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Cool topic, Billy - and some nice ideas here.

In the grand scheme of things, my idea ain't so grand. But it has worked pretty well for me so I'll share it. The idea is very similar to what Tom proposed above.

Some of my songs are niche songs - celebrating or remembering a particular person or day. So my idea is to target people within that niche.

I wrote a baseball song a few years back - and found this huge baseball site on the web called the baseball almanac. They even had a section for songs and poems about baseball. So I contacted the site and asked if they would post a link to my song.

They actually gave it its own full page and put it in a prominent location. I was really pleasantly surprised.

It hasn't had a huge payoff but certainly more than I expected. It has directed a few people to my CDBaby site and to my songs on i-tunes. Only a couple of sales.

And its shown up on a few blogs with very positive comments and other sites have linked to the song. One guy has it listed along with songs by John Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen.

Even a midget baseball web site has a link to it

Just little things in the grand scheme of things - but I get a kick out of searching on it now and then to see what's been done with it.

Actually I sent it to the baseball almanac site and didn't hear back. I assumed they got all kinds of requests like that and that they just didn't like the song. A year later, I tried again and was told that it just got buried and that they really liked it. It was posted a few days later.

Clued me in that, until you get a firm "no", persistence is a reasonable thing.

So if you have a "niche" song, find that niche on the web and see if you can get some exposure through their site. I think Calvin and Joice did something similar with their Butterfly Garden song.

Scott