If You're A Musician Wondering Why No One's Giving You Money, Start Here...
from the work-it-out dept
Over at GrindEFX, they've put together a nice column discussing 5 Reasons Why Nobody is Buying Your Music, which touches on all the basics that we tend to talk about here. You should go read the full details, but the short list is:- Does anyone know?
- Is your music up to scratch?
- Are you giving your fans options?
- Are you giving your fans a reason to buy?
- Are your prices reasonable?
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More people need to embrace free
Maybe they could start by giving away some of their music in order to gain trust in their product from potential fans, which could help to leverage sales of the the rest of their music.
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Oh my you can save stuff as draft !!!! Cool
techdirt should run an open contest to build a business plan for artists, and the content industry. Wiki with blogs for the individual business plans. Where over time the business plans evolve and the techdirt users vote on which is the best plan.....
Prizes to include VC funding, Tee shirts an mugs, free music from amanda, etc
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Just seems that this could be a really good exercise to raise awareness of new business models and to show that free does not equal theft and so on.
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AGREED
We also try to give Bay Area indie artists tips and tools like this via our BuzzOfTheBay blog - we've talked about getting publishing together, using the many online tools to promote, etc.
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Selling What? Music?
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