for best results, email: [email protected] – Put my name or SEAINHD in the title. 

Submit links to albums/EPs from bandcamp | soundcloud | youtube

Below is our Simple Guide to Marketing, Promotion, and Distribution
Here is our in depth Band Marketing Guide
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. If you like this guide, please link to it on your band page somewhere. If you have a band and want some advice, send me an email with subject “website help” and if i like your music, i’ll help you for free.

Steps aren’t necesarrily in any order, but lets say you start a band today, these are some steps you should take:

• Do NOT make a Myspace Page for your Band. If you already have one, delete it.
• Buy the Domain Name from BlueHost.
• Websites:
  • For free websites, i recommend Blogger or Tumblr. Both let you use your DOMAIN name(i’ll get to the importance of this later) and let you integrate soundcloud and bandcamp.
  • If you want a customized website, pay BlueHost for hosting and install wordpress. do NOT go to wordpress.com and buy the shit they sell. log into BlueHost hosting and click “install wordpress”. for directions, view this video. I will seriously help you do this for free. just ask. NOT JOKING
• Social Network pages are mandatory:
  • Make sure to post your DOMAIN name on both of these when people want more information…
  • Twitter
  • Facebook Pages, not a regular profile
  • Soundlcloud
  • bandcamp
  • youtube
• Mailing Lists are old technology but still the MOST EFFECTIVE:
  • The easiest and FREEest way is to use Feedburner with your wordpress account. Each time you release a song, post it to wordpress and your subscribers will get notified. I will help you with this, just ask.
  • If you MUST have a separate newsletter use tinyletter or topspin
• Music Distribution – Getting your Sounds to the People:
  • Give away Music? Use Soundcloud.com AND Bandcamp.com – Soundcloud is Best for Bloggers. Bandcamp is easier for you to collect emails.
  • Selling Music? If you plan to earn more than $600 per year from selling music, i suggest you get a business license / bank account.
    • Sign Up for TuneCore Account. So far, Tunecore is the Best way to get Your Music on iTunes / Rhapsody / Spotify / AmazonMP3 and keep More royalties.
    • For physical CDs we’ve heard the easiest is Createspace.com – No setup fees and no inventory needed. This will help Get Physicals/MP3s on Amazon.com which is required to get music onto grooveshark and pandora!
• Music Marketing – Really Get your Sounds to the People:
  • Simple Press Release – Soundcloud link
  • Grooveshark – (requires physical CD at amazon, See 6B)
  • Pandora – (requires physical CD at amazon, See 6B)