that! Those are just a few of the amazing things about selling your music Web using the Internet. By the way, you don’t even have to have a complete CD  yet in order to this. Of course it would be better if you did have a whole CD, but what Im, saying is that you can sell the singles as you complete them.
To find out what you need to get started selling your CD  Web, check my other article titled What You Need to Make Money With Your Independent Music Web. Till next time.
What’s everybody’s favorite radio station?
Answer — W.I.I.F.M.
What’s In It For Me? What do they get by being your fan? Your client? Your Media people are going to want to know why they ought to book you. audiences want to know why they ought to continue guide ing you and buying your discs. Your booking agents want to know why they ought to continue to find gigs for your band. The perfect way to keep ‘em hooked is to tell them What’s in it for them.
Many people are inundated with massive amounts of information. In order to keep them tuned in to your message is to
1) remind them you exist and
2) to Keep it tell them what they are going to get.
The majority of people in this world are motivated by two things: Fear and Greed. Fear of losing something and the Greed of gaining something. The trick is to keep it short and sweet and above all simple. K.I.S.S. Keep It simple Stupid.
You will have a divergent message for your audiences. Possibly more entertaining, light hearted, fun. Your Agents are going to want to hear something professional, responsible, business- prefer. Your Media and Press contacts will want to hear a new twist, public relations, something everyone can use to reach the broad st readership.
Here is another way to keep your reader interested: Use the word “You” instead of “I”.
For example: “I can really get many people to your club if I can get booked there next month” doesn’t work as well as “Your audiences will be on their feet and screaming for more when you book our popular band now selling out rooms thru out the Midwest.”
Another idea would be, “I’ll get a brand new DVD out in the mail tomorrow” may be change d to “You’ll be receiving your free DVD as soon as you fax back your info.”
These may be just semantics but when you start using them, you’ll see an increase in your responses. This will establish momentum. When you start getting more calls, u will eventually get more performances. amazing gigs will bring in more audiences which will get you better band bookings from the agents. can you see it?
When you start locating better performances, two things will happen. You will be able to charge more on every show and you’ll be getting so many gigs able to turn down work.
We’ve all been around the block once or twice in the absence of our Mommies here. Or as the saying goes “You can not Dazzle me with Brilliance nor Baffle me with Bull”. Cut to the chase. Give it to me straight. Please don’t think that I’m really going to believe you’re ready to take the music world by storm if you’re playing pool halls and coffee shops. Keep it real. Base your articles and publicity material in the Real World. You and I are not going to fall for B.S. What makes you think everyone out there is any divergent? Tell it prefer it is. Just add a little sizzle to the steak. Keep your marketing and press statements inspiring and entertaining.  we  are in the business of fun.
Feel free to be a little wild and outlandish. It’s okay. people won’t mind. We’re in an industry where people are looking for an escape. Let them have it to take their minds off of things. It keeps us in business. Just keep it real. Take your picture with a donkey for promo. Just don’t be the donkey.
Commit to at least 6 months to any marketing campaign
Don’t think you’re going to hit a homerun every time. Build slowly and look to just get on base. A walk is as nice as a hit. You need to give yourself time to find out what works. Once you do, then do that over and over. Just be sure to try as many divergent marketing pieces as you can afford. Try postcards and Google Ad Words at the same time. See which one works better. Change your message to fit divergent demographics and target markets. Use your creativity to get their attention. There has been a band that sent me their promo. I had about 50 performers sending me stuff for this festival and I opened theirs’ first because it has been not prefer all the other packets I has been getting.
It has been type of lumpy. Inside has been a Nerf Ball with the band’s name on it. Only it has been really small and when you got it wet it got really big.  we  were whipping this thing around the office and throwing it at each others’ heads. One time  we  named the band following the promotional item  we  had in stock. It has been a refrigerator magnet made of knotted ropes in the shape of the letter ‘Y’. So  we  called the band “Why Knot”. A bottle of aspirin inside and envelope can accent your opportunity headline that can something along the lines of, “Did that last band you hire give everyone a headache?”
Be sure to stay within the bounds of the law and there is no limit to what your fertile imagination can come up with to hook ‘em. These pointers for booking gigs and creating better paying music career are found in the breakthrough new book available at our Website. Just look at the link below. There you’ll find a step by step formula for creating music performances.
