This page gives you general resources and links of interest to businesses. For links of special interest to the AV (film/television/video/music) industries, see our AV Business Resource Links. If you have or know of a site with useful information for this page, please go to our "Submit Your Site" page for directions on submitting the site for consideration. We welcome links back to our site! For help in adding a link back, see our Link To Us page.

PLEASE NOTE: While we make every effort to provide links to valuable and reliable sites, we are not responsible for the actions of others nor for the contents of other sites. If you do have a problem with any site listed on our Resource Links page, or if you find any broken links, please let us know immediately at webmaster@dustyw1.com!

General Media and Business Links

The Bard's Crier free music marketing and promotion ezine. Dozens of free music marketing and music promotion articles with free reprint rights. The site owner, working musician Marc Gunn, doesn't like to spend a lot of money if he doesn't have to so all articles are written from the guerrilla marketer's standpoint.

U.S. copyright information: The Copyright Website If you are in the U.S.A. and you publish anything from full-length novels to songs to advertising materials for your business, you need to know about copyright. The Copyright Website is called "the Internet's first and premiere Copyright Registration and Information Resource". Launched in 1995, the Copyright Website strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery by providing transparency to a particularly opaque and obtuse area of intellectual property. Whether you want to protect your own work by using our Copyright Wizard to file a Copyright Registration with the US Copyright Office, or check out the legal hijinks of the movie, recording and software industries, this is the place to be!

CVAC: the Canadian Virtual Assistant Connection. No matter what business you are in, you sometimes need extra office and administrative help. You can find help at the CVAC. For business people looking for a Virtual Assistant, the CVAC offers information about what a VA is, the benefits of working with a VA, a directory of Canadian VA's, and a place to submit a Request for Proposal.

Canadian custom design in wood, tile and glass: RGV Custom Woodworking Design Custom woodworking artisan Rod G. VanDaelle offers custom woodworking and stained glass design to clients in central Alberta, Canada. Rod has been designing custom wood furniture and accessories for 15 years and making stained glass creations for over 20 years. Specializing in the unique, Rod's projects are often designed and built to fit around structural fixtures, into curves, and angled walls and corners. For all your special wood furniture and stained glass needs!

Come to Dustwood Media for royalty-free stock images and media production services. Owner Jeri-Lynn Woods offers print-quality royalty-free original photos and artwork, plus miscellaneous media production services such as multimedia production services and photo editing. Remember to check out the free online-use-only photos and clip art, too!
Note: owner Jeri-Lynn Woods is R.J.'s wife and is webmaster of R.J. Woods Productions as well.

If you're on the road a lot, Travel Accessories from Get Packing will make your traveling easier! If you are a songwriter or musician, you are on the road more often than not. Let Diane McDonell help your travels with travel accessories and tips. "Come ye who are heavy laden...and I will show you how to pack!"

Not happy with your website's amount of traffic? Lots of hits but no sales? Take GNC Web Creation's Ethical Search Engine Optimization Class - it's free, it lasts 3 weeks, and it will teach you what you need to know to drive targeted traffic to your site. If you're prepared to commit at least an hour a day for three weeks, and to listen, ask, and learn, you will love this course! A new course starts up every 3 weeks, so if you miss one course you can catch the next.
So what is "Search Engine Optimization"? You probably already know that having lots of traffic on your site doesn't necessarily translate into lots of sales. Search Engine Optimization (along with the companion course, WebMarketing) is a series of techniques you can use to increase the amount of TARGETED (that is to say, ready to buy what YOU have to offer) traffic on your website.

Links for Songwriters

Do you write songs? You'll find great songwriter info at Addicted to Songwriting, which includes interviews, links and articles on songwriting.
Includes tips on how to write a song, interviews with hit songwriters and other great articles. Find tips like "Song chorus construction" and "Song hooks", articles like "Janis Ian: breaking silence" and "Steve Seskin shares secrets", plus links to all kinds of useful resources.

In the Singer/Songwriter Directory you will find links to sites dedicated to singer/songwriters. You can find links to official home pages as well as fan sites, to well known artists as well as starting musicians. If you are not looking for a specific artist, surprise yourself by clicking on one of the numerous links and discover musicians you would otherwise never encounter. The Singer-Songwriter Directory also offers a singer-songwriter forum.

Canadian music publishing: SOCAN - Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. SOCAN is "the Canadian copyright collective that administers the performing rights of more than 75,000 composer, author and publisher members, and the hundreds of thousands of members of our affiliated societies worldwide, by licensing the use of their music in Canada. We collect licence fees on their behalf and distribute royalties to them." If you are a composer, author, or publisher of music, "Become a SOCAN member, discover how your music can earn performing rights royalties, research Canadian funding organizations and music schools, read the latest industry news, and more." If you join online, membership for Canadian composers, songwriters and lyricists is free.

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