Self-distributing Your Music

Now speaking about the real self-publishing matter and how to get your work out there. More and more the people have turned to self publishing their stuff because distributors and publishers take too much percentage gain out of the artists work to most of the time not even dedicate the enough effort to put the material out there that it deserves. Or if not, they will just shut you down specially if you are an uprising artist because you “don’t have any background” that supports you so they just don’t consider you good enough to give their 100% to promote your material. And as doing it by your own can be very expensive relaying in those companies what you will better want to do to get your work out there is going to have to do it yourself! But don’t feel bad, this is not just happening to the music community, it happens in all the industries of the artistic community. And the good news is that there are online tools to help you do it and that will do the work for you in exchange of a small amount of money. 

For example, for those musicians that are trying to get their music out there SongCastMusic is a great tool. They are a digital music distribution to online music stores. By digital it means that you can upload your music on their website and they will distribute it to online stores, accordingly to the package that you choose, like itunes or amazonmp3, among others, and also they feature your music in their online radio network. You can categorize and catalogue your music and your band, collect your royalties and see how your sales are doing at the end of each month. You can do all these and some more for a budget of 14$ - $80. 

Think about it, it’s a great start, first of all because nowadays everything works online, specially the buy and sell practice. And is a guaranteed way to build your fan base and that ‘background’ that distributors and publishers ask for. You can start with a service like songcastmusic and after a few months jump to a publisher, if that’s what you want. Check it out: www.songcastmusic.com