If you’ve been staying up to date at JamesBrausch.com, you’ll know that he’s currently the top seller of CD’s at cdbaby.com for the month (at the moment).

Here’s the link to that entry:  http://www.jamesbrausch.com/?p=746

But what’s keeping him up there? He’s not even selling music like the wrest of the folks?

James is constantly coming up with irresistible offers on his blog which are raking in a number of sales each day.  Right now he’s giving people access to his ranking factors course which isn’t even available anymore. But, he’s offering it for those who purchase 20 copies of his Life Management 101 CD. That’s great marketing in the works.

I decided to do a bit of research on the CD Baby contest. Somehow I ended up on a forum. A forum with a few positive artists (like James) along with a number of losers in the mix. James mentioned an amount of CD’s which he’d been able to sell in one day before on Amazon. This caused one contestant to “give up”, or at least it sounded that way.  He said “Again, after hearing James say he could move 200 CD’s in a day, it doesn’t seem realistic that the average CD Baby artist even has a shot… they might as well have just sent that email to the top 10 sellers and let them duke it out.”

That’s the typical kind of response you’ll receive in message boards and forums. Do you think a person with that kind of attitude is going to win? Of course not. James will win because he said he will. This person won’t because they’re being a baby and view James as some sort of threat or competition. My advice to this person would be to stay out of that forum. He’s probably spending too much time in that forum, and not enough time promoting his album.

For the record, James did give everyone in the forum a bit of guidance. I’m sure many were grateful for that.