Artists Enhance your home page, blog, or other profile pages with widgets that keep your information consistent and give your fans an easy way to promote you! Sign up to get your widgets now!	Fans Support the artists you love by adding their content to your web pages. When the artist adds content, your widgets will be updated automatically! Sign up to create a free fan profile and start making your playlist now!
All Widgets can be shared by anyone who sees them and can be posted to MySpace profiles, MySpace comments, MySpace Bulletins, Freewebs, Friendster, Orkut, Blogger, LiveJournal, BlackPlanet, MyYearbook, TypePad, Xanga, iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, and millions of other places that allow Flash. Click here to add music to your Facebook profile. Click here to add music to your Bebo profile.

WIDGETS GALLERY

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Our stats provide everything you need to answer the following questions (and more):

Fans
• How many fans do I have and where are they located?
• What age and gender are my fans?
• Which fans are helping spread my music on the web?
• Which fans are listeners and which are promoters? How valuable are my fans?

Songs
• Which of my songs is being played the most?
• Which of my songs is being played the longest before someone turns it off?
• Where are my song plays coming from?
• How many times have my songs been downloaded?

Traffic
• How much traffic is my page receiving?
• Where is that traffic coming from?

Widgets (remote players you deploy to other sites; more info here)
• On what other sites are my widgets deployed?
• Which other sites are generating me the most plays via my widgets?
• How can I get more widget hits, placements, plays, etc?
• Which widget placements have been active in the last 24 hours?

ReverbNation provides all of this to artists free of charge. You can access your stats from inside the Admin/Tools section, which is created for you automatically upon signup.

Our FREE Street Team System

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.

ReverbNation makes it easy to make all of your online retail outlets available to your fans. First click on in the Artist Resources section of your Admin/Tools page. Then simply copy and paste into the appropriate fields the URLs for the stores you'd like to make available. Then you're done! Now your fans can access the full array of your retailers on the Store tab on your ReverbNation profile page and also in the Store section of your TuneWidget!

Overview

ReverbNation shares half of the advertising revenue generated from artist profile pages on the web site. Each month, 50% of the total ad revenue from across all artist pages will be pooled, and artists who have opted-in to the Fair Share Program will receive a portion of that pool based on their overall site activity for the month.


Details

1. A site-activity score will be calculated at the end of every month for each artist. Each artist will receive their Fair Share of the revenue pool based on the proportion of their site activity to the rest of the participating artists.

2. Artists can increase their site activity scores by driving more new fans to their pages, and by having their music played more often and in more places on the web.

3. Artists must opt in to the program to participate. Artists are only eligible to opt in if they have all of the following:
• Copyright control over all content on their ReverbNation profile page
• FanReach activated
• A valid mailing address
• A valid PayPal account to receive the funds

4. Artists can withdraw funds if:
• An artist has been enrolled in Fair Share for at least 60 days.
• An artist's account balance exceeds $20.


FAQ

How do artists earn money at ReverbNation? How does ReverbNation earn Money?
How do I drive more fans and new fans to my page?
How do I increase the number or song plays and locations of those plays?


How do artists earn money at ReverbNation? How does ReverbNation earn Money?

ReverbNation is a business with offices, employees, and investors, so we need to make money to eat, sleep, and be happy too. But we differ from most companies in this space in that we understand that without the Artist we have no music, and without the music we have no website, and without a website, we can't eat, sleep or be happy. We bring our heart and soul and technology to the table, but Artists bring themselves, their music, and their fans. This is why we decided to split all advertising revenue down the middle. This all sounds lovely, but please don't quit your day job over this. While many artists will get a very nice paycheck each month, many artists will get very little. Remember, it is all based on the activity an Artist generates, and that is the fairest way to do it. Other companies like Last.fm are now copying our model and sharing some ad revenue with the indie Artist. But we just don't feel that 10% is enough for all that you do for our site. You are our partners, and we will always treat you that way.


How do I drive more fans and new fans to my page?

There are lots of ways to do this. Here are a few:

• Encourage your fans to join the site. If they keep a profile on ReverbNation, they are up to 10 times more likely to visit your page and get their friends to visit it too.

• Use our free emailing and fan-targeting system called FanReach. All FanReach emails have links back to your page, and we automatically track when your fans link back so that you know which emails are working.
Click here to learn more about FanReach

• Put a linking banner up on your other webpages and in blogs. When you signup for ReverbNation, we create one for you automatically and put it inside your widgets tab on your profile page. Just click it to grab it.
Click here to get the banner


How do I increase the number or song plays and locations of those plays?

It's easy. Grab one of the music player widgets from your widgets tab. Put them into as many different places as you can think of on the web - blogs, web pages, MySpace Bulletins, MySpace Comments, etc. Encourage your fans to spread your music players too! To maximize plays on each widget, select "on" for the autoplay option. This will start the music playing automatically when the target web page is opened or refreshed.
Click here to get your music player
Click here to get your mini player
 

Do you need to fill a gap in your Tour?
Need to build a Tour from scratch?
Want to expand your reach in a specific region?

Gig Finder is for you! And it's free for all artists who have ReverbNation profiles.


Gig Finder is different

You can use any number of web sites to locate venues and clubs in a specific geography, but who's to say that they are going to be receptive to your genre or your capacity requirements? With Gig Finder, you can locate Venues and Clubs that have booked Artists similar to YOU!




Gig Finder let's you find opportunities based on ANY or ALL of the following criteria:

1. Geography (venues in a given area)
2. Venue Name (if you know the name, we'll find it)
3. Where similar Artists to you have played (type in an Artist and we'll show you the venues they've played).
4. Similar Venues to ones you have played or you are familiar with (type in a venue name, and we'll show you a list of venues that have hosted the same Artists).


Sign up now for ReverbNation and get access to this awesome FREE feature!