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Is there a book titled "Distributing Intellectual Media on Social Networking Sites for Dummies"?

There are so many different websites. Whew!

Do you work for DiscMakers?



No, I don't work for DiscMakers. I do know several family and friends that have used them, however - with generally little complaints and mostly praise.

There is almost no reason to use record companies these days. The chances of 'making it big' are much better through social media than with a major label. Now, you have to know how to get social media to work for you and you generally have to have something that makes one person want to share it with many.

With social media, you rely on the average joe and mary telling his or her friends about you. Some type of gimmick, physical attractiveness, etc. is helpful (as it always has been), but the power of the shared voice is now in the hands of Facebook, Twitter and so forth - not some A&R person at a record company.

Look at what that band 'Walk Off The Earth' was able to do with a share-worthy gimmick of several people playing a guitar simultaneously. It helps that they picked a song that worked with that idea, and that they actually can sing and do the trick.

Look up Tyler Ward on YouTube. I can tell you that 2 years ago, he was a no-name here in Colorado. He was one of the worship leaders at our little church. Now, his YouTube channel has the following stats:

916,516 subscribers
260,288,303 video views

No record company involved. Not that they haven't come knocking.

I think the last time I mentioned him here those numbers were perhaps 1/10th of what they are today.

His covers of pop tunes done better than the originals are what built his original '1000 true fans' type of fan base.

If you do some searching for '1000 true fans' you'll see some answers about the ways of going about doing this kind of life without the labels.

It's not without hard work or talent. Tyler knows how to edit audio and video and how to arrange, how to get people to click links on YouTube, etc. But all done without the intrusion of a record label.

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