Autonomous Industry

TweetBefore moving on, try to become fully at ease with the processes described previously in the guide.  Then can you delve in to adding what features you wish from the wide variety of tools available on the internet obviously music services are aimed at bands,  some are not aimed at bands, but alot to some extent can help you promote your number one asset, your own website.  They will always be getting better and growing in the number available, the downside is, music fans may not be at these same websites.  So choosing which features you use carefully will increase your percentage of a better foot fall (Amount of visitors through your website, usually used in physical marketing terms) to your website.

Introduction

Now you have understood that you need a website for your band, here are the categories of which you can now branch off from your main site.  There are many advantages to using these services, but these only surface properly when combined with some form of web presence you own.

Advantages stretch across many subject areas, communication with fans, popularity with own domain name( ie. Backlinks), save on own hosting costs, product of yours that goes viral and many more that will be saved for later.

So which services do you utilize?  Categorizing the types of portals, services or tools your band can take advantage of would be a good start.  These can be split up in to;

• Music Services
• Image Services
• Video Services
• Social Media Services
• Update and Sharing Services

The tools you can use and which you don’t own can inverably swap within each other, an example of this is a paypal donate button working on a facebook fan page.  Another main part of each category is the strategies on which go along and work with the tools.  Some of these bands have begun to implemet and some Autonomous Industry have created themselves.

Search Engine Optimization works with the majority of these services, if they have a search feature on their website then there is obviously something you can achieve here, as it is yourself who is inputting all the content for your band, compared to the likes of last.fm which fans and bands collaberate on the information displayed.

What can be edited, or the service used for. What you can extend from it to help such as widgets.

List of Service’s Tools

Web Hosting

Web Hosting – Secondary

FTP

FTP – Secondary (Might not need it, usually for marketing ideas)

Domain Tools – Services

123-reg.co.uk

godaddy.com

Domain Tools – Services – Secondary

domai.nr – before purchase

dnscoop.com – after purchase

Web Interface Design

Content Management Systems

Web Interface Design – Secondary

yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen – WordPress theme creator

Webmaster Tools

artistdata – spreads your news/content through many services like ping.fm

google – apps[mail,calendar]/webmaster/groups/adsense/adwords etc

seesmic.com – spreads your news like artistdata

knowem.com – signup and find out all usernames for social sites

musicarsenal.com – band management software

hootsuite.com – update several profiles across social networks

Webmaster Tools – Secondary

adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?

openinviter.com

Social Communities

Twitter

Orcut

Multiply

Badoo

StuiVZ

Google/Yahoo Groups

Brightkite.com

wikipedia.com

facebook.com – social media / community

ning.com – create own social networks with ning

bolt.com – social networking service

bebo.com – social networking

blippr.com – 160 characters review, discuss media

linkedin.com – business networking

musicxray.com/

Social Communities – Secondary

ping.fm

hellotxt.com

rootmusic.com/

facebook.com/facebook-widgets

twestival-fm.com

Eteam Services

blippr.com – 160 characters review, discuss media

facebook.com – social media / community

stumbleupon.com

delicious.com

file-swap.com – e-team

Eteam Services – Secondary

stumbleupon.com/buttons/

Social Media News

buzznet.com

Digg.com

Stubmbleupon.com

tweetmeme.com

Video Hosting Service

youtube.com – video hosting service

wolfgangsvault.com – live concert video hosting footage

castpost.com – video hosting service

animoto.com – with an edge

muzu.tv – music video hosting

veoh.com – video hosting service

vimeo.com – hd video hosting service

Video Hosting Service – Secondary

tubemogul.com

Image Hosting Services

picasa.com

photobucket.com

deviantart.com – image galleries you can also be apart of

flickr.com

twitpic.com

Stock Free Image Galleries

(remember to check creative commons license)

