See your project all the way through to the end. Update the backgrounds of your profile, albums and songs with beautiful wallpapers to tell a story and coincide with your branding.
It’s Just Good Marketing
I was talking with a friend the other day, and something he said jumped up and struck me, dead in the forehead.
He was talking about how some friends of his, who were musicians, were making some really cool synth wave stuff out in LA. He basically wanted to introduce them to Immitter. His reasoning, is what struck me over the head top. “It wouldn’t hurt them to have another channel, its just good marketing”. I think we need to take a step back and listen to the words coming out of this non-artists mouth, someone just looking from the outside in, a listener, waiting to be converted, to a fan.
Sometimes we are so trapped in our bubble of “cool”, that we miss the whole shit. We’re blinded by being where everyone else is at, instead of working to be where everyone else is not. Get your music out. To more channels. And once you’ve done that, even more channels. Now, is the only time in history that you can literally ride the waves. Let your music work for you, not the other way around. Besides, It’s just good marketing.
Connect, Share, Discuss
Today we are launching a NEW forum for the Immitter community of artists, bands, and music enthusiasts. Our goal is to provide a platform to share and discuss new ideas, strategies and topics surrounding the independent music industry. Topics range from education to entertainment. We are excited to watch this community grow and evolve organically.
Forum features include, direct messaging, private group conversations, and the ability to create new public discussions around your favorite music topics. As the community grows we will definitely be adding more features.
The Immitter community will also serve as a place to directly reach the Immitter staff in regards to site issues, improvements or suggestions.
Active community members stand the chance of gaining recognition outside of releasing new music, becoming a thought leader in the independent music community by sharing helpful insights, tips, and how-to knowledge, and winning the respect of peers via staff promotion to moderator status. All moderators help protect the immitter community to make sure it stays a fun and safe place to network and meet new friends.
log-in / register to be a part of a growing community of emerging artists, bands and music enthusiasts. The first 20 artists that introduce themselves in our New Members discussion will get a lifetime Immitter Pro membership for FREE.
We’re looking forward to meeting you, learning more about you and, most importantly, watching you GROW.
New Feature: Light Speed Upload
Oh oooooh. We’ve just saved you ahelluvalotta time…
Recently we rolled out a new alien-like floating upload button that appears when you need it and disappears when you don’t. We spent many months carefully designing our new upload process with only one goal in mind: To cut the upload to distribution time to a fraction of its former self. We believe that the excitement of uploading your music into the webs shouldn’t dampen the excitement of releasing something new. It should be fast, yet seamless, simple yet powerful, accessible but not distracting. I’m confident to say that with this new release, we’ve done exactly that.
Anyone down for a speed run?
To put our upload where our mouth is, we recorded this video mimicking a new member submitting music in virtually seconds (around 40 to be exact), the only known thing to rival that type of speed would be..well..The Millennium Falcon?
Watch the video below, you’ll be genuinely impressed with how seamlessly and efficiently you can upload new songs for distribution to our email network.
Keep in mind, the pace at which we are uploading is staged to mimic an average user, however, we’re confident that as power-users we can achieve speeds of sub 30 maybe even 20 seconds on a new release. Say goodbye to minutes.
Over the next couple weeks we will be rolling out many exciting tools and features that we’ve been working on, so stay tuned, but for now…feast your eyes on the fastest upload on the net!
Want to see if you can clock a faster time? Be our guest. visit immitter.com/upload and be sure to let us know your times in the comments.
Here’s a PRO Trick
When uploading a new single to the IMMITTER, add your track to a new album. The analytics show that the top left album on the New Releases page (https://immitter.com/new-releases/) gets all the love 🙂
Download counts are now available in Albums
Albums got a new upgrade over the weekend!
Now all albums display the download counts for each unique song.
In the near future, Pro Artists can look forward to being able to
- Make download counts private
- See who’s downloading your music
- See download demographics by location
In the mean-time, in addition to streams and purchases all artists can enjoy another layer of analytics to mess around with.
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New IP Location Detection
New location filters have just been added to Immitter. This will further help us refine our targeting, ensuring your music goes directly to your target audience.
Situations where this feature can come in handy.
- A radio station in Indiana is searching for local music for their newest emerging artist program
- A local artist /fan is interested in learning about and supporting the local artists around him / her
- A local coffee shop is searching for performers after hours on a Monday to help bring in more customers
- A record label is evaluating the potential of a geographical market
- An international fan is interested in discovering new music from different areas of the world
No need to beat a dead horse on this one. Including your location not only improves the efficiency in your music delivery, it also helps with discovery. We encourage all Immitter’s to update their profile with their location.
Your conversion rate depends on it!
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The Origin of Spam
For those of you that don’t know, the word SPAM on the Internet evolved from the 1970 sketch comedy routine by Monty Python titled…Spam. It shows a diner where anything and everything ordered came with SPAM, Much to the chagrin of Hormel Foods, maker of the canned “Shoulder Pork and hAM”/”SPiced hAM” luncheon meat.
Immitter recently went live with a new distribution feature that delivers our TOP artists on a weekly basis to our entire mailing list of 1K plus subscribers. But of course, this is not without one glaring hitch, we’ve noticed our email ending up in the Junk mail, we are now SPAM!
Seth Godin, talks a lot about the idea of Permission marketing and only delivering relevant timely messages to those few that actually are looking forward to receiving them. If this is you, we urge you to dig through your junk mail and set us free. Let your email provider know that THIS IS NOT SPAM!
We only deliver our weekly email to those of you who have subscribed to Immitter in one form or another and by no means do we champion or relish in spam.
If you’re not interested in receiving our weekly update, we’ve provided a link in the email to allow you to easily unsubscribe.
That being said.
We implore you to please take some time to make sure that you are receiving our weekly update in your inbox, the thousand + artists that we represent would really appreciate it – And so would we.
As for SPAM, lets take a look at where it alllll started. I hope you enjoy the history lesson.
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Meet Me At The Immitter! Episode 1 – The Mailing List
EPISODE 1 – Meet Me At The Immitter.
In This Episode, IMTR0 gathers the troops, and hopes to inspire them to go out and find the remaining emerging artists who are currently being hunted down and executed. In order to rebuild the Network of Support for emerging musicians, IMTR0 launches the automated mailing list.
This mailer delivers the TOP performing emerging artists weekly to subscribers – Also, The Industry has been working over time, trying to stop us, check your spam folders for our weekly email, We will not go silently into the night!
Our mission is to continue to build the “List” with more contacts, fans, supporters, but we can’t do it alone…We need your help.
Subscribe to our weekly mailer @ https://immitter.com/subscribe and be sure to tell a friend. If we’re going to go up against the industry, we need all of the firepower we can get.
Music by
Smizzle-Beatz (https://immitter.com/song/2655-Overcome)
Grizzlor (https://immitter.com/song/1974-SOCIALLY-AWKWARD)
IMTR0 (https://immitter.com/song/784-I-bet-Ya)
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Meet Me At The Immitter!
Here’s the first look at EPISODE 0 – Meet Me At The Immitter. A new series we will be presenting which is as entertaining as it is informative.
Each month we strive to do one marketing lesson for the Immitter Resistance. Topics will include but are not limited to, how to build your fan base, strategies for awareness and stepping around the gate keeper, having packed shows etc. all in addition to covering the various tools Immitter has to offer to help you along the way.
Follow The IMMITTER Youtube Channel to get new lessons as soon as they are released. Also, be sure to head over to www.immitter.com and create a free account. We can’t win this battle alone.
Music By – Otis Bog People (https://immitter.com/song/2293-dragging-me-down)
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