Remember the old days when you went to the CD store and bought CD's? Ok, maybe you still do that, but times they are a changin'!

It won't be too long before digital download sales will outnumber CD sales. Like it or not, CD's will soon be a thing of the past. Another thing of the past will be the old record deal system of getting signed to a label and giving away over 85% of your income from sales. I don't think that we are seeing the end of record companies, just the end of an old way of doing things. Today, an artist/band can sell thousands of downloads without ever having penned a recording contract.

There are two things that won't change: you, or someone else, will always need to promote your music and you will always need a way of distributing it. While it is a band's responsibility to promote their music at the grass-roots level, making agreements with dozens if not hundreds of individual download sites is not only futile and a logistic nightmare, it is economically unsound. The amount of time it would take to contact, maintain relationships with, encode for, market to and collect from all these sites individually would easily turn into a full-time job.

So if there is one area where you should outsource work, it is this one. We encode your music to all the different specifications required by all the sites. ($25 is charged for this, but it is recouped from sales so that you don't have to pay for it up front.) Just imagine the cost of sending one or two CD's to 100 sites - then add the postage and the most expensive part - your time!