sxc.hu – the leading stock image service it says

pixmac.com/ -

phototree.com

pdphoto.org

dreamstime.com

freebieimages.com

cyclo.ps

freepixels.com

cutcaster.com

kavewall.com/stock

vintagepixels.com

freelargephotos.com

adigitaldreamer.com/gallery

photogen.com

openstockphotography.com

Live Video Broadcast

Ustream.tv

Justin.tv

juicecaster – mobile phone to world

qik.com

Social Backlink Services

delicious.com

Pay Music Service – Potential Monetization

Apple.com/feedback/itunes.html – request to get submitted to itunes

eviesays.com

we7 – another music service but band receive a return

mog.com – discover music, library, social etc

watunes.com – like itunes but distributes for you too

yourlicense.com – music marketplace

amiestreet.com – music service, price increases better known the band or more people purchase

gogoyoko.com – music service social and money to be gained

quarterlife.com – site for thinkers, creators, artists etc

ooizit.com/

youlicense.com

apps.facebook.com/paypalapps

plugo.la – independent artists, set own price

Social Music Service

thesixtyone.com

last.fm – music hosting service and radio

myspace.com – music service hosting

build.last.fm – last.fm widgets to extend on your your brand

myspace.com/paypal

soundcloud.com – music service

muiso.com

putiton.com – service for unsigned artists

goear.com – foreign music service

alivenetwork.com – live music and entertainment booking service

fairtilizer.com – host and distribute page for bands

bandmix.com – bringing together musicians looking for other musos to make music with

bandizmo.com – a free promotion website to expand band to accommodate wider audience

lala.com – music service

ilike.com

ourstage.com – discover new music

bandcamp.com – music service

purevolume.com

reverbnation.com

soundclick.com

ijigg.com

podbop.org

Social Music Service – Secondary

http://soundcloud.com/tour#widget-player

twestival-fm.com

Analytics

awstats.sourceforge.net – hosting analytics

google analytics

getclicky.com

webstats.motigo.com/

Analytics – Secondary

rockdex.com – tracks 1000′s of music websites and collects data on any artist, such as blog posts, tweets, plays, and much more.

artistdata

bandmetrics.com – analytics for music industry online

bigchampagne – media measurement / stats trends

blip.fm – music twitter / e-team strategy: #musicmonday etc

ubervu.com – real time social media analytics

thenextbigsound.com – artist stats

Social Music Playlists – Radio

sideload – playlist of free music/service

tinkrbox.com – custom content that interests the maker/creator

somojo.net – independent and unsigned web radio

jelli.net – community swayed radio service

plurn.com – make playlists hosted all over the internet

poperti.com – play music through email

music-map.com

upto11.com

deezer.com – webradio and mobile access service

pandora.com

Social Music Playlists – Radio

citysounds.fm – music of cities, provided by soundcloud\

Web User Interface – Social Widgets Diplay Feeds

bloggybits.com – widget for website to show media such as flickr and twitter

wibiya.com – social addon service for site/blog

mibbit.com – embeddable chat

openinviter.com – Import contacts, address book script so get your contacts on any service

