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Plan to do some YouTube videos at some point.
Reddit AMAs are gaining in popularity?
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Which brings me back to this thread. How on Earth will I market it. And what channels will I distribute on? CDBaby and its affiliates (large exposure, least income?) or through in-website purchases? Hmmm, hardest thing will be getting people to know about it. And to be honest, I think the market will be pretty small, anyway.
This album isn't a myth, either... @DLM, @ICBM and a few others have had the "pleasure" of advance listenings of a few tracks
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Post some covers to help get people in, who will then be more likely to buy original material.
An alternative, if you are really good, is via Candyrat records. They started out as a Shrapnel-type label for acoustic percussive guitarists but have branched out much more widely now.
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Levi Clay similarly did a guitar-based album, doesn't gig, but had a bit of a following from doing tuition/review/rant videos on Youtube so when he released the Hellcat Molly album he got interest.
Thing is, I have a YouTube channel... there's just not much on it! It takes a lot of time and this year my girlfriend's had cancer, I was gigging in a band, add work on top of that and the actual recording of the album itself and you can see how my time ran out quickly.
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EDIT: done!
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I ask because if you want to make some extra money just design a couple of PCBs on the side.
You will end up working your balls off doing tedious marketing work and struggle to make enough money that it wouldn't have been better to give it away and work a couple of shifts in a supermarket.
I don't like to be negative, but I found myself in the same position and realised that given that established acts make bugger all money off selling music what I really wanted was just to get people to listen and enjoy.
Once it's done, I have enough material for another 2-3 albums (48 songs in total with 11 going on this one) but it's been so much work I can't see myself doing it again. Like you say there... I'd do something else to make money if that's what I wanted after this.
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You concentrate on the music, they can do the business/promotion/marketing side of things.
How long have you been recording this album for?
If you start stacking more obstacles in your way (like promotion/marketing) then it is just going to delay you further.
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It's been almost two years...
I plan to get a sound engineer to do the mastering as that's a step beyond me and I've not got the time.
I'm dying to just get it done now, honestly. It's largely guitar instrumental and even then I don't "follow the rules" so it will have a limited audience. At least I can say I did it my way and it's not some big rip-off
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I've got something like 150 videos on YT, and the ones that get the most traffic either have gear mentioned in the title, or are covers of some sort. Original music is very hard to get traffic to if you're unknown.