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> On 7 jan 2006, at 19.38, Warren Sirota wrote: >> There are so many services like CDBaby, CNET Music Downloads, and >> probably >> hundreds or thousands of others. When you are ready to put out a >> CD, what do >> you do with it? Has anything really been helpful in sales or exposure? >> >> Warren > > CD Baby is good. It also helps you get your pieces into most digital > web stores as well. But it doesn't help selling the CD, that's up to > you. They only handle the logistics, which may come in handy if you > want focus your own time into marketing and stuff. Any online CD > outlet is "helpful in exposure" as long as you manage to direct > people there ;-) > > Per Boysen Per is right that CD Baby is good (VERY GOOD IMO) for handling the sales for your CD but they're not marketers/sales-reps for you - HOWEVER I have found that we seem to sell a certain amount of CDs from people just brousing the the CD Baby site and they do have some "TRY THIS - OTHER CDs you will love" links which *may* end up going to your page. Check the http://WWW.CDBABY.NET pages for some promo ideas and http://www.bandradio.com has a newsletter that sends out lots of promo tips - athough they're indie rock/pop oriented. Cheers, Scott M2 http://www.dreamSTATE.to ambientelectronicsoundscapes http://www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com