Social Music Sharing™ is a revolutionary new music-distribution model that allows fans and artists to collaborate in a way that is truly unprecedented. Social Music Sharing™ combines music, social networking and a referral-based compensation platform to allow music fans to actually share in the profits of the artists album sales that they help generate. And by also allowing all the artists to utilize the unique Social Music Sharing™ based store right from their free Industree home page, it’s easy for artists to not only start selling their existing recordings online to fans, but also to help motivate those fans to promote their music to potential new fans! You see, that’s what’s so unique about the Social Music Sharing™approach to the music business, the fact that it allows you to motivate your fans to promote your music. Because with Social Music Sharing™, the fans actually share in the profits from the album and demo sales that they help generate! Which means for the first time ever, your fans will be money motivated to work hard at bringing you a ton of new fans. And a ton of fans is exactly what every artist needs to take their careers to the next level. Blow up your fan base and the rest is sure to follow! So by utilizing the viral marketing model that Industree provides you with, you not only have a totally new vehicle to help spread your music farther and wider than ever before, but you can also make more money than ever before off of your existing recordings since every fan becomes a potential reseller of your music! If you do really well, you could even earn a record deal offer with Industree Music Networks label, Industree Records, in the process! Here’s how it works:
First, take a few minutes to create your free B.U.D. artist profile and start uploading your music. B.U.D. stands for Bands U. Develop and means any artist on Industree that allows the fans to share in their album or demo sale profits in an effort to expand their following and help catapult their music career to the next level. So obviously, the best way to do this is by recruiting as many fans, or Branches as we refer to them as, to start promoting your music. The best place to start generating Branches is with your existing fan base, so you will want to immediately contact your existing fans and make sure they all create a free Branch profile on Industree. This way you can utilize your core group of existing fans to help start the never-ending snowball effect of fan base expansion!
Next you will want to immediately add music, pictures and other content to your page, so that your Branches can start marketing your music. You see, when you add content to your page, unique promotional tools like Widgets customized with your content will instantly show up on all of your Branches home pages so that they can start using these tools to help promote your music! If you go to the promotional tools section of your home page, this is where you will find several different kinds of cutting-edge promotional tools, marketing templates and even advice on how to promote.
Industree also has two different kinds of Charts that track your development as a B.U.D. artist. The Popularity Chart tracks your overall popularity on the website, by monitoring your unique plays, page views, branch numbers and branch review scores. The second chart is the Bloom Chart. For every dollar you earn on Industree it is converted to 10 Blooms, which is the Industree currency. The Bloom Chart tracks which artists have earned the most Blooms on Industree. As a B.U.D. Artist, you definitely want to do as well as you can in either one or both of these Charts. Especially if you’re an independent artist that is still looking to secure a record deal, because the Chart topping artists will be entered into the voting pool when it is time for the entire network to vote on who Industree Records will offer a record deal to next. However, if you earn 25,000 blooms as a B.U.D. artist, you will automatically be entered into the voting pool for the next Industree signing. If you earn 250,000 blooms you automatically get offered a record deal on the spot from Industree Records! If you get signed as an Industree Artist, this means we will produce a professional album for you and will back and promote you with all of the label’s resources, just like a traditional record label would do (please note: you are not obligated to accept any deal that Industree Records may offer).
Keep in mind, you don’t have to have the most professional recordings in the world to start selling your music. Since Branches are also able to name the price they want to pay for your music, it gives them the power to decide what they think your recordings are worth. Also, the thing you want to really get across to them is how much money they can make from promoting your music.
If you have more questions about how Industree works, please check out our FAQ section. We highly recommend that every B.U.D. artist read through this thoroughly at least one time.
We are truly excited to have you join in the music Industree revolution that is set to change the music business forever! And remember, the more time and energy you put into working the Industree system, the more money you will earn, exposure you will get, and opportunity you will create to take your music career to the next level!