I was bored this evening, so i loaded my album (recorded in Sonar 8.3.1) onto my sister's ipod, hooked up some headphones and went door knocking, trying to sell my album. In just half an hour I sold 8 copies! Give it a go - from now on I'm going to dedicate an hour or 2 every weekend to this and see if the trend continues. Perhaps in this day and age, person to person is the most effective way to market a product?

That's pretty funny James. I'd never have thought of that. I wonder if you could get into any trouble for that with the local government in terms of having a vendors license or permit or something.
If you could sell 100 copies a day it could turn into some serious cash as well as being a way to inform people of concert dates.
Free enterprize lives! 

heh heh, this made me chuckle because I got the image of a guy carrying a shotgun knocking on the door and saying, "You wanna buy my album?"

"YES SIR!"

jamescollins


I was bored this evening, so i loaded my album (recorded in Sonar 8.3.1) onto my sister's ipod, hooked up some headphones and went door knocking, trying to sell my album. In just half an hour I sold 8 copies! Give it a go - from now on I'm going to dedicate an hour or 2 every weekend to this and see if the trend continues. Perhaps in this day and age, person to person is the most effective way to market a product?

What a great idea James, in this day and age too ! Just goes to show that personal contact makes all the difference in almost any kind of business transaction. In spite of Skype and video conference tools I use like GoToMeeting, I stilll believe that the business travelling via car, plane and train will still be with us for a very long time into the future.
 
Keep going and let us know how many more "units" you manage to shift?
 
Peace Love and Understanding
 
Garry Kiosk

Great initiative - self promotion is the best, and quite frankly - the cheapest :)

Social link by the way , great !!!

If the Beatles had though of this, they could have avoided that embarrassing appearance with Ed Sullivan. 

OK this is pretty funny - I've been door knocking a bit this week, and have sold 87 CDs for an average hourly rate of $117.42! (I'm selling them for $20 each - this is Australian dollars I'm talking here by the way!) I'm collecting stats for all of this - I'll continue this and report back in a month or so. I'm aiming to sell 100 CDs a week, door knocking between 2-3hrs/day, which is a very realistic target, given that my hourly rate is going up as I become more adept at choosing the good streets to go down. If anyone else tries selling CDs in this way, it'd be great if you posted here...this is really getting beyond a joke now and becoming a serious earner - can't believe it! VS 700C here we come!!

WOW!...... $117/hr..... not to many day jobs pay like that..... and I'm assuming...tax free.... If you have a large area to sell in... you can sure make some good money like that.

Free enterprise and capitalism at work!  It sure beats clerking in a big box.

That's really cool and actually hard to believe (no, I'm not accusing you of lying...I'm just astounded!)  I suppose it helps a lot to live in a big city.  I think if I walked for two hours around here for many days I'd be deep in the woods where no one lives....

But how on earth do they know if they like your music or not?  I mean, enough to lay down $20.00 for it?  Anyway, great idea!  Maybe I'll have more of my CDs made after all...