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The Myspace Killer? Nimbit Launches “Direct-To-Fan” Commerce On Facebook.

 

Nimbit MyStore™ for Facebook gives musicians, managers, and labels an easy way to sell and market music, merchandise and eTickets directly from the artist’s Facebook profile and pages.

Here is how Nimbit is describing the new service:

Nimbit MyStore for Facebook takes full advantage of all the social networking capabilities of Facebook, giving artists powerful fan marketing and promotion capabilities. With Nimbit MyStore for Facebook artists can:

  • Conduct pre-sale promotions
  • Post and promote new releases
  • Promote shows and tours
  • Track promotions and giveaways
  • Build fan loyalty through ongoing promotions
  • Drive fan-to-fan marketing
  • Create and track viral spread

With Nimbit MyStore for Facebook, artists can sell both digital and physical products, including digital music, physical merchandise, eTickets and more right from the artist’s Facebook page. Fans never leave your Facebook page to purchase an item, enabling artists to own the buying relationship, maintain knowledge of what each fan buys, and retaining more of the profits.Digital music

  • Physical CDs, DVDs
  • Merchandise (T-shirts, posters, autopgraphs items, etc.)
  • Download cards
  • eTickets
  • Create custom packages based on fan buying behaviors

Nimbit MyStore accepts all major credit cards and Paypal and provides a single, secure checkout cart right from the artist’s Facebook page for all purchases.

This looks really promising and can’t be good news for Myspace.  Artist/Bands have stuck with myspace because Facebook has always lacked with its music services but this looks like it could be the game changer and overall great news for musicians abroad!

  • Similar article from The Street with an indepth analysis and interview of Nimbit founders on why MyStore is worthy of the buzz. http://bit.ly/1xCKIl
  • The iLike app [on Facebook] already hosts concert ticket sales, song downloads via iTunes, and promotes shows and fan-to-fan marketing. I am a little skeptical that Nimbit's app will have the huge impact which you predict. Well-written article though and very intriguing. Thanks for posting!
  • Just finished a video demo of the MyStore app, check it out! http://bit.ly/2Vcd4c
  • chuckfinnley
    There's something to be said for uniformity. Myspace failed when it took 5 minutes to load every other page because the user didn't understand that adding all those crazy "customizations" means their page loads slower. Yes, personality is great to have but Facebook's clean interface has undoubtedly attributed to its massive adoption over myspace.

    In my opinion a store like this is well over-due. It's good to see someone finally step up to the plate and enable the everyday artist to sell their music online while simultaneously engaging their fans. Facebook has the population, this store creates significant potential for artists to tap into that population.
  • as I commented below, we can already sell concert tix and song downloads via iLike's Facebook app. So this isn't completely new. User "Facebook Cursors" raises an important aspect to which the Nimbit video doesn't make ANY mention: what is their % commission??? anyone know how much $ Nimbit rakes from each sale?
  • John Cooke
    Nimbit pays out 80% of retail sales, 90% of eTicket sales through Nimbit storefronts.
    Nimbit pays 100% of wholesale disbursements received from iTunes, Amazon, etc. (they already take 30% or more!)
    Working with Nimbit is NOT exclusive. Artist's stay with us because they want to.

    pretty much better than all the competitors no?
  • I sorta agree wtih wormbawarmbo...customization is sucky. Just apps that people make so they can make money off of you if you use their apps.
  • wombawomba
    yeah but facebook really sucks when it comes to customization. If it weren't for the fact that all my friends came over here, I would have stayed at myspace. How fun would it be to go to an artists page with just a little cube of a photo in the top left instead of a full on page for them. I mean seriously? Facebook sucks. If myspace wasn't so slow and shitty on the backend, no one would have left.
  • Erik
    Myspace is so slow and shitty for exactly the reasons you speak of.
  • DossyDomo
    Oh hck yeah, now you are talikng!

    RT
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