Wannabe Musician? Get An Audience At Muziboo.com!
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You might have heard the song,
ठंडे ठंडे पानी से नहाना चाहिए…. गाना आए या न आए, गाना चाहिए…!!
Bangalore based start-up, Muziboo.com provides a platform to all wannabe musicians to showcase their music skills, whatever they might be - singer, guitarist .etc. On Muziboo community, you can upload your music (mp3 files) and get an audience who in return can comment on it. You can build your online band and even can search for like minded people.
(Muziboo business model, Image courtesy: Saad)
The site that started around 6 months ago, has undergone a cosmetic treatment-
Then Now
Recently, it released a radio widget that has a collection of approx 150 original songs under 3 categories - English, Hindi and Instrumental, which you can embed on your blog and even add to your orkut and Facebook profile.
If you remember, we had previously blogged on “whether podcasting is future of radio station?”
Now, some suggestions:-
1. To engage more artists, it should build a revenue sharing model e.g. releasing an album of selected songs and share the profits with the artists.
2. Audio advertisement (of around 5 sec.) before playing any song.
3. Tie-ups with TV reality shows. There are various musical TV reality shows like Indian Idol, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Voice of India .etc. Tie-up for auditions and/or preliminary rounds will attract more artists. Also, those TV shows will get better participants.
4. Tie-up with some professional audio editing software to provide an older version free of cost to Muziboo community members. While members will get an audio editing s/w free of cost, it will help in branding of the audio editing tool too.
So, don’t be a bathroom singer any more. Who knows tomorrow’s pop star is born here only!
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I am extremely glad to see my favorite service Muziboo on my favorite blog watblog today. Muziboo has really helped community projects like mine, apart from individual artists.
Totally on a bootstrap budget, Prateek and Nithya have put in their full stream efforts for this magnificent service to artists!
Hi Rupesh
Thanks a lot for reviewing us and posting the radio widget here. Feels really cool to see it on watblog
I would reply to some of your suggestions
To engage more artists, it should build a revenue sharing model e.g. releasing an album of selected songs and share the profits with the artists.
Instead of an album where we pick 8 songs, we would wait for sometime and go for an itunes kind of store and give everyone a chance to sell. After all thats what our tag line is “get an audience”
Audio advertisement (of around 5 sec.) before playing any song.
Sounds cool
Tie-ups with TV reality shows. There are various musical TV reality shows like Indian Idol, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Voice of India .etc. Tie-up for auditions and/or preliminary rounds will attract more artists. Also, those TV shows will get better participants.
Yes I think the idea is to go to smaller and more regional talent shows that actually may not be able to travel so much to find talent.
Tie-up with some professional audio editing software to provide an older version free of cost to Muziboo community members. While members will get an audio editing s/w free of cost, it will help in branding of the audio editing tool too.
This sounds cool too .. however currently we recommend open source Audacity to our members. Most of them find it to be quite good too.
Thanks again for the review and suggestions. As we implement some of the above, we will keep you posted.
Regards
Prateek Dayal
Co-Founder Muziboo.com
Hey Rupesh, Thanks for mentioning my name. I think I like point number 3. I think its good way to build customer base. They may think of doing some online competition to market their sites. Good work!