The Derek Sivers book on music promotion

[fluffy]

Derek Sivers (the owner/operator of CDBaby) has made a freely-available ebook where he talks about the things he's seen work for independent musicians. A lot of it seems a bit corny but a lot of it also makes a lot of sense (and there is plenty of overlap between the two groups of things).

http://sivers.org/pdf/DerekSivers.pdf

[Hoblit]

Thanks, I've been brainstorming on this for a while now and it'll be nice to get some more fresh ideas.

Things we've seen work so far:

[Billy's Little Trip]

My book would be one page.
#1. Make music that's good and sells itself.
#2. If you have to explain your music and spoon feed people on why they should like it, stop doing that and maybe write music that, say, oh, I don't know, perhaps that is good and sells itself.
#3. Blow David Geffen and tell him he can have you killed and make it look like a suicide when you are at your peak so that he can make money off your music forever without paying you.

$49.99 available at Borders Books and other places that sell books that people actually pay money instead of going to the library.

[Hoblit]

My book would be one page.
#1. Make music that's good and sells itself. X - Been done, doesn't work.

#2. If you have to explain your music and spoon feed people on why they should like it, stop doing that and maybe write music that, say, oh, I don't know, perhaps that is good and sells itself. X - You can't expect the general population to be intelligent to know what is actually any good. Remember what that same market DOES consider good, then kill yourself at that realization.

#3. Blow David Geffen and tell him he can have you killed and make it look like a suicide when you are at your peak so that he can make money off your music forever without paying you. O - This option seems most plausible with many possibilities in swapping out said guy with an experimental list of investors.

$49.99 available at Borders Books and other places that sell books that people actually pay money instead of going to the library. X - You forgot the strike tag and listing the discounted price on Amazon.

Try #3 and get back to us with a full report of the results.

[Billy's Little Trip]

All joking aside, I finally got around to checking out this Derek Sivers stuff, well, just skimmed it thus far, and it's pretty interesting.

FYI: BLT sounds like Dennis the Menace pissing off Mr Willson. If you're into that kind of music, come check us out this Saturday night at 11:00 pm at Heebee jeebee's.