If you intend on doing anything in todays music market you need to have an online presence, but getting a good looking site costs money. There are a number of free options but none that can be personally designed and with the functionality of your own personal site.

If you want a site to promote yourself or your band which is in inline with your music and identity (you can’t get that on Facebook) usually you have to sit with a web designer and pay through the nose and wait for at least a couple of months or more.

Not Anymore!

Get in touch with us at Croydon Music and get your own website from £250 done in a week!!

Get your very own site you to promote and sell your music merchandise, blog and whatever else you need!

Using the latest themes and software we will create a site that will easy to update without you needing to understand HTML (web language) and will look like you spent thousands.

If you are looking to impress your fans or recording companies, then you will need to prove that you are more than just another “Facebook” band. It has be stated by record company execs that they pay attention to bands and artists who take them selves seriously and do more than recording music and wait for a deal!

Build your Fanbase

An important part of any artists success is effective marketing and building your fan database is vital to this. Unfortunately having friends or fans “like” your page or “follow” you on twitter is not enough by themselves to build a targeted marketing campaign, because you are reliant on “passing trade”as it where unless you are posting every few minutes you can easily be missed. Your website can help with this by giving your fans the opportunity to sign up via their email, giving you the opportunity to contact them directly to their mail box or smartphone.

If you wish get your site, get in touch now email contact@croydonmusic.co.uk ref “Website”

So you’ve recorded your music, taken your promotional photos and you are about to expose yourself to the public and the media.

Question

Are you Release Ready?

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Are you marketed mud?

You may actually ask, what on earth is he talking about now?

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“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”

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Music branding has become more and more popular as a topic amongst not only the hierarchy of the music industry but the average artist and independent companies.

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What is this you say!! Of course it is, it is the answer to all independent musicians prayers. You can get your music to the world and all the labels around the world from your bedroom!

I have spoken to many people including online specialists and they all come to the same conclusion, while the internet helps with communication and finding information on the industry insiders you need to get your product to & with the countless online music tools & promotion tools if you aren’t a good artist or band the internet isn’t going to make you one!! [Read more...]

Well it’s 2010 and we all make our resolutions to make a real go of our businesses so we sit and evaluate and re-evaluate our ideas and decide to make some sort of a plan of how we intend to pursue or aspirations or goals. [Read more...]

Some one recently came to Croydon Music for support and asked advice on the following subject. This young lady had recently met with a management company who said they were very interested in working with her. Obviously the individual concerned was very happy, but the conversation that followed left her more concerned then optimistic. [Read more...]