Tom Watts SoundJam co-founder sits down with DJ and producer Jimi Needles to talk through the platform, show off some of the key functionality and answer Jimi’s burning questions.
It’s a 15 minute video covering some of the key points of the DJ website builder and how it can benefit you, so grab yourself a cup of tea…
Head below the video to see chapter sections and a full transcription.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfkSmSVJOhk
You can jump to these key points in the YouTube video.
0:00 INTRO
0:44 ECOMMERCE / SHOP
3:05 MERCHANDISE / PRINT ON DEMAND
4:02 SOCIAL EMBEDDING
6:17 TWITCH / STREAMING
8:02 PATREON / EXTERNAL LINKS
9:30 VIDEO EMBEDDING
11:19 COLOURS
11:44 EFFECTS
12:40 RESPONSIVE DESIGN
13:50 NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
Jimi
COVID-19 thing has kind of affected all of our income streams in terms of like playing live, but having a look at the shot would be pretty cool first because, again, like it’s increasingly hard to sell and control where your music is. I think it’s all in one place. And I don’t have to go through per se Band camp or Sound Cloud. I can sell direct. That’s great. And there’s I mean, my next question would be does sound jam do they take any commission from that?
Tom
They don’t actually. So unlike any other platform, with Bandcamp, etc., we don’t take commission at all. So you keep 100% of profit minus a payment processor, so I pay how you can’t avoid that, unfortunately. But apart from that you keep everything. So yeah, it’s a really big advantage over some of the other platforms.
Jimi
So how would I set that up in terms of if I wanted to sell new release?
Tom
Yep. So you just add edit to the end of your domain. To get into the kind of design area of the site. We’ve already set the shop page up. And then you go to your dashboard and go to e commerce, which is just so far, we’ve put it basically as it walks you through the whole process, so you add where your locations are, you can add shipping, if you’re selling physical products line or merchandise, etc.
Jimi
Will that will that work out for you?
Tom
Yeah. And it will apply local tax as well if you need it too. Or you can turn that option off. You also add your payment processors as a number you can use. But PayPal is the kind of standard one for just using online purchases. And it’s easiest one set up. And then yeah, you just go into catalo. It’s really easy. We’ve got set up this one product so it’s just a name. It’s a bit brief description, the image. And then for a digital sale, for example, you add your file there, which is what they’ll get.
Jimi
And that was my next question. That seems very easy to me.
Tom
Pretty easy. Yeah. So yeah, and then you can add it to your cart. And it’s just a really simple clean checkout. And that’s it.
Jimi
This is very impressive. This is potentially more straightforward and Bandcamp.
Tom
The other good thing about it all is that you have total control over people that are buying from you. So you get to know your users better, and then send them out an email the next time you’ve got a new release.
Jimi
Yes. So would it save their email to CSV?
Tom
Yeah, it’s all in it’s all in the system. Yeah. So you know, you were asking about pre orders, weren’t you?
Jimi
Yeah.
Jimi
So yeah, pre orders are totally possible. All you would do, just make it clear in the kind of product text that it says it’s a pre order, and it would not dispatch until same day. Yeah, we’ve also got some integrations now. So you were talking about merchandise learning.
Jimi
Yeah, that’s right. Yeah.
Tom
We’ve actually got print on demand integration. So you can buy your stock beforehand, which I think you’re going to do on us.
Jimi
That’s right. Yeah,
Tom
You can come here, there’s loads of apps that you can actually add. And then if we…Yeah, so there’s one here called Printful. And these guys do print on demand. So you can set up t shirts, hats, mugs, and tote bags and