A new performance artist and musician - where to show off your stuff? The obvious answers are omnipresent: Social Networking…MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube…right? Yep, it is a start and a good one but we’ve got some info you’ll want to look over.

Perhaps though you are a “serious or aspiringly serious musician” and have a body of work to present. You get a website, you self promote and then promote some more and of course do some serious self promotion. If you do this through any old hosting arrangement you may still get lost in the forest of other artists promoting product this way. What now Mr. Momo? Sorry, talking to myself.

If you are an Indie artist an answer may be through Broadjam. These folks offer quite a bit for the Indie Artist (the site does not limit this to Indie Artists only). From a hosting perspective two offers are available:

A. Templated Hosting

This is best for:

• Simple setup for first-time website owners
• Music related templates in various styles for all genres of music
• Web-based control panel for easy content updates
• Easy to use email client for efficient fan communication

B. Do-It-Yourself Hosting

This is best for:

• Perfect for designers, developers or musicians who simply need to host an existing site
• 100 email accounts and 5 FTP accounts
• Webalizer stats for tracking traffic and song sales
• Complete programming control over their website

Not sure which of these to go with? If you are asking this question chances are you go with the templated version. OK Momo. What does all of is this cost? For Primo Broadjam members two plans are available:

• $19.95 per month or
• $199.95 per year

For features and functionality please see the Broadjam site for details.

Another offering on the site caught my eye …Music Licensing. Time to make some money. I pulled this language directly from the site:

 

Music licensing is now for independent musicians, too! Broadjam members - find licensing opportunities and music placement possibilities in TV and Film. Check out our latest licensing opportunities and see what music supervisors are looking for.

Interesting. Back in the day marketing music in ANY way was considered in poor taste at best. A sellout at worst. Times they have changed. Broadjam offers the opportunities for a fee. A discription of what the client is looking for is made available and you pay for the privelidge to submit. The prospective bidder is given parameters:

• Description: Often provides an artist or two that they would like the bit to sound like.
• What is acceptable: Explicit Lyrics, Instrumentals
• Details: Opportunity ID, Posting date and submission deadline date

There are not merely a handful of these available (75+). Musical styles ranging from Country to Goth. One merely fills a shopping cart on the site and then pays for the rest of the information on check out. (Where to submit and how…I suspect). For fees see the website.

And if you don’t like any of these options, contact me because I know a guy who’s a wizard with website development and social networking and he’ll give you the straight scoop and the help needed to get the word out.

Tony Momo - Create, create some more, sell and cash in!

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