NEOMUSICSTORE, NOT YET ANOTHER MUSIC STORE
NeoMusicStore is a technological provider to build your own music store with your own conditions:
No other technical competence than web browsing is required to start selling your music using our services. Get your demo account by using the menu on the left. Your account will not be enabled (and thus products can't be bought or indexed in our search engine), but all sales features and services are active, and your catalogue will be made available within minutes when you activate your account.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
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Debug.de (German)
NeoMusicStore is a technological provider to build your own music store with your own conditions:
- Your content (and optionally the content of your relatives), whether it be digital or physical, music or related products
- Your design: you can completely customize the design of your store, with a simple form or directly with CSS if you have a web designer
- Your widgets (for blogs, MySpace, Facebook, etc)
- Your prices
- Your products range
- Get direct access to your customers and promoters
- Receive direct payments from customers
- Dedicated store and services for music sales
- Dedicated music promotion tools and features
No other technical competence than web browsing is required to start selling your music using our services. Get your demo account by using the menu on the left. Your account will not be enabled (and thus products can't be bought or indexed in our search engine), but all sales features and services are active, and your catalogue will be made available within minutes when you activate your account.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
1. The new equation: Artist/Label <=> Fan
The neomusicstore equation is direct selling and direct interaction between the artist or label and the music fans, without many intermediates in between.
The usual equation for physical music distribution was:
Artist/Label <= Distributor <= Music store <= Buyer
In this scheme every intermediate (there are 2 here, but there are often more than that) not only get a commission on sales made by the artist or label to the buyer but also acts as a bank by restraining payments until revenues to be paid to the next intermediate reach a certain level. This is the long tail principle. Acts as an aggregator and make money by multiplying the number of actors you are collecting funds for, and earn interests on those payments between the time you get paid and the time you pay each actor. This could make sense in the physical world, as distributors had to litteraly manage stocks, shipments, ... . Does it really make sense in the digital world ? We think NOT. An aggregator which only acts as an administrative and financial intermediate, with no artistic direction, has no reason to be, especially with flat fee services with no exclusivity required being now available. 2. Discover music. And not only from algorithms.
As we are in the indie market, we know that the process of discovering is mandatory as artists and labels don't get exposure in the mainstream media. That's why we offer them a set of tools to help them promote their music to key influencers, or in the "offline world" (concerts, festivals, etc). Of course we have standard recommendations algorithms based on buying and listening patterns as other music stores. But we also have famous tastemakers, DJ's, journalists, bloggers ... that make recommendations. All registered artists and labels on NeoMusicStore can send them their promotional content for free. 3. Buyers are not pirates.
Since its launch in 2004, there hasn't been any DRM file on NeoMusicStore, as this was a prerequisite for content owners to be added to the platform. If this is something more and more frequent nowadays, there are not many music stores that can prevail themselves of having had this policy since day 1. We don't live from music, but for music, so that was quite obvious for us that buyers shouldn't have less comfort and a more restricted usage than what they get through piracy. It seems that in the major companies, music executive people finally understood it. We think our customers are music lovers that want to help those who give them emotion. Pirates can be customers when they know where the money is going and customers can be pirates when they don't have any other mean to find affordable or rare music. Let's just try to build something fair for everyone. 4. Sharing can bring a lot more than P2P.
After the professionals to which you can send your promotional content, the best prescribers for your music are the customers. So we really encourage them to promote your music by using widgets on their MySpace, Facebook, blogs as you do. Best resellers are promoted in your interface, so you can send them exclusive or not yet released content, add them to your promotion pool, directly contact them, etc... those things can also be automated according to a defined sales volume. So sharing can definitely bring more to customers. 5. Creativity never ends.
No long process to get your content online. We guarantee that any content added to your back office is made available within 1 hour and indexed in the search engine within 1 day. So you can easily add many variations from a track, at any time, you can also sell a live recording just after a concert... . And because your music fans can also be creative, we encourage you to sell remix packages. With remix packages, you can get higher margins per track, and let your fans both promote and make money from derivative works, and give a better exposure to the original track.
The neomusicstore equation is direct selling and direct interaction between the artist or label and the music fans, without many intermediates in between.
The usual equation for physical music distribution was:
Artist/Label <= Distributor <= Music store <= Buyer
In this scheme every intermediate (there are 2 here, but there are often more than that) not only get a commission on sales made by the artist or label to the buyer but also acts as a bank by restraining payments until revenues to be paid to the next intermediate reach a certain level. This is the long tail principle. Acts as an aggregator and make money by multiplying the number of actors you are collecting funds for, and earn interests on those payments between the time you get paid and the time you pay each actor. This could make sense in the physical world, as distributors had to litteraly manage stocks, shipments, ... . Does it really make sense in the digital world ? We think NOT. An aggregator which only acts as an administrative and financial intermediate, with no artistic direction, has no reason to be, especially with flat fee services with no exclusivity required being now available. 2. Discover music. And not only from algorithms.
As we are in the indie market, we know that the process of discovering is mandatory as artists and labels don't get exposure in the mainstream media. That's why we offer them a set of tools to help them promote their music to key influencers, or in the "offline world" (concerts, festivals, etc). Of course we have standard recommendations algorithms based on buying and listening patterns as other music stores. But we also have famous tastemakers, DJ's, journalists, bloggers ... that make recommendations. All registered artists and labels on NeoMusicStore can send them their promotional content for free. 3. Buyers are not pirates.
Since its launch in 2004, there hasn't been any DRM file on NeoMusicStore, as this was a prerequisite for content owners to be added to the platform. If this is something more and more frequent nowadays, there are not many music stores that can prevail themselves of having had this policy since day 1. We don't live from music, but for music, so that was quite obvious for us that buyers shouldn't have less comfort and a more restricted usage than what they get through piracy. It seems that in the major companies, music executive people finally understood it. We think our customers are music lovers that want to help those who give them emotion. Pirates can be customers when they know where the money is going and customers can be pirates when they don't have any other mean to find affordable or rare music. Let's just try to build something fair for everyone. 4. Sharing can bring a lot more than P2P.
After the professionals to which you can send your promotional content, the best prescribers for your music are the customers. So we really encourage them to promote your music by using widgets on their MySpace, Facebook, blogs as you do. Best resellers are promoted in your interface, so you can send them exclusive or not yet released content, add them to your promotion pool, directly contact them, etc... those things can also be automated according to a defined sales volume. So sharing can definitely bring more to customers. 5. Creativity never ends.
No long process to get your content online. We guarantee that any content added to your back office is made available within 1 hour and indexed in the search engine within 1 day. So you can easily add many variations from a track, at any time, you can also sell a live recording just after a concert... . And because your music fans can also be creative, we encourage you to sell remix packages. With remix packages, you can get higher margins per track, and let your fans both promote and make money from derivative works, and give a better exposure to the original track.
They are talking about us:
Debug.de (German)