How many full songs have you heard on internet websites? Yeah, me too. If you are trying to make money from your music, don’t upload full songs to Facebook, MySpace and other sites…not even your own websites — unless you want to give them away free, because you will be.

When using internet marketing to sell music, he only way to prevent people stealing your work is to only put snippets (20 – 30 second edited samplings of songs) online.. not full songs. Don’t believe me? Try googling “rip facebook or myspace music” and you’ll see how easy it is for unethical music thieves to RIP you off!

You can easily edit mp3 snippets with free, open software like Audacity.

If you do want to offer free music as part of your marketing strategy, make the most of it and offer it as such… advertise your generosity to your fans – don’t just put it out there whole and hope nobody rips it without paying.

Last point… don’t worry about people ripping off your snippets without paying. The more those snippets get spread around, the better! If someone likes it, chances are they’ll want to buy the full song.