This information is also available as an Excel spreadsheet. Information from Van Cephus.xls I haven't figured how to put hyperlinks in the spreadsheet.
1 Copy, paste, insert the addresses into your browser window and bookmark the websites on this sheet.
2 Install the Firefox browser. firefox.com
3 Read how I man sold over 400,000 downloads of his song at .99 a song by using tunecore.com.
4 Record covers tunes, original songs, or songs co-written with Van Cephus and make them downloadable over the internet instead of, or in addition to having a CD.
5 Record a song produced by Van Cephus and make it downloadable from the internet through tunecore.com.
6 Visit vancephus.com to read about me and join my website.
7 Type "Van Cephus" into the Google search engine.
8 Contact the Harry Fox Agency to get a license for a cover song (a song that has already been recorded.) harryfox.com
9 Register with and sell your tunes through tunecore.com
10 Register your domain name. Example: JoeBleau.com at 1and1.com
11 Have Brian Heath shoot your music video and take your publicity photos. ispgroupinc.org
12 Create a website with Bandzoogle like I did. bandzoogle.com
13 Create a myspace music page. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music
14 Create a facebook page. facebook.com
15 Create a nextcat page. nextcat.com
16 Register with broadjam.com
17 Register at linkedin.com
18 Create a page at youtube.com and put your Brian Heath produced video on it and become a youtube sensation.
19 Have fans request you in concert by registering at eventful.com
20 Look me up, (by my name, Van Cephus) on the following social networking sites and put in a friend request.
21 http://www.myspace.com/vancephus and http://www.myspace.com/vancephuskeyboardplayer
22 http://www.youtube.com/user/VanCephus
23 http://www.nextcat.com/search/Search.aspx?KeywordSearch=van%20cephus
24 twitter.com
25 facebook.com
26 Have picture business cards printed.
27 Buy a Mac instead of a PC next. apple.com
28 Type in Google in quotation marks various descriptions such as "Independent musicians" etc. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22independent+musicians%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
29 Visit Barnes and Noble, Borders, and the library and read music business books. borders.com. barnes and noble.com.
30 Check my site regularly, especially The VC Info Page for more information.
31 Please send me any information you find.
32 See information on how to copywrite your songs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=jna&q=%22copyright+songs%22&btnG=Search
33 See information on how to place your songs. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22placing+your+songs%22&btnG=Search
34 Find out what a podcast is at http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=podcast&btnG=Google+Search
35 Find out how to form your music publishing co at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=independent+music+publishing&revid=686614267&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=1&ct=broad-revision&cd=6
36 Randy Poe also has a good book on music publishing. See other books at Borders and Barnes & Noble.
37 Read information on how to sell your Van Cephus produced song online at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=FNQ&q=%22sell+your+music+online%22&btnG=Search
The first link is for a Windows MIDI file player. The second is for Mac. 3 and 4 have some jazz piano MIDI files. Paste "Jazz piano MIDI files" with the quotation marks into Google for more files.
