cdbaby or an alternative?

I’m considering CDBaby for distribution of a Blues Music project I’ve been working on for a while…
Does anyone here have any experience with cdbaby or an alternative?  
James G... Are you satisfied wth cdbaby? how's that working for you guys?

Thanks James... Are you aware of any any alternitives to them? 
 

+1 do both; CD Baby and Amazon.

Also, as James said.. getting people there, getting the word out! You have to sell your self here's what I've seen others do and it's free;

. First setup your own official website (Go-Daddy.com free or paid (no adverts) and offer 'one' free download (this is a good way to promo) but before people can access that free download they have to signup for....

. Setup a fanbase and keep in touch with your fans by newsletter, the newsletter don't have to be sent out every month, you can do it every 3 or 4 months. You can set that up with Wordpress as your fanbase or for quicker exposure go to sites such as; MySpace and Facebook (do them all). Yeah I know some people don't like those sites but there's a massive lot of members there and it's easy to send out invites, eventually you will see your friends list (fanbase) grow.

. Get your songs out to radio stations. There are networks (Google it) try and find legit sites, there are multiple radio stations on a network. Sign up and place your songs in the right genre and you should be setup. Also send CD's out to numerous indie radio stations including university radio.

. YouTube; get your own channel, get your video done in HD. Instead of producing full blown video production? what I've seen of late from some major labels is simply a cover shot of the CD (Still image) and in the clip is a link http:// to buy the CD.

. Send your CD out to music magazines for review.

. Google sense 'Advertising' you have to pay for that service, but it might be worth looking into.

. Go out there and start gigging! Sell your CD's there.

Yeah! Getting a CD out is only a fraction of the process, the rest is about marketing, getting the word out there.

Good luck! Wish you success :-)

Be careful with the google advertising..... oh yeah..it will get your site up on top, and drive people to your site... but remember...you pay for every click through to your site.... unless people are buying your music...this can become very expensive really fast.

I used this a number of years back to promote something else I was doing... my link was in the top 3 links on the page when you googled it by subject.... with in 2 days....I owed google $850+ in advertising and not one buyer.... lots of hits... no nibbles. I shut that sucker down fast. If it had run for 30 days at that rate I would have owed over $12k...man you gotta move alot of product to make that back as profit.


I'm not saying don't use it... but if you do... keep a close eye on it....as in several times a day.

Guitarhacker


Be careful with the google advertising..... oh yeah..it will get your site up on top, and drive people to your site... but remember...you pay for every click through to your site.... unless people are buying your music...this can become very expensive really fast.

I used this a number of years back to promote something else I was doing... my link was in the top 3 links on the page when you googled it by subject.... with in 2 days....I owed google $850+ in advertising and not one buyer.... lots of hits... no nibbles. I shut that sucker down fast. If it had run for 30 days at that rate I would have owed over $12k...man you gotta move alot of product to make that back as profit.


I'm not saying don't use it... but if you do... keep a close eye on it....as in several times a day.

DOH!! My Bad. I had no idea that having Google advertising could run into excessive amounts $$$$, I guess that's where Google makes a lot of their money.  I was offered a free basic setup to get me started as this is part of the package 'option' when I got Go-Daddy web-hosting, I decided not to go ahead with that Google deal!

Thanks for bringing up an important issue, definitely one to be aware of as I might venture into that later.

Additionally it helps to have well thought out meta tags (titles, descriptions, keywords) on ones own website to give it good listing in search engines. I've had surprisingly good results.