I was invited to give a presentation on Best Practices for Musicians on Facebook last week at SXSW and thought it would be helpful to share my slides from the talk and some audio excerpts that were posted online for those who couldn’t make it to the conference. I tried to tailor this talk toward [...]
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 [...]
We here at Nimbit wanted introduce you to Woofer, a new magazine we are really excited about. We have known and worked with the creators of this new magazine for years and they are coming from an authentic place of helping musicians. Woofer is written for Musicians, so we thought it would be very educational and [...]
Earlier this week Hypebot wrote an article expanding upon our Ultimate Guide to Selling and Promoting Music On Facebook. Within Hypebot’s article they take the time to elaborate on the main points of our guide. The Main Points: Be Ready to Sell Today! Engage… Don’t Advertise The Virtual High-Five Reward Fans Then Ask Them to [...]
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 [...]
So you’ve got the lovely new Nimbit Store set up on your Facebook page, and now you’re wondering how to start driving traffic toward it? NEW Feature: Facebook Wall Player Did you know that on your Facebook Nimbit Store there is a share option next to each track that will broadcast a player with a preview [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the latest installment of Phil’s Minute where our president and co-founder, Phil Antoniades shares insights on direct-to-fan music sales, marketing, and whatever else is on his mind. No, you don’t have to be a total egomaniac to Google yourself (well, maybe a little). In this episode, Phil talks about using Google Adwords to [...]
Ok we admit it. It was kind of silly that you couldn’t distribute free tracks using our NimbitFree platform. You asked for it, we answered, and now you can. By popular demand, nimbitFree artists can now give away their songs for free. Giving away songs is a great way to reward your fans and turn [...]
In a recent article by Mashable.com, they gave readers some awesome Marketing Tips for Entertainment Brands. 1. Use Questions, Polls and Quizzes to Engage Your Community 2. Reward Your Fans 3. Let Fans Behind-the-Scenes 4. Use a Facebook Storefront to Turn Fans into Buyers As you can imagine, because of Nimbit’s popular Mystore for Facebook, [...]
