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What percentage of your CD sales come from gigs?


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Our sales break down like this:

 

1. Sales at shows - physical CDs - probably 1/3 of our sales.

2. Local consignments - physical CDs

3. Folks who hear us on the radio - both physical CDs and digital downloads

4. Folks who find us online - some physical CDs, mostly digital downloads

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80% of my CD's are sold at shows. 20% are sold online. I expect that to change to 90% in the future. Online I'm one guy in a billion. At a gig, I'm the ONLY guy there selling CD's. Unless I'm sharing the stage, of course.

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Someone could start a free cd in the mail campaign for publicity. Just mail all your music to people for free in the mail. You could be known as the nice guy musicians.

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Someone could start a free cd in the mail campaign for publicity. Just mail all your music to people for free in the mail. You could be known as the nice guy musicians.

 

:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

 

If you have money to burn, just give it to me instead.

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Someone could start a free cd in the mail campaign for publicity. Just mail all your music to people for free in the mail. You could be known as the nice guy musicians.

 

Why not just e-mail people a link to your music with a password so they can download it for free? Why pay the snail mail rate to give something away? And why produce CDs which is a dying format?:rolleyes:

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Why not just e-mail people a link to your music with a password so they can download it for free? Why pay the snail mail rate to give something away? And why produce CDs which is a dying format?
:rolleyes:

 

 

It was a joke. If someone want's to try this they can.

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And why produce CDs which is a dying format?
:rolleyes:

 

True, but it's far from dead actually. The vast majority of sales is still CDs and will probably continue to be for another couple of years. That's a long time in musician/band years. Plus I think CDs help to foster a stronger connection between the band and the early fans that want to experience everything they can about a new band. These sorts of fans are often the tastemakers of their social group and might direct more fans your way.

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