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The Musician's Report Survey 2009

HOW LONG?
For how long have you been present at the web with your music?

Less than 1 year

1 year

2 years

3 years

4 years

5 years

more than 5 years

HOW MANY TRACKS?
Approximately how many of your musical tracks are currently available at the web?

less than 5

5-9

10-19

20-49

50-99

more than 100

HOW MANY FREE DOWNLOADS?
Approximately how many of your music tracks have you chosen to set as free downloads?

None

Only a few

Half of them

Most of them

All of them

HOURS ADMINISTRATING AND PROMOTING
How many hours do you spend in average pr. week administrating and updating your artist pages and promoting your music on the web? (Do NOT include time spent on composing or recording!)

Less than 1 hour

1-2 hours

3-5 hours

6-9 hours

More than 10 hours

MONEY SPENT
All in all, how much money do you think you have spent to promote your music on the web since you started? (Include all expenses like setup fees, monthly or yearly fees, shipping, advertising, promo campaigns etc.) *

Nothing, only free services
Less than $50
$50-$100
$100-$200
$200-$500
$500-$1000
$1.000-$5.000
More than $5.000

MONEY RECEIVED
All in all, how much money do you think you have received as a result of your presence as a music artist on the web, including sales of CD's and downloads? (Do not deduct any expenses you have had, these are included in the previous questions.)

Nothing
Less than $50
$50-$100
$100-$200
$200-$500
$500-1.000
$1.000-$5.000
More than $5.000

MOST EFFECTIVE PROMOTION?
What have been your most effective activity in order to draw listeners (new and old fans) to your artist web sites?

Personal e-mail to friends

Personal e-mail to other artists with comment to their music

Regular newsletters to old and new fans

Participating in the forums and writing your link (url) in your message

Buying ads or winning spots in auctions (promo campaigns)

Having a song high up in the charts

Played other people's stations and songlists where my own music is included

Setting up my own station or playlist and include my own music

Contacting station- or web radio owners and begging them to play my music

Releasing my best music on CD-R (homed burned audio CD)

Printing professional audio CD's for my music albums

Participating with my music on compilation CD's

Getting professional help from managers or promo-gurus

Setting most of or all of my music tracks as free downloads

Other

WASTE OF TIME...
What activity in order to get more listeners has been a vaste of time?

Personal e-mail

Newsletters to all contacts

Participating in forums and writing links to my artist pages

Buying ads or winning spots in auctions (promo campaigns)

Buying ebooks or getting professional help from web gurus

Playing stations and playlists every day

Setting up my own stations and including my own songs

Asking station owners and web radio dj's to play my music

Setting most of or all my music tracks as free downloads

Other

FRUSTRATIONS?
What has been the most frustrating part of being a music artist on the web? (You can select more than one answer and also add your own comment)

Hard to understand all the technical issues with music and image formats etc.

Uploading music files takes too much time or often fails

I often forget my username or password when I try to log in to a site

It's difficult to get personal support from the web site owner when I need help

Nobody discovers or listens to my songs

My listeners (fans) easily forget me and my music

I have spent too much time online compared to what I get back as an artist

I need more knowledge of what kind of promotion will work for me

My music is obviously not good enough

Established or better artists get all the attention

Very hard to climb the charts and be seen and heard

Other

THE FUTURE
How positive do you look at the future for yourself and your music on the web? (5 is very positive, 1 is very negative) You may add a short explanation, if you want to.

Other

NOTE: To learn from other artists and to share your great tips with them, you are weolcom to visit the Official Musician's Report 2009 Site - Thanks so much for your response!

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