Digialbum, sånglärka och webbutik

Alldeles snart, gott folk, så lanserar vi på Gramtone en stor satsning. Dels ger vi ut de sju första digialbumen, en egen uppfinning som vi hoppas ska slå igenom ordentligt. Visst gillar vi digitala produkter, men lösa musikfiler är så jädra osexigt. Så vi har satt ihop en produkt med vackert fullskärmsomslag, med musik, bilder, filmer och annat. Dessutom en dynamisk del som kan uppdateras med tiden och ge köparen nytt material i ett redan inköpt album. Du kan redan nu ladda hem ett gratisalbum med vårt gamla avsomnade band Roger Överallt.
Läs om digialbum och ladda ned här: 

http://www.grammofon.com/gramtone/digialbum.html

Samtidigt lanserar vi en rättvisemärkning – Sånglärkan. För att ändra fokuset från roffarmentaliteten som genomsyrar fildelninigsdebatten idag, så vill vi diskutera vad producenter och konsumenter kan göra för att hjälpa varann istället. Sånglärkan blir vår symbol för ett nytt tankesätt.
Läs om Sånglärkan här:

http://www.grammofon.com/gramtone/sanglarkan.html

För att allt detta ska ge bästa resultat så startar vi samtidigt vår egen factory outlet. Nu har vi precis drabbats av en del knasiga problem, på grund av Swedbanks attityd att inte kommunciera med sina kunder. Men vi är strax på banan med butiken och försöker lansera alltåhop samtidigt. Kul som fanken!

The joy of your own web shop

Every one should start a web shop, its funny, hard and areally interesting experiment. I created ours in the winter of 2006-07. It was very strange programming at places, and the web hotel is not very good at telling me about upgrades and server flaws, so some really natural things has taken lts of energy in vain. But t is still a very funny thing to do.

Economically it is not very expensive. Of course, if we bought the shop from some other programmer it would have cost us quite a lot. But now the costs are the following: 150 euros for the deal with the bank, 95 euros for the deal with the payment service provider and then 0,3 euros to the bank per transaction and 0,2 euros to the payment service provider  per transaction. It is not very much. We use the same webserver as our Gramtone space, so its free. In our cooperative record company it will be a great asset.

We want to use it as a factory outlet, for cheaper prices, strange deals and some merchandize that we cant sell elsewhere. Also, we want to set a standard for a personal and cool web shop. The ones I have seen so far, from Itunes to the services you can buy or rent on the web, are just extremly boring. Ok, they might be efficient, but it’s like the worst kind of warehouse-system, just listings and no human feeling. One had a surfer-sporty layout, but still worked like the most uninspiring list of MP3:s. So we are trying to put some content in, some video and to place ourselves into it, for the audience to understand that we are there, just behind the coding. 

There are some logistics involved of course. I suppose it would be very hard to run a web shop alone. But we are quite a few, adn orders have to be carried out fast and correct. There also has to be a customer service, and the economic overview. So 4-5 people will be intensly involved in this shop. The shop is finished and are starting up as soon as we get the first albums back from pressing.