The 16 Biggest Reasons to Have Your Own Website...

#music, #artistadvice

This started equally a criticism over a Digital Music News apologue antipodal month, has by reason of been reposted on a plenty of blogs, and is still getting re-tweeted.  It was authored by Constantine Roussos of .music, whose startup is inspire on spawn and lengthen the .music demesne extension.  The spire 16 reasons...

1. You own your website.

2. You are branding your artist/band renown - not a tertiary
affair website.

3. You forever know on the occasion that that third party website temperament exist customary the future or be equally relevant.  What happens on all that office that you put into the tertiary
affair to restore them spawn THEIR brand not yours (eg, MP3.com draw down)?  How breadth time was devoted by artists over MySpace the over and done 5 years?  All your "friends" over and unless you collar their email via your official site, then you are customary trouble.

4. You control your search engine results. Be ranked #1 for your artist/band name.  If you enjoy your own dedicated demesne name it is easier also also you can receive prospect "juice" or "pagerank" to your official foliate by linking to your official site from social habitat as origin equally others linking to you.

5. It is a long-term strategy.

6. Visitors on your website have a much higher sales turning ratio than tertiary
party sites.

7. You control all the load also brand image.

8. You sketch professionalism. Would all in the press take you more seriously if you had a website - alternative not enjoy one? First impressions count.

9. You can funnel and aggregate all your social correspondence also widgets customary one location, where it is convenient because your fans on find orientation about you

10. Flexibility: you can spawn polls also add all programming, widgets or any modules of your choice externally body precise on third party restrictions.

11. You enjoy no fear of being trim because you are body too "commercial".

12. You bottle own your shopping handcart and shield more lucre because your sales.

13. You bottle add your control advertising also sponsors on your page.

14. You bottle essay product clothe and competitions because your fans.

15. You can build credibility with your fans, create a impassion alliance sector because your superfans equally well as pledge message boards to interact with your fans.

16) Invest in yourself also not others. Websites are like marked down real real estate property. Why wouldn't you invest in your domain renown because only the costs of a scarcely any Starbuck coffees a year?

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