Simple pricing technique to increase physical music sales

Could a simple change in pricing strategy increase album sales?

Muxtape.com - The Geek Way To Make A Mix Tape

Remember those tapes you used to make for friends, usually called things like “Brilliant Mix” or “Check This Out”? Well, a simple site brings all those memories flooding back.
Muxtape takes the simple concept of the self-made compilation tape and nicely translates it to a simple web interface. Create an account (takes 10 seconds), then think [...]

MixTurtle.com Offers Quick Way To Search Music

MixTurtle.com offers a very fast search engine for music.

USB Flash Bracelets For Live Gigs

The idea of recording gigs and selling the recording after the show has been around for a long time. The two issues for me were always, firstly, artists tend to want to hear their music before it gets sold to fans and second, burning CD’s took up space and time.

This solution cures the second but [...]

Permission Marketing Is Essential For Artists

I like Seth Godin. He’s full of ideas and virtually all of them are simple enough to be considered great. They sound obvious and sometimes counter-intuitive, but he’s so often right once you think deeply enough.
Here is an example - his short article on permission based marketing.
It says simply because you have my email that [...]

The Ultimate Jamiroquai Feed Launched

We recently launched this - the Ultimate Jamiroquai Feed.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheUltimateJamiroquaiFeed
It’s a mash up of feeds from the official site, fan sites, Google News Alerts, Technorati, Hype Machine, Elbo.ws and Mog. Any time the band are mentioned it gets listed here and enables fans to either check out the review or MP3 and post comments. We also [...]

iLike Launch Promotions Service

I really like iLike (except for whoever thought up ‘Great Minds Think iLike’ bollox). They recently launched a service to promote tours, allowing you to pay to post ads to people living close to a venue or into the same genre of music as the band you’re promoting.
Great idea, except when you want to promote [...]