The IMP beta starts Monday, June 11th, and we’re looking for writers, musicians, and filmmakers interested in hosting their work on our site!
In case you didn’t know, for the past two years I’ve been working at an independent software company in Seattle, called Brain Murmurs. Recently we started discussing ways to help the whole swarm of artists who have been living off of duct tape soup find a way to make money selling their work. Not that it’s all about the dough – just that, if you’re going to sell it online at the very least you don’t need fuckers like myspace taking a piece of the cut. Right?
For years we as artists have been stuck using “social” networking sites to showcase our stuff and communicating with each other. And we all feel sick to our stomaches every time we begrudginly say “oh, you can find my stuff on mumble mumble myspace.com mumble mumble slash kilboyfuckbot”.
Either that or trying to hawk cd’s at the door so you can make just enough gas money to get to the next town. You can still do that, and shit, that’s half the fun – not knowing if you’re going to wake up in a room in arkansas with somebody’s booger collection on the wall.
Here’s an alternative though – set up an IMP account (it’s hella quick and free!), set up the media you want to distribute, and watch the money pour in! WE DON’T TAKE A DIME. We support ourselves through unobtrustive ads (that is, no boobies or racist/sexist shoot the rapper for a free ringtone flash games). Other sites take a pretty hefty cut – we think that sucks and we’d rather risk taking the money from advertisers and not crust punks.
It’s really simple. You can even keep your blog, personal site or myspace and link them to IMP as an exponential means of promotion, networking & sales. It’s totally up to. But if you want to sell you work, you might as well point people to the one place you know you’re going to get all your money.
I’m also personally in charge of setting up a tour tracker that will help bands plan gigs with venues. If you know me personally, then you know I’ve been setting up gigs in my house or touring for several years now. I know it’s a pain in the ass trying to organize and communicate, and I want to make the process go smoother. If you have ideas about this, I want to know.
Suffice it to say, I think you should join us now at http://independentmediaproject.com/beta.php and give it a try. We’re still in a beta phase but we will be taking the site live for all the world to see and love in July, so we want your feedback and content as IMP continues to grow. Feel free to write in and share your thoughts.
So come check out the site, we’re looking forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions, send email to imp@brainmurmurs.com.
-The IMP Team
The IMP beta starts Monday, June 11th, and we’re looking for writers, musicians, and filmmakers interested in hosting their work on our site!
In case you didn’t know, for the past two years I’ve been working at an independent software company in Seattle, called Brain Murmurs. Recently we started discussing ways to help the whole swarm of artists who have been living off of duct tape soup find a way to make money selling their work. Not that it’s all about the dough – just that, if you’re going to sell it online at the very least you don’t need fuckers like myspace taking a piece of the cut. Right?
For years we as artists have been stuck using “social” networking sites to showcase our stuff and communicating with each other. And we all feel sick to our stomaches every time we begrudginly say “oh, you can find my stuff on mumble mumble myspace.com mumble mumble slash kilboyfuckbot”.
Either that or trying to hawk cd’s at the door so you can make just enough gas money to get to the next town. You can still do that, and shit, that’s half the fun – not knowing if you’re going to wake up in a room in arkansas with somebody’s booger collection on the wall.
Here’s an alternative though – set up an IMP account (it’s hella quick and free!), set up the media you want to distribute, and watch the money pour in! WE DON’T TAKE A DIME. We support ourselves through unobtrustive ads (that is, no boobies or racist/sexist shoot the rapper for a free ringtone flash games). Other sites take a pretty hefty cut – we think that sucks and we’d rather risk taking the money from advertisers and not crust punks.
It’s really simple. You can even keep your blog, personal site or myspace and link them to IMP as an exponential means of promotion, networking & sales. It’s totally up to. But if you want to sell you work, you might as well point people to the one place you know you’re going to get all your money.
I’m also personally in charge of setting up a tour tracker that will help bands plan gigs with venues. If you know me personally, then you know I’ve been setting up gigs in my house or touring for several years now. I know it’s a pain in the ass trying to organize and communicate, and I want to make the process go smoother. If you have ideas about this, I want to know.
Suffice it to say, I think you should join us now at http://imp.fm and give it a try. We’re still in a beta phase but we will be taking the site live for all the world to see and love in July, so we want your feedback and content as IMP continues to grow. Feel free to write in and share your thoughts.
So come check out the site, we’re looking forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions, send email to imp@brainmurmurs.com.
-The IMP Team