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Artists and Musicians To Sell MP3s Directly On Blogs, MySpace Pages and Other Web Pages
GoodStorm Music (pre-beta) is open to all at: http://music.goodstorm.com.
Early registration will be limited to the first 5,000 users. All are welcome to participate in GoodStorm’s CrowdBlogging community and will be given the opportunity to help improve GoodStorm’s suite of free tools, designed to empower independent artists and music lovers alike.
At the core of GoodStorm’s breakthrough technologies is the GoodStorm MixTape, a sample of which can be seen at: http://goodstorm.typepad.com/goodstorm/2007/05/test_post_for_g.html.
GoodStorm’s MixTape expands on the familiar, time-honored practice of music lovers sharing their favorite music with friends through cassettes, CDs, and today, MP3s shared over the Internet. By harnessing the power of cutting edge web technologies, fans can not only share, but sell their favorite indie music anywhere online. Bands can use the GoodStorm MixTape to upload their music, promote their gigs, connect with and sell directly to fans on any blog, website, or social network.
Fans can listen to 30-second samples of each song and all purchases take place securely in the MixTape itself, allowing artists and digital music entrepreneurs to instantly convert fan interest into a sale.
To help them get started, GoodStorm is giving indie music lovers free access to over 2.7 million non-DRM music tracks to promote and sell anywhere on the web via their GoodStorm MixTape.
GoodStorm pays royalties to every artist, publisher, label, and distributor in their catalog and rewards the promoter with 5% of the sale on each $0.99 track purchased through their MixTape.
Independent artists who upload and sell their music through GoodStorm will receive $0.65 on every track sold— a generous profit sharing model that remains true to GoodStorm’s credo of "Capitalism Done Right".
Artists can also choose to offer their music as a free download through their GoodStorm MixTape. Artists pay nothing to upload, share, or sell their music through GoodStorm, who handles all credit card transaction, hosting, and delivery fees.
The GoodStorm MixTape is no ordinary widget. It is a full-featured ecommerce-enabled digital distribution, viral promotion, and social networking platform, wherein fans can listen to, blog about, promote, share, and support their favorite music. For bloggers and website owners, the GoodStorm MixTape is a copy-and-paste solution for incorporating exciting content, media, social networking features, and ecommerce functionality into their website and is available in a number of different sizes and themes. GoodStorm users can create and control all of their mixes—which can be embedded on thousands of sites across the web—from one central location ( music.goodstorm.com). Best of all, GoodStorm users can track their sales and payments online, in real time, and chat with an unlimited number of fans and like-minded music lovers.
The MixTape empowers the artists and labels’ sales force, street teams, and fans with new opportunities to promote new releases, old favorites, upcoming gigs, and exclusive merchandise. GoodStorm’s embedded ecommerce tools turns any fans and friends’ website, blog, and/or social network into a rich and interactive point-of-sale experience.
A fan and musician herself, Amanda Klineman of the band "The Apes" said, "…we’re all constantly looking for new ways (and stooping to new lows) to get new fans to check out our website. GoodStorm gives bands a real opportunity to connect with fans in their space, in their hometown. Our MixTape is like a virtual tour van that we load up with our music, flyers, whatever—that let’s us gig on any site on the web. And with the social networking built-in, there’s plenty room in the van for every new friend and groupie we meet."
The GoodStorm MixTape is free to use for independent artists and music lovers. Larger distribution companies and labels who wish to license GoodStorm’s MixTape technologies are asked to contact GoodStorm’s business development group at bizdev <at> goodstorm {dot} com.
*You must own the rights to sell and publish any music that you upload to your GoodStorm MixTape
**There are multiple patents pending on GoodStorm’s MixTape technology.
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Jonathan Wood
GoodStorm.com
415.223.0310 | direct
jonathan [at] goodstorm {dot} com
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