Introduction In this era of digital music distribution channels and its endless subtleties can try it to be an independent artist and arduous task to easily browse all the different requirements of digital music distribution, so that music tracks to upload and the "digital shop stocks" such as iTunes. Fortunately, some enterprises and network integration services as there is a one-stop digital distribution to make it easier to take action to create a veryComplex process. Today, we will review some of these services as one of the Bizmo depth.
Music promotion
We focus on Audiofanzine here has been a gear inspection, maintenance, testing and destruction. However, in transmission of the end of music services. Once the music production, mixing and mastering, and we hope to hear you share music. Including the face of marketing and sales of the artist cross the road, more and more, in terms of ageTry DIY and independent artists, artists, their music downloaded directly to iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other leading digital music store, while at the same time to do a bit of viral marketing and promotion. It forces the artist wearing many hats in those days, and set aside, for the promotion of the music business than ever before, more time. As long as a 'to do' work has only just begun, and (between chirp, implementation, publication and sale of, and may one day) the work of an artistWere stretched thin, to say the least.
Every artist knows that in order to promote music, you should upload music, social network profile, e-mail advertisements, books, concerts, Yu blog and magazines so that we can talk of everything music, network, beg, cajole, and each have talked about the review can be online or off, you have 2 minutes time. But today, our efforts in this step, the establishment of a service, we have recently discovered here as Bizmo, apart fromIn the Do the above, can be a very useful service to have your time, small viral campaign and your help big time music sales efforts, is to consider the difficult task of minimal headache.
Widget mini store mini store Bizmo parts can be a great addition to your HIV / online marketing efforts are embedded in your personal home page, my space / face book file or e-mail blast. This is a good tool to keep in touch with your music lovers, and gives the salesEfforts, close personal contact with the "mom and pop stores."
Bizmo new The site will be very happy to find a simple, clear site, with what and how to participate in Bizmo clear instructions. Registration is very simple, easy, and can be found in the mini-storage components have her own space, you can easily upload and Sales:
Pairs of downloading music
Dual-video downloads
Tickets
Commodities (such as T shirt)
E-books, musical scorespdf format, or similar products
Pairs of downloadable ringtones
All digital products are the so-called dual-download. In other words, they are available to your customers and their mobile phones and personal computers. It was through the purchase of components for each digital products, they have three things:
One option is to download the product on a personal computer directly from the store's micro -
E-mail contains a download link.
Short message (if they offer phone numbers) linkLoaded content directly on the phone.
Jade. Therefore, as long with all components of your product quickly, you can upload your parts directly to Facebook, MySpace, and Ning, and the Sky rock profile, if you have them - or any other web site, you manage to copy and paste stocking HTML code. The program is relatively simple and easy from the side, in my shop Bizmo embedded in my space. It works like a charm, and within minutes of our mini-shop AudiofanzineSee all of my profile page. In Facebook, the situation is not ideal, because it is not part of your personal information page, embedded, but the label "shop." Clearly, although this is very difficult to catch up with the constantly changing due to Bizmo code Facebook, the ... ah, so there are other people.
The good thing about micro-store is that it is a free, and use. Secondly, we found an attractive design, clean and clear. Once you edit your shopAlmost everywhere it is automatically updated in real time. We are very fortunate on the road without any errors.
Money Matters <br> If you do not know your leadership in a store, your product needs, micro-Bizmo a small reduction in the establishment of a guide for you to consider. The amount of revenue from each sale depends largely on four factors:
Fixed price: You determine the selling price of the above categories, your profit is usually a percentage of the price.
TheSales Type: external costs of different products, such as the cost of the T shirt
In the method of payment, the customer choice, such as mobile phones pay much higher than credit card
The currency of the product sales-inch Bizmo different monetary and exchange rate, bank.
The average yield more or less 70% of sales. The money will become your pay Pal account, you can cancel at any time, if you wish, you can. If youSilver Bizmo an account, you get 100% of sales.
We should point out, Bizmo not with this component and Nimbit, a veteran in the field for the first time direct one-fan sales and marketing solutions for independent artists, is the first time, is the market leader. But today we find that, at least in talking about mini-storage components, provides information on the sale of parts and other products Bizmo free! Although the Nimbit return 80% of the sales price, free servicesOnly the sale of music. If you sell tickets, T-shirts, DVD discs, marketing, and so you have to Nimbit retail accounts on the Nimbit upgrade for $ 9.95 or $ 99 throughout the year.
