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We list some great ways to sell your music to cell phone users, which is a growing market and a new way for your band to generate sales. |
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Myxer
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
This company offers a special discount to Music Nomad. Sign on to see the discount.
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| Myxer makes it really easy for artists and content owners to share any original content - ringtones, images, photos, videos - with Myxer's millions of mobile users. It's completely free - no setup fees or contracts. If you're an independent artists or other original content owner, you can use our Myxertags technology to share and sell mobile content from your own website, or you can have it featured on the Myxer website. With Myxer, anyone can get your content directly from their mobile phone using simple text messages. |
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Cellyspace
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
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| Website allows you to Create, Send and Sell Ringtones from your own music. Create, Publish, Send and Sell Multimedia Messages (MMS) that contain Audio, Video, Text and Images of your performances. Offer Broadcast Alerts (SMS & MMS) that allow fans to subscribe to your content. You can regularly send your fans new ringtones, video, images, and tour information. Decide whether to distribute your content for free or for a fee. If you decide to sell your content, you will earn a revenue share for every piece of content sold. Create customized links and forms for your offerings using Cellyspace and place directly into your artist website or social network (MySpace, etc.). |
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Flotones
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
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| Flotones is a website that is dedicated to promoting and distributing an Artist's mobile media, such as ringtones and mobile wallpapers. After signing up you can promote your mobile content at your shows, on your website, your cd baby page and your myspace page. There is no set up fees. They give the artists/labels 50% payout, excluding transaction costs and commissions. |
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Play Screen
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
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| On Play Screen formerly MyNumo, you can set up and sell ringtones for free. On a $2.00 ringtone you earn 20% or $.40. They also let you sell videos and wallpapers. Just sign up and start creating your content. You can use their built in tools and/or upload your audio, pictures, or videos. |
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Mobile Roadie
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This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
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| Mobile Roadie helps bands create their own iPhone/iPod app. Also get a fan wall widget to embed on your social networks. They handle the submission process to the iTunes App Store for you. It costs $399 for initial set up plus $29/month for the first 1,000 installs. If you sell over 1,000 in a month they charge 1 cent per install. Your app will allow fans to: stream your music and link to purchase from iTunes, link to YouTube videos, view your photos you upload whenever you want, follow your tour dates via CMS/RSS feed and link to any ticketing site to purchase tickets, and buy your merch with a link to an existing ecommerce store. If you sign up please put "MusicNomad" in the referral field as 10% of your payments to them will come back to MusicNomad to help our push in independent musician advocacy. |
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iLike
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
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| iLike will build an iPhone/iPod app for your band for a one time $195. If you sell your app, iLike will share the proceeds 50/50. For free apps, iLike may place ads in the app. They populate your app with any videos, photos, blogs and concerts you post to iLike. |
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Fanteraction
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
This company offers a special discount to Music Nomad. Sign on to see the discount.
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| Fanteraction allows you to create a mobile platform that your fans can access during your lives shows and buy your music via iTunes or Amazon. It's free to get a platform and URL to give to your fans. You need to tell your fans the URL information so they know where to go. |
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Mob Base
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
This company offers a special discount to Music Nomad. Sign on to see the discount.
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| Mob Base builds iPhone apps for your band. You can build, manage and update your custom iPhone app with music, photo's, video, merch and more. They charge $20 to activate and $15 a month for first 500 installs of your app by fans. Each additional 1000 installs are just $5 a month. |
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Song Numbers
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This company has taken the extra effort to support independent musicians by contributing in 1 or more of the following ways: tips, articles, reciprocal link, contribution, Music Nomad discount, getting word out about Music Nomad
This company offers free services or free sign up to help independent musicians
This company offers a special discount to Music Nomad. Sign on to see the discount.
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| Your band gets assigned a phone number that anyone can call and preview your music, At anytime during the song your fans can hit #1 and buy your music. All the costs are billed to cell phones buyers. Costs to the musicians start as low as $9.95 a year for 9 songs to sell and there are other menu style costs to expand the songs. |
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