Sell Your Music - Mark W Curran

This book shows you in easy, step by step format, how to profitably sell your own recordings online. You'll read in-depth interviews, tips and tricks from independent musicians who have made thousands of dollars selling their music from home! Includes up to date lists and websites where you can promote your music for free, plus a bonus user guide on setting up your own home recording studio. REVIEWS: From The Critics Booknews Shows how to make money selling one's own music on the Internet, with advice on recording and selling music from home, designing a music sales Web site, becoming a guerilla music publicist, forming an online record label, and getting free publicity from TV, radio, print, and Internet media. Also gives instructions for setting up a home-based digital music studio. Appendixes list merchant account sources, music publications, online music sites, and indie music organizations, and explain Usenet, search engine placement, writing press releases, and Internet radio. The author is a music marketing consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) (Barnes & Noble) The Midwest Book Review Written by a recognized expert in online music marketing, Mark Curran's Sell Your Music: How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online is a comprehensive, user-friendly, step by step guide to using the Internet in order to make money from your own music. Sell Your Music contains extensive interviews with independent musicians who have made thousands of dollars, as well as tips, tricks, and techniques to reaching your target market and maximizing your profits while minimizing hassle. Highly recommended for all aspiring performers whether they are soloists or band members. (Midwest Book Review) Customer Reviews "Extremely Useful Book! This book doesn't beat around the bush it gets right down to brass tacks of selling your own music over the internet. Curran covers all the bases, and gives detailed instructions, with plenty of diagrams. Easy to read, a great book." - Ramsay Hogan, a musician from Rhode Island, June 11, 2003 (Barnes & Noble) "This is a fantastic book I would recommend to any level of musician." - Faith Rivera, Recording Artist, Emmy & Grammy Award Nominee (Amazon) "Two thumbs up on an incredible book. Curran is a music marketing genius." - Gary Roman, Rock Group Romulus (Baker & Taylor) - "Curran leaves no stone unturned in his methodology for finding and marketing to an online audience" - Jeffrey Coronado - Alternative Music Press