On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:23:36 +0200 Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Things are not necessarily that bad. I can say, for example, that my > experience with Bandcamp is extremely positive. Without being a known > musician I am generating some nice pocket money. My Paypal typically > has over 100-150 EUR, all thanks to purchases of my music by people on > Bandcamp. The stream of purchases is not too thick, but yet constant. Now this is a good feedback. The blurb from resonate is 20,000 sales = 356 EUR. By this, you would have approx. 10,000 sales. What was your (approx.) total sales so far ? > Here is an example of an established artist. Note the endlessness of > purchases. > https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-sleepers Carbon Based Lifeforms are interesting. I've listen to them a few times on youtube. Goes to show, people are still buying even if the music is there for free on youtube. This is very good, as people show appreciation. > However, nobody will do your promotion for you. So just putting out > tracks and then doing nothing will not bring any audiences. This > latter point is key and I can talk a lot about that. Putting out your > music is just the beginning. It would be nice to talk about this right here. > So, people complain about not being able to sell anything, but it is > always more than just the music. It is about promotion, it is about > making your music bigger than just a bunch of tracks. Presentation > and promotion matter very-very much. Yes. Coming up with a 'brand' so to speak. Something that's identifiable. A direction. This is what it's about, that artist/music/album is about that, at least at the moment. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
