Archives for the category ‘Using Your Tools’

Build your Fan-Base using the Believe Backstage

September, 14th 2011 10:45

In this age of niche markets, Twitter profiles, YouTube channels, and Facebook Fan pages communicating with a fan-base is now more direct and arguably, easier than before. This does not mean, however, that fans just appear from nowhere and you should think carefully about which tools you’ll be using for fan-base curation, as well as your communications plan, and database storage.

The Believe Backstage includes multiple tools to help you acquire and store fan information, and communicate with them. Here’s the rundown: (more…)

How to: Add the Believe Player to Facebook

August, 19th 2011 09:45

There’s been some changes to the way that you add the Believe Player to your Facebook page, so we’ve made you this step-by-step guide to working with the app, in light of recent changes. Don’t worry though, the new steps aren’t harder and there’s less than ten.

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Make the most of YouTube with Believe

August, 2nd 2011 18:03

In February, we announced that we’d inked a deal with YouTube to improve our label’s online experience, since then we’ve rolled out a new service to our labels and it’s high time we explained it to everyone.

Guide to Believe’s YouTube Services

Comprised of four levels of service, Believe’s YouTube service, helps labels by creating monetisation strategies and special marketing opportunities:

Level 1 – Audio Fingerprinting Delivery

This service tier, by far the most basic, gives labels and artists more control over their content on the YouTube system.

Believe delivers the catalogue to YouTube, allowing the automatic identification of all videos using the label in question’s content; from there Believe can clear up any ownership conflicts which might arise over content and monetise or remove any unauthorized content.

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Artists, labels : Build your fanbase with the Email Grabber

April, 13th 2011 15:05

Believe Digital has developed the Email Grabber tool for you, a widget that collect emails in order to help you develop your fan base and improve your Contacts Database.

Fully customizable and free, the Email Grabber, fits on every Website or blog easily. Not only that, but we allow you to create as many Email Grabber widgets as your heart desires, so that you’ve got one for all your needs.

How to create an Email Grabber

Connect to your BelieveBackstage, and select Email Grabber, found in the BelieveConnect section.

Choose an artist or a label from your catalogue: You can create an Email Grabber for individual artists or for your entire record label.

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Easily create compilations from your catalog with Believe Backstage

September, 23rd 2010 17:15
Today we inaugurate a long-awaited functionality.
Thanks to Believe Backstage you can now easily create compilations from your catalog without having to import your tracks again.
To do so, there is nothing simpler: connect to your Believe backstage interface and choose the option “Create a compilation”.
  1. Edit the metadatas  and the cover as you would do for an album creation.
  2. Your are now left with 2 options
  • You can either select a track from your catalog without importing it again or add a new track that is not on your catalog yet.
  • You can then complete your compilation by choosing the distribution network, the release date, the price code. ..
You can also add the options allowed by Believe Backstage (pre-order, video…)
We hope that you will be completely satisfied with this new service as Christmas is on its way and remain at your disposal for any further information.
As usual, a tutorial is available here.

Believe Players & Statistics

November, 5th 2009 13:23

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An example of how player-statistics look

The Believe Player has two advantages: firstly, you can promote your work online with direct links to the major digital stores and secondly, you can collect information about your audience with statistical analysis of the data it collects.

Today, the main advantage of digital distribution is the ability to track the behaviour and habits of your listeners. Using simple figures your Believe Player can tell you all you need to know about your audience.

  • Graphically: Using a simple graphic interface, list your player(s) in order of number of unique views with the most viewed players at the top.
  • Unique Visitors: This statistic represents the number of different people who have viewed your player. Please be aware that this monitors each individual user, if one person views the player five times, this counts as one unique visitor.
  • Total Views: This is the total number of views of your player, inclusive of unique and return visitors, so if five people view your player but one of them views it five times, that would count as ten views.
  • Plays: This is this number of times your songs have been streamed through your Believe Player.
  • Clicks: This represents the number of direct sales generated from click’s through your Believe Player.

With these statistics you can easily analyse the impact of your players on your popularity and your sales and use the figures to adapt the way you use your players.

An example of a Believe player in action can be seen here.

Let us know how effective you have found the Believe Player when promoting your music.