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Sell Your Music : How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online

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I would highly recommend this book for all musicians and songwriters. At first I was skeptical as I have read other books about marketing music on the internet. But this one was very detailed and showed all the steps involved, and pulled no punches about the need for discipline. Mark W. Curran covers all the bases, and even includes ways to promote your band offline and offline, so that your online sales will be increased. There are some great resources in the back, also, and the book includes detailed screen shots on how to perform marketing tasks and to set up a daily marketing schedule. Good show, very good book.

The book I purchased was printed in 2001, the beginning of the digital revolution, so there are some references here to dated technology such as cassette tape, but the info and "how to's" are excellent. This book is full of things you need to know and things you'd never consider without learning it the hard way with some trial and error. I have items highlighted on the majority of the pages. You might check for a newer edition, if not, I still recommend this book.

Even if this book goes a little far with some of the marketing ideas, it doesn't matter; it's throwing ideas around that you CAN take on board rather than must. More importantly the book is inspiring - for an independent musician it can be a depressing thing to face the fact that it can be hard to get your music out and sold. This book firmly states that you can do it, and then goes about explaining how to do just that.

Being based around the Internet, some of the details are outdated, for example some web services the author recommends are no longer available, though this is not an issue as there are alternatives - you just have to do a bit of searching.

What matters about this book are the ideas it puts forward to help the indie musicians get their music out to the world, and it does this spectacularly. Highly recommended read.

Written by a recognized expert in online music marketing, Mark Curran's Sell Your Music: How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online is a comprehensive, user-friendly, step by step guide to using the Internet in order to make money from your own music. Sell Your Music contains extensive interviews with independent musicians who have made thousands of dollars, as well as tips, tricks, and techniques to reaching your target market and maximizing your profits while minimizing hassle. Highly recommended for all aspiring performers whether they are soloists or band members.

Internet is now one of the most important sources of information and knowing how to promote your band on the internet wisely is like hitting the jack pot because there is no other place in the world more "visited" by people. Through the internet unknown artist could get easily noticed and also sell their albums but there are some important thing you need to keep in mind like in order to succeed and this book points them directly and easily without any other useless information. A great guide for those who want to try their luck using WWW.

I read this book in one day, it is very easy to follow and the points are clear and relevant. I am very satisfied with this reading and am eager to follow many of the steps in order to sell my own music.