8 Ways To Market Your Music Online
- Credit To Jrossol
Being a musician – even an established label during the digital age can be a big challenge. When alot of music is being streamed online, or given away – or downloaded on torrents, you would think it’s even more challenging.
However, the opposite is true. There are many more ways to allow other people to listen and buy your music without having been already signed. You can sell your music digitally, and get up to 95% of what the revenue is. Your cost to create an album and distribute it is much lower. You can engage with users, and create fans without having an expensive PR team.
In short, it’s a great time. Although there is alot of opportunity, it can be overwhelming at times to create your online marketing strategy. So we’ve decided to give you one.
A Sad Day – A Legal Decision Puts BroadFirst Out Of Business
Sheri Archidiacono in Sedo’s Newsletter (they don’t have it available online) sais this about “Website Terms and Conditions are Considered a Contract”:
“In the case of Southwest Airlines Co. v. BoardFirst, LLC, a Texas court held that a user of a website was bound by the terms and conditions of that website where the user has actual knowledge of such terms and conditions.
The Plaintiffs, Southwest airlines maintained a first come, first served, open seating policy, where passengers are arranged in groups. The Defendant, Boardfirst.com was an internet company that provided a service to Southwest customers whereby for a fee, a passenger could check in early and BoardFirst would attempt to get the passenger into the first boarding group.
MySpace Marketing Still Work? Getting a “Guru’s” Attention…
1) Does MySpace Marketing Still work?
About six month ago, I went to my first – and currently only, “Internet Marketing” seminar. I met this amazing twelfth grade high school kid that was making a hell of a lot more than I was using just myspace marketing.
However, he mentioned that he was starting to research other topics, as he felt that the myspace legality issues were precarious. If they start prohibiting certain messaging etc, it would negatively affect the ability to do (affiliate) marketing on myspace. (Obviously, bands aren’t going to have a problem promoting themselves).