We would love it if you check it out. Either way, I certainly hope you thought of ways you can find gigs that pay the the majority money doing what you love – making music.

Contemporary media perpetuates all the old styles so that what’s popular now is what has been popular 30 years ago. If you’re old enough and were around in the 60’s, you’d remember that the 30’s seemed to be an era where the music and styles contrasted greatly with the 60’s. Today in 2008  we  hear much of the same that has been around in the 70’s as well as all the other eras including now ’s contemporary music. This is thanks to the modern day varieties of music media that  we  have now. can be this surplus of variety is what prompts the “search for meaning in modern music”.
Electronic amplification has made the contemporary sound of electric guitars and drums dominate the sounds of now. PC recording with its click tracks and loops has additionally played a big part in the contemporary sound. The PC software “Band in a Box” and the prefer lets you build a song with pre-recorded loops and then copyright it as something original. personal ly, as a classically trained pianist and working artist, I don’t prefer these facets of modern day music.
If you’re a artist, what’s the majority necessary is to be creative as an individual whatever it is you do. Create. Then share what you create. If you make a living at it, this influences how you create, but establish just the same. If you just listen to music, you’ll obvious ly listen to what you want to, and you can find a greater variety to choose from than ever before.
Personally, I’ve produced 3 cd’s. The first one has been original songs produced in a studio. My original premise for it has been to win a lover back to me. Then it became an endeavor to make nice recordings of my non-commercial styled songs that additionally involved the new (and married) love in my life. I’ve made living in music, mostly in academia (community college) and community theater gigs and events and marriage s. My other two cd’s are piano solo. One is classical and one is Christmas songs. None are commercial successes, but I make some money from the recordings from downloads all over the world.
Thus I’m trying to make money in other ways. And so I’m writing this article!
You can find my recordings at davidstahl.com and cdbaby.com/davidstahl

As I sit here writing, I can hear in the background my children humming and singing while they play. My four year old son is trying to make up his own rhyming lyrics to a melody he’s made up on the piano and my six year old daughter is reading the lyrics for a song she is practicing for a performance.
Music has had such an impact on our lives. And I know it comes mostly from the simple task of playing children ’s music during our day. Together  we  listen, sing along, dance and even read the lyrics.
For babies and young children music is a amazing way to learn language and new vocabulary. And they love it. I’ve never met a young child that doesn’t love music.
Listening to music with your children can establish a stimulating atmosphere for your home. Different music may be used to evoke divergent moods and may be used to establish divergent environments in your home.
When my children were babies, I used to play calm classical music before bedtime. Even now  we  play classical music when they do art (or when I need a some peace and quiet). At other times  we  use livelier music to  promote  creative movement, development of rhythm, dancing and singing along with. I don’t think  we  can survive a long car ride in the absence of one of our favorite cds.
I’ve additionally found music decidedly beneficial for their education. Through music, children (and adults a prefer ) are able to more simply memorize facts. songs may be used to learn phonics rules, math facts, lifestyle skills and so much more.  we  now try to find music that teaches about topics the children are interested in. And I find myself having the opportunity to relearn many subjects including Spanish.
Early exposure to a variety of musical styles can help develop a life long appreciation of music. When your children are young, you as the parent have the opportunity to influence positively the music that the family purchases. You can introduce many divergent styles and topics before their peers take over in later years.
The  biggest  worth of music is that it allows us as a family to spend quality time together. Music is an entertaining alternative to TV. With music playing in the background  we  can still have conversations, read or do other activities. For some strange reason my children seem to quarrel less when their music is playing. We’ll usually sing along to lively songs while  we  fold the laundry and tidy up. Music may be played while  we  bake cookies or craft. Un prefer excessive TV which can every now and then distract from our time together, music is something that  we  can all share together, increases our home life and encourages family time.
Nowadays there are so many amazing children ’s artists and variety of albums to choose from. It can al the majority be overwhelming. Fortunately, the Internet now allows us the luxury of being able to simply search for music, learn about the artist, read reviews and listen to samples of their work. The following choose web sites listed below will give you a amazing start. Good luck, have fun together and allow your child to grow up loving music!

Every few years someone rediscovers the blues. Pop music, that stuff you hear on the majority commercial radio stations, is a business. The idea is to make lots of money by selling music prefer it has been toothpaste. You find something everybody prefers and then have competitive products that are a little divergent but all standard ally do the same thing and even though they taste a little divergent not enough divergent to bother anyone. That is pop music.
