Serious Tools and Opportunities for Serious Artists
Get Fans, Get Gigs, Track Stats, Earn Money
Get More Fans
Reach more fans with a ReverbNation Profile and an arsenal of free viral marketing tools for Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and your homepage. Grow your mailing list and send them slick e-mail newsletters with FanReach™, the industry-leading e-mail system trusted by more than 100,000 Artists.
Fan Collection Features
» Comprehensive Artist Profile
» Music Players and Widgets
» Apps for Facebook
» FanReach E-mail System
» Fan Collector Widgets
» Exclusive Downloads
Book More Gigs
Locate venues that book Artists similar to you with Gig Finder (it's free). Enter the city you want to play and you'll receive recommendations from our database of more than 100,000 venues worldwide. Use our customizable Reverb Press Kit (RPK) to send out professional booking requests and media packages.
Gig tools
» Gig Finder
» Reverb Press Kits
Track More Stats
The Stats Dashboard tracks who's playing your music, where they are, and which social networks they inhabit. Sync with your Myspace, Twitter and Facebook pages and we'll track activity there as well. See what people are saying about you all over the Internet with our Buzz Tracker. Don't worry; we do all the math.
Stats tools
» Stats and Tracking
» Band Equity Score
» Buzz Tracker
Earn More Money
Sell your music on iTunes, Amazon, etc. and keep 100% of the royalties. Use the free Reverb Store to sell T-shirts, CDs, downloads, hats and ringtones directly to fans on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and your home page or blog. Looking for Brand Deals and Licensing? Yup, we do that too for qualified Artists.
Opportunities to Earn Money
» Digital Distribution
» The Reverb Store
Full Feature List
Free Features
Profile Page
Upload, edit and manage content across multiple platforms, all from your ReverbNation profile.
Web Buzz
Read what people are saying about your band online.
Get on Facebook
Band Profile is the #1 musician app on Facebook. Let your friends share songs and increase traffic to your page.
Detailed Statistics
Track everything from number of fans to number of plays using our easy-to-read stats.
Banners
Free banners that link to your ReverbNation or Facebook profiles.
Blog
Create a blog for your band or import one you already have.
Gig Finder
Find gigs at venues that have booked artists similar to your band, or venues similar to ones you've played.
Widgets
Music players, show schedules, merch stores and more — all available to paste anywhere you can think of.
Twitter Integration
Update your tweople about all the things you do on ReverbNation automatically from your dashboard.
Reverb Store
Free, on-demand store that sells your t-shirts, albums, downloads and more, available right in your profile.
TunePaks
The easiest way to send songs over e-mail or IM.
Street Teams
Harness the power of your fans to promote your band and your shows.
Premium Features
Your Own Mobile App
Promote your band with your own Mobile App.
Digital Distribution
Sell your music on iTunes, Amazon and more. You keep the rights to your music.
FanReach Pro
Customizable e-mail templates with demographic targeting and robust tracking.
Reverb Press Kits
Professional-grade digital press kit. Photos, bio, press clips and a music player all in one.
Site Builder
Build your band Web site using your ReverbNation content with just a few clicks.
Mega Song Storage
Mega Song Storage increases your maximum song size to 25MB from the standard 8MB.
Pro Widgets
Widgets, only better.
Promote It
Professional-grade digital press kit. Photos, bio, press clips and a music player all in one.
Recruit fans and send them on missions to promote your Band.
Start building a Street Team Now
Street Teams are a cost-effective way to create the grassroots buzz that is necessary to move your career to the next level. ReverbNation gives every artist a FREE Street Team Program to help activate their fans and make every promotion "viral". These promoters will help you gain exposure by talking about you on blogs, in message boards and posting your music, banners, tour dates, etc. all over the internet.
EVERY artist on ReverbNation has the Street Team feature available automatically in their Street Team tab. The feature is built around the concept of "missions". You tell the team what you want them to do, and they compete against each other for a reward. We provide several mission templates to choose from, or you can make a custom mission:
- Spread Music
- Promote Shows
- Recruit New Fans
- Drive Traffic
- Offline
- Custom
Once you "Launch" the mission, we help you recruit your fans to participate by sending out a notification via email. Each live mission is tracked in a real-time, and progress is displayed in a "Leaderboard" that you and your fans can see. You get to choose the reward for the winners, and there is even a blog for each mission so that you can talk to your team and keep them up to date.
Most missions are "online" and revolve around Street Team members posting your widgets (music
player, show schedule, fan collector, etc) or banners into other web pages, blogs, etc. We track who
is getting you the most plays, the most schedule views, collecting the most email addresses or the
most click-thrus during the mission period. You simply set up the mission, click "Launch", and then
let us do our part. When the mission ends, you simply look at the Leaderboard to know which Street
Team members to reward. It's easy, it's automatic, and it's a fun way to engage your fans.
How to Start: A Guide to Using Street Teams
1. The first thing to do is import your existing email list into FanReach (ReverbNation's email management system).
2. A few days (3 or 4) after your email list is imported, you can send an email to everyone inviting them to join your Street Team. This list will most likely include your existing Street Team members as well, but if they are on a separate list, import them into FanReach too. Street Team members do not even have to have an account at ReverbNation in order to help you promote, so as long as you have their email in FanReach, they can be a member of your team and we can track their activity for you. Now that's cool!
3. Place a FanCollector or StreetTeam Collector widget on your official website, Myspace page, etc., so you can start getting those fans to join your team. When a fan enters their email address, it goes directly to your FanReach system. These widgets are located in your Widgets tab.
4. Once you have enough Street Team members joined up, you are ready to launch a mission.
5. Online and Offline missions can be sent directly from your Street Team tab by clicking NEW MISSION. Once the mission goes out via an automatic email to all your street team members, they can get access to the mission from there. They'll be taken directly to your Street Team tab where they can join the mission with a click of a button. They'll also see what the mission entails and the rewards offered.
6. Marketing Tools for each mission automatically drop down for the street team members to grab and run with. For instance, if a mission is to expose your music all over the internet, a music player widget loaded with your songs drops down and the members go out and paste it all over Myspace, Facebook or anywhere else. We also have artist's banners, show schedules, tour maps, street team collectors, FanCollectors, and other widgets and banners that drop down for easy pickings. You could even create your own widget or banner and have the Street Team promote that. You will need to upload these into your Widget or Banner tab in your Artist Profile before you begin.
7. Messaging can be done throughout the mission from the artist (or leader) by using the "mission blog" area.
8. Promotions are then tracked and you'll know who was doing what and how they did (ex. Joe Smith placed 75 Music Players around the internet and got 180,000 impressions from them.)
9. You can then reward your top promoters. The leaderboard is right there for you to see from best promoters down to worst.
NOTE: Don't be a spammer by placing your music in places it shouldn't be. If you are a death metal act, I doubt jazz fans will be too happy to see you and your fans promoting music on their site. Stick to similar styles of music and you'll be fine.
Questions or Comments
If you have any questions, send an email to streetteams@reverbnation.com.
Feedback is always appreciated.
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