Making $500 a Month Out of your Independent Audio

Listed here is a circumstance to take into account.

Signora releases her newest album and a couple of million people company with their favourite little torrent or perhaps P2P program to search for an absolutely free content. The Track record label is in arms within the lost profit, piracy is definitely killing the background music industry etcetera etc and so forth

Exactly what record style is forgetting is always that the fact is these a couple of million people will probably effectively review often the album and say to 2-3 persons each concerning this (probably more), write-up comments concerning this on the net, play the item to their good friends and advertise this product without cost.

In the event even half the persons they tell invest in a legitimate content, determined by each one telling a couple of people concerning this they can recoup every free content that was acquired.

Will you decline more and more people desiring and dealing with your new music? Established megastars have a yank because nowadays about these individuals and a present market regarding their new music and people usually are out there try really hard to looking for the item.

Narrow models look great the distinct artist has got to utilise all their muscle power along with a push thinking process. Their sole goal is always to generate their music to numerous places because they are competent to into their control in addition to budgets. Which is also why distinct artists ought to provide for promotion most importantly.

You might guarantee to become more persons accessing your new music if you gifted it away without cost, although hey that ignores logic, is painful sales, in addition to you're not doing that many gross sales right now so that you can't keep to give your personal music away without cost suitable?

Distinct dance music action 'Kandystand' released all their first sole 'Everybody' from their debut album, and couldn't understand why gross sales were slow.

After a few months they decided that maybe all their fans just didn't take to often the song, so started work on a new track that might do better. Because of this they took the decision not to look for revenue from 'Everybody' and promptly made all the mixes of the song available as free downloads on Reverbnation.

Within weeks the track had been acquired thousands of times, appeared on P2P networks, bit torrent sites, all the usual russian MP3 services... What happened then was amazing.

Their fan list grew every day, all their CDBaby sales grew at an amazing rate, all their online sales shot through the roof, and they started getting money every month from online sales of 'Everybody' and their debut album. The people that bought 'Everybody' also checked out their album whilst they were online and around 50% of them bought a copy of the album too...

So it's time to take a tip from the major labels uproar on piracy and think again... Revisit the scenario with the Madonna album again, turn it on its head and apply it to your new music.

Scenario 2 .

Your band releases a track, puts it on iTunes, CDBaby, Feiyr, reverbnation music ,Tunecore etcetera etc and so forth and publishes links to buy the track on their website. Your band immediately gives the track away for free on every available source including bit torrent and P2P EXCEPT your website where it is for sale.

Your band runs a competition on your website that gives away a bundle of your tracks without cost every month to 1 lucky fan drawn from all the website fan sign ups that month. Your band gives the track to every available online blog in addition to asks them to make it available for download in its entirety at full quality.

What happens here is that you are advertising your track where music buyers usually are congregating. Now lets do the math:

Assume 1000 people a month download your personal track without cost. They come to your website to find out more about you, sign up as one of your fans in addition to tell 1 other person about your new music.

That person also visits your site in addition to signs up as a fan. That's 2000 people that know about you now and are on your mailing list ready to receive info about every future track you release and gig you play.

Lets be conservative in addition to say only 25% of the people the original downloader tells buy one of your tracks legitimately from an online store.

Which is 250 sales a month, at a rate of 50 cents from your online distributor that's 500 bucks a month.

Are you making $500 a month from your new music? If not you'd better use the major label's secret 'piracy is definitely bad' marketing trick, and get it on the net without cost as soon as possible.