Selling Your Music
We know that we tell you in The Survival Guide that The CD is Dead, but we also acknowledge that the CD is still the only good way to hand a person your music when they come up to you at a show with money in hand. You should have a good stock of CDs on hand so that you can perform physical sales. Be smart about how many you make, however, because digital music sales are where music sales are going and you don't want to waste too much money replicating CDs. Many bands are using their computers to burn their own CDs in limited amounts.
Before the Internet, your only good option for selling CDs was direct sales at shows and consignment at CD stores. Now that the Internet is here, you can sell or give your music directly to your customers no matter where in the world they may be found, and you don't have to print CDs to do it.
Below are ways that we've used to sell our own music. As always, we'd love to hear more ideas so that we can share them here with others.
The below section talks about the following ways to sell your music:
- Selling at Shows
- Consignment
- Online CD Stores
- Digital Music Stores