Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
That is because none exist. An all singing, all dancing website may promise you that you'll get listeners, make fans and sales but at the end of the day, not many people use these kinds of website or functions because they see them for what they are, a scam. Paying $200 to a website won't gain you any fans. You'll be lucky to make back $1 in sales should some random person come along and actually listen on your page. Paying a website to host your music is like paying a promoter to let you play a gig. No!
You'd be better off using a free alternative and promoting yourself, making links with real people and networking with other artists by advertising each other on websites, social medias, at live gigs, etc. You scratch my back, I scratch yours kind of thing. But even that has massive flaws and will only target a small area of people. The old ways of getting noticed are dead and gone and you're left with nothing. The internet is not a great place for marketing music because while you're doing it, so are another 90,000,000 people and no one is listening to them either.
If you think you're going to stumble across a one sites does all and make you famous, rich or even sells some of your music, you're pretty much mistaken. It just doesn't work like that.
You go on to talk of using adverts on Facebook and Google. OK, let's take a minute to think how many people use Ad Blockers so they don't see adverts and then there are those that just don't read them as apposed to those that do read them but don't click on them. Those that do click on them have then got to listen to a 50 second clip of a song you're advertising and decide if they want to spend money to hear it all. I would place bets now on that system being a failure to make any revenue. Definitely not enough to make back what you spent on the adverts. Yeah The Rolling Stones might make a few quid from an advert like that but Average Joe Smoe who no-one knows? Really?
You don't get to dictate what people do or don't say on a public forum, sorry.
In my opinion, yes it is better to give the full free sample rather than a shortened clip with a watermark. If people know exactly what they're getting there will be more chance of making a sale. You wouldn't want to look at half a pair of trousers and try them on for a fit would you? Or take half a car for a test drive? (Might be fun on 2 wheels) So why give people half a song?
I look at it like this, 10 people downloading for free and 10 people buying it is better than 20 not giving a damn and passing by because they only heard a few seconds of it and didn't know whether they liked it.
You come back when you've made your album and sold and made millions and tell us we're all wrong. We'll all still be here to tell you we told you so when the reality hammer hits.
