8/8/08
Hi Everybody—-
I hope you’re having a good week. Here are this week’s tips and news items. Just let me know if you ever want to be taken off the mailing list.
Derek Sivers. The founder of CDBaby, former circus performer, and gazillionaire, sold CDBaby to DiskMakers and quit to do other things (sit on the couch? watch TV?). In any case, he now has a website (sivers.org) that contains a variety of new resources for artists. I particularly recommend his free ebook on music marketing.
ITunes. Ever wonder how to sell songs on iTunes? If you try to do it through the iTunes/Apple website, you will just waste your time; they will sit on you application for a month and then probably turn it down. On the other hand, go to
Tunecore (www.tunecore.com)
and pay a modest subscription fee (it adds up to about $40 per year for a whole album) and they will put your songs on iTunes and several other web venues (Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon, GroupieTunes and Lala). Even with Tunecore, it takes a few months for the songs to get into the iTunes system, though, so do this right away once your album is done!
Linking to your songs. Once you have songs for sale on iTunes, you’ll want to put a link up on your website/myspace page etc. to your itunes songs so people can buy them. Here’s a tool that will help you do that:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/itmsLinkMaker
You can also do it by right clicking on your product in the iTunes store and pasting the link into your page.
Birthday. My birthday was yesterday (August 7). Hooray!
Best,
Marc
