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What is Bandder?
Bandder is a site for musicians to distribute and share their music across their fan base on the web and through their social networks on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. Bandder also allows music fans to interact with their favorite bands and help other fans discover their music.

Does it cost me any cash to join?
Nope. Musicians and their fans join for free. The only time you are getting charged is if you have a band and you sell your tracks. We take a small fee for tracks sold so we can keep the site running for you.

How do I sign my band up?
First step you have to register. After that it’s pretty easy. Just sign into your account and click the settings link at the top. You will then see a huge orange button that says “Set Up Your Band”. Click that and fill in the blanks. You are ready to go. If you want to start selling your music click the “Sell Music” button and fill out that form also. Enjoy.

You said I can link this to my twitter/MySpace/Facebook account? How?
Yes, you are right, we did say that. Right now at this initial release we support Twitter, so all you have to do is log into your account and click the “Social Media” button. Put in your Twitter info and you are ready to roll. When you go to post tracks, events, or your thoughts there will now be a button to add that post to your Twitter page. If you want to just check the box and then post, your buddies on Twitter will now see your Bandder post and will be sent back to Bandder to buy your stuff or get more info. Facebook and Myspace is coming shortly, we can only work our developers so many hours without sleep, stay tuned.

How do I sell my tracks?
You have to be a legit musician and actually own the rights to your songs before you can sell them. But if you already do then all you have to do is set up your band first by clicking the “Set Up Your Band” button on the settings page. After that’s done click the “Sell Music” button and fill out that stuff too. And, yes, you do have to have a PayPal account, if you don’t have one sign up for one, it’s free, and it’s the only way we can pay you for your sales. Once you have all that stuff set up you can upload your tracks and albums in the music manager and also track them and your sales. And one last thing, they HAVE to be mp3’s, no .wav or mpeg4 nonsense allowed here.

How much do tracks cost?
Each track you buy is $0.99. That’s it, so go buy a bunch of them. We do add a small convenience charge to each order to cover our merchant account costs, this fee is just $0.40 per transaction, so if you buy 1 song, or 10,000 songs it’s just $0.40, so buy in bulk and save some loot.

Convenience charge! What are you Ticketmaster? WTF?
Yeah, sorry guys, we do have a small convenience charge we need to add to each order. It’s not huge like some other companies charge but we get killed by our merchant account and on a song that costs $0.99 we don’t make enough money to stay open because we give so much money back to the bands and musicians. You guys can picket PayPal and convince them to kill their merchant transactions fees and then we can eliminate ours.

How much does my band make by selling a track?
Your band makes most of the money by selling a track; we only take a 15% cut so you get $0.84 for each track you sell. Other sites out there rob you blind, we think you should make the cash because it’s your music; we just need enough to keep the site running so you can sell your stuff.

How do I get paid for my music?
We have to pay you guys too??? Just kidding, of course we are paying you when you sell your music. You have to first start by setting up a PayPal account if you don’t have one. The next step is to click the “Sell Music” button on the “Settings” page. Fill out all that stuff and make sure that the tracks you are selling are actually yours or we will hunt you down. When you sell a track you will not be getting paid instantly. Yeah, I know, it totally sucks, but we don’t have a choice. Your PayPal account will get your funds transferred into it from your sales on the first day of every new month. If you have any issues just use our feedback form and we will help you sort them out.

Some scumbag is stealing my band name and posting my tracks without my permission, what can I do besides kicking their ass?
We take copyright infringement very seriously on Bandder. Here is what you need to do. If you believe that your work has been copied, posted, or otherwise used on the Bandder.com Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify our Copyright Agent at the address provided below. In order for us to act promptly to remove allegedly infringing content in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, your notice must include the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Bandder.com Services; (iv) your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; (v) a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Bandder.com’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: John Bounds, Bandder.com Copyright Agent, c/o Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, DE 19808; e-mail address: dmcasop@cscinfo.com; telephone: 1-800-927-9800; facsimile: 1-302-636-5454. For more information, refer to the Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement at www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf.

Can I promote my shows?
Yup. Just sign your band up by clicking the “Set Up Your Band” button. When you go back to your homepage you will see that you can now add events into the message stream. Just pick the date, time and place and you are ready to roll. You can even post a link where to get tickets.

Is my profile customizable?
You don’t like our site colors? That’s fine; you can make your Bandder page look how you want it. Just click the settings link and then the “Design” button. It’s pretty self explanatory from there; just make sure you pay attention to a few things. First, no pics bigger than 700K in size. Second, it has to be a jpg, gif, or png, we won’t take anything else. Third, if you would be embarrassed to show the pic to your 90 year old Grandma then you probably don’t want it spread across the web, and frankly we don’t want to see it either, use some discretion.

How do I buy tracks?
See that little shopping cart next to each track and album? Yeah, click that, it’s pretty easy. Once you buy a track or album it can be downloaded off of your download page.

I got a question for you that I don’t see here. Can you help me out?
No problem, we can help you out. Shoot us an email to info@bandder.com and we will get back to you. Cut us some slack if it takes some time to get to you, there are a ton of you out there and only a few of us.