New Feature: Tip-in-Cart Fans want to support you. We’ve had a mission at Nimbit for some time now to make it easier and last month we added a new way. Now, with every purchase or free download, your fans will see a “support this artist” slider in the checkout cart. Great news…It’s working. While [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Selling and Promoting Your Music on Facebook Since launching the new Nimbit Spotlight Store for Facebook, we’ve had thousands of artists sign up. We’re thrilled with the response and have provided a series of tips and articles to help you get the most out of your music promotion and sales on [...]
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 [...]
Check out our video series from Nimbit’s president and co-founder, Phil Antoniades, where he shares insights on direct-to-fan music sales, marketing, and whatever else is on his mind. In this episode, Phil explains some new tactics he’s been using to get cash-strapped fans to buy CDs at gigs. Watch more Phil’s Minute videos
One of the best ways to get your fans excited is to offer a cool piece of limited edition merchandise. There’s a certain percentage of your fans who will buy anything you put out…you just need to give them reasons to buy. There’s no limit to what you can offer Here at Nimbit, we’ve seen [...]
As a Nimbit artist, you have the ability to engage your fans on every level. That means not only selling your music and merch products and giving your fans the latest news about your upcoming gigs, but selling eTickets to those gigs as well. If it’s all in one place, they’re more likely to buy, [...]
Under the Covers for Valentines Day? Protect Yourself Everyone loves a cover song. And when you choose a romantic one, it’s a surefire way to win points with your significant other on Valentines Day. So, let’s say you do that and let’s say it comes out so good that you want to release this to [...]
I just ran the “direct-to-fan online sales” numbers for Nimbit’s artists, and we’re seeing a split of 58% physical vs. 42% digital products. Are you selling merch, tickets, exclusive signed items, and bundles?
A couple weeks ago, Phil Antoniades (our co-founder) spoke on the How to Build Your Fanbase panel at the Artist Management Conference. In this video excerpt he describes how Ellis Paul used the Nimbit Direct-to-Fan Platform to engage his fans to provide 130k in funding toward the recording of his album “The Day After Everything Changed” [...]
This post originally appeared on The Music Industry Report and was written by Randi Reed… Ever wonder why some talented local musicians never get that elusive record deal? Or why the careers of some signed artists or American Idols stall out just past the starting gate? It’s not just “bad luck.” Here are 20 common [...]
