[atlantaprog] Re: CD sales

I believe that if you have a site setup for sales of your music it would
be much easier for those looking for music. Let's say on the ARIA
website a single page of sales information could be setup. It would not
take the place of your website if you have one, but to have a place to
direct sales in one location other than your website or for those who
don't offer CD sales on their site a new place for you. For those
without a site it could be a single page the help promote your music as
well.

I also believe that if you were to also offer a download price as well.
Some may not want to wait for shipment or pay for shipping, by offering
a download of the same CD in MP3 format. It will also allow for singles
to be released as well. This way if you are working on material and have
a single finished you can offer it as a download. Making your music
available for downloading can save money too. 

You could take it even further and offer a membership to ARIA fan club
and offer music download at a reduced rate or something, maybe a
newsletter. Membership to any fan club is a small $20- 25 fee per year
and given the fact that any ARIA fan member would have several bands as
a member.  

They are just some ideas. 
Hope it helps.

Greg Stafford
The Prog Palace - Progressive Rock Radio
http://theprogpalace.com

-----Original Message-----
From: atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Kargel
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:48 PM
To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: CD sales

I think that if we are going to go through the trouble
of making our work available through the net, we
should make the new ARIA website a starting point for
all things promotional...they don't call it the "web"
for nothing....!  ;-)


Cheers,

Bill


--- Wade S <cobwebstrange@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I'm a graphic artist who can do anything they can
> do for nada! I'm not
> >sure the value of a high-end presentation for this
> though. Sure, each
> >band's OWN kit needs to look sharp, but this
> prog-night concept...
> >there either into it or they're not. What will
> impress them is getting
> >a lot of people to show up. -AWG
> 
> I agree with AWG on these points.  There are at
> least four graphic artists 
> in our group here and I suspect that anyone in the
> group will have more of 
> an interest in putting something together than an
> outside artist.  Plus, 
> that would give us a lot of opportunity to make
> changes and updates to the 
> package on a regular basis.
> 
> On a different note, I've been getting some interest
> in the bands on the 
> "Paths Less Traveled" CD lately.  (for those of you
> who are new here, we put 
> out a CD of 10 bands earlier this year which was
> distributed with each copy 
> of issue #43 of Progression Magazine).  I've several
> had letters and emails 
> requesting information about the bands, how to order
> CD and catalogs from 
> our record company, etc.   I've decided to put
> together a catalog (print and 
> online) for distribution so that these people can
> order any combination of 
> our CDs at one time.  This would also provide one
> central location to get 
> information about the bands.  Basically it would
> just be set up as a 
> consignment and I would just add a section of "other
> bands available through 
> Genterine Records".  I'll stock 5 copies of each CD,
> sell them for $12 each 
> and pay the bands $10 for each CD that sells (the
> other $2 will go towards 
> shipping, etc.)  I've already spoken with most of
> the bands on "Paths Less 
> Traveled", but you don't have to have been on the
> "Paths Less Traveled" CD 
> to be involved.  If anyone's interested, just let me
> know.
> 
> Veronica, I'm sorry I haven't sent a reply to your 2
> emails.  Our email 
> correspondence was starting to get a bit long :-)  I
> thought I'd talk to you 
> about that (and the distribution thing above) over
> the phone, but I've just 
> gotten your machine.  I've about to leave for a show
> up in Athens, but I'll 
> try to give you a call about everything tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wade
> 
>
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