There Is No Site That's Got It Right Yet!!!

[HellOnWings]

Sad, but true: No web site is really ready and able to provide profitable services to performers. Usually the Performer is also the Author and SongWriter. Yet no site has got it to where you can make a real profit on your music.

And that's sad because it says not one of them looks at all the other sites, nor listens to us musicians, performers, and songwriters, in order to build a site that is actually commercially viable and profitable for us.

This whole Internet Publishing thing, the alleged Music Publishing and Services on the World Wide Web, aka "The Internet," is still mostly single owners or corporate profit seekers who can't see beyond their own profits. When you offer services that will attract Artists and Performers it should be wholly and completely to serve their need for profits, instead, the single owners and corporate investors are wholly centered around their own profits; usually how much can they $oak money out of us while never giving a listen to what we need to establish our music as a business that is profitable via The Internet.

Okay, CDBaby.com sells songs for us and does so to the tune of about $80 Million a year, but no other sites can claim they're actually making a profit for all of us Writers and Performers, not even iTunes nor MicroSoft, nor any of the others. It just seems to be plain stupidity on their part. If we don't make a profit then we're not going to give any credibility to any site no matter how much blabberdygook they spiel about how great their site and services are for Musicians, Bands, SongWriters, Recording Artists, and whatever else they want to call us Performer Recording Artist SongWriter(s).

When you tell any site admin or owner that they should try this or that, they just never do it; they say they're listening to you, but you never get a professional business reply regarding the merits of your proposed changes to their site.

How many more years is it going to take until we have a site where we can make a profit from our music?

Terry James
Lead Singer
Hell On Wings
Owner CyberSongs

[Kickradio]

It's funny how things get out of focus, James. Nobody knows how to do it because things are changing soooo fast.

You have sites like this that only exist because I put so much of my own time and money into it and believe me... we don't even scratch the surface of being able to "see beyond (OUR) own profits" (what is that word anyway...profit)...because even a majority of the members who use us don't pay a penny, nor do they want to.

I think there is an illusion out there that just because someone has a site they make a lot of money and that, frankly, is bull....

You should see the threats I got from ASCAP just because we have a so-called interactive site -- and I happen to belong to ASCAP, both as a songwriter and as a publisher. This is why we require the license for instant audition that we do.

Now I don't believe you directed your frustration at us, specifially... but I certainly want you to know you are not alone with your frustrations. Times are a changing and with them the way all of us in the music business will do business...

And I promise you... the first month I actually can say we made more than our base costs alone I will buy you a beer...LOL...

And regarding your shoutout about emailing charts to the members weekly? Well, we are monthly now... I couldn't keep up with the demand weekly and didn't have the money to hire help or to pay the expenses...Monthly makes more sense anyway and yes, when a new show now with charts comes out we do an email...to all members...and will continue to do so...

btw...for the record, folks.... Terry is a subscribing member of this site so he does put his money where his mouth is which is why we love him so much -- plus they write and produce some really killer music so we respect what they are all about and their concerns...