Now and again the public gets pretty tired of the same old stuff and pop music needs a little kick in the pants. Rediscovering some old form of American music the majority people have forgotten about and bring it out as the next new thing usually does the trick. It can be Country or Jazz or Bluegrass, but quite usually it is the Blues.
The difference between pop music and genre music prefer the Blues is that there is a much smaller audiences for the genre music, but that audiences is always decidedly loyal, keeping it going while others ignore it. Blues, being the decidedly root of all roots music, is an obvious option to gain inspiration from when things are getting a little stale and it is always there in the background just waiting to be found.
In the first half of the twentieth century much of the the majority popular music has been Blues based or at least heavily influenced by it. From Big band Swing to Jazz to even Country music, Blues played an necessary part in their developments.
There were many so-called “Blues Revivals” in the last half of the twentieth century. The the majority recent big one has been in the mid 1980’s when there has been a sudden explosion of new Blues societies and festivals all around the United States. When these revivals happen it usually means that the loyal fan base of the music is better by the addition of people who come from other genres who grow to see similarities between what they prefer and the Blues. usually times it is these new folks who determine the direction the music will take in order for it to reach a broad er audiences.
The the majority famous example of this has been the birth of Rock and Roll. By the mid 1950’s Blues music had lost much of its original black audiences, which had moved on to R&B and early Soul. What seemed prefer something new has been just a mixing bag of styles taken from Country, Swing, and mostly from Jump Blues and R& B. This is pretty much how all new musical styles come about. When you mix up a bunch of stuff in a pot and cook it awhile, the soup you end up with has tastes from all its ingredients, but there is always one flavor that stands out. Blues is usually that rich flavor.
In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s another less obvious revival took place with the popularity of Folk Music. This is an usually neglected but decidedly necessary revival because it has been a time of rediscovery and reconnection with the old guard Blues artist s. Young Folk performers were the ones who researched the old country Blues and actually sought out and re located many of the old Blues performers. They learned from those originators, wrote about them, got them performing again, and taught others what they had learned through books, tapes, and nowadays videos. They truly “Kept the Blues alive” in every sense of the words.
In the mid 1960’s Blues made an even greater impact on Pop Music when both American and British artists located the power of electric Blues through second generation Bluesmen such as Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. Rock and Roll became just Rock when lead guitar styles based on Blues improvisations came to the forefront. The Blues this time has been the grittier sounding Delta style. Rock became harder sounding with Blues as it is base. That has never gone away.
There has been another small Blues revival at the end of the 1970’s when the Blues Brothers made Blues hip again. That revival created careers for some new young players and brought some of the old Blues guys back out on the road. It has been the availability of all these varied acts that made the revival of the mid 1980’s possible.
Blues has always been a bit of a secret ingredient in pop music and even pop culture. It’s used to revive careers and sell blue jeans. Every once in awhile it gets pretty cool again. Unfortunately, since something being cool is a short-term state of mind, Blues music has again begun to drift into the genre music status with a diminishing audiences. Though there are still many Blues Festivals, they tend to lean toward Rock Blues, leaving the true Blues lover longing for another shot of more traditional stuff. Don’t worry, Blues never really goes away. It will be back.

Guerilla Marketing is the use of unconventional marketing techniques intended to get maximum determinations from minimal resource s, which let’s face it; the majority independent artists have minimal resource s. Today, guerrilla marketing is a non-traditional, low-cost, and highly effective marketing endeavor, which when used properly can reap many rewards for the diligent user.
So what can you do to use guerrilla marketing to help further your music career? The first piece of recommenndation I can give you is to think outside the box. Don’t do what everyone else is doing. Here area few pointers to get you started:
• Use podcasts to broad cast your music, help ing to expose your music to many people who can have never heard it before. Make sure that you plug your web site and where they can purchase your products.
• Why not go to your local library and see If the y will allow you to do a free performance there in ex change for a percentage of your sales of product following your show. Libraries are in dire need of funds.
