Imagine that you could send out an email to all of your fans any time you want, update them every time that you have a show, send them an email when you want them to download your new song, buy your cd or digital cd, do you see the potential in that?
We use an email marketing service that let us do exactly that, they are offering a $1 trial for their full function account. If you register to their service, you will have a option to create a "sign up form" that you can place on your website. If you don't have a website, don't worry, you can host your form on their website and have your own page to send your fans to sign up.
If you don't have a website but you want to create one, we recommend to get a plan for a domain name and hosting at Hostgator ). you can offer something for free like your digital cd to get people sign up to your mailing list.
After they sign up to your mailing list, you can update them every time you have a show, when you want them to download your new song or buy your new cd.
This is what internet marketers and big companies are doing, when you sing up to their site and they start sending you their newsletter and updates.
The best 2 services for email marketing are ' AWaber ', that are offering $1 trial for the first month, and ' Get Responce ', that are giving a free trial for the first month. they both have awsome support team.