Hi David, I wonder if your release is available for listening in beatbort. If it is available can you post here the link?
Thank you Diego 2011/7/19 David Powers <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > >
