{"id":1194,"date":"2007-11-28T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/how-to-sell-15000-cds-in-18-months\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:31:30","slug":"how-to-sell-15000-cds-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-sell-15000-cds-in-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"How to sell 15,000 CDs in 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" width=\"148\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hugedomains.com\/images\/logo_huge_domains.gif\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"Terry Prince\" height=\"218\" title=\"Terry Prince\" \/>My friend Bob Baker,\u00a0an expert at marketing for musicians, created this neat YouTube\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZUfXB5uY9KA\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> about how singer-songwriter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hugedomains.com\/domain_profile.cfm?d=princeterry&amp;e=com\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Prince<\/a>, at left, has sold\u00a015,000 CDs in only 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Prince, shown in this video playing keyboards on the Santa Monica Pier, says\u00a0his strategy is simple: go where the people are. He&#8217;s a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Busking\" rel=\"noopener\">busker,<\/a> someone who does live performances in public places.<\/p>\n<p>If you do the math, you&#8217;ll conclude that\u00a0Prince\u00a0makes more than $8,000 a month, or about $275 an hour playing part-time.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0says: &#8220;Set the table and the hungry will eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baker, by the way, was my guest during a teleseminar we conducted called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Do-it-yourself PR Tips for Songwriters, Musicians and Bands on a Budget&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and shared all kinds of incredible advice\u00a0on how musicians can generate publicity online and offline.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, Prince ought to pitch a story about his success as a street musician\u00a0to local and national music magazines and even his local TV stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Bob Baker,\u00a0an expert at marketing for musicians, created this neat YouTube\u00a0video about how singer-songwriter Terry Prince, at left, has sold\u00a015,000 CDs in only 18 months. Prince, shown in this video playing keyboards on the Santa Monica Pier, says\u00a0his strategy is simple: go where the people are. He&#8217;s a busker, someone who does live\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-sell-15000-cds-in-18-months\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-1194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-youtube","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41029,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/41029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}