Check out www.MediaPal.com for distribution

bryanmediapal · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to drop a line about checking out www.MediaPal.com for music and media distribution.

Upload your music or media,price your music/media, copy and pate the distribution buttons on your website...and you have full distribution of music and media. Billable downloads, album downloads, ability for your consumers to make custom CDs and DVDs, and the sale of your stock/retail CDs/DVDs.

Everything is On-Demand. When someone orders a physical CD from you, the order comes to us...we burn it, print your inserts, shrink wrap your CD and ship to your customer. We are transparent too, so your customer always thinks you are providing the full service. Same for downloads.

There are alot of other features, but please check out.

Bryan

www.MediaPal.com

bbchris

That sounds handy for some of the artists that visit this board. What's your fee? How long has your website existed? Do you have any testimonials from other indie artists?

MIKE BURN

This offer looks very promising and fair to me! :bigeyes

MIKE

10 free song uploads||1 free video upload

bbchris

I agree Mike, it sounds like a good service but their website was very confusing and I couldn't find out the fees they charge etc..... Maybe it's just me...

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

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I couldn't find out the fees they charge etc..... Maybe it's just me...

No, it's not just you, LOL. If anything an artist learns - usually the hard way - is to ask "what's the catch?" in such matters.

I wondered too, I used my "whois program" to check out the domain first. Domains that are very recent and are hosted on free sites are one warning sign,hahaha! But MediaPal has been online since 1998. They distribute material - books and such - and are getting into the music area. So it all seems quite legit and above board & it seems they are somwhat connected in the music industry.

But, like you, I'm curious if they have a fee structure and, if so, what it looks like.

A search yielded up quite a few postings like this one on the music forums, so I imagine whoever does their PR is just making the musicBB rounds.

Here's a PR release (written by MediaPal PR, of course) at PRweb concerning this: MediaPal Press Release

bbchris

Wow! Thank you Ron!! You must be a detective offline!! Excellent advice. And from your deductions, I see we still don't know their pricing... :wgrin

bryanmediapal · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

Hey Everyone Sorry about that. I didn't click to receive emails on topic notificaitons...and Ron pulled me back in the forum. Thanks Ron.

The fees are real simple. We go 50/50 with everyone for music. For downloads and On-Demand CDs/DVDs.

www.mediapal.com/index_fees.html

If any other questions please write back. I will be watching this post frequently now for sure.

Thanks again Ron!!

Bryan

www.MediaPal.com

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

You're more than welcome, Bryan - thank you for dropping by. You'll find talented and highly marketable indie musicians hereabouts - new info on what's what in the biz is always appreciated!

bbchris · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: Re: Hey Guys Sorry!!!

Thanks Bryan for popping in! Thanks Ron for guiding him back!

It sounds good to me Bryan. And very fair.

I have some questions:

1. Where do you advertise? Do you advertise?

2. After looking thru the FAQ at your site I see:

MediaPal has minimum price requirements for each distribution type. You can use our minimum fees as a template model for your pricing strategy and expand or increase your pricing if you want.

Single Download $0.89

Single Custom burn $0.99

Album Download $7.99

Retail CD $9.99

So are these the minimum we can offer? Got more questions but ran out of time.. I'll be back!

markhewer · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 246

Hi Brian,

The site looks great. I signed up and uploaded a whole CD's worth of MP3's yesterday, but I'm not sure sure how to get the buttons and stuff onto my website at www.markhewer.com I'm not that great with HTML. :bawling

...but keep up the great work! :yo

Mark

Follow your dreams!

http://markhewer.com

bryanmediapal · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

Hey bbchris

The base prices are the lowest prices you charge per product/transaction.

For example, the base price for a download is .89 cents. We always still go 50/50 so it would be 45 cents each.

If you priced your download at 1.00 then it would be .50 cents each and etc...

Same model for all transactions.

Bryan

bryanmediapal · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

The way you add the buttons is in any HTML editor.

After you upload your tracks...in the Control Panel there is a section in the menu that states "Download Buttons", "Custom Burn Buttons", etc..

Those are your distribution buttons for each of your tracks or CDs.

Navigate to the code for them, and you just have to copy and paste the two sections on your web page. After you do it once, its a no brainer after.

I can help you do it if you would like,

My personal email is Bryan@MediaPal.com

Bryan

bbchris · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:05 am Post subject: Re: Hey Mark

Bryan! Thanks for being so so helpful! If Mark Hewer signs up then it's good enough for me. When I get back from Australia, I will join up with your site. Once again Bryan thank you for interacting with everyone here.

bryanmediapal · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

Thanks bbchris.

Just write me if any questions once you get started.

Bryan

Bryan@MediaPal.com

rod steel global · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 636

worldwide service ?

currency, US$ only ?

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