Building a website..Hi and welcome to the "Building a website" page! The biggest advantage of having a site of your own..is that you promote yourself and your music to the world. It's easy and fun...
How important is a site for a songwriter or any music artist?Well, let me tell you this.Having your own website it's by far the most the most exiting promotion that you can imagine. Although, you need to know some tricks on how to get some traffic and visitors to your site first, but once you're on track with the right web host, it can't go wrong. But one thing clear, you need to be a good student and do exactly what you're told to do.
In short. about the web..and your future website!On the World Wide Web you can find all the people you need and all the companies you need, to set up a successfully musical career.The average web surfer, the fans, the music business people. Every human , searching for information or some searching for new talent like yours. A gigantic market place of about 50,000,000 sites. High competitive, of course, but.... Building a website is in the first place for your fans, but also for other visitors. They visit your site out curiosity . If your site is looking great, they'll read your biography,listen to samples of your music, probably even downloading some of your songs or your latest CD( for a fair price of course) Visitors on your site can also watching stream video gig performance. This is all posseble when having a web presence. How to create traffic.Or how to get people to your site. Than you need to know a bit of SEO. SEO means, "Seach Engine Optimization".Make you site ready for the spiders to crawl your content, and everything else that's on your site. But never forget the content. Put some good original content on your pages. Search engines ( Google,Bing,Yahoo...) loves good content. Information that people are looking for on the web,and why they came to your site ( as you have maybe arrived on this site too)in the first place. You'll become World FamousBelieve it or not but your visitors can be living on the other site of the world ( and mostly they do) and they can living next door.If you have the right web host you can check it all out on the "traffic stats". They love your music and will download your CD.Great! They will subscribe to your free news letter and read all information (up-coming gigs..)and maybe they can become real fans. You're happy, they are happy! Who can ask for more?
Turning your hobby into your business and still love doing it! While your fan base is growing, A&R people will become interested in you(with your fan base growing) and your site and make a visit your web site to look how professional you are ,how good your performance is on stage and to listen to some song samples. Tell me, could it be better? So, now that you're convinced that build your website is an important issue... Take the next step.There are lot's of companies that are providing web hosting for free. Of course, you can start building a website for free..But free is never really free, because it takes some time and effort to make a good web site. As we all know, time is money. Also, you have to give them your e-mail address, where they can send you lot's and lot's of advertisement. With other words , they will spam you and what can you do about it? You have a free web site . Isn't it? Some of those free hosting companies will kick you of the net after some time. Why? Maybe because you didn't sign up for a promotion campaign or something like that. Or just because it's free, and free don't last forever
Like the wise man said...
Nothing cost, nothing worth!Then there are the advertisement pop ups you have to deal with. All kind of things that makes that free is not always interesting any more.
Building a website if you wish to have some extra income. You want a site that looks professional for the music business guy's and for the public ( the visitors). You have a passion to share with the world....and You need to turn your hobby into a business. What reasons Do You need more to build your website! Then there is the....
The paid website!When building a website by yourself, you need to know some HTML ( a bit anyway)(Hyper Text Markup Language)This is a special computer programming language, where every page on the Internet is written in that special language. That's what cyberspace is made of. If you're not such a cybertech person, then that's allright , because you doesn't need to know all this to make a good web site. Many webhosts profide a "block per block". You write your content in a block, or a web link,graphics... Simply added block per block. No need to know complicated web design or HTML..
Your website will look as profesional as profesional can be. No one will notice that you are a newcomer. One thing thought, you have the do. Adding information. Info that could be important for your visitors. What kind of info?Write about your band members instruments. Have you some recording equipment? Write about it. Gigs,promotions that you have done.. All kind of things that are important for you , and thereby could be important for others too.
If you do it this way.. Then instead of building a website , you'll building yourself a music business! In the real world, setting up a business would cost you a small fortune. A good website cost you $ 299 a year. Tis money you'll get back easely by the money that you make. Selling your CD's ,promoting your gigs... I forget to tell you that you can make not only fame with a good web site, but also fortune! How to become a skilled webmaster, learn it all here..
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The webmaster
Paul F
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