5 Steps Top Do It Yourself In Music

This is my, "Cut it out and stick it on a wall guide to make your own splash in music".

I think the title needs shortening.

However here are the three ways that you can do it by yourself in music. You will buy many books, subscribe to many places, but ultimately this is the way that you can succeed...and hey! I'm telling you for free.

1. Make sure that your music is good. This is quite hard as alot of your friends will say "yeah great"...that is not the people you want reviewing your music. You want them to tell the truth. It may be harsh truth, but without it you will never know how to improve your music, churn out the constant stuff and wonder why people are not downloading your stuff. So go onto garageband.com upload your tracks and see what people think. They actually review your tunes so that would be your first port of call.

Please note, if you have a super dooper website costing alot of cash, then it will not make your songs any better.

2. Make sure that you have your own site and domain. This only costs a few dollars a year now. I have my domains ordered for my birthday present. What is the idea of the website? To present and showcase your music, not your art or how well you can get downloaders annoyed by uploading a flash intro.

Your website should have on the first screen a java MP3 player which will allow people to hear your songs. I would suggest in the middle to middle top of the screen. The player should have a link to your downloads as well.

The site should have on the side in links : contact us, download our music, about us, pictures, testimonials, our gig videos, gig dates, newsletter, blog,

Everything should be a click away

3. Promote yourself. This is not as hard as you think. Promoting is by giging, telling your friends and family about your group. Putting your music on all these free sites. The problem is with those sites they work on a link to them basis. To get higher in the charts you need more people linking to your tunes...too many links everywhere. Make sure that your free music profile includes a link to your site. Also join in with chats and put a link to your music (on your site).

4. Repeat number 3. Ultimately you need people to get to your site, and you need to turn a stranger into a subscriber. Do that with free tunes, ebook, pictures...anything that is related to your music. Keep on doing step three. It is all about keeping in contact, keeping uptodate and treating your visitors like people who will help you. Oh, and do more gigs.

5. Open an account at Clickbank, then sell your albums using credit cards, and Paypal (Clickbank handle this so don't worry about it). This is vastly new for musicians, but you can sell upto 99 things. If you have an downloadable album, this would be perfect.

Adding extra stuff to your download product will increase the reason for somebody to buy your album. Add an ebook, pictures, two albums even.

And that is it. Once you have your own website it is quite simple to increase downloads and to get a frenzy for your music.