Don't Pay For Someone's Opinion

I'm really mad.  I just got an e-mail from a band that was filled with such misinformation it made me sick.  The basic premise was that there were services that would tell you if your songs were good enough for "labels" and if you didn't pass their test you should start working on new songs because you would never get anywhere.  This is certainly a recipe for failure.  The only and ultimate judge of your songs is yourself and your audience. To pay some supposed "expert" to alter your vision is the best way possible to never be heard.   This band had paid a sum of money to an evaluation website , that would then pass the music on , if good enough to another site who would decide if it would be liked by one of the many independent labels they shopped to.  

The problems with this model are many

1.  If anybody in the "Music Business"  really knew what they were doing the Music Business would still be in business and not Bankrupt as it is now.

2.  If any of your favorite songwriters believed in these types of experts more than they believed in their own vision,  you never would have heard of them.

3. The main goal of a musician, band or any artist is to create the art they are PASSIONATE about and find a market for it.

4, Get as many opinions as possible , but put very little belief in any of them.  If you have two people who like your music you can find 20,000 more.

The great thing about the digital world is that the gatekeepers are gone,  why pay some schmuck to be your gatekeeper,  his only real power is the money you give him and that money should be used to FIND your audience

           (if you understand internet marketing) ..

This site  is  dedicated  to  giving  you  the tools  and  information  to do so.    We  will cover  everything from the initial recording, mixing  and  uploading  to online promotion and getting the attention you want.  None of this is easy.  Its really a huge responsibility in a way because if your music is not being exposed  to  a huge audience it is nobody's fault but yours.  The tools are available and the  audience  is  waiting.      There are 6.8  Billion   People in the world  today,  and  70 million  more  coming aboard every month.  All  you  really  need  to  make a living with music  is  probably  about  3,000  fans  who will spend about $15 dollars a year on your stuff.  That  gives  you  $45 K  per  year  off online  sales  and  you  are  officially living  the  dream.   You  will  find  links  for distribution, reviews, press releases ....

           literally everything you need

     to bring your music to the masses

 and the best part is   ......                                    most of it is absolutely free 

Let's look at a simple plan for making $45,000/year.    What you need is  3,000 fans that will spend $15 dollars a year on your stuff.  (CD's, downloads. merchandice , ringtones ,  etc )   Getting these loyal patrons can seem impossible until you have a step by step plan and  some solid goals.    We are constantly searching through peoples plans and success stories to find the ones that really work.  We'll assume frist that you have some tracks finished and mastered and you are looking to sell them and promote yourself.   Your first and most important step is to build a sales page,  or what is called a Squeeze Page.   The purpose of this landing page is to introduce you to the potential audience member and get them interested enough to "squeeze" their email address out of them. This is your foot in the door.   Once you have their email address you can begin the flirtation.   Send them free stuff,  tell them stories , get them interested and involved.  Then magically they will start to buy your stuff.   Its a long hard process, but the rewards are the freedom to CREATE.

Here's an interesting package that will allow you to professionally approach investors for your music business. A complete business plan that you can edit with your own info and present to serious investors