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Spotlight: Band Central

Jan 182011

The more in control you are of your own business, the more complex it is to keep everything organised. Band Central was created with this in mind and proves to be a handy tool for bands, mangers and labels alike. It allows you to organise schedules, money, files, sales, gigs and fans. Wow… Manage your band Band Central keep the band communication going: Keep band calendar up to date with everyones comings and goings IM style tools and band forums keep band comms clean and up to date in one place To-do lists keeps track of all the tasks you [...]

Spotlight: Nimbit

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Jan 182011

Nimbit is a direct-to-fans service that enables artists to their sell music, merchandise and tickets direclty online. Nimbit has tools for collecting and managing email lists, set up campaigns, and sell pre-orders. It also has a wide variety of analytics tools to track campaigns and sales. Sell your music everywhere Nimbit allows you to create your own webstore and sell both digital and physical products through all your websites. Set up an Store directly on your Facebook page Create widgets that enable you to embed your Store anywhere; blogs, newsletters or any website Nimbit handles the techy bits like payments, [...]

Sell More Music- Without Getting Signed

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Jan 112011

There are some excellent tools around that allow you to release, market and sell directly to your fans. Nimbit Nimbit lets you post and sell your music, tickets and merchandise directly to fans. You can set up your own music store, and skin it to look like your personal store. You can easily integrate the Store to Facebook, Myspace and your own website. Nimbit allows you to price your music as you like and offer tracks for free. You can also set up pre-sale bundles. Nimbit makes it easy to release music by posting your releases to major digital music [...]

Get Your Own Mobile App

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Jan 112011

Mobile apps are a great way to keep in touch with fans immediately, where ever they are. Mobile Roadie Mobile roadie allows you to create your own mobile app. Add music to your app with streamed clips and a link to iTunes. You can also add your youtube videos and flickr photos, announce gigs and post news. The app is fully customisable and supports 13 languages. http://mobileroadie.com Steam Republic Steam Republic offers an affordable, fully customised band mobile app. It allows you to sell your music straight from the app, update and push news to the fans who can comment [...]

Get More Gigs – Go Where Your Fans Are

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Jan 112011

There are many great online services that can either help you get gigs or understand better where people are intersted in your music. Sonicbids Sonicbids is one of the biggest and most popular online gig services. As a band you can create your Electronic Press Kit (EPK) and email it to gig organisers and promoters. Sonicbid has over 19 000 promoters who are looking for talent for their events. Sonicbid offers tools to easily promote your gigs on your social media sites and you can track your band’s buzz on Last.fm, Twitter, Myspace and Google. Sonicbids is a subscription service [...]

The Best Way To Reach Your Fans – Send Them Email

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Jan 112011

Emails are a powerful way to reach your Fanbridge Fanbridge offers easy marketing tools and allows you to collect and manage your fan mailing lists. It offers simple widgets that you can embed to your website to encourage fans to sign up. You can easily add links to sell music, tickets and merchandise. You can send email newsletters, mobile sms reminders and update your social media sites using Fanbridge. http://www.fanbridge.com/ Aweber Aweber is a popular email management tool for all businesses. You can manage and segment your email subscribers. You can create great looking html emails from over 150 templates. You [...]

Organising Chaos – Tools For Effective Band Management

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Jan 112011

Managing a band is a lot of work. Keeping track of schedules, money and various files can be a big task. Luckily new great services have emerged to help bands and managers keep on top of everything. Band Central Band Central offers a range of tools for managing your band, gigs, merchandise, money and schedules. It allows you to store and share music, video and artwork files. You can send messages to fans, update social media messages. Keep all contacts stored in one place. http://www.bandcentral.com/ Bandize Bandize has tools for accounting, band messaging, contact and task management and lets you [...]

Look Like A Rockstar – Get Pro Design

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Jan 072011

Having a professional looking design in all your work is extremely important. It doesn’t matter how well your music is produced, if your website is screaming 1996 and your album covers look like your nephew did them on Word. Commissioning good looking professional design is not such an investment anymore due to the many amazing services online. There are plenty of designers out there itching to do something cool like album covers and if you choose a freelancer, they can do the job quickly and be very affordable. Here are some services worth checking out: 99Designs This amazing website allows [...]

Get Your Music On iTunes

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Jan 072011

Getting your music to digital music stores is fairly simple. However, don’t just send your email to iTunes asking them to put your song on the first page. Most large music stores don’t accept submissions from labels that don’t have tens of thousands of tracks in their catalogue. Instead you should get in touch with an aggregator. An aggregator takes your music, converts it to a format that is required and distributes it to the hundreds of digital music stores out there. They will also collect the payments and pay out your share. Many aggregators also offer marketing and licencing [...]

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