• Another simple and free way to get your name out there and seen is to write reviews on every product your own, have used, read or heard. Then post the reviews on places prefer amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
Make sure to put a small two or three sentence bio at the end of each review that has the name of any CD  projects you have done. You can’t post your URL there; they will delete your bio. When you post your reviews, put your vanity email address inside your “real name.” While those web sites won’t allow you to post your URL, if your URL is part of your “real name,” they don’t say a word. Check out amazon.com and look for one of my reviews.
Don’t use a real email address or you’ll end up with many spam. Why is this an necessary step? Because people will read your reviews and you get your name out there. Many consumers are Internet savvy and If the y are interested in you, will check you out.
Go after your audiences with fervor and diligence, but think outside the box to get the determinations you desire and the exposure for your music that you need.

The secret to marketing music successfully Web is to first get organized. Develop a music business plan that outlines how many much money you need to generate in sales, how many albums you’ll need to sell to reach your goals and how much money you can justify spend ing to market your music. Assuming you’re on a limited budget I’ve outlined a few simple strategies you can use to  promote  your band or music Web.
1. Optimize Your web site : Many performers receive dozens, even hundred of visitors every day to their web site. But the reality is that the majority people do not buy albums following only one visit. Do whatever it takes to get people to sign up to your mailing list so that you can continue to communicate with them, gain familiarity and highest quality ly sell them your album at some point down the line.
2. MySpace.com Marketing: MySpace.com is amazing but it is not to be relied upon as your sole means of marketing your music successfully. Still, be sure to send out regular bulletins promoting special provides and events. As much as you can, try to drive people back to your official web site where you can get them to sign up your mailing list.
3. Forum Marketing. Find a number of active music forums that allow signature links. Start a signature that encourages your band. Go into these forums as usually as possible and add worth to the discussions. The more people worth what you have to say, the more prefer ly they are to click through to your band’s Website.
Music marketing is an art form in its own right. These are just a few simple pointers to marketing your music successfully on the Internet. With a little bit of know how and a bit of hard work you ought to start to see an increase in album sales in no time.

If you’re a digital music fan, you probably have problems organizing your music file collection. For me, I used to have 100’s of MP3 files lumped in one folder in my hard drive. can you imagine the pain I had to go through to find one specific tune to listen to?
Organizing your music files is an necessary skill to learn. Once your collection is nice ly sorted out, you’ll be able to find the songs you want promptly and easily. So  set aside some time and read through the following pointers I’ve come up with.
1. Start Subfolders – The single the majority necessary tip for organizing your music files is to establish subfolders in your hard drive. Don’t ever leave your MP3 files in one very big folder called C:My Music. Start subfolders prefer C:My MusicClassical, C:My MusicPop and C:My MusicSoundtracks.
2. Ensure your ID3 Tags Are Correct – ID3 tags are used to store necessary information about MP3 files. Things prefer the song title, artist, album are kept and will be displayed by your MP3 player. Take the time to properly edit these tags – many MP3 files you download have the ID3 tag information all wrong. A nice software program for editing ID3 tags is TagScanner.
3. Invest in Good Music Management Software – There are a few amazing pieces of software out there for managing music files. Two nice ones come to mind. The first is MediaMonkey and the second is MusicMatch Jukebox. Both programs provide amazing music management features prefer an integrated music player, CD  burning features and ID3 tag renaming.
4. Get Your Music Files from Legal Sources – If you have been downloading music using P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing programs prefer KaZaa, you’ll decidedly prefer ly get music files which have strange names prefer 56_HeyjAck.mp3. My advice: Get your files from legal sources prefer Web music services iTunes or Napster and you’ll avoid this problem.
5. Start Good Playlists – Many software music player (e.g. Winamp) will allow you to establish playlists. For instance, say you’re in the mood for rock songs, you can point to your folder called C:Music Rock and establish a playlist from that folder. Save the playlist following it is created. When you next feel prefer listening to those songs, all you need to do is load that playlist instead of trawling through your hard drive and folders.
6. Get A Huge Hard Drive – I understand that this sounds a little crazy – but running out of disk space can and will ruin your well-organized music collection. Make sure you have enough hard disk space to store your music files. Say you have 10,000 music files that you absolutely must retain and listen to. It’s a decidedly bad idea to store, say, 8,000 files in Hard Drive A and 2,000 files in Hard Drive B. Very messy. It’s better to store them all in one hard disk. So get your hands on the biggest hard drive you can find.
