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Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at 7:59 am

Promote your music without budget

How to create music and sell online? Perhaps you sell on Spotify, Last.fm or any other online service. Maybe you have a band that runs through the small towns and mostly play in bars and not sell CD: s. So - either way, this article is for you.

I take examples from the Swedish electronic artist Pingo ® recently released an album Spotify directly through the label SouthPole Radio online. No budget at all, the name is out there are sales and flows. That's how you can copy promotion plan and do the same yourself with your band, artist, his music.

If you want to release their music on Spotify, please read my article "How make your music on Spotify - and make money on it! ". Then come back to this text and find a way to start promoting!

Last.fm is a great place to an artist to write more about himself, promoting music to friends and start a fan base. MySpace is today also an excellent platform artist. However, too much and bad design. However, since the sites are used by people thus remain two places that an artist must register.

After adding artist page on MySpace and Last.fm is the time to create your own website. If you do not already have one (debería!), and then find a good hosting service (I suggest HostGator, as it is cheap and have very good service in different languages) where you can install WordPress blog. Hostgator (and many other machines) have the cPanel. cPanel is one receives many add-on to where you can install several different roles and scripts for your website. WordPress - blog writing - is one of them.

Before you buy hosting, however, need a domain name. You can buy online than in any domain registrating the company (I usually use GoDaddy). Choose a name that is as close to name of your artist or label as possible. Try going for the domain. Com, but if that is not accessible, you can go for anything - if you have your band that resides in any country outside the U.S., which should of course for the domain located at the top of the country.

Hosting and domain name is the only cost of this. Accommodation is about $ 5 per month, and the domain name is approximalty $ 10 a year.

Once you have linked your domain with your hosting, cPanel head and make the easy installation of WordPress blog. After that, head into the WordPress admin panel and choose a topic that suits your artist or design the label. Now you have your own place on the 'net and now begins the real deal.

Use Twitter. Create an account if you do not have one, and see that the WordPress theme are also using Twitter can handle a "widget". Installing a WordPress widget makes its last final security twitter directly on your site web.

Last.fm in relation to their diet (rss-link to your WordPress site) on the site. You can add this in the Last.fm. Music Manager

Now sign up for a YouTube account. Make a video. You can make any video you like one of his songs with a digital video camera or regular. Whether it is just yourself singing the film, a film by a friend who lives or make a stop-motion animation (as Pingo ® did) or anything else that comes to mind! There are plenty of free software out there that can help with editing and video creation.

Upload the video to your YouTube account and use the link embedd in your WordPress blog. Write a news message about it, and view the complete news on Last.fm too!

Now use your own network to promote your website. The good news is that you can now sell their music as a way to download mp3 from Last.fm, get paid for it through currents paid for Spotify - but only have to take care of two things: your posts news on its website and its small twitters via Twitter. Everything else is being updated!

The next time you are on tour - to create a flag that has the name of your website domain on it. Spread the word of its name domain to your friend. Make stickers and put in your car. The voice of the domain name as you can!

The beauty of it is that you do not have to spread your Twitter (As can be seen feeding on their website, people can subscribe to your Twitter account when you have found your web site) does not have to spread their Last.fm, MySpace or links Spotify (which may be a bit weird to send people anyway).

So with a little time, only a few dollars and adjust some - you can end up selling their songs for his band of strangers at any time, with only a single domain name to spread and a lot of sites to promote their music.

Good luck!

About the Author

Anders Dent writes articles for online music label SouthPole Radio and is mainly interested in dub, techno and other electronic music.

ANTARCTICA by Pingo® can be listened to for free on Spotify and Last.fm. Watch the video and read more on music releases and promotion on the record label SouthPole Radio official website: http://www.SouthPoleRadio.com/

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