Okay, I think you all misunderstood my question. I'm not trying to get SALES... I'm just trying to get BUZZ / conversations started. I just want people to listen to the music! There is so much music out, even getting someone to spend 5 minutes listening to your stuff is almost impossible now.
What I'm really looking for are INTERACTIONS, which I measure two ways: forum post views, and actual responses via forums, email, and social networks. I do know that de:bug will be reviewing the release, so that should be good. Getting sales is the label's job... honestly, even vinyl that I released that I know did sell, never made me a dollar, as most vinyl releases seem to have expenses equal to the cost of creation. ___ By the way "get your music to more djs" is obvious... but HOW? I've sent emails / fb messages with little success. I will say Akbal Music did a great job, getting the release to DJ Sneak, Loco Dice, Hawtin, etc... But I would like to make some direct connections and not only have my connections only exist through the label. As far as releasing more, I have a lot of music but my past releases haven't done much for me so I'm not sure that in itself, releasing does much good. I have come to the conclusion that releases need to fit into some bigger plan to be of much benefit. ~David On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Minto George <mintogeo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Get your music to more djs and release more music. That is primarily how you > generate interest in the digital market. Combine digital releases with vinyl > (even limited runs). As long as you have music people are genuinely > interested in, it will sell. > > good luck, minto@dL > > > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:20 AM, David Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone had any luck promoting digital releases online? I've got a >> new release on beatport, but as if this point in time, all the "usual" >> channels (email lists, facebook, forum posts) seem to generate very >> low interest. I'm very proud of this release and think it's as good as >> anything out there right now! But getting noticed in 2011 appears to >> be impossible as far as I can tell... >> >> So do you simply have to be rich and spend huge wads of cash to get >> noticed? (that's my theory--it's all a rich kids game!) Anyone who >> wants to weigh in, online or offline, please give me your thoughts!!! >> >> I do have an upcoming net release on a major website that should >> generate some thousands of downloads, which I hope may generate some >> new listeners. But I'm not sure what else to try at this point. >> >> From my point of view, it feels like the internet has turned into a >> giant crappy stripmall and I've got a storefront in some horrible, out >> of the way location!!! >> >> Oh, I will admit that there are some things that I still haven't >> gotten to that are in the works, like finishing my own site with good >> SEO content, that should at least drive a little bit of google >> traffic. >> >> Also, I may have mentioned this, but I will be starting a music blog >> in the next month, that will PRIMARILY be covering deep house from >> Chicago, Detroit, and NYC/east coast... So stay on the lookout for >> that!!! >> >> ~David >
