One of the powerful tools you can have as when attempting independent music promotion is a website. This is a given. There is absolutely no excuse for a musician, in this day and age, to not have a website. You website is how you will reach the world. This is how you will market yourself to every single person you come in contact with. The internet and your website will be two of the most powerful music promotion resources you will have.
If you are sold on the idea of online music promotion and are ready to start your site but don’t know what to include, then you have come to the right place. It is crucial that you properly design your site and include all the correct information. You want to be as creative and stylish as possible, all the while staying true to who you are and what your music is about.
Other independent artists are making a killer living online selling their music and merchandise and so should you. Independent music promotion on your website will be best achieved if all the right information is displayed. You online music promotion success depends on it.
First, you need to add all of your contact information onto your site. This includes all phone numbers, email addresses, mailing address etc…In addition to this, you are going to need a bio of you or your band. Remember, with independent music promotion, you have no one else to rely on so try to be as thorough as possible.
Do you have any press releases, reviews or customer testimonials? If you do, incorporate these. It will let your future fans know that you presently have happy, committed fans. And of course you are going to need an upcoming schedule of some sort so your fans know where to go to hear you.
One of the most powerful music promotion resources you can acquire is an email list. With this list you can keep your fans up to date on the latest news and happenings with you or your band.
Lastly, you have your sounds and sights. Post some photos or video clips from live events. Action photos are always great so if you don’t have some, get some. Include downloadable sound clips from your CDs, this will entice folks to want more. And the best part, place your CDs, MP3 tunes and merchandise for sale! Incorporate all of the above things into your site and you will no doubt be an online music promotion success.
I know I could just add their song to my profile but lately I've been seeing people with the bands entire music player on their page just like on the bands page. Thanks..
I got an account at Projectplaylist.com and just added the code to my Music section. I'm sure if you asked some bands they'd know the code.
New Orleans Musician’s Benefit Concert featuring the New Birth Brass Band (part 1), at Sammy’s Place in Houston. Filmed live on September 8, 2005. Produced by Pantheon Sessions Music and Video.
Please visit the New Birth Brass Band website for more booking info:
Web: http://www.newbirthbrass.com
The New Birth Brass Band is at the forefront of the recent New Orleans brass band renaissance. The band fuses hip-hop, Mardi Gras Indian chants, funk, and modern jazz with age old traditional sounds. Although all under 30, the members of New Birth are all jazz veterans and have played with everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Dizzy Gillespie. The New Birth Brass Band has recently gained national acclaim with features on MTV and articles in several high profile national publications.
To purchase a CD or for more biographical info:
Purchase albums: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,571184,00.html
Artist bio: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,571184,00.html#bio
Artist bio: http://www.nynorecords.com/nbbb.shtml
Katrina article: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19015
Bring Back New Orleans!
About Katrina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
About Pantheon Sessions: http://guitar.home.texas.net/pantheon.html
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So why do you want a website? Would you like to create a personal page to tell the world who you are and what you dream for? Or maybe you have a large family, with members living in different parts of the world and you’d like to keep the family together at least online. What about making a living online or promoting your business? No matter the reasons, here are a few tips that will help you create a professional website.
1. Design a website focused on a particular topic and then carefully categorize its contents. If it’s a family site keep it to the subject and don’t mess it up with unrelated issues. If it’s a business site and you sell flowers, don’t put in web design services, escort services and so on.
2. Avoid heavy loading images, especially for the background. It is actually advisable that you avoid dark backgrounds all together - dark colors usually inspire negative feelings. People might subconsciously reject your message because of a cluttered, unpleasant background.
3. Don’t use Flash: it is annoying for visitors that still use dial up and need to wait for Flash to load, it cannot get through certain firewalls and you can rarely find a web designer able to create a Flash website worth its price. Oh, yeah! Flash is expensive. Flash also has another major disadvantage: it is very difficult to optimize and reach high SERP. Use no sound - unless you create a website for a music band or other music related topic. Believe it: it’s scary to land on the page that suddenly plays an AC/DC theme.
4. Create a clear menu and clear navigation on all your web pages. As in life, people do not like “dead ends” so don’t lead them to dead pages. Help your visitors find easily what they are looking for.
5. Make sure your visitors can contact you. Eventually provide a contact phone number, fax and email address on each page. If not, display a clear contact button. Note that people HATE to fill in long forms. If you must have one, don’t force the visitors give out information they normally wouldn’t like to. Keep it simple. After a visitor has contacted you, make sure you answer it time. Failing to answer questions and requests could damage your good name.
