As an independent artist, how can neomusicstore help me ?
  1. 100% royalties
    This is our policy, when we are not responsible of any music sale, we simply grant you 100% of the royalties. Even if it means we handle the file storage, bandwith consuming sample preview and delivery, order process, that's not enough to consider that we deserve to take a commission on sales you've made directly within your network, whether it be through your website, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter... etc. We only take a 25% commission when customer gets to know your music through our own recommendations, or uses credit card payment, so if we fail to recommend your music, and your buyers only use your payments system, you will always get 100%
  2. Build your store, for your community or your niche
    As a label or artist, you have two different ways to build your store. You can use your back office and build a store with only your content, or you can build one from NeoMusicStore.com homepage and choose the exact content you want to put in it (that could be your own, but also some from artists you like, or from a certain genre, region... there are multiple criterias that help you build the exact store you want
  3. Community is the key
    We think the (long-term) success of an artist or label is nowadays essentially built on a community of people who will be interested by any content, any news about this artist or label. That's why in all our services and tools, we are focusing on this goal to make it grow by providing instantaneous, complete and direct access to this content and information. Whether by providing exclusive, richer content such as live streams, photos or videos, remix kits or providing a direct experience (by purchasing directly from the artist and label or providing instant access on a mobile phone), goal is always to make customer/fan happy with its purchase and relationship
  4. Customization
    You are building your store with your content (and optionally the content of your relatives if you choose the build your store option). So you can customize your store easily through a simple form, or get it deeply customized by a webmaster or CSS guru directly in the code. We are not selling our store to your customers. So there is no point to display everywhere our brand on your store. Of course we would still be happy you recommend us if you think it worths it :)
  5. Direct-to-fan
    That's the main purpose and main differentiation of NeoMusicStore. Offering content or product directly from musician to fan. Breakthrough consequences are multiple:
    • Be direct: communicate with your community (you know who's buying your stuff, we don't keep this information for ourselves)
    • Be reactive: upload your live gig, or your new remix in a matter of minutes after having finished it, sell it in the following hours
    • Be inventive: submit new content to your community (rehearsal sessions, after shows, exclusive remix) whether it be for free or paying
    • Be everywhere: with our mobile apps, get your community to stay up-to-date in real time with any of your activity you want to share
    • Be paid in realtime: No multiple commissions, no delays, customer is paying you directly
  6. Feedback
    Feedback's always been important to us, to build a better service, and that's why you can find a feedback button on your back office home page. We really rely on you to enhance our service. Most stores force labels and artists to follow their policy. By providing sales tools and services to artists and labels to sell anywhere, we think that WE have to adapt to their requirements
  7. Free
    Free has always been discussed in a context where it's hard to sell goods that are freely available which is typically what music is, on my P2P, newsgroups, "sharing" websites. Some web music services (try to) bring a solution with ad-supported delivery. There's no ad on NeoMusicStore and there will never be. If any artist want ads, he can just add them around its widgets on his website, etc. We didn't think that ads could be the way to finance music before the enonomic downturn. Now that crisis is everywhere, that makes sense for everyone as all of these services are heading towards paying content or just dying. Most of music services relying on ads forget one another advantage of all illegal delivery means. Convenience. Sooner or later (actually Spotify already does it), we will have some free services worthing it, with a reliable business model (at least for entrepreneurs and major companies). So you will to adapt to the free distribution model. Free actually always existed for promotion. We still belive that it should exist. And in the long-term, it will bring more to get email address from the one which is downloading your content than ads revenues residuals without devaluating your music or identity, so that's what we suggest for free music on NeoMusicStore. We also encourage new artists to provide free content, not necessarily their single, but other ones, such as live, rehearsals, whether it be video, photo, audio...

    Considering how you are tied to NeoMusicStore, be assured that you are always free to go, even if some major licensed your music :)
  8. Global
    Right now, website is only available in English. But we hope you and resellers will help us translate it in as many languages as we can. You can start now at translate.neomusicstore.com so you can deploy a store in your own language later
  9. Innovation
    Innovation is what drives us every day. We think that "music like water" (streaming such as Spotify, Imeem, ...) or a-la-carte standard downloads as we bought singles in the past (iTunes, Amazon, ... ) cannot be the only future of music. We have a great faith in what we call music 2.0 in the creative aspect, when we quote Richie Hawtin on Remix.me, side project totally dedicated to remix kits and remixes. Creativity can be fueled through Internet without compromising values as we can see with ad-supported services for example. There are niches to develops and enthusiasms to make grow rather than complaining about piracy or old businesses becoming obsolete. We think 360 degrees when it means we have to find new revenues for artists.
