Glad I stopped by - my notifications have decided to not notify me of replies recently. I have to say, it's really strange being talked about as if I'm not going to come back!
I have to pull most of you up on one thing - I'm not advertising my company. I'm requesting the services of composers and musicians.
I'm quite peed-off that my site isn't fnished, but apparently bespoke database search code takes longer to write than standard web pages, so I'll let my developer off.
@Miroslav "Hey Adam...I understand what you are doing and how the profits break down compared to industry norms, and if indeed you are working to help songwriters place their music...that's all cool. There are many such service providers, so not a problem with you wanting to do that same.
However, I agree that the manner in which you are doing it here does come off "all thumbs"...and it would be much better if you had a finished/working website where all the details were laid out, some contact info...etc...etc.
Not sure why there's a "gap" between your old and new websites...I mean, even if you are now on new servers, you could have kept your old website content live on the new servers until your new website content was ready...there's really no need to let your website go dark during that process...but, that's for you to work out, I'm just saying that it's not helping your credibility doing it this way."
Thanks for the support (and for noticing Greg's short attention span when it comes to reading answers to his own questions!) - the old site was on a 2GB server and when I started building the pay-per-play catalogue it grew to around 400GB in about 2 weeks, thanks to a company with a large catalogue from America who understand the potential of this project and who knew me when I had the 'old' site.
Your point "discussion about song placement services is a good one, and rather than doing it here in the free classifieds....it might make better sense for someone to start a thread in the Marketing forum and let this thread go back to being just a classified advertisement" is the reason I emailed the mods first - there is \ was no specific section for my type of business, or a way for me to ask for submissions without sounding like spam. Sorry Greg and whoever else thought this was spam, but I made my case early on - if you can't be bothered to read all of it, I really don't have the time to defend myself for no reason.
@Typhoid Hippo - I joined recently because that was when I was looking for new tracks. No other reason involved.
If anyone wants to know about the what I have to do to get music placed, just read post #24.
Regarding my website, I'll post the url as soon as it's live. As I said before, I'll gladly listen to all submissions. I've been around too long to worry about forum comments - I used to be the same when I was making \ trying to push my music. All the companies were after my money, or wanted my tracks for no return, so I thought.
I won't bother trying to sway you. That's not why I'm here. I do ok from my own royalties. I'm just using my experience of writing for other libraries, and my new contacts, to push other peoples music.
I totally understand you'd prefer to wait until the site's back up, so save your fingers and your time and I'll return when the url's available.
In the meantime, you can check some of my contacts, my dodgy picture and my discogs (thanks anonymous music fan!) here:
uk.linkedin.com/in/makintrax
Thanks