schmedidiah wrote:Why start a new thread every week over this? I admire your work on your album, but you've started dozens of new threads to promote your music here Bob. It seems desperate. Sorry.
We should not discourage the enthusiasm of any musician (on a musicians site) for announcing and sharing their triumphs or failures along the way. We've been going through the recording process with Jimmy for months now, and it's instructive for any newbies to know what comes afterward....
So, a couple of thoughts....
When I produced the Cultural Xchange Series (3 EPs on 3 continents in a year), I tried all the various services available just to research who does what best...
"Airplay" is practically meaningless unless you are touring to the places where you have gotten a lot of market penetration. Even then it's not doing much for the bottom line. I signed on to "Radio Airplay" at Tunecore for about a year. Made hundreds of fans. Can't say that even one of them bought anything. Why should they? They have learned that music is free on the internet. They are spread out so much that emailing all of them to come to a gig would net no more than one person in any market, if that.
I still say that the best thing a band can do is get their own website at Bandzoogle. Yes, put your music up on any store that a person might stumble across, but you should always do that strategically to bring people your website. You can sell the same songs for the same price on your own site....but you'd make larger profit margins and have their data for future campaigns.
Email addresses and texting data are the new currency. When you can collect 3,000 contacts you'll be able to start making decent money from superfans.
You just gave that away to someone in Australia, Bob.
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