1. Dont sell CD: Concentrate on making more people listen to your music, instead of trying to sell to prospecting fans work hard on making them buy. no body like being sold to so dont try to sell, just make a good music they are ready to buy.

2. Offer to sing for free: most up coming musician make terrible mistake of charging for every performance, it is not every performance that deserve being paid for, network effectively by working for free

3. leverage on the power of internet: Have a strong online presence, website, blogs, facebook page etc. There is a great platform for up and coming artist known as hipeeps, it combines the functions of facebook, twitter and pintrest, not just that, you can build a strong music community using this tool, there is also a paid membership feature which allows you give access to only members who have paid to listen to your music visit www.hipeeps.com.ng just imagine each person pays 1$ just to listen then an average of 100/hour in a week you should make over 2,400 dollars give it a try.