What are the best products for the business side of a musician?
- Eric SoelzerCo-founder, Gratify · WrittenOne of the best tools for musicians today. Sell physical goods and digital music from one place. Very active, supportive community. Can't recommend enough.
- AlexeyFull of ideas, it overflows
Bandcamp is a cool company that provide little artists attention, and a cool way to promote themselves. It's really useful to discover artists from underground subgenres, plus it imply a music label notion, like some vaporwave label that sell every digital product of their artists for like $4. You can listening to music by streaming directly from the browser or mobile app, or by downloading it.
- Pete ShimshockMusic Entrepreneur · WrittenDistroKid solves the headache that is digital distribution. It's user-friendly, reasonably priced, and gets you paid quicker than the other services. It also will distribute your music to Youtube, Shazam, and emerging services as they pop up.
- Emma Walsmithfounder, tikly · WrittenEmma Walsmith made this productWe built Tikly to support touring musicians and facilitate opportunities for musicians to make more money at gigs they're already playing. VIP experiences, direct to fan ticketing, merchandise pre-sales are all areas we specialize in - bonus, any contact information you collect via Tikly remains uniquely your own.
- Chris TannerLead Developer, Spektrol · WrittenSpektrol helps those in the music industry understand their fans, their competitors, and easily build contact lists from their fan bases. Understanding your fans is key in building a strong brand strategy.
- Phil HaddadUX/UI @ ProviderTrust · WrittenNoisetrade is a platform that allows artists and labels to exchange free songs/samplers for data on the fans who download their music. With 1.3 million + subscribers it can certainly help new artists build their email list and get discovered by new fans.
- Joseph SunnyCo-founder, BuyMeACoffee.com · WrittenJoseph Sunny made this productBest way to receive support from the audience. Very widely used by creators on BandCamp.
- Clayton ParkerProdManager|Youtuber|FashionTech|3DPrint
As a content creator on youtube/social media - I think this is a crazy easy way to engage with your audience in a creative way that is a little less like asking for a handout. Really great alternative to patreon as this is a 1 time donation
- Jeffrey CarandangPhpbits Creative Studio
Just created my BMC page : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phpbits and it's working perfectly in no time. Also got my first cup and really happy with it :) Planning on using this page as my donation option for my free WordPress plugins on the directory and hopefully this will lead to more donations. Thanks!
