You don't have to be a rocket scientist discover that in order to get more people to listen to your music, you'll need to promote yourself. By promoting your DMusic site, you're also promoting DMusic which helps us gain revenue to keep on kickin'!

So, what can you do?

1. Tell Your Actual Friends

Since we're not so keen on the RIAA's takeover of public radio, you'll need to spread your tunes by word of mouth. Make a mixed CD for a friend. Have a party and stream the top Electronic downloads of the day. It's as simple as just telling someone about your website: "Hey, check out my site at DMusic.com." It's the little stuff that counts.



2. Tell Your Internet Friends
   
   You probably send out at least a few emails a day. Why not add a signature to the bottom with your DMusic address? You can also start talking on forums about DMusic and including a link at the bottom of each post you make. Play DMusic artists' songs on your last.fm playlist or submit a mix to artofthemix.org with some DMusic artists.




3. Join DMusic communities on other sites

Did you know we have a community on Second Life, Frappr, and Myspace? Join the DMusic communities outside of DMusic.com and let people know about your music by redirecting them to your page.



4. Review DMusic

With the recent popularity of internet encyclopedias, people have shown they are hungry for new information! Keep people up to date about or site by reviewing it at Amazon.com, update our entry at Wikipedia, inform people about DMusic at ask.yahoo.com. Information is power!



5. Enrich our content

While promoting DMusic to new fans is important, so is keeping up the community spirit. Remember to continue to review fellow DMusicians, download and buy their music, commenting on their tracks. The community will respond by paying attention to you in return. Strengthen your presence on DMusic by submitting news articles and lessons to our website.



6. Write to local papers

One of the most effective ways of spreading the word about DMusic is through publications. Write an op-ed for your local newspaper about your take on digital music and experience at DMusic. If you feel that the music industry is headed down the wrong path and independent non-RIAA artists need to be heard, let it be known in your community and try to make a difference. Find addresses at Congress.org



7. Blogging

If you don't already have your own blog, you probably spend some part of your day reading someone elses. Start leaving comments on others’ blogs about DMusic or with a link to your DMusic page. Encourage readers of your blog to check out your DMusic page. Search for music blogs at Blogger, Google Blog Search, and blogcatalog.




8. Banners

Help promote yourself by promoting DMusic! Add a banner to your site or myspace page and get people to hear your music. Feel free to use any of these banners and change the link to your DMusic site.(thanks to bluenevus , FraDonaghy , aflunky, and cryxan for the artwork)

<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://images2.dmusic.com/users/t/r/a/tracy/58994.gif"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://files.dmusic.com/music/a/e/aeternoflamma//Best_Pick.jpg"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://files.dmusic.com/music/d/o/doubleblind//banner1.gif"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://files.dmusic.com/music/f/l/flunky//Dm_Banner_01.jpg"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://www.dmusic.com/advertising/banners/cr-04.gif"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://www.dmusic.com/advertising/banners/cr-07.gif"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://www.dmusic.com/advertising/banners/cr-06.gif"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://files.dmusic.com/music/g/n/gnut/freedom.jpg"> </a>




<a href="http://www.dmusic.com"> <img src="http://images2.dmusic.com/users/t/r/a/tracy/58995.jpg"> </a>

Great Tips.

I have one more.
Buy DMusic stickers and paste them on every mirror in every bar you play. There are ones I made on the I-88 west bound toll basket in IL, Rt31 toll plaza

write DMusic.com on the back of dirty simi trucks too

(with your finger not paint or anything just in the grime)

I use dmusic from my website to point to my music page for downloading.. maybe a banner on my dmusic music page would be helpful.

cross promote on other sites, I have done this extensively at cubase.net which has led to several people opening account here, although most of them are not yet very active on the site (it's hard to change, in Europe SOundclick is so popular in spite of it's limitations) and Cubase is far and away the top sequencer there, as opposed to being behind Sonar and others in N.America.

Get cracking folks!
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Distilled1, I got Boycott-RIAA stickers posted all over the place around East Tennessee. (Hey leflaw, I could use some DMusic stickers too!)

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Folks, if NOTHING ELSE, everywhere you can just use/write/post:

"yourbandname/dmusic.com"

(I don't think you even gotta put the "www" or "http://" in front of it anymore.)