Lee wrote:How do you monitor your sales? ie Do you find them reliable and trust worthy?
When you log in to your account You can look at your sales, monitor them etc.
It takes a while for each of the iTunes territories to report back. It used to be every quarter or six months, or something like that, now its gone to monthly, though I haven't seen any reports from iTunes USA since December, that might just mean I haven't sold anything....8)
You also, can make your music available to things like spotify etc through them, or not.
The payment rates for internet radio stuff is extremely low...something less than .002 of a cent per play, think of it more as "at least getting your music out there".
You can also become a iTunes partner, there is a process (and I think a cost) to go through.
The major deciding factor to me, as I said, was the one of cost ( i think 15 bucks) to put the song on iTunes and letting CDbaby take their cut, rather than a larger (YEARLY) fee through Tune core, and no cut taken out.
If you search the web Tunecore vs CDbaby, you will come across some charts, comparing the two with regards to amount of sales, and the cost benefits of both.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:07 pm