Music Sales

Is Your Band Ready For Black Friday?

November 19, 2009

Black Friday is the day after Thanks giving (November 27th). Stores have insane sales, open their doors in the wee hours of the morning, resulting with people lining up and going crazy. Why should your band miss out? You can participate as well. Send an email out to your fans stating that if they buy [...]

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Reverbnation Store Looks Impressive

September 29, 2009

I wish this video had audio, but it doesn’t. None the less Reverbnation continues to add more useful functionality to your music marketing arsenal. The great thing is you can add these tools to your website and the customer never knows its coming from Reverbnation. When Reverbnation came out I thought, “These are great tools [...]

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Nick Daugherty Ready for the Harvest.

May 20, 2009

Many moons ago I had Nick Daugherty on the podcast as he was going to take 365 days to get a record deal. Well it took a little longer than 365 days, and I don’t think he got a record deal but Nick has used his time wisely.  He has taken time to make relationships [...]

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Corner Stay Ads – Great Music Marketing Tool

November 25, 2008

I just found out about a new tool called Corner Stay Ads.  This tool can sit in any corner of your website. You have access to tons of images to get people’s attention. Then when people put their mouse on that image you can do ANYTHING. Anything? Yes Anything. So here are some ideas I [...]

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Joe Bonamassa Uses Affiliate Program to Promote New Release

August 27, 2008

Joe Bonamassa who I interviewed back in the day when it was just an “Audio Newsletter”, has come up with a new marketing trick. He using affiliate marketing to push his new album “Live from Nowhere in Particular.” Joe is using the affiliate program called idevaffiliate and you can pick up for $99 bucks (one [...]

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Getting the Most Out of Free Downloads

June 16, 2008

Today we get a great idea about getting the most exposure from free downloads on your site. Getting the Most Out of Your Band’s Free Downloads If you’re worried about giving your music fore free, I would agree. Typically most people require a enail address and name (so sign up for the newsletter to get [...]

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Get Exposure For Your band With Craigslist

February 19, 2008

Did You know that Craigslist gets more Traffic than Amazon.com? It’s the 9th most visited Internet site! If you’re brand new to Cragslist and looking for a quick crash course in understanding this site, the rules, how to bend them to your advantage, and how you can get more exposure for you band using Cragislist, [...]

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Blogging Sells More CDs than MySpace

February 13, 2008

I found some interesting news from hyperbot.com A new study by the Stern Business College in New York states that if you blog at 40 times before a CD release that your CD sales will be 3 or 4 more the average for an indie or major label release. If blog posts crossed 250, album [...]

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Selling Downloads with Paypal is More Profitable with Micropayments

January 23, 2008

So your band has a paypal account to sell your CD for $12 bucks. That’s great. But what if you want to get into selling downloads for a buck? Well that means you get to keep about .70 of that dollar. (2.9% + .30) As most people don’t deal with "little" transactions most people don’t [...]

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Payloadz Now Offers 1 Gig of Free Storage

January 18, 2008

 Payloadz is a super easy way to sell downloads on your site. You can een use the service for free (and pay a small fee only when you sell a song). This works with your paypal account. Well I just got notified that you now have 1 GIG of space on the free accounts. Thats [...]

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