I have found a way to sell digital downloads such as music files on Wordpress sites with a plugin called e-Commerce. You can find sites to download it from if you search in Google, I forget exactly where I found it. The e-Commerce plugin enables you to sell any kind of digital download with payment [...]
Advertising and digital music distribution are two things that may work together to allow musicians to give away their music online for free and still make money. I have been thinking about it lately and it may be something I try out with my music online. The obvious benefit of using advertising as revenue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]