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Re: [ARSCLIST] Urgent Message From SaveNetRadio
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From: "Karl Miller" <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> "Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ***Finally, most not-yet-famous groups are promoting their recordings via
> their own web site...and selling them via operations like CDbaby. The
> "terrestrial" radio operations still get free records from the "major
> labels" (so far, anyway)...but, given net radio, sattellite radio, and
> all the various low-cost (as well as illicit) sources for digital music,
> old-fashioned electromagnetic radio is becoming the least-used way to
> distribute one's music...
>
> Ok, I will admit, I don't listen to the radio...well maybe to the BBC when
they broadcast something I want to record....
>
> But I do wonder about music getting to an audience. If you have your own web
site a person could probably find you by doing a search, but the question is,
why would they look for you. Is it all through word of moulth or your having
been heard in performance?
>
THAT, in fact, is the question to which I need the answer! I hope to set up
a real "web site" in the not too distant future...and I haver, to be totally
honest, NO idea how one attracts web surfers (other than by using nekkid
pictures of celebrities...?!).
Searching for almost ANYTHING...unless it is VERY specific (i.e. "Brunswick,"
"3782," "<artist>" usw.) gets you anything from a few hundred to a few million
"hits!" It is HIGHLY unlikely (Haile Sellassie's lesser-known cousin...) that
ANY "web listeners" will run through this half-vast number of possibly-
applicable URL's to see if the 4,357,983rd "hit" is the site for which they
have been looking...!
Dare I comment...FEH!!
Steven C. Barr
(partially famed blues harmonicist and songwriter, known for at least four
or five doors in each direction...?!)