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CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians. [In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.]

They're just a few people in a cool Portland, Oregon, CD warehouse that looks like a playground. They listen to every CD they sell before they sell it, so they can help you find other albums you'll like. They only sell CDs that come directly from the musicians. No distributors. Musicians send them CDs. They warehouse them, sell them to you, and pay the musicians directly. Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per CD, if they ever get paid by their label. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per CD, and get paid weekly. In business, and thriving, since March 1998. They're the largest seller of independent CDs on the web.

www.CDBaby.com

You made your CD - now we'll help you SELL it!

FREE CAREER TIPS FROM INDIE
MUSICIAN GURU BOB BAKER!

Bob Baker is an author, musician, actor and artist who is dedicated to helping creative people of all kinds get exposure, connect with fans and increase their incomes through their artistic passions. Bob's books include "Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook," "Unleash the Artist Within," "Branding Yourself Online" and more.

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Marketing tips and self-promotion ideas for songwriters, musicians & bands

At StarPolish, they are dedicated to educating and empowering artists, with an emphasis on artist advocacy and artist development. They are also committed to supporting the arts by rewarding and highlighting the most hard-working and deserving artists.

StarPolish is a collaborative effort between artists and music industry professionals.

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Beat Wire...
is the most effective
way to get press.

Announcing your CD release, upcoming tour or any other music-related event has never been so easy. Get Press in 10,000+ publications.

Music Books Plus

Music Books Plus is your best source for music & audio books, videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs, software & sheet music. We carry over 7,000 titles on Music Business, Songwriting, Arranging, Theory, Directories, Pro Audio, Video, Live Sound, Recording, Lighting, MIDI, Synthesizers, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Violin, Brass, Woodwinds, Harmonica, Voice, Biographies, Fake Books, Songbooks. Worldwide shipping.

The Internet Marketer's alternative
to FrontPage and DreamWeaver
"I had NetFusion, Frontpage and Dreamweaver, but XSitePro
is the one I LOVE to work with - everyday!" René Graeber

FrontPage^® and DreamWeaver^® are both great pieces of software but they were NOT designed with Internet Marketers in mind. XSitePro was, which is why it has rapidly become the web site development tool of choice for Internet Marketers who are serious about running a profitable online business.

During every stage of the development process we had the Internet Marketer in mind, which is why the software is packed to the brim with features that are designed especially to make your life easier and to maximize the chance of online success.

Whether you are a complete newbie to Internet Marketing or a long-established online entrepreneur you will find that XSitePro will:

• Cut your development time down massively (what previously took days and weeks will take hours and minutes)
  
  
• Allow you to do things that were previously only possible by employing costly programmers and web development staff, which means that you control your web site and not the techies.
  
  
• Let you concentrate on building your online business rather than allowing untold hours to be soaked up developing web sites.
  
  
• Take away the frustration of web site development so that running your online business becomes a pleasure rather than a chore.
  
  
• Put tools at your disposal which will allow you to take your new or existing business to the next level of success.
  
  
• Make it easy to keep your web sites up-to-date so that they don't end up becoming cobwebs (i.e. like the vast majority of Internet Marketing web sites that are rarely if ever updated because it is just too much trouble using conventional tools)

XSitePro is amazingly versatile

It can help you create almost any kind of site imaginable. It doesn't matter whether you want to create a simple one page sales letter, a complex affiliate site or a thousand page Google AdSense site. XSitePro is more than up to the job.

Another huge plus point is that with XSitePro you can create an infinite number of sites so you don't need to rely on a single site for your income. You can quickly and easily create multiple streams of income or multiple sites that all feed into your main site - the choice is yours.