Indie Connect Member are entitled to the following 3rd party benefits:
MusicPro Insurance
Affordable and convenient insurance for the music professional
MusicPro Insurance Agency LLC, provides convenient, lower cost insurance to meet the needs of working music professionals. To accrss this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Online you can apply or get quotes for:
- Health – Major Medical Plans, Limited Medical Plans, Dental & Prescription Drugs
- Life Insurance and Long Term Care
- Travel/Personal Accident Insurance**
- Standard & Classical Musical Instruments and Equipment
- Studio Liability
- Tour Coverage/Liability
- Special Event (s) /One-off(s)
*Licensed agent or broker. Coverage available where licensed.
**Travel/Personal Accident Insurance- AD&D (Accidental Death & Disability)
$10 a year for $50,000 – cover accidents 24/7.
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Sweetwater
Onlie music retailer – variable discounts based on the product you’re looking for! To receive your discounts: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Broadjam
Broadjam is a web community dedicated to both indie musicians and fans of indie music. Promote your band or music by joining our social network, where you can win prizes and explore licensing opportunities in TV and film. Find new independent music and collaborate with other indie musicians and fans. We support the top indie bands of the world!
Receive a 6 mo. free Primo MoB membership. To access this discount: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Airplay Direct
50% off a one-year subscription. To access this discount: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
AirPlay Direct is a web-based artist marketing, promotion, education, and advocacy platform that delivers premium digital services for FREE.
Our technology allows artists, record labels, and music publishers to securely deliver their broadcast-quality music and digital press kits to radio stations and music industry professionals worldwide. Our system provides an intuitive environment for radio programmers and film & TV music supervisors to connect to new music, create music calls, browse top downloaded artists, and immediately download music and related artist information.
AirPlay Direct is the leading secure digital file transfer system for the music industry.
The AirPlay Direct team has combined experience of over 50 years in the music industry. Despite the ever-changing environment, we know there are two truths:
- Artists and record labels need airplay, but are frustrated with the process and the enormous cost of sending music to radio and other professional media outlets globally.
- Radio programmers are finding it more difficult to discover good music and receive it quickly in a broadcast-quality format.
AirPlay Direct eliminates these headaches and empowers you to do your job efficiently and cost effectively!
Our FREE professional services deliver results for artists and record labels. Grow your global distribution, increase your airplay, and deliver your music quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively. Stop wasting time and money by sending out hard copy artist packages or by paying for expensive digital music delivery and electronic press kit services that aren’t effective.
MyWerx
MyWerx and Indie Connect have teamed up to provide the members of Indie Connect with 600 MB of FREE revolutionary Copyright Protection through its WerxProof service. MyWerx simple copyright management platform provides songwriters with WerxPost, a free database for managing their life’s work, and WerxConnect, a social network that connects Creators and their collaborators to their work. The WerxProof web and iPhone applications deliver the best possible proof that you are the creator of your works. The evidence includes geolocation (where you were when you created it), dates and time stamps, who you created it with, and multiple copies of the work are easily stored and shared as the work develops.
When you begin to create you don’t know which works will commercially develop to the point where a Library of Congress registration is justified. WerxProof provides superior evidence at the moment of creation at a cost everyone can afford so every work benefits. Later, if you choose to file your copyright with the Library of Congress, your WerxProof date of creation evidence is already established, saving you money, time and peace of mind. It’s simple and better business.
Why MyWerx? How does it relate to a registration with the Library of Congress?
The United States copyright law grants you copyright protection the moment you create your work, but you must be able to prove that your Work is original and was created first. With WerxProof you can to register your Works early in their development to establish a verifiable earliest possible date of creation. Works that become commercially distributed should ultimately be registered with the Library of Congress (LOC). LOC registration is required to file a lawsuit, to protect your self against a lawsuit, to receive financial awards from a lawsuit, and the deposit copy, which is supposed to be the “best published edition” supports claims of originality. However, the $40 filing fee with the LOC is too expensive for most creators to justify filing a registration on each Work. Collective Work registrations (combining many Works on a single registration) began to increase in an effort to reduce registration costs. Collective Work registrations result in delayed LOC filings of deposit copies and therefore delay substantiation of proof of creation. Professional publishers and record companies only file copyright registrations on a small percentage of the Works they own. Due to the cost, registrations with the Library of Congress are typically reserved for commercially released Works. WerxProof supports the best practice of LOC registrations by providing early low cost, and third party verification of proof of the date of creation, as well as Work development history to show how the Work developed overtime.
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101 Distribution
Physical and digital distribution – Receive $100 off the Professional Distribution Servece. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Despite the vast possibilities made available to consumers by the new digital landscape of the Internet, most traditional corporate paradigms remain when it comes to making money from selling music. 101 Distribution, LLC (also referred to as “the Company”) is an established Phoenix, Arizona-based independent music distributor and online platform. The Company operates as the first and only conventional distributor to offer musicians and filmmakers a 100% payout of all net sales royalties.
