NEWBIE Production Website Question

[BradleyHagen]

Hello All-
I am currently having a buddy of mine give my website a facelift, and was wondering how most of you approach this topic?
"Do you upload your entire library onto a "Listen" type of page, with finished tracks in their entirety?" "Or do you just upload 30 second previews, and if someone were to make contact, I could then direct them to a private Soundcloud link that contains full versions of everything?" "Or is uploading only the "best of the "best" recommended in this instance?"
Thank you in advance for any and all responses!

[cosmicdolphin]

Depends

What is the goal of your site. What action do you want visitors to take ?

[BradleyHagen]

Thank You for your response....Looking for libraries, or anyone else interested for that matter, to listen to tracks, and then hopefully contact me?? I am also offering music services beyond submitting to Libraries too....
I am off of all of the streaming sites, since there appears to be a conflict with exclusive deals with libraries (A whole other topic that I will try to get more answers on at the Rally! lol)
So, I am not trying to get "listens", etc from the General Public. All of the tracks are on Soundcloud, but private - Hope this helps?

[cosmicdolphin]

Thank You for your response....Looking for libraries, or anyone else interested for that matter, to listen to tracks, and then hopefully contact me??

So for that part most people put albums up that are ( hopefully ) ready to be signed , which would mean 10 full tracks or so in a simialr style on a playlist that's easy for the libary to listen to on any device i.e. use one of the main services like SoundCloud , Disco , Reelcrafter etc. which you can embed into the site easily.

I am also offering music services beyond submitting to Libraries too.

I would have those on a separate page

. All of the tracks are on Soundcloud, but private - Hope this helps?

In that case you could use that to organise your album playlists as a private link that you would embed into the page. It might even be a page that's not indexed and can only be viewed by someone you sent the link to.

On the homepage you might want to put to a highlight reel of some sort together i.e .string your best placements together and make a Youtube Video out of them and have that there as your social proof.

Mark

[BradleyHagen]

Thank You Mark!!