I hope this post helps you to organize your music collection a little better. I know it takes endeavor, but once your music collection is properly catalogued, listening to your music collection will be a much more pleasant experience. So don’t hesitate – get organized now!

The highest quality goal of the majority artists who use MySpace.com is to attract a record label. Earning a contract to record an album may be a artist way into the music business. But what can you do to attract record labels? Creating a profile page and uploading music is a nice start, but by no means is it the end of your marketing endeavor s. Following you’ll find a few pointers on attracting a record label and getting them to take notice of your skill.
Music Marketing Tip#1: Upload a Variety of songs
Just because you have to list the type of music you perform doesn’t mean you have to upload songs that only reflect that genre ! Show record labels and audiences that you have other musical interests by uploading songs that are divergent from one another. This will demonstrate for you r range, ability to attract audiences from other genre s, which increases your marketability, and prove to record labels you’re worth investing in.
Music Marketing Tip#2: Fuel the Fan Fires
Record labels conduct searches on MySpace.com everyday looking for skill ed artist s. One way to get them to stop on your profile page is by showing them you have a strong fan base. The more people who visit your web site, the more popular your page becomes there. Use the marketing tools available in order to gain fan interest.
Record labels want to sign those who are already experienced in working crowds during shows and who have a strong Web presence because it makes promoting the music much easier. Having a strong fan base will make selling records and make promoting performance tours and other public appearances much easier.
Start a buzz on MySpace.com by attracting more audiences to your page. Join MySpace.com forums, list upcoming events, and advertise your page on fliers, business cards, and other marketing materials as this will prompt audiences who have seen your live shows to visit and download your songs.
Music Marketing Tip#3: Contacting Record Labels
Locating information about record labels is simple because of the Internet. Instead of sending a copy of your latest CD  or a few of your tunes, you can send record labels the link to your MySpace.com profile page. Music executives will appreciate this much more than strange pieces of mail showing up at their offices. Sending a quick email with your contact information may be enough to get you noticed. Research record businesses to see which ones cater to your genre, and which ones accept email from artist s.
Music Marketing Tip#4: Selling Your Album on MySpace
If you release an album on your own, sell it in order to generate buzz and additionally catch the attention of record labels. Being able to show record labels that you’re a professional artist who is passionate about music will  set you apart from the rest.
Attracting record labels will require you to remain diligent about marketing your music on MySpace. Uploading songs, using marketing tools such as blogs, video, and photos will help record labels get a better idea of what your sound. Use these marketing tools and others provide ed and go showcase your musical skill s.

It’s the dream of al the majority every adolescent to have their own rock band, establish new sounds, reach success and everything else that all of this can bring. Screaming audiences, respect, autographs, tours, luxury hotels, glamour etc…
So, on one of those sunny days,  we  wake up from this sweet dream and, in the absence of the notion that all this time has passed by so promptly, we’re adults, living our “normal” lives, earning just enough bread to get by, doing what our parents always wanted us to do.
I know a doctor who still dreams of having a divergent life, a life that will excite him… once he confided in me that he would gladly ex change everything that he had built, if he can have the opportunity to go back to what he loved perfect, music (he has been a guitarist in a heavy metal band).
Where do all these dreams hide?
Now you have your own company, or that job, which in societys’ eyes is respectable, in a nice company, and you decide not to let the old flame die. You decide to have a bit of fun and return to “waging a bet” in the music business.
For you to be launched as a artist, or manager of a band, you’ll need abilities in business, buying, sales, market research, man management, delegation of tasks and be fashion conscious.
All these actions together make up marketing in the world of music.
For this project, just prefer in any other business, you’ll need to designate a quantity which you’re prepared to invest. Treat music prefer any other commercial adventure in your life. Never as a profitable hobby.
A Budget and Business Plan (with a target public defined) are necessary, just as in a “conventional company”. This way you won’t fall into the trap of making emotional decisions, taking your attention away from your real objective.
Save your sentiments for your music.

Now testimonials have got a nice reputation, generally…well see for yourself, this is one persons view of this actual article:
“Wow, I didn’t realise how simple it may be to implement this music marketing technique!” R.G, Chicago.
What’s the problem with this? Well for one, it is made up. I just done it. And two…who on earth is R.G?
Now this is what I automatically contemplate when I go through any web site, be it musical or not. The problem comes in the fact that the majority testimonials are just too distant.
