Ive renamed this site How to Promote and Sell Music Online instead of How to Make Money Online for Musicians because I think this is more of what its going to focus on for now. In the future I will talk about other ways musicians can make money online but for now promoting and selling [...]
Giving away music online for free can be a good way to promote your music online. It can actually indirectly make musicians money if it is used as an online promotional tool. No matter what kind of musician or band you are, giving away your music for free on the internet will spread it as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]