Starting in 1998 as an artist consulting group, 101 Distribution, through its site www.101d.com, has grown into a full-service solution, now used to manage the digital, mobile, retail, and mail order sales for more than 2,000 actively selling titles. Its innovative platform, where artists simply pay a flat fee to centralize and manage all aspects of their digital and physical sales, is aimed to become a primary alternative to the imploding old-world system. Wtih the pro option, artists receive 100% of all retail, mail order, download, mobile and merchandise sales. The Company estimates that within the first 90 days of signing with 101 Distribution, 60% of all artists see a complete return of their investment.
101 Distribution is a blueprint for artists navigating a declining economy and fragmented marketplace. The Company’s catalog of independent music and movie releases can be found in more than 5,500 brick-and-mortar retail stores, digital download services, and mobile networks across the U.S. and Canada, as well as in the UK, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, South Africa, Holland, and Armenia. 101 Distribution leverages its proprietary mobile platform to make selling and promoting ringtones, mobile downloads and video user friendly. The Company’s all-encompassing artist services help to bolster its reputation as the first place serious musicians come to sell music. 101 Distribution is the only independently owned full-service music and video distributor in the nation and has maintained a perfect A+ rating with the BBB for the last four years.
Nashville Used Music
10% off all used instruments and gear, excluding vintage gear. To accrss this benefit, [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Indie Extreme
10% off a new account signup (up to $150 value): To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
In years past, the major labels siged an artist or band and focused on developing that act through the release of 2 -3 albums, growing the artist’s skills and fanbase through the years as they became a successful act. Several years ago, that system was abandoned and the labels stopped doing the so called “Development Deals”.
With the advent of the independent market, Indie Extreme is committed to the growth and development of independent artists and bands! We provide a safe, educational enviornment for artists to test their skills, learn, grow, try again, expand, and reach their full potential as an artist. Our IE experts and experienced staff have been apart of developing some of the greatest talent in modern commercial music. They are available to advise, consult and direct our clients to the reach their potential as artists and songwriters in this ever changing music world.
For a FULL Development evaluation with our IE Team, fill out the Evaluation form and submit it online. We will contact you with in 24 hours to discuss the process and schedule your consultation.
Artist Development Services
- Artist Development Consult
- Customized CD Recording Package
- Song Selection Consult
- Artwork Development
- CD Replication
- Business Vision/Mission Consult
- Incorporation/Trademark Registration
- Copyright Registration (songs)
- Strategic Plan Development
- Marketing Plan Development
- Business Plan Development
- Training On Raising Capital
- Training On Investor Relations
Dropcards
Every kind of download card you can think of! Coming in January 2011
HowToLicenseYourMusic.com
Liccensing products and workshops. – coming in Janaury 2011
Wyndham Hotel Group
- Days Inn
- Baymont
- Howard Johnson
- Knights Inn
- Ramada
- Super 8
- Travelodge
- Microtel
- Hawthorn
- Wingate
To obtain your 15 % discount for these hotels, you will need to use the following link and corporate id to book your reservations. [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Hertz Car Rentals
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Rockstep Creative
20% off any video shoot (value $50 – $1000 or more). To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
MyMusicSuccess.com
15% off their popular e-book, “101 Ways To Market Your Music On The Web”. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Vinny Ribas
Free copy of “From Practice To Professional” – 40 pg. e-book on launching and growing your music career. To access this e-book: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Judy Rodman
50% off a vocal lesson – for new and current students ($50 value). To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
The Refinery
15% off all graphic design and branding services. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Capricorn Sound Works
Recording studio – Book 4 hrs. but pay for only 3 (minimum $35 value). To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Fox Mountain Productions
Recording Studio – Get 4 hrs. studio time for the price of three. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Michael Moore
Michael’s amazing music marketing e-book, “Believe” – Regular price – $147; Sale price – $98; Indie Connect Member price – $50!!! To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Bags By Bell
$50 off the suggested retail price of their popular 2-G High Achiever, multi-featured laptop case. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
KMS Media
10% off CD dupication and replication – special offers excluded. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Bob Bender
Bob Bender Productions / Inlight Records- Save $500 when booking 3 days in the recording studio. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Lori Bumgarner / paNASH Style
FREE copy of her new e-book, “Advance Your Image: Putting Your Best Foot Forward Never Goes Out of Style” ($17.95 value) http://twurl.nl/4e48gq. To access this benefit: [Content protected for Member level only. Please REGISTER and/or LOGIN (to the right), to access Freebie content, or JOIN (top toolbar) to access Member and Pro Member content.]
Bill Pere Songwriter Services
Discounted rates from 10% – 20% for:
Songcrafters Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful Songwriting
- Professional Level 3 Song Critiques
- Songwriting Retreat
- Connecticut Songwriters Association Membership
To access these discounts: