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Is Your
Music Career Worth $1 a Day?
This offer is only open to the 1st
100 musicians to sign up! See why.
Chances are, you're too busy making
music - after working a long day job - to adequately promote what you've
already created. I am in an ideal position to do a lot of the legwork and
organization for you because I work at home. My wife has had two strokes
and severe rheumatoid arthritis; I am her 24/7 caregiver, meaning I need to be close by.
 Let
me introduce myself. My name is Jim Moore and I have had decades
of experience in audio/video production, concert promotion,
journalism and copywriting, award-winning website creation,
graphic design and music (being a musician myself with seven
albums produced now). I manage my own music production and
promotion company, Phoenix Studios.
I have also written two audio/video e-books on how to put music on your
own web site and am preparing a third on Internet video.
My own musical interests include the
use of "healing frequencies" (based on 45+ years' research into
Extremely Low Frequencies, or ELF energy) and its use in New Age/Ambient
music tracks to promote the body's own natural healing powers. This has
been very helpful after my wife's two strokes and helped return her blood
pressure to normal without large doses of drugs. This technique is being
used more and more by other musicians - going back to Stevie Wonder.
I currently work with
three bands/performers (tommie rose,
Teri Garrison & The
Bird Tribe) and an Indie publishing company (Tranzport
Music). Location is no object because I work with clients
from Nashville to Hawaii, both by phone and by Internet.
Here's what I can offer you in one
complete one-stop package for less than $1 a day (annual contract required
w/monthly payments - discounts for annual or 6-month payment):
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a professional
two-page website on our own Music-Zone site (free
no-ads hosting!) with your own streaming jukebox and your own low-bandwidth online
radio station, which keeps visitors on your site longer
... and a spam-free e-mail link (included).
See a sample here.
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Preparation of a
professional press release for your local news media
(included)
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You, your album
and/or video will be featured in our monthly "Hot
Picks" sections. (included)
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Collection and
distribution of sales royalties from the above sites
with your own online music store (included)
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Access to a huge
collection of free or low-cost music software (included)
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Access to a
comprehensive collection of music contracts for musicians,
publishers and independent producers (included).
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Access to our free
classified ads section to advertise your gigs, your
websites, MySpace or Facebook pages, albums, etc.
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includes placement of your
songs and/or music videos on major
websites where you can present and/or sell your albums and/or individual
songs (the following sites open in a new window; when
you close it, this one remains)
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monthly report of
how often your music is played, sold and any income:
* Creative Commons licensing
only, no commercial track listings.
** Individual arrangements must be made between the site and
artists/publishers.
*** requires a $50 "set up fee" and has exclusive
ringtone & wallpaper distribution rights (not highly recommended).
****requires a fee of $9.95 per month or $69.95/year. Free
plan is available but w/o song/album sales. See details.
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EXTRAS!
You can also get
your own ad-free website with your own domain, at
extra cost (domain name ($11.50/yr.), design (typically
$300-$750) and hosting ($5.95/mo.). -
CD album creation
and mixing (extra fee - $25/hr.)
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creation of audio CD
covers, inserts and CD labels (extra fee - $25/hr.)
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stunning music
video production (extra fee - $40/hr.+)
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consulting on what
you need to know about protecting your music & your
rights (extra fee - $15/hr.)
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What Do I
Need to Do?
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You need to first be
committed to your own musical success!
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You need a free
PayPal account so you can receive your payments.
I can
help you set this up.
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You need an e-mail
address.
If you don't have one, I can set one up for you.
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Your songs need to
be sampled at 128 kb/sec at 44,100 sampling rate in MP3
format. I can resample them for you, if need be, for
$3/song.
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You need a minimum
of four songs (for a playlist) and you must own the
rights to them.
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You need some
publicity photos and a bio sheet.
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There are other
details you will provide when you sign up and have your
consultation interview, such as song titles, performers,
dates., album information, genrès, musical influences,
upcoming gigs, licensing information if any, etc., etc.
Do I Still
Retain Rights to My Music?
Absolutely! Some of
the major websites do require certain non-exclusive rights
to enable them to present your music to the public, but you
have control over whether a song can be downloaded, how much
you charge for it, and you retain all publishing rights. If
you don't like their terms, you don't post your music to those
sites.
You can earn up to 85%
of the sales of your music (less our 10%) - far more than
you'll make spending years trying to get signed to a major
label!
I'll be creating a
separate page for each of the online outlets listed above.
That page will give you specific details, including contracts,
for each site. Each site has its own requirements for album
cover photos, MP3 upload requirements, video uploads, band
info, etc.
All of your personal
information is stored in our secure database. All you have to
do is provide the information once. Then we consolidate it and
copy-and-paste from the database to the appropriate online
outlet's input boxes.
Do You
Compete With Indie Publishers?
No way! I've carved out
a very specific niche and that involves promotion and
production only. I work with publishing companies, not
against them. For example, I work with Tranzport Music, a
small Nashville indie publisher. I know what I know and I know
what I don't know.
I don't handle BMI/ASCAP
stuff, setting up gigs, signing with record companies or any
of the other vital services that publishers provide. I simply
help you promote your music on CD and online where you can sell it
to hundreds of millions of potential buyers.
So What
Does It Cost?
 Our packages start at
$30/month (less than $1 a day!) plus 10% of the sales of your music downloads. Video
production is extra, depending on your needs. It's much
cheaper if you can provide us with raw video to work from.
Pay a six-month contract
and get a 10% discount.
Pay a 12-month contract and get a 15%
discount.
Is There a
Catch?
Just one - because we
are a music co-operative, your web page must contain links
(which we set up) to the Music Stores of other clients we work
for - everyone helps each other succeed!
How Do I
Start?
Call me at 615-847-8222
or e-mail me.
But
hurry! This offer is only open to the first
100 musicians who sign up. I can only handle so many and I
won't overload myself and end up providing inferior-quality
service ... and I really don't want to have to deal with the problems
of hiring additional staff at this point.
UPDATE:
The young lady in the
video below is, in a way, a competitor. I ran across her when
she signed up as a fan at my Hub Page (within hours after I set
it up - see the link above). While she is obviously selling her
own video "Social Networking" package, she has some
good advice in this video that every musician should heed -
namely, 150 MILLION people a day visit the "social
networking" sites ... and this is a market you should not
ignore. Remember, your fan list is built one member at a time!
You can read my MySpace
Blog for musicians here.
You can also read my Hub
Pages here.
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