5 Steps to a Successful Pre-Sale

Monthly Archives: September 2010

5 Steps to a Successful Pre-Sale

Pre-Selling your album is one of the best sales tools you have in the direct to fan arsenal.  A successful pre-sale campaign takes careful planning, excellent execution, and a solid understanding of your fans.  It’s very important to keep up the excitement about the release while not over-hyping or over-selling the event. Yet this IS a very special event and you want your fans to feel the same way you do about it.

Posted in Create Reasons to Buy, Marketing & Promotion, Marketing & Promotion, Retail Distribution | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Love what you do: Dear Havanah & Evan Goodrow Band

As a little kid, I always wondered what I wanted to do when I grew up.  Family members were doctors, lawyers, scientists, but none of that seemed remotely interesting to me.  Instead, when they grumbled about their day at the office, I’d be at the piano practicing my major scales and working my way through [...]

Posted in Nimbit Artist News, Nimbit News | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

ASCAP and Nimbit Expand Partnership

ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the leading U.S. performing rights organization, and Nimbit (www.nimbit.com), the industry’s premier direct-to-fan platform for today’s music business, expand their long-standing partnership to empower ASCAP’s nearly 400,000 songwriter, composer and publisher members to take their music and careers direct-to-fan.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Nimbit Launches Free Instant Band Site

Free WordPress Plug-in Provides the Fastest and Easiest Way to Create Full-Featured Websites for Artists and Bands BOSTON, MA—September 22, 2010—Nimbit Inc. (www.nimbit.com), the industry’s premier direct-to-fan platform for today’s music business, releases the free Instant Band Site plug-in for WordPress. With Instant BandSite, it’s easier than ever for artists to create and maintain a [...]

Posted in How To, Press Releases | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Taylor Carson: "Five"

Taylor Carson just released his latest disc “Defending the Name.”   From that disc, here’s a video for “Five.” “Five” – Taylor Carson from Seawall Productions on Vimeo. If you’re a Nimbit artist with a great video, we’d love to know about it.  Send us a note and be sure to include a link!

Posted in Featured Artists, Nimbit Artist News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Ping Potential

The minions in Apple-dom gathered at the cyberfeet of their master to receive his words of wisdom.  Within moments,  waves of pleasure spread through the Internet as King Steve decreed that we shall heretofore network on Ping.  The news was met with mass adulation as the joyous news reached far and wide across his mighty [...]

Posted in Music Industry News | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Music Discovery: Retro Style…

Back in the old days, you had to rely on real people to discover new music. Some of those people were on the radio, some wrote for newspapers and magazine, and others were the people you meet when you’re walkin’ down the street. Then :: boom :: the Internet. All of a sudden there’s a [...]

Posted in Nimbit News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment