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WAYS TO SELL OUR SELVES: ONLINE
SERVICES THAT CAN SELL YOUR CD: AMAZON
ADVANTAGE
Description (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/partners/direct/advantage-for-music.html/103-5591612-5201424):
Join Amazon.com Advantage for Music and make it easy for
millions of fans worldwide to discover and buy your music.
Amazon.com Advantage is a complete promotion and distribution system for
independent musicians. When you join Amazon.com Advantage, you're putting your
CD in the Internet's busiest music store, right next to CDs from major label
bands. There are no exclusive contracts, so you're not limited in how you
promote and sell your music.
What do members get?
- An Amazon.com page with track listings, space for customer reviews, bios,
cover art, and liner notes.
- MP3 downloads to help fans discover your music--and buy your CDs.
- Free stocking, shipping, and cover scanning.
- Full access to your sales, inventory, and payment reports.
- Quick payment terms and automatic reordering.
Read more about the
full
benefits of Advantage for Music.
Have a question or need to send us
e-mail? Check out the Advantage
Music FAQ
Fees/Cost: Annual fee of $29.95
Percentage of CD Sales:
55%
Digital Distribution to other
services? No.
How to Sign Up:
Pros: You're on Amazon! (along
with all the professional artists in the industry); they will make samples
of your soundclips for your main page; people can write reviews of your CD and
post; half-way decent reports to track sales
Cons: Annual fee (not good of your
sales don't exceed it); have to have a UPC code to submit you work; high
percentage of sales taken (55%) relative to other services; it is not easy to
upate your artwork, artist description, etc...must fill out form, and it is not
immediate; do not allow you to sell your MP3s, only offer for free download;
> I'd like to propose a series of threads to collate all of
the creative ideas
> about
> how we can sell ourselves, both
through online sales, online promotion,
> creating gigs,
creating new venues, et. al.
> so that we can all use it as a resource in
the future.
>
> The thread, CD SALES DECLINING has had some
really excellent contributions
> about this phenomenon
> and noone
disputing the observation of the trend. The next obvious
> question is: Given that, how can we
>
maximize our sales (if we are attempting like many of us are, to be
>
commercially viable artists) and what creative
> things can we do to
create a new paradigm for surviving as a fine artist in
> this economic
climate.
>
> WAYS TO SELL OURSELVES: ONLINE
>
>
> I'd propose that we NOT discuss philosophy in this thread, but
rather,
> merely list resources for the purpose of quick reference in the
future
> for looping artists. For the future of quick
reference, please create a
> subthread if you'd like to discuss
philosophy (I know, as an example, that a
> lot of people don't even
believe in selling art at all)
>
> Kris and others have mentioned
CD Baby, Itunes, Amazon, et. al.
>
> Specifically, in each
instance,
> 1) how does one contact these organizations?
> 2) How do
they work?
> 3) Maybe a little critique, positive or negative about
people's individual
> experience with the various vendors.
> 4) Any
other pertinent information one might think of.
>
>
>
