Marketing your band on the internet and other indie music books?

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My band needs promotion. I'm making a site for them, but we don't know whether to have song clips or the full songs. We don't want to just give our music away, but clips suck. We also don't know anything about press kits and the like. We thought about getting a book like "How to promote your band on the internet" or that other one about How I made 100,000 without a record deal or something. Amazon.com has a lot of books for indie bands, like Behind the Glass. Does anyone recommend a book that would help, or a website or something? Thanks.
 
I have a few of those books

I have the how to make a 100k a yr in the music biz (indiebiz.com). I also have the guerrilla music marketing handbook (thebuzzfactor.com), the how to promote you music over the internet (musicbizacadamy.com) and How to be your own booking agent and save thousands by Jeri Goldstein (at amazon.com)
Ok, here's what I got out of all of it.
1. The 100k a yr in the music biz book is fast paced and some great strait forward foundational info and ideas in it.

2. The guerilla music marketing book, this was one of the most practical books filled with great promotional tips.

3. The promoting your music succesfully of ther net book is a must have for web site promotion, but I found it hard to digest all of it because of the overwhelming amont of tech things to deal with in web site submission and meta tags and delaing with all the changes, but it should be on your must have book list.
4. The How to be your own booking agent overwhelmed me because this was by far, the most incredible book on practical things that need to be done for a band, filled with contracts and pay plans dealing with clubs etc. This book is over 470 pages long! I had to put it down after reading 190 pages of it becasue there was so much to digest and to deal with that it discouraged me some from dealing with the whole thing of promotion. It made me realize how important a record label is and that a band might be able to deal with all of it, but not an individaul artist like I. There's just too much to deal with, but this is a must have book on dealing with club owners and pay plans and negotiating with them on a practical how to level, so get that book too and skip the parts that overwelm you for now.
All 4 of those books have must know info in them, but you can't possibly do everything in all 4 of them, so get them all and go thru them. Outline the things you think you can get started on and forget them rest. It's just too much, unless you;re a rich kid and don't have to work a job full time, then you can make the time to deal with most of it.
hope that helps....and if so, amybe you can scratch my back too by leaving a post on a thread in this same section about critiquing my web site www.weatherbill.com...thanx
 
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