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From:
kawayama
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Esa Ruoho
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Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:01:24 +0100
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Re: interesting question for beginning of 2015..
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you'd have to sell each copy for at least €5 to make any sort of profit, and it seems unlikely that you'd recoup your investment in the near future. say you sell for €6 ($7). you'd have to sell more than 81 CDs to make profit, and think of all that wrapping and adressing and going to the post office… 2014-12-31 21:21 GMT+01:00 Esa Ruoho <esaruoho@gmail.com>:
quoted 56 lines WATMM I do post my stuff on sometimes but there's only one guy who likes> WATMM I do post my stuff on sometimes but there's only one guy who likes > stuff on there. > > Regards mini-kickstarter, there is such a place as > https://life.indiegogo.com for small projects. > > Craigslist doesn't operate in Finland, and I believe you're more talented > on the other offer. > > > On 31 December 2014 at 22:19, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i dunno >> ive sold like 5 songs in almost 20 years of producing and no one gives a >> shit about my music >> any answer i give you would be roughly the same value as a magic 8 ball, >> maybe less so >> >> >> >> is there some place like a mini kickstarter? >> maybe post on watmm.com? >> post on craigslist and offer handjobs for $5? >> >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Esa Ruoho <esaruoho@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've been given an offer by a label that is no longer active. (not >>> Merck. :D ) >>> >>> I can get 7 copies of my record from 2001, and 138 copies of my record >>> from 2005 (both nice quality CDs, mastered work, decent artwork, >>> everything), for a total of 485€. >>> >>> I don't really sell many cds anymore, but I could list both of them up >>> on CDBaby or something. I could list them up on Bandcamp. But since I'm not >>> employed, raising 485€ is quite a lot. >>> Should I go for it, and if yes, how?- >>> >>> --- >>> http://twitter.com/esaruoho >>> http://lackluster.bandcamp.com >>> >> >> > > > -- > > --- > http://twitter.com/esaruoho > http://lackluster.bandcamp.com >
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