Usually I like to tell a story or opine about a current topic in my blog posts, but for this one I’ll settle for the role of announcer and report some great achievements and improvements of our Marketplace partners.
1. Moontoast is Billboard’s #2 Music Startup of 2011!
It’s nice when one’s belief in a company is validated by a respectable source. Moontoast Impulse has harnessed the power of social with the power of direct-to-fan sales. If you’re not selling your music on Facebook yet, shame on you. Start here with Moontoast’s Marketplace app.
2. Ganxy reports to SoundScan!
Ganxy is continuously improving their super simple system that enables artists to sell digital music from any online property. The latest improvement is that they report to Nielsen SoundScan for U.S., Canada and International sales, thereby adding your D2C sales to your sales from other retailers and hopefully influencing your chart position. This doesn’t change how you set up Ganxy, but if you need a refresher, check out this handy video tutorial before you use Ganxy in the Marketplace.
“Fanrank” became a bit too limiting as Fanzy evolved to offer many more fan engagement tools. Fanzy works with nightclubs (hey, “TAO Las Vegas”), NBA teams (bon jour, Sacramento Kings), and even our own artists (hola, Boyz II Men). Been wondering how to reward your artists’ most active fans during this holiday season? Install the Fanzy Marketplace app!
4. Haulix’s video tutorial makes it so easy a 5 year old could use it!
In case you confuse easily (it happens to the best of us), take a look at Haulix‘s video to learn how to digitally send watermarked songs to your industry contacts – and even track to see who listened to them! That pesky journalist can’t elude you when you use Haulix, available here.
I’m pretty sure that everyone my age was obsessed with Nevermind at one time or another. Well, webdoc has brought many of those obsessions to life with the promotion they’re running with Universal US. Curious to see how your fans display their fanaticism with your artists? Go ahead and create a webdoc now.
Looking for a way to sell your music directly to your fans from your website or your Facebook artist or fan page?
Want to make more money doing it?
Ganxy will make all your dreams come true!
Well, maybe not all of them, so don’t get any ideas…
What Ganxy will do is drastically facilitate the process of selling your music to your fans while helping you earn up to 21% more from your sales than you would with other online stores.
The steps are simple: sign into The Marketplace and install the Ganxy app. Casually let yourself be led to Ganxy’s content management page, where your Orchard releases should be waiting for you, ready to be imported. Choose your track price and album price—a great way to encourage track or album downloads—and click Import.
While you’re waiting for your content to upload, feel free to browse around The Marketplace for other apps you might want to use. Ganxy will send you an email when your upload is complete, so you can pick up right where you left off.
When your album is uploaded, you can choose whether you want to sell single tracks, by clicking on said track, or the full release. For the full album, you’ll have the possibility to insert additional links before getting your embed code. Click on “Embed Content” and “Get Album Widget” to customize further. Here, you can add an album description, modify your layout and color schemes, and preview your widget.
Satisfied? Just copy your snippet of HTML code and paste it directly to your website, Facebook page or other Content Management Service, and see how your fans rush to buy your music directly from their favorite artist website or fan page. Keep tabs on your sales through the Ganxy Dashboard or the Quick Stats window in your Content page.
Take a look at Edguy’s Facebook page to see how they integrated Ganxy for all fans to see.
Simple and risk-free, Ganxy has no setup or recurring fees, making your direct-to-fan relationship as easy as it could possibly be. How’s that for a dream come true?
Ganxy is accessible via The Marketplace. Read more about them on their One Sheet.