  10. Integration with best music-related web services
    Vimeo for HQ videos, Youtube for mass audience, Twitter for push notifications, Flickr for best-looking photos, Soundcloud for digital promo, MySpace for MySpace, Tunecore for selling on generalist music stores, there are many services that can help an artist or label make grow his community and sales. Rather than reinventing them, we seamlessly integrate with them so you can manage and/or monitor them from your NeoMusicStore back office
  11. iPhone app
    iPod are now in everyone's hands, and so are going to be iPhone. Mobility is a great way to get to your fans at any time. Even simpler than web, they can get everything related to their favorite artists in their pocket. That's why we now offer a way to build a dedicated app for any artist or label that want to build a community. Twitter text or blog updates, dates retrieved from your MySpace, Flickr photos, Youtube videos, exclusive content, everything can be automatically pushed to a phone. And we've built a model in which it won't cost you a penny if you can't afford to pay a developer for this app... We now offer reach to iPhone and iPod Touch as these are the most used by music lovers but will soon support other mobile devices. Good news is that price starts at only €99/$129, with no "audience fee"
  12. Live
    Live is considered as the saviour of the music industry. It may not be on its own, but one thing for sure is that you can't ignore it nowadays even if you are into DJing rather than performing. But live is not only a concert to an audience in one specific location, at one specific time. Live can also be:
    • a way to reach an audience you couldn't physically by streaming on the web
    • a way to give more to your community (exclusive shows, after shows, rehearsals, etc)
    • a way to make the event (eg side project Is Playing at my House) to promote a new release, etc
  13. Mobile app
    Right now we are providing iPod and iPhone apps to keep in touch with your community as these are the most popular devices among music lovers, but we will soon support other mobile devices.     Read more about iPhone apps here
  14. Promoters
    Fans can sometimes be your best promoters, whether it be in the physical world or online. On NeoMusicStore.com, they can build their own store with your productions. In your back office, you know which fans are your best promoters (the ones that sold the most your music at least) so you can reward them with exclusive free content or content they can sell ahead of everyone else...
  15. Realtime payment
    As dealing with money is always something complicated in the music economy, we offer realtime payment as often as we can so you don't have to wait days, weeks to get paid after a purchase
  16. Remix kits
    Whether it be in Garage Band, Ableton Live or more top-level producing tools, there are many wannabe remixers around that would like to personalize your music to their taste, and maybe even sell these remixes to get exposure with an already known signature. Upselling (selling the same content as multitrack but with higher price) can be a way to increase drastically your margins, especially for your back catalogue. Selling rights to remix, but control where remixes can be sold, will help to get a maximal exposure with minimal effort as the network is doing it for you.
  17. Time-saving
    You don't have time to monitor what's the en vogue social/musical website, service, tool, etc. We do this work for you, and we concatenate and classify every valuable information on our guide so you can from time to time have a look and try and use the ones we are recommending. Better than that, we integrate some of them in your NeoMusicStore back office, so from this single point you can publish on multiple video websites, get feedback from your digital promo system, and see social and multimedia activity about you on the Internet
  18. Video Everywhere
    If you want to get a high quality video you want to upload it on Vimeo, if you want to reach mass audience, you have to put it on Youtube, maybe Dailymotion, if you want your MySpace and Facebook friends to see it, you have to publish it on these websites. But of course you don't have time to do all of this... unless if you can upload them at once on all these websites (and more) from a single point... that's what you will find in your NeoMusicStore back office :)
  19. Widgets
    Widgets are mini apps that you can place on any web page such as a blog or MySpace, or on a mobile phone. We provide some to dispatch anywhere
  20. Who are we ?
    NeoMusicStore was founded in 2005 by Sylvain Corvaisier, bedroom DJ (podcast here) and music blogger (Blog here), amateur producer, and also founder of DJing.com in 1997, Kioskradio (Last.fm-like before last.fm) in 2000. Many people brought their collaboration for advice (independent labels mainly), web development, or design. Service reached breakeven early 2007, without any salary being paid though (still the case as of April 2009)