It seems like a simple question. The answer to it for you as a working band or musician can have a profound impact on your future in the business of music. In other words, it will affect the amount of money you earn.

There’s a lot of information out there about websites in general and what’s been fascinating is how much has changed.

I remember when I was first asked about my website in the early 90′s (I didn’t have one). Having a viable CD duplication service in Texas and priding myself in always learning about the next new thing, I remember how I thought I completely knew what they were asking me about and then I gave them what I learned was just an email.

Boy – did I feel silly when I didn’t know what they were talking about but it sure seemed like it was something I needed to not only know about but get busy creating for myself. So I did.

Now after 21 years, I’m finding out how there’s a better, faster, and more effective way to set up and run a website that frankly will cost me less and provide me with a greater degree of control. The potential impact it will have on my music business is nothing short of exhilarating. I want to be able to show you how to do this so that you can have the same degree of effortless control for yourself too. But more of that later.

So, the question remains – do you have your own website? If you have a MySpace page for the band and nothing more – or you are using some other music service that hosts your pictures, tracks and just lets you communicate through that service with fans instead of letting you collect their names and emails – you really need to pay attention to what I’m about to say.

You do not have your own website.

I can hear it now, I hear it everyday from my CD and DVD clients, the justifications about how using MySpace or Bandcamp works for them and that they don’t have the time or the money to deal with it – they are just too busy and too broke.

Well, unless you’re ready to shift your mindset into the new and shifted realities of the way of business, get ready to always be too busy and too broke.

Besides, there are ways to take control and it might take about an hour and something along the lines of $10 – $20.

If that’s worth your time and money, I’d like to teach you more. Sign up in the box to the right on musicmarketingtoday.com and get ready to accept your destiny deliberately.

Tags: Band websites, Music Marketing

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