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rawkandrowl
02/25/10, 03:27 PM
Has anyone tried selling digital download cards at their shows? (Such as those made by dropcards.com.) What were the results like? Would you recommend it?
SingleDoubt
02/25/10, 04:55 PM
yeah. didnt really get any bites, it was a pretty bad investment. if you're not a big name then physical copies are the way to go, people just want to pop in your album and give it a quick listen to see if they're into it
SuperFinelin9
02/25/10, 07:00 PM
I have heard that I fight Dragons did really well with $100 USB drives that included lifetime free digital downloads of their music
rawkandrowl
02/28/10, 01:56 PM
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!
0b4m4
03/01/10, 02:02 PM
Yeah, if you do it right then you will surely get a good amount of sales. Just make it well worth it to you fans.
varsido
03/02/10, 05:53 PM
at first glance flash drives seemed like a good idea.. but not any better or more cost effective than cds. probably worse since you can't play them in a car and more expensive.
rawkandrowl
03/03/10, 10:38 AM
I think we decided to try printing up 100 cards from dropcards.com in addition to our CDs, when we put our EP out, and see if people are interested in them at all. Thankfully it's pretty cheap, like $40 for 100 cards.
emblemsmusic
03/08/10, 10:25 PM
We designed and printed our own drop cards.
We're pretty handy with photoshop and printed them on cardstock from a photoprinter.
Inexpensive and it allowed us to give them away for free.

Sample on our myspace (http://www.myspace.com/emblemsmusic) under the 'sounds like' section
rawkandrowl
03/10/10, 11:19 AM
emblemsmusic, when you did this how did you put the technology in place for people to go download your music securely?
emblemsmusic
03/10/10, 05:18 PM
emblemsmusic, when you did this how did you put the technology in place for people to go download your music securely?

We have been doing this since January. Mediafire.com is a wonderful place to host files freely and has an automatic virus scanner.
alifelikestory
03/21/10, 10:20 AM
I've heard of releasing singles for free on business cards. Also, the free lifetime of digital downloads is a great deal too, we've thought about that
BandsOnABudget
05/27/10, 10:49 AM
Check out IndieCards from BandsOnABudget.com. We offer many different affordable download card options. We host all your content on our site for free indefinitely. Personally, my own bad has used IndieCards and we basically just sell them for "suggested price" or donation. I think as far as selling the cards, it depends how much content or what kind of content (songs/videos/extras) you can get with the cards.
SvennyBoy
06/05/10, 09:47 AM
We have been doing this since January. Mediafire.com is a wonderful place to host files freely and has an automatic virus scanner.

That's what my current band uses too.
razzman3
06/07/10, 10:38 AM
Yeah man, people are stupid when it comes to technology and college kids cant even figure out how to use these cards. Bad idea.
devonhurt
06/13/10, 07:44 PM
I've found that they're a tough sell, man. Kids want to hold something in their hand, you know?
PerfectChaos337
06/13/10, 08:20 PM
Personally, I would only get these made if I were to give them out for free. Seems like it'd be a great idea for an EP or a single, but it's not something I'd personally pay money for...
duhpunk
06/13/10, 09:12 PM
the people that dig your band will buy the cd at the show...and continue to see you live. your objective is to get as many people listening to your music as possible and come to more shows to support you, so you should be giving away your album (or at least some tracks off of it) digitally, for free.

when my band records our demo in a few weeks, i plan on putting it on a digital music retailer for those kind enough to pay for it, but i dont expect much revenue from it. we will be selling the cd at the show, and giving away half of it, via mediafire.
bradsonemanband
06/14/10, 07:02 AM
i've thought about handing out free cd samplers. like 3 or 4 songs from our album, and putting a business card in the case with a link to download the full album from our bandcamp page for free/pay what you want.
duhpunk
06/15/10, 08:41 AM
i've thought about handing out free cd samplers. like 3 or 4 songs from our album, and putting a business card in the case with a link to download the full album from our bandcamp page for free/pay what you want.

we talked about doing kind of the opposite. we are going to give away half the album for free to download, and sell the full cd at the shows and through some digital retailer. but that's a good month away