REVERBNATION.COM - Widgets!! Widgets!! Widgets!! and MORE!
This site is great because you upload your tracks and they generate lovely little music playing widgets which can be placed on any website that takes html. These widgets not only play music, but they can also show your performance schedule, and allow people to sign up for your mailing list, link to your youtube videos and offer free song downloads. And anyone who likes your music can place the widget on their site if they want, thus giving you more exposure, while allowing you the power to change the widget if you want. Since my record [Chillodesiac Lounge, vol. 1: FEVER] has cover tunes which are against the MySpace policy, I can’t put them on my MySpace player. To get around this, I have a Reverb Nation widget on my MySpace page so people can listen to my whole record. I also went a long time with a widget on my main website, since it was so much easier than creating a player myself for my site. I also sometimes paste in a widget when I post a bulletin on MySpace, so people can hear the music, or on a blog post. This is a truly great resource, and it’s totally FREE. As this site is developing, they are partnering more with MySpace, and now you can rss your MySpace blog onto your reverbnation profile, as well as import your friend count to show as “fans” on your reverbnation widgets. You can also import your twitter status onto your reverbnation page. You can also make this you hub of your mailing list and even choose to do digital distribution through them. I still choose CD Baby because there is no annual fee.
Unfortunately BLOGGER doesn't allow you to embed these widgets in their blogs, but MySpace does. You can see ours on our myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/wwgroovecorp
[Hi all, Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I created for my college students and break it down into a series of blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking it down into bite sized portions. ]
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