6. If you collect private information - yes, email address, phone number and name are considered private information - provide a clear link to a disclaimer and privacy policy. You don’t want your visitors to believe you are going to sell their email addresses to spammers, would you?
7. People don’t really care who you are. Sure, it is important that they know there are real people behind a business, but it is more important that you first underline the benefits a visitor can find on your website. Place the information about who you are in the proper “About Us” category and let the visitor decide whether to read it or not.
8. Use special characters carefully on your page copy. This includes ALL CAPS, bold and italic text. Try not to underline phrases or words, as people tend to consider underlined text as links. Use special characters solely for what really matters, when you really want to highlight an idea.
9. Do not display any “under construction” pages on your website. If they are under construction keep them offline till you are ready. Also avoid dead links or 404 error messages.
10. Always have a linking strategy. This will boost your site in the search engine results and will give your visitors access to valuable information. Make sure that you link to sites that complete your website. If you are selling lamps link to lighting magazines, interior decoration companies and so on.
These are just simple rules that will help you make the first steps in creating a professional, user friendly website. There are other important aspects you should consider: designing with web standards, optimizing your web pages for both visitors and search engines, promoting your website and so on. But for the beginning these ten simple steps could make the difference between success and failure.
I want to make a site for my unsigned metal band Zero Death. However I don’t know how to choose the right place to make one. Do you have any suggestions? I’d preffer it was free.
To create a complete website, you may need：
1. Sever
You may rent one → web hosting provider
You may buy one → set one computer as your sever
If you would like to rent one, this is a good option for you~
http://www.tsmmc.com/technology/english/modules/tinyd4/index.php?id=6
They provide free trial so that you may confirm if they could satisfy you.
2. Arrange plentiful contents at right place in your website：
Upload the website with website edition software page by page to the sever
Complete the web page with automatic programming language system
You may read some more website construction related knowledge here~
http://www.tsmmc.com/technology/english/modules/tinyd4/index.php?id=10
By the way, do maintain your website confusing you?
(It’s really a hard thing for me because I have never learned dreamweaver befor~ ha!)
If YES, this would help you to maintain your website without any website edit software such as dreamweaver and frontpage easily and rapidly.
For your reference~
http://www.tsmmc.com/technology/english/modules/tinyd4/index.php?id=6
3. Apply for a domain name, such as www.tsmmc.com：
Transfer your domain name to your server with DNS server
Then, the website is done!
How much should an individual expect to pay for a modern-looking, well laid out band website containing information such as bios/tour dates etc without being overly flashy?
And can anyone recommend any web design firms that do this sort of site well?
You could pay someone several hundred to several thousands of dollars for a custom site. If you don't need it to be custom you can always pay for a band website template and edit it yourself. Usually you can get them for free - $50 or so. It does take a little work to customize but the results are gratifying.
Your other option is to go with something like Mr Band which is a band website/hosting site which does it for you http://www.mrband.com/ or another one http://www.rockbandsites.com/.
If you own a website, you are paying for webhosting every month, but are you getting the most out of it? Most people just have a lot of stagnant pages sitting up in cyberspace and are not making the most of them.
This is a list of some things you can do to improve your website in cyberspace. The first thing you need to start doing is keep track of how many hits you are getting to your website. How can you track the effectiveness of website changes if you don’t know where your visitors are coming from.
You need to have things for people to do on your website. If you’re selling software, you could offer a free e-book on how to use the software, for example. You could have an instructional video for them to watch. If you’re a musician in a band or a voiceover actor, you could offer one free audio download and keep on adding a new download every month.
You need to have a good linking structure in your website and make sure that there are no broken links. Every page of your website should link to each other. Be careful about what websites you link to also, because you might throw away a sale to a competitor.
Offer to send your visitors a free newsletter. When they sign up, ask for more information than just their e-mail address. Ask them where they live, what they do, and what their interests are. It’s really up to you to determine what you should be asking. Just be careful, asking to much information can drive them away. By doing this you will find out valuable information about the people who visit your website and are interested in your business. There are companies that provide newsletter services for you, so no knowledge of programming is required. You just need to sign up with a newsletter service.
Their are also companies that will provide shopping cart services for your websites so you don’t have to spend time programming this either or paying someone to do it. Shopping carts will not necessarily keep track of who purchased what items, so it might be best to pay to have a programmer design your site so that you can know when someone is a repeat customer. This is the kind of customization Amazon.com has.
