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Hudson Valley Music is the place for folks in the Hudson Valley, NY to go to read about their favorite local bands or to discover a new one. A place to showcase all the great musical talent in the area from classical to alternative. Whether you're a club band, a high school marching band, or a one musician show, we think the Hudson Valley will enjoy learning more about you.

If you don't already have a website or are looking to upgrade your existing site, please continue reading as we think we provide a great service for bands and artists looking for a beautiful and functional site at struggling musician prices.


What Can We Offer You?

Free Listings
If you're strapped for cash or just starting out, list your band in our free listing of Bands and Musical Artists. You will be listed with all the HV bands, and you can supply a contact so potential clients can reach you. To submit your free listing
click here.

Custom Web Sites
for $245

If you're interested in real value though, read on and discover what more we can do for you.

Custom Web Sites
We'll create a totally custom-built web site for you that reflects the mood and feeling of your service. No cookie-cutter templates! The site will include your logo and/or pictures, all the text you want, guestbooks, and audio demos. The audio demos are a great way for prospective clients to hear what you have to offer. Your gigs page will be updatable by you and be linked to the HVmusic music calendar.

To see many of the over 70 web sites we've built for musicians click here.

You'll be featured on our home page on a frequent rotating basis, and receive a special listing on our "Bands/Artists" page aimed at those looking for a band for their club or event, and, if you have a CD, in our "Hudson Valley CDs" page. So you can evaluate how successful your page is, we provide full website statistics, and tools to understand your search engine ranking. We'll also provide your visitors with the opportunity to get on an email mailing list for you. You can use this list to send mailings to fans.

Sell your CDs Online
Looking for a way to make it easier for your fans to buy your products online? We offer secure Credit Card Processing, and will handle all the shipping and fulfillment services as well. We normally can process an order and ship it within 24 hours.

You don't have to be from the Hudson Valley, or have a web site with us, to use our services to sell your products. We'll build a custom ordering page that matches the look of your existing web site. You'll have a private web page that you can use to check your sales activity, and you'll get monthly checks and statements from us detailing all your sales.


What Will it Cost?

The table below outlines our rates. We know that very few people are getting rich in the music business and so we've tried to keep our rates low and our value high.

Please feel free to contact any of our clients to ask them about the quaility of service we provide. This link will take you to a page listing all our client's sites. On each site you can find a page on how to contact the client.

We are also glad to provide Special rates for Non-Profit Groups.

Service Cost
Free Listing on HVmusic.com
  • Enter long descriptions, and photos.
  • Link to your web site.
  • Can be renewed as often as desired.
Nuttin', Zip, Nada, Free
Custom Web Site

Let Tunedin Web Design Create Your Web Site

  • Personalized web site tailored to your image/personality. No templates used!
  • Create a unique graphic design for your site including colors, background, name/logo, custom links, and photographs.
  • 10 minutes of audio in RealAudio format.
  • An interactive calendar to post your gigs.
  • Format any text you provide.

Additional features (at no extra cost)

  • Special Client listing on HVmusic.com that is displayed above normal listings.
  • Be featured in our home page spotlight on a regular basis.
  • Post your events schedule to Musi-Cal and our complete events listing.
  • Provide mailing list support.
  • Your CDs listed on our "Hudson Valley CDs" page.
  • Sell your CDs online and accept credit cards.
  • Provide a count of the number of hits your site receives.
  • Add your site to popular internet search engines, like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
$245  per year

See a sample of the websites we've designed and maintain.

Below are some local folks who offer web page development. Please look around and compare the quality of our services and our rates with other providers. We think you'll find we're a great value.

Please let us know if you find a better deal or want to add to this list.
Additional Features for your Custom Web Site
Web Hosting. Our server is professionally hosted and extremely reliable. Our hosting includes:
  • Your personalized administration page
  • Complete website statistics
  • email aliases: you@yourname.com
  • Your website files are backed up daily
$90 per year
Your own domain name: www.yourname.com $25 per year plus hosting
Personalized Message Boards
  • Like an interactive guestbook, our message boards allow fans to leave you messages that you can reply to.
  • Great for building a community on your web site.
$35 one-time setup charge
Additional audio $35 for each 5 minutes.
Professional Mailing List $24 per year
Custom Programming and Features. If you want it, we can program it for your website. Custom
Sell your CDs Online
We Handle Credit Card Processing
We can accept all major credit cards through our secure server. We will design an ordering page that matches your web site and link it seamlessly to your web site (you can see examples of these pages on the web sites for Bar Scott and Prana.) We will handle all credit card processing and sales tax.

You can track your sales on our web-based ordering system. Every month we send you a detailed statement and payment for your monthly sales.

We Handle Shipping and Fulfillment
We will handle all the shipping for your CD sales. We normally ship within 24 hours. We ship your CDs in professional packaging with printed receipts and labels, and send email notification to the buyer. There is no charge to you for this, since this is paid from the shipping fee charged to the buyer of your CD. We do this work ourselves, and take care to ensure each package is done right.

If you wish you can do the shipping yourself. Our web-based ordering system will notify you when an order has been placed and give you all the shipping information.

Sales Commission:
  • $3 for a $15 CD
  • $2 for a $10 CD
  • Reduced on a sliding scale for large orders.

Plus a Yearly Setup Fee

  • If we are doing your website:

    There is no additional setup fee if we are doing your website.

  • If you already have your own web site:

    $50 setup fee plus $50 per year for maintaining your secure sales page and administration page (Where you can track your sales)

Do It Yourself
We will setup a secure ordering page to collect orders. You do all the credit card processing (using your own merchant account) and shipping.
  • If we are doing your website:

    $50 per year for maintaining your secure sales page and administration page (Where you can track your sales)

  • If you already have your own web site:

    $50 setup fee plus $50 per year for your sales and administration page.


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