mediaplayer.yahoo.com

stumbleupon.com/buttons/

Music Aggregator & Extra Reading

hypemachine – follows music blog discussion media follow

hypebot.com – new music technology blog, news feed

bandsnews.org – Band news, search, suggest band

allmusic.com – fans to indulge in music news

unsignedbandpromotion.com – addlink and extra reading

musicthinktank.com

passivepromotion.com

grassrootsy.wordpress.com

independentrockstar.com

mashable.com

pledgemusic.com

Ticketing Website

viagogo – ticketing site

Gig – Tour Dates Services

songkick – gig/post dates database

eventful.com – find, share, promote events

musichawk – find latest news, tours from bands

giglistings.co.uk

gig-guide.co.uk

gruvr.com – find gigs with maps

indieonthemove.com – tour booking, venues for bands

gigzee.com – let people find gigs, update with myspace and it syncs

sonicbids.com

eventbrite.com

gigthing.com – create gig calendars and share

jambase.com

gig-guide.co.uk

E-Mail List

feedburner – google’s feed service for your blog

fanbridge – mail list for bands to utilize

fanmailmarketing.com/

broadtexter.com

ETCCCC

polldaddy.com

surveymonkey.com

sharethis.com

addthis.com

betterthanthevan.com – Free places for bands to stay on tour

billshrink.com – shrink them bills

tadalist.com/

rescuetime.com/

43things.com

survey.io

artistopia.com – networking site for astists and industry guys to meet and try to move some success onto the artists

jamlegend.com – create games for your music, must apply

Monetization Tool

sellaband.com/

webceleb.com

bigcartel – place to set up eshop

merchboss – set up eshop

spreadshirt.com and webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/26-examples-of-online-t-shirt-shops/

paypal.com

flattr.com – by pirate bay dude

payperpost.com

Monetization Tool – Secondary

bitcents.com – small payments for paypal etc, loose less money

chipin.com – tool widget plugin for wordpress or blogs, donation

giving.paypallabs.com/authenticate/create_campaign

myspace.com/paypal

apps.facebook.com/paypalapps/

Setlist Service & Lyrics

setlist.fm – setlist wiki from the past, part of routine too maybe

metrolyrics.com – database of lyrics

lyricsmode.com

blyper.com – updates when band releases new material uses last.fm

File Storage and Hosting

megaupload.com – digital hosting for files etc

fluctu8.com – podcast directory

streamload.com – like dropbox

dropbox.com – save files, folders general work and digital baggage

wua.la – ditto

sharaza

emule.org

limewire.com

acquisitionx.com – mac version of limewire

1. ASAPload – Support uploading to 6 file hosting websites
2. CloneFiles – Support uploading to 18 file hosting websites
3. CreateMIrrors – Support uploading to 6 file hosting websites
4. DL4 – Support uploading to 4 file hosting websites
5. FileDucky – Supports uploading to 2 file hosting websites
6. FileMirrorSite – Supports uploading to 12 file hosting websites
7. Gazup! – Supports uploading to 8 file hosting websites
8. KoooraUp – Supports uploading to 18 file hosting websites
9. Mass Mirror – Supports uploading to 4 file hosting websites
10. Miroriii – Supports uploading to 3 file hosting websites
11. Mirror a File – Supports uploading to 11 file hosting websites
12. Mirrorcreator – Supports uploading to 15 file hosting websites
13. Multi-UP – Supports uploading to 4 file hosting websites
14. MultiUpload – Supports uploading to 12 file hosting websites
15. QOOY – Supports uploading to 12 file hosting websites
16. RapidSpread – Supports uploading to 9 file hosting websites
17. ShareBee – Supports uploading to 5 file hosting websites
18. SuperUploader – Supports uploading to 15 file hosting websites
19. Upload Mirrors – Supports uploading to 16 file hosting websites
20. UploadGround – Supports uploading to 15 file hosting websites
21. UploadJockey – Guest can upload to 3 websites and members gets 12 websites
22. X-mirrors – Supports uploading to 9 file hosting websites

Torrents

thepiratebay.com

coda.fm – torrents for music

mininova.org – legal torrents for a lot of things

blues-brothers.biz/

torrenttree.com

isohunt.com

torrentpond.com

btscene.com

nowtorrents.com

torrentengine.co.cc

torrentreactor.to

entertane.com

bitenova.org

Torrents Tools – Secondary

torrentfreak.com

Public Domain Video

imovies.blogspot.com

openflv.com

archive.org/details/movies

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/category:Video

video.google/com/nara.html

pd.comedy.com

stage6.divx.com/videos/tag:public+domain

publicdomaintorrents.com

emol.org/moveis/freemovielist.htm

Public Domain Video – Secondary

Blog Post Directory

smak.ly/

technorati.com