It’s always a waiting game when you send your album off to get posted on all the digital download sites.  The sites cover themselves by saying that it could take up to eight weeks to get listed.  It took my album around three weeks to get listed on iTunes.

Also, included with my distribution package is a bunch of other distributors that probably won’t result in any sales.  I’ve read that there is a “big five” distributors, which are iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, and AmazonMP3, and as long as you’re on those sites, you’re okay.  The problem is that some of these sites don’t allow you to search their catalog without signing up with their service.  This makes it tough to figure out if your album is being listed on their site.

However, now that the album is available, it means I have to also ramp up the marketing.  So, I’m experimenting with google adwords and facebook ads.  Most of my research says that google is far more effective than facebook ads.  We shall see.

I’m doing a lot of ramping.