You need to provide fresh content daily that is of value to your website visitors. And have sections that are updated regularly, at least twice monthly. People will get bored and not come back to your website if they always see the same content.
A new way to provide fresh daily content is blogging. You can set up as many blogs as you want for free and they are very popular with people who surf the internet. Another popular thing to do is to provide topic specific news updates. People will start to see you as an authority on a certain subject if you provide regular updates online.
Just keep updating your website with fresh content. The search engines will love it, and people will too! Soon you will have repeat customers coming back for more. Start today and do something to spice up your website.
Ok well what Im trying to ask if anyone out there knows of any rock alternative websites where you can share some of the music your band makes and promote your band.
Something like that but not a forum or myspace or anything.
Please NOT MYSPACE
My Drum teacher got on this one website I forgot what it was called but it showed some of the music his band played and stuff.
So if anyone knows of a place or a place at least similar please,
i need your help. (:
Try www.ilike.com
India is fast becoming hub for getting the Obesity Surgery-specially the Lap Band Surgery. Most Important Reason to do so is that the cost of the Lap Band Surgery is very low in India-almost 20% of the cost of what one would pay in USA, Canada or UK.
India is big on medical tourism. And now foreigners are increasingly making a beeline here for various Obesity procedures. The most sought-after surgery by foreigners is Lap Band surgery. Americans are the biggest clients, followed by tourists from Eastern Europe, in India. In fact, in the United States, Obesity surgery is a luxury many middle-class Americans canât afford. Itâs also not covered by insurance. About 45% of foreigners travel to India to get these surgeries done at a very low and affordable price.Lap Band Surgery is the surgery done for obesity. This type of surgery is in high demand as in the US as 45% of its population is estimated to be overweight. Lap Band Surgery in India brings patients from US and Europe to the country.
What is Lap-Band Surgery?
Lap-Band Surgery is the process of placing a prosthesis known as the LAP-BAND around the upper stomach to create a smaller stomach pouch that in turn limits the amount of food an individual can fit into their stomach. The Lap-Band (a bariatric surgery procedure) was approved by the FDA in 2001 and gained increasing popularity in the weight loss world from that point forward. The procedure itself is minimally invasive as surgeons enter the stomach region via small incisions and use surgical instruments to insert the Lap-Band. The main reason for having the surgery performed is so that the individual having it done will not only lose weight but keep the weight off as well. This is a new method that is recommended for those individuals who experience morbid obesity and have tried to lose the weight but have failed in their attempts to lose the weight and keep it off.
Jessica Campbell- A Patient from Chicago-USA got her Lap band Surgery in India, this is what he had to say about her surgery and experience in India-
âI was always obese. I wanted to get the surgery done since last 4 years, but the price in USA was simply over my budget. I got my surgery in India by a company called Forerunners Healthcare. And I should say it was one of best decisions and experiences. From the time I arrived I felt I was in good hands. The surgeon was a very qualified Dr. and I felt confident within his care. I will recommend to anyone contemplating the Lap Band surgery to get it in India. I got the best price for my Lap Band Surgery. I checked out all the places in India and other countries, but what I got from Forerunners Healthcare was simply unbeatable. The service and the care simply were beyond my expectationsâ.
More and more patients like Jessica are traveling to India for getting rid of their long-standing obesity problem. The Lap-Band procedure is minimally invasive, which offers the advantages of reduced pain, length of hospital stay and recovery period. There is no cutting or stapling of the stomach or bypassing the intestines. If for any reason the band needs to be removed, the stomach generally returns to its original form.
The Lap-Band is a silicone elastomer ring designed to be placed around the upper part of the stomach and filled with saline on the inner surface. It is placed around the stomach laparoscopically. The band is connected by tubing to an access port that is placed beneath the skin during surgery.
The surgeon can adjust the Lap-Band by adding or subtracting saline inside the inner balloon through the access port. This adjustment process helps drive the rate of weight loss. If the band is too loose and weight loss inadequate, adding more saline can reduce the size of the stoma to further restrict the amount of food that can move through it. If the band it too tight, the surgeon will remove some saline to loosen the band and reduce the amount of restriction.
To know more about affordable and low cost Lap Band Surgery in India-please visit the Website => http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com
Important Details:
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I want to allow visitors to a band's website to hear extracts of their music without downloading whole mp3s. How can I turn an mp3 song into a 30 second sound clip, preferably fading in/out? Is there any free software that will do this for me?
Absolutely.
Have a look at Kristal Audio Engine:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/866.html
or Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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