Donation based music downloads or the “you choose the price” online music distribution system is a good idea in theory. It makes your music available to everyone on the internet, even people without credit cards, it makes you seem generous, and it still provides you with a chance of being paid for your music. Unfortunately, [...]
CdBaby is one of the largest and most popular methods for independent musicians to sell music online these days. They started out selling physical CDs but now handle mp3 downloads as well. If you are an independent musician interested in selling your music online, CDBaby is a serious site to consider.
What CDBaby offers is to [...]
I posted about promoting music online with JustinTv a few days ago, and Ive come up with a few more ideas about how you can directly make money from it. By setting up your own channel and lifecasting or just broadcasting musical performances you can build up a good following on the site. Sometimes certain [...]
I talked about promoting music online with YouTube a few days ago and I recently came across a perfect example of how to really do this effectively. My friend sent me a message randomly about some musician that I should check out, and it was a YouTube video of the guy. His name is Ronald [...]
Craigslist can be an extremely useful online resource for musicians of all kinds. It is not exactly a place where you can sell or promote your music but it is something musicians can use to make money online. For those who don’t know, Craigslist is a site where anyone can post classifieds for everything from [...]
This is what I am looking for, a free, automated method for selling music files online from a website. Automated meaning I don’t have to do anything when the music is sold, and free meaning I don’t have to pay anyone for the ability to do this. As far as I can see, there is [...]
Justin.tv is a popular and relatively new online site where people can broadcast (or ‘lifecast’) themselves or whatever they want through webcams. As soon as I discovered this site I knew it could be used by musicians, in a similar way to YouTube, to promote their music online and in effect help them sell [...]
YouTube is a great way to promote your music online for free. It has a huge amount of users surfing through videos everyday and you can take advantage of this for music promotion purposes. Obviously what you would need to do for this to work is make some videos of you or your band performing. [...]
Internet forums are one of the best ways to easily promote your music online, especially if you are already a member of a few of them. In fact, forums can be a surprisingly good way to make money online with music, or anything else. I used a poker forum that I used to post at [...]
Welcome to the best way to make money as an independent musician: the internet. With millions and millions of people using it everyday around the world, the internet is the cheapest and best way to reach a huge audience, and that audience is only getting bigger. More and more countries and people are gaining regular [...]