Promoting Blues Bands and Music Businesses
Musician Resources, Web and Graphics Design, Premium 
Classified Listings, Banner Exchanges, and more

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For future promotion or design orders, we accept any type of design or graphics order
 payments from right here. If you choose us to design your website, you can return to this 
page to place your deposit by clicking the button below, and we will contact you for your 
content and begin designing your site immediately. You can use this button at any time 
to make payments or place orders for editing,  new pages or custom graphics

Advertising and Promotions

Once you decide on a promtion choice, click the appropriate purchasing button. 
You will receive an immediate confirmation of your advertising or design order, and 
we will contact you for specific information needed to complete your order. 
All orders are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Begin self-promoting your band or business with these guides
Great Self-Help and Insider Secrets Books That 
Will Give You An Edge and Help You Succeed
- As a Band, Manager, Promoter, clubs/bars and music venue

click for this book: Music Clubs, Festivals and Concerts- How To Organize

For free promotion of your blues band or music business,
Take advantage of our free Banner Exchange
click here for Free Blues 101 Banner Exchange
Swap banners with us and develop a blues network

Free Promotions For Charity Concert Sponsors

Lots of great advertising opportunities for anyone who is volunteering 
their band, music/festival services, community resources, or 
monetary donations for one of our "Blues Jams For Charity"

- You will be listed on all flyers and posters promoting our event

- Listing on a highly visible "Festival Sponsors" page within this site, linked from our home page and other main pages within this site. Add a logo and link it to your website. If you need a logo designed, we can help you out 

- Volunteering Bands and Musicians will have their photo and bio posted on our festival announcement page

- Free advertising in all newsletters and print or media coverage of our event

- You may provide a banner for your band or business for display at the festival

- You can leave your business cards on one of our display tables

 "Tiered" sponsorship Premiums

Depending upon the value of your donated service or monetary contribution, 
there are many freebies that go along with the free advertising.  For example: 
free admission to the concert, you might get a ticket and a free t-shirt, etc.

Volunteer to Be a Festival Sponsor or
 Volunteer Your Band To Play For Charity
click here for information, the application and donation forms

Full websites published to your registered domain name. Email us below for estimates on a full package. All sites have embedded keywords to allow search engines to find you easily, and your link is submitted to the top 15 search engines when ready to publish. We re-submit our sites to the search engines monthly, so you get double the exposure. Includes visitor counter, site meter (tells you how many visitors and what pages were looked at), photos inserted free, several funky scripts ("send to friend", "sign up for email updates", "bookmark this site", guestmaps, chatrooms, discussion forums, and more) available if you would like to purchase them for your site. Each of your pages contain a disabled right click feature to discourage theft of your content and images.

You'll also receive free high-profile advertising within this site, on the spotlight business page, a recommended hosting service, free guestbook on your contact page. Book lists and poster sales listings for associates and affiliates are configured at no charge. Paypal buttons are configured and placed on your ordering page at no charge. If you choose to edit your site yourself after your site is designed, you can purchase the editing program and receive a password to access your site when you need to. We are available to edit and maintain your site after launch - anytime you want to add to your site.

Site design requires a 50% deposit on the estimate, and no further payments are required until you are happy and ready to launch. You will receive a draft of your site - a "live" link - so that you can cruise around your site and see how it works and whether you want to add or change something before the site is published. References and an online portfolio is available by request.

Website Design - Sub-Domains

We can design a full and complete website for you as described above in the full domains. The 
only differences are that you will have your own website address, but would not be your own dot 
com - you would be a sub-domain within this site. And you will not be charged a full monthly hosting 
fee, but a yearly fee at a 50% hosting discount. This is for those of you who would like a full website 
design but do not want to invest a lot in registering a name, paying an annual DNS hookup fee, or the 
standard monthly hosting fee for a full domain website. You will have your address, as described 
below, to send to clients/friends, and to post on other sites and add to the search engines. 

The fee for hosting would a yearly fee of just $180

Your address would be:
www.blues101.org/yourbandname
We can add to, or edit, your site at  your request, as we do with full domains

If you are interested in a full or sub-domain website design 
for your blues band, music-related business, nightclub/bar: 
click here to request information and an estimate

click here for portfolio samples

*Be sure you can tell us what information and content you want on your site, and 
a bottom-line budget, if you have one, for a better estimate of the cost of the site you 
have in mind and so that we can tell you what is available within the budget you specify

Premium Advertising: Band Spotlight Page
If you'd like to have us promote your band on it's own page in this site, here is an example. 
(It won't say "our picks", though, this is your advertising, and this is just an idea of how the page 
will look). Your bio and header band pic are what's listed on that page, along with your email, 
phone number, website address, snail mail address info. Interested parties can contact you for 
bookings or to request a playlist or your schedule. These are not listed here, they are available for 
single home page advertising customers. There will be a link from our home page to the "spotlight 
bands" area, where all of the spotlighted band/music businesses will be available to our visitor

 $125, one-time charge, no other fees.  Your page can stay or be 
removed if you decide to have a complete website design in the future.

Premium Classified ads let you stand out

Advertise your band or business on the premium classified pages. The ad would have three lines of 
descriptive text which includes your contact phone number, snail mail and email address, and a link to your site. Include your logo (size limit below), which will be linked to your website or page, if you have one.

Logo size limit 250x150 pixels (a little taller than in this example)
 and no larger than 30 kb's. Animated or non-animated.

Annual Premium Advertising Fee
$125.00

Custom Graphics Design for Your Band/Business

Banner Exchange Banner Design

If you need a banner created for swapping with other sites, to add to your outgoing emails, etc. we 
can do that for you. Below is an example. If you'd like little sparkling things added to your banner, 
we can do that, too. You can order a banner created with your own band photos or favorite music 
imagesThis is the actual size of the banner. You can special order larger banners, if you wish

Note: We do not sell custom graphics containing copyrighted photos or images on banners. This is our banner, which 
is not sold or used for profit. You must  use your own images or photos of your band, copyright-free clipart, etc.

You can have anything you like on your banner, as long as it fits! 
Band/Biz name, address, phone, email, site address. whatever

You can order a custom banner here:

Static (non-animated) 
as shown above
$25.00 each

Animated with little sparkles all over
$35.00 each

Incredimail User?

If you use the fabulous IncrediMail program to send funky graphics and stationery to your 
friends, associates, potential customers, fans and family, you can have a custom-designed 
letter set for your band. This is also a great advertising tool. Send your personal and business 
letters on your band's stationery, link your graphic to your site. You get to advertise your
 band without spamming. Any images at all can be used for your stationery. Your band, your 
idol, whoever and whatever you wish to provide, or we'll try to find an image for you

P.S. - If you haven't tried the IncrediMail program yet, you should check it out, it's a free 
download. It's quite addicting, and the people who receive your letters think it's way, cool, too.

If you're a "user" 
Download our free blues incredimail stationery here
If you  would like hundreds of downloads of
free IncrediMail letters in lots of unique subjects
check out this page when you leave

Custom-Designed Band/Business Incredimail Letters
$25.00 per letter design

Custom Band/Business and Personal Screensavers

Screensavers can be a powerful advertising tool - offer your website visitors 
wallpapers to download, complete with your business name, services, email and website 
address - or attach one to your emails as a gift. Your band or business is always there 
on their desktop to remind them.  Single purchases - screensavers using your photos/artwork, 
or in a favorite theme of your choice and we'll find the graphics for your wallpaper

Example - actual size 800x600

$20.00 - each customized wallpaper design
Band/Biz Name, website address, email address, phone, etc.