To Distro is to share a song, link or widget using FanDistro, but it's MORE than just sharing - you earn points or money when you Distro. Sharing is a form of advertising and when you share music, links, videos, etc. you are providing a service to the artist. At FanDistro, we and Artists believe that people who provide a service should reap some benefit. So, when you share a song or link using FanDistro, or Distro, we track any sales that come through your song, link or widget and you or a charity of your choosing get 20% of sales. FanDistro has a tight integration with Facebook, twitter and other social media sites making it really simple to Distro. Sign-up Now How it Works
Michael Penfield, CEO, is a musician, singer and songwriter, with a solid grounding in finance and start-ups. He loves the changes, chaos, and opportunity wrought on the music industry by evolving technologies. Prior to FanDistro, Michael founded and sold a finance technology company and worked 18 years as an investment banker in New York City (Merrill Lynch, The Lodestar Group, and SG Cowen), specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions for financial services companies. Check out his band's FanDistro page here.
Rob has been a software and web developer for the past 10 years. He has worked for Government contracting companies where he specialized in making applications accessible. He also contracted with the Civilian Army, building and maintaining their staffing suite of applications. Most recently Rob developed software at Inflexxion, which is a company that delivers interactive applications involved in student health, substance abuse and consumer health. Rob has been an active musician for the past 15 years. He has recorded two albums with 2 different bands and released his first solo album in 2009 where he played all the instruments. He is currently working on a new album which he hopes to release by the end of the year. In addition, Rob is studying at Berklee Music for a Masters Certificate in guitar. Check out his FanDistro page here.
Producer Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald and his wife Wendy founded their TV/Concert production/promotions company Wendy Jayne Productions Inc. in 1995. As a concert producer and promoter Fitz has been instrumental in expanding the music community in Palm Springs and The Coachella Valley. For 12 years Fitz has partnered with The McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert for "Fitz's Jazz Cafe" with over 150 shows to date featuring top name talent including Al Jarreau, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, George Benson, Natalie Cole, Kenny Loggins, Michael Buble, Queen Latifah, The Manhattan Transfer among many others. Fitz also established the annual Wine and Music Charity series at The Gardens On El Paseo in Palm Desert - a 12 week music series every year for the past 13 years, created to benefit local charities and raising over $700,000 to date. Fitz has produced and promoted numerous other area concerts. He is a well know Radio personality in southern California and is heard regularly in 123 countries every weekday morning at kjjz.com
"Fitz" as his friends call him has produced a number of major concert events for NBC Television, Showtime Entertainment Network, Lifetime Television Network, Viewers Choice Pay Per View television, ABC and NBC Radio Networks, as well as stadium and arena concerts. Fitz has been nominated as Radio Personality of the Year by Radio and Records Magazine. He was Sony's syndicated host for their nationwide Jazz Network Smooth FM headquartered in New York. In addition while at Sony he was SW's Director of Marketing. Fitz is a well known radio personality in the jazz, rock and country music worlds having also been also syndicated by Westwood One Radio Networks. Fitz started his radio/TV career in Washington D.C. and was also a personality on the airwaves in Miami.
Fitz is a singer songwriter who had a #2 hit in Italy with "Audio/Video", 2 hit videos on MTV, and has toured extensively. His songs have been used as soundtracks for many TV shows around the world. He just released his new rock CD 'Alter Ego' under the artist name 'jimi FITZ'.
Errol has spent 24 years financing the media and entertainment industries at institutions including J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of New York and French bank BNP Paribas, as well as managing a private equity fund at the boutique firm of Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Errol has been a music industry entrepreneur for the past six years, starting companies in the fields of music magazine publishing and musical instrument design and distribution, as well as serving as the CFO of a mid-size, independent entertainment company in New York City that has clients ranging from Liza Minnelli to Art Garfunkel. Errol has a degree in electrical engineering from M.I.T., an M.B.A. from New York University and is a devoted musician and guitar collector.
Keith Buckley is President and Chief Executive Officer of ASC Signal Corporation. He is responsible for the company’s increased growth and profitability, as well as improved product quality and operations. Mr. Buckley focuses on expanding the company’s market share in high-performance antenna products based on his past success at building and leading high-growth companies in the music, satellite and telecommunications industries. Previously, Mr. Buckley served as President of Trusonic, Inc., one of the chief providers of digital audio distribution for commercial applications. In this role, Mr. Buckley was responsible for directing the company through a strong financial turnaround that enabled the parent company to launch an IPO, triple its contract backlog and return to profitability. Prior to Trusonic, Mr. Buckley was Chief Executive, President and Executive Vice President at several successful telecommunications companies with business around the world. Some of these include InSight Telecommunications Corporation, which he founded and led for six years until its successful sale, and Globecast (a France Telecom company) which he helped rebuild into a $100 million business. Mr. Buckley began his career in the music business as an engineer, and has gold and platinum album credits to his name. Mr. Buckley serves as President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, the professional development society of the global satellite industry. He graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science in telecommunications and film.
If you login in the future and don't see your info, make sure you don't have two sets of login info (usernames and passwords - from Facebook, for example). If you signed up with one set, and you're now trying to sign in with Facebook connect, you won't be able to login unless the username and password are identical. Make sure you're logging in with the same username and password that you signed up with. Something else to try is deleting FanDistro from your Facebook apps (located under account settings) and then allowing access when you attempt to log in again. If that still doesn't help, send an email to support@FanDistro.com.
Click the LOGIN button Then decide if you want to use your Facebook login info, or create a new username and password. Either one works great. Enter your info, and click LOGIN. Then, click the MANAGE button. Click MY PROJECTS then click SETUP and Enter your artist info under the PROVIDE THE BASICS tab. Then upload your music under the UPLOAD YOUR MUSIC tab. Finally click the FINISH UP tab to upload your images.
FanDistro needs access to the following from Facebook:
Yes.
You can adjust your pricing anytime you want.
You can create coupons for discounts on your music. For example, you can give fans at your concerts a code for a discount for their next purchase, which will drive them to buy more music. Or send out discounts by email that fans can forward to new fans.
You can add your Facebook page number to make it easy for people to become page Fans.
You can add a YouTube address for one of your videos so fans can click through it to watch.
It's important that you upload both the CD Cover photo and the Fun Photo - so your page looks complete. While you can use the same photo for both if you want to be boring, we'd suggest using a different promo photo or shot from a concert.
Sure. If you have to do maintenance or need to take you stuff down, there's a button you can use to take your page down or put it up whenever you want - it's the MAKE LIVE button. In case you need to take your page down to make some changes, this helps avoid any problems with your fans.
Login to the site, and then click MY PROJECTS. You can do everything from there.
Once you're logged in. Click on the My Projects button on the home page. Then click Setup button then click the UPLOAD YOUR MUSIC tab and follow the instructions.
Welcome to FanDistro, where you can introduce your friends to your favorite artists, and help sell your favorite artists' music online and get paid for each sale! As a fan you're only a few clicks away from introducing your friends to your favorite artists, and helping to sell their music to your friends. And your friends can go ahead and help promote your favorite artists as well. Everyone wins! Using your Facebook, MySpace or other networking pages - or your own web site and emails - you can tell all of your friends about your favorite artists. Let them listen to streaming audio from your web pages! And, if they like what they hear, they can purchase music right from your Facebook or MySpace pages, or from whatever other website or email you install our FanDistro widgets.
Yes. When you're using any of our great Facebook widgets and tools, you must login to FanDistro using the LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK / FACEBOOK CONNECT button.
FanDistro needs access to the following from Facebook:
