We love Nimbit.
It’s been around a while offering all sorts of amazing ‘direct-to-fan’ marketing tools (email list capture, analytics, social media tools etc) and ‘direct-to-fan’ selling tools (widgets that allow you to sell all types of stuff from all sorts of places). In fact, we’ve been recommending it to our clients for a very long time and many have chosen to use it for it’s ‘all-in-one’ ease of use.
And now, they’ve moved the game on and managed to bring their functionality to facebook.
It’s important to realise what a powerful tool Nimbit is before you can really see what their new extra tools for facebook can mean for you as a do-it-yourself artist.
Nimbit allows you to manage your direct-to-fan activity pretty much all from within Nimbit’s site. Meaning, for the most part, that you can deal with all your Social Networking pages and your own blog all from one place.
And what can you do with it?
You can:
- build your fan mailing list, find out more information about your fans, mail them in loads of cool ways
- sell pretty much anything direct to fans – digital tracks, merchandise, CD’s, tickets
- sell that stuff from loads of different places where you can drop their widget – MySpace, your blog etc
- control your Social Network presence from one place and build your ‘music brand’
But that’s not all – they’ll also get your digital tracks for sale on all the major sites, such as iTunes and Amazon.
So, why is this update to what Nimbit can do on facebook a big deal? – because it has all their functionality in one easy to switch on App! It’s so simple – literally switch it on and you are selling to your fans on facebook.
What does it cost?
Well, maybe nothing!
In order to have the MyStore application running on your facebook page, you have to have a Nimbit account – but it can be the basic free Nimbit account. There are limitations on what you can use it to do, but you get most of the facebook App functionality for free.
In truth, if you get it, you’ll probably end up falling in love with how easy Nimbit can make your music marketing and to get all the functions you’ll have to upgrade to one of their two membership levels – either $9.95 or $19.95 per month.
But, it’s well worth it.
Click here to go to Nimbit and have a look at the MyStore App.
Or, watch the video about MyStore below.
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Nice…this has to be the way forward for many artists…
Interesting to see how quickly this gets adopted and whether it impacts the live business (at the bottom end at least) too – e-tickets aswell…
Cut out more middlemen or change the middleman you work with eh!
This store fits perfectly with the new DIY music community. All you need to make music is a mac book pro and garage band. Now the very same artist can sell his music from facebook using this new store. Down with the middlemen!
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Ian/Amanda
Do you have any advice/knowledge on the legality of direct to fan physical sales when posting items outside of the EU? How do you complete the customs form properly etc.?
I’ve asked on many DIY music forums and no-one seems to know for sure.
Cheers
Chris.
(I realise this question isn’t directly related to this rather old post buy your contact page suggests commenting on a post is the best way to ask a question and this post seemed most appropriate)
Hi Chris
Strictly speaking you have to complete a customs form for anything that you sell and post outside of the EU.
See this at the Royal Mail site – http://www2.royalmail.com/delivery/mail-advice/customs-information?campaignid=customs_redirect
The form is a CN22.
That said, when we sell individual records (be they CD’s or vinyl), we just don’t bother. The concern is that they get opened at customs and returned, so your customer doesn’t get them.
We’ve posted upwards of 5,000 pieces over the last ten years and have never had one returned for failing the entry country’s customs check. I’d be surprised if even 0.1% of the mail going into the US or Aus/NZ is actually checked anyway.
Customer service with D2F is though essential. A customer who doesn’t get their package within a week or so starts to get the hump. So, a delay or stoppage at customs is to be avoided. Polite emails to the waiting customer that you have a lot of experience mailing records and are sure it will get there and that you’ll send another if it doesn’t are the order of the day.
Lastly, the reason we don’t bother is that a CD is probably a 60p cost to us and US postage maybe £1.75 (Airmail, Small Packet, Franking account), so we just figure 1 in 5000 that we lose and have to send again is a cost well worth taking on for the time saved filling out 5,000 forms!
I have never heard of anyone having any legal trouble by sending sold goods ex-EU without a customs form.
….apart from that one time when the guys in Amsterdam sent the…….but that was another thing entirely!
So, my advice, don’t sweat it.
Interesting. Well this is slightly different advice to what I’ve had before. Thanks.
I’ve posted several hundred items outside the EU over the last two years and I’ve always completed a customs form detailing the contents and the retail value of the CDs/T-Shirts/whatever. I always list them as ‘gift’ and so far haven’t heard of any problems.
I agree with you 100% on customer service. If I get an order before lunchtime then I post it that day or the next if not. I’d happily send another if the first didn’t arrive.
“….apart from that one time when the guys in Amsterdam sent the…….but that was another thing entirely!”
An old housemate of mine posted himself some mushrooms from Amsterdam and he didn’t put enough postage on it. Had our student house searched and everyone pulled up to the police station for a polite ticking off. Classic.
Chris
I’m not saying it’s the correct thing to do legally – just that we basically can’t be bothered and it’s never been a problem for us!
Obviously the best approach is to fill them out, but life’s just too short isn’t it!
I presume your mate was so off it at the time that he couldn’t work out the Dutch postage system! Not the first such incident that I have encountered.
Doh – meant to stack that.
Just checked your band out. Your name got anything to do with said ‘shrooms?
Haha, you would think so but it’s not. It was just one of those mad conversations that ended with the ultimate band name.
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