Sure people can put a Web address down and even a picture. It does actually help a very big amount. It makes you less distant, and now more reliable. Still,  we  are now in the 21st Century and our selling techniques ought to really keep up with the technology on provide.
The technology? That is Flash. Now I’ve said in the past that a Website ought to n’t be made out of Flash…with the central reason being the search engines won’t choose it up. But Flash is such a simple tool that it must be integrated into our Websites for us to stand a slightest opportunity of selling anything.
So what do  we  need to do?
first up is to actually embed Flash into our web sites so that it is simple to work, like ably free, looks nice, simple to  set up and more than anything…fool proof for the user.
Now I’ve searched high and low for a flash player that meets those demands (I can n’t tell you how many I’ve downloaded), and I’ve found one. Now I think that it is a traversty that this software hasn’t been shouted about.
You need a player- MP3 or Video (which may be found at this address: www.jeroenwijering.com. All you need to do is download either a movie player, or an MP3 player, upload the numerous players components to your web site, upload an MP3 or Flash movie file (FLV), then tell the wizard (which may be found at this address: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/wizard.html) where everything is stored. It will automatically give you the code. You copy and then paste it in to the source section of your HTML where you want the player…and thats it.
Simple.
As a side note: You see  we  ought to do everything ourselves so that  we  are not reliant on any other service. Youtube has a habit of stopping videos overnight, their quality is poor and it looks prefer  we  are cheap. Sure use YouTube for traffic generation and generating leads, but I would not use it to sell on my web site – it is not professional especially if you’re selling DVDs or software. Doubts will go into customers minds about your products quality…and the sale will walk away. There are additionally dedicated movie web sites that charge per month…but  we  want to decrease our money output. So what do  we  do?
So the perfect way is to be clever at the start and buy a Web hosting package that’s cheap yet plentiful. Just be careful about your monthly bandwidth. Many hosting businesses now provide incredible bandwidth solutions/ month so you ought to n’t worry about that. I’m with Superb World Wide Web Hosting who give me bandwidth of 750GB/ month…which is more than ample and at a normal hosting price. I don’t need specific video hosting, poor quality free hosting and I don’t need to pay anymore cash…bargain!
Anyway what do  we  actually do with our Flash players?
Ahh, I’m glad that you asked. Now this is what your competition are not doing. You see you can record customers reactions to your music (especially at a performance ) and place these as testimonials.
Promote gigs by recording previous performance s/ performances. Then question some of the goers before and following to see what they think? Promise them a free ticket, T-Shirt, CD  etc for their trouble. If you get some bad reviews (which can happen), edit them out.
If you’re friendly with your testimonial makers, why not get them to do a short piece on your stuff? Only a handful (literally) of web sites have done this. Completely novel- they have interviewed buyers of the product to see what they think. Now that “nobody testimonial” has become a someone. It doesn’t matter now who they are. How influential is that style of testimonial? It generates thousands of sales weekly for some web site s.
You ought to be using the Flash players to play your music (please no decrease d quality or 1 minute play versions). Now I’ve better my sales by well over 100 % by doing this technique. Throughout my texts I’ve placed an MP3. So instead of having a bulk amount of MP3s in one place – where they can simply be forgotten, I’ve placed them throughout and leveraged the same  set of MP3s to a better advantage.
The Flash players ought to be used to interview your group or yourself. Because the Internet is so faceless, adding a “face” to your web site increases your credibility ten-fold. If you’re the head of the company/ web site, have you on your sales pages stating what you’re actually selling- pointing out rewards to the customer, backing up your text.
If you don’t prefer what you look prefer, the Flash players ought to be used to play your voice to help and direct people into making the proper decision.
Got a video or DVD? Flash player it at a reasonable size and quality to demonstrate what you have. Sales will increase with a demo of what you have.
Always remember though, that some people do not want to sit down and listen to you stating what you may be done. They want to see what may be done… that’s the difference. If you play the guitar…Flash player yourself playing a certain specific style on one page and another style on another page. Therefore if I want to know how to make Flamenco music I don’t want to see loads of other styles before you get to mine. Don’t speak the specific style, just play it (and make it sound cool, vibrant and listenable).
So as you can see, there are a very big amount of scope for Flash players and they ought to be right up there with your top music marketing strategies.