While the super-distribution of micro-Bizmo store is a good free ride there Bizmo music distribution system is a "super" they called. Super or not, we will soon know one thing is clear: If you participate in a great era at some point you will have to deal with globalPower distribution system such as iTunes, Amazon MP3 players, Napster Inc. and other Spotify
Some are too devoted to iTunes or Napster's case,, can be a tricky thing. Each distributor has its own requirements. iTunes, for example, requires a completely different format, known as Apple Lossless. In terms of graphics format for each one its own characteristics, quality and content. In addition, the requirement does not accept the reality of today's large-scale securities of independent artists and artists who actually go to the views ofBy bringing together? This is because, in operation, this is a very intense individuals who deal with floods, upload music, rather than a few large integrators and label. In addition to royalty payments, it is an accounting nightmare music distributor, if they have to pay hundreds of millions of individual accounts.
In addition, each track, you will need to provide:
An ISRC (International Standard Recording Code "), tracking and reporting purposes.
A Universal Product Code (UPC) or bar code only with your informed.
Get the code itself is a headache for up to 700 yuan to the code 50.
There are dozens of major retailers should be in your title, not to mention other retailers, you may want to distribute your songs to an independent self-help sales of your music projects may take several months, hundreds of people may lose their minded approach. WhenAlready mentioned, in most cases, the major distributors will not accept applications from individuals. Therefore, almost no choice, today's independent artists / labels: You need to distribute your music collection.
Thus, there is Bizmo launched the service, their "super brands" and give him a non-exclusive right to submit your name, iTunes, Amazon and more than 130 retailers for 34.95 U.S. dollars, the U.S. digital music retailer USD per year , regardless of the number of tracks orAlbum. The Bizmo reduction? 15% from sales, you will receive your music revenue. In this regard, the competition to win the championship Bizmo correctly "super distribution", because it assigned to your music the most extensive shops. However, the old saying goes: "This is not the quantity, quality, quantity," and the value far exceeds the 50 iTunes distribution of the known distribution of small shops can be. However, this is impressive.
How does it work? Unfortunately, if you areThis song upload your mini-storage components need to invite them back to super-distribution system, because it is a completely different ball game, said the so-called more stringent guidelines and standards. Subsequently, the SD (super-distribution system) is fast for you to create your UPC and ISRC codes keep track of all the circumstances, you do not need. Each track / album you need a variety of data input SD content management system, including detailed release information,Title, artist, on the release of the areas, which allow retailers, etc. Although it looks complicated, but unfortunately a necessary evil, as it is sent to retailers and how your songs will show information. Any changes, and later proved to be very difficult to achieve than large retailers such as iTunes and other content updates do not seem sufficient, oil machine. Therefore, you need time to share any information is correct!
Finally, we come to the file upload area. Your insuranceImages must be a perfect square and not less than 1400 × 1400 pixels. Music, requests for documents, like this:
Support for WAV (PCM format).
Bit-rate of not less than 1.4 Mbit / s of the
Of not less than 44.1 kHz sampling rate.
The number of bits per sample can not be missed, 16
A 2-channel (stereo) minimum.
If you come from a good source.
If you do not know some of these things mean, but actually Wikipedia links embedded to give you a brief tutorial.
WholeThe process seems a bit too long and heavy, it gives you the power and right to their music and their sense of control of metadata. Upload a WAV file, the allocation of 36MB has given us 23 high-defect-free or re-load the wrong high-speed Internet minutes.
After the development track, we have to wait to submit them to the scene. Our next day, check their identity, that they have been submitted to the 4 iTunes and other large stores. There is no early warning system, whether dealers or Bizmo to inform you thatIts length is alive. It is up to you to control the business on a regular basis - this may take 6-8 weeks to live your title. Then, of course, is always a chance that you are not for various reasons, the length of the enterprise can be aggregated refuse. This is not a perfect science.
We should mention is the "super-distribution of competing Bizmo some" new service recently launched in September 2009 now life seems to be willing to giveThe best place to look at things. Although we do not attempt to distribute in the whole process brings together music and the other at first glance, seems to be a leading provider of a brief overview:
TuneCore: there is a complex pricing model. For the individual champion, you have to pay 9.99 U.S. dollars, each year a uniform one in all 14 branches. For the album, you pay 0.99 U.S. dollars per song, per share 0.99, each record stores, the best album 19.98 U.S. dollars each year storage and maintenance. TunecoreThere is no reduction to pay 100% of royalties.
CD Baby: charge 35 U.S. dollars, with each record (in all 24 branches) and the UPC number for every 20 (!). To download from their side, they have taken a 25% reduction in the selling price, and at least 29 cents (). Like iTunes and other people from other shops, they pay 91% royalties.
Reverbnation: charge $ 34.95 per year issue (10). May take up to 50 tracks a version of the. Pay 100% of the license fee, but the balance of withdrawal must be at least five U.S. dollars.
Nibmit: charge$ 9.95 monthly or $ 99 per year (six songs for a number of non-specific). Pay 100% of the royalties.