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Episode 025 – Day 33 – A Christmas Lullabye

This episode of With A Voice Like This is all about The Coventry Carol and my approach to recording it and how I accomplished my vision for the song. The poll closing tonight at Midnight Central time. Listen to The Coventry Carol both before and after I’ve talked about it see if you can hear the points I’m talking about.

I have

  • An almost complete copy of the Coventry Carol ready to upload
  • My music being played on The indigo Room tonight

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Episode 024 – Day 32 – Weekend Wrapup

Topics for this episode of With A Voice Like This:

Marketing my music, Why SellMusicDirect.com is such a good fit for me and this project, Where you can find my music, increase of Site Traffic due to StumbleUpon.com, Country comparison of site hits, One last playing of We Three Kings can Comments From the Podcast Gallery.

Links from the show:

SellMusicDirect.com – The artist’s interface for creating a CD project

BuyMusicDirect.com – The Consumer side of the CD project

My profile on the Podsafe Music Network – Where you can hear my music and use it if you’re a Podcaster

StumbleUpon.com – a Social bookmarking website

I have

  • A new badge to link directly to the search results of my name at BuyMusicDirect.com
  • An exponential increase of website traffic due to StumbleUpon.com
  • Been dugg on Digg.com (a personal Hall of Fame moment)
  • Music available for purchase online
  • The finished copy of We Three Kings
  • Posted the copy on the Podsafe Music Network
  • The first verse done of We Three Kings and will probably have it completed for tomorrow night’s update.
  • My PD copyrighted copies of 8 songs
  • A start on We Three Kings and Coventry Carol
  • A great gig tonight (Wednesday)
  • Eight (8) Public Domain copyright songs on their way to me, should arrive tomorrow
  • A poll to let my listeners/readers/Podcast Gallery help decide what will go on the album
  • A list of the rest of my music to choose from
  • The ability to poll and see if there are specific songs people would like to see on the CD

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Day 31 – Marketing 101?

A lot of things have lined up for today and I would be totally remiss not to take advantage of it and let it help fuel what I’m doing. First, the date, it’s December 1st (and a Saturday, bonus!). For some purists, this is the first allowable day to play Christmas music, so there will be an increase of web surfing for Holiday music. Second, I have three finished pieces that I can put on the site to show it’s more than just a one shot CD and Third, I have a commercially acceptable song in We Three Kings. The time to strike is here and let what I’ve done stand on its own two feet and power the rest of the project as well.

So off I go to SellMusicDirect.com [Edit: site no longer exists] to upload the music. Since I haven’t said anything since the beginning about this, I’ll recap a little. I have a PRO account with SellMusicDirect.com. This means I can put up to 6 CD projects in this account and they will not only sell downloads, but will also manufacture CDs on demand, as long as I’ve put together the CD and artwork. That way I can sell the CD without having to carry a minimum amount of inventory. Great deal for what I’m doing. I go into my account and start to set it up to sell The songs and I’m met with a Genre list that I classify the song. I was working first on We Three Kings and this is the list that I got:

Now there’s no Holiday genre and no A cappella genre, so the question becomes, what genre do I use? From what I’ve seen, most a cappella music usually get put in the jazz genre because the industry doesn’t seem to know what to do with it, so I’ll put it in Smooth Jazz. We’ll see how that goes, if I get any feedback based on a miscategorization. I also chose to have it listed as podsafe, though I may go back and change after rereading what the site’s definition of podsafe is. So now it’s out as a downloadable single at BuyMusicDirect.com [Edit: site no longer exists], as well as Christmas Angel and A Round For the Holidays.

I have

  • Music available for purchase online