PLUGOLA Soft Beta Launch

The day has finally arrived! PLUGOLA has begun a soft launch for public beta. We have been developing and testing for many months now, and we are finally ready for you to give it a shot.

Registration and membership to PLUGOLA is free for everyone, and besides a few minutes of your time, giving us a test run will cost you nothing. In fact, there's a pretty good chance you will MAKE money.

You should be able to find any answers to questions you may have on the site, but to answer a few questions you may have up-front:

• registration/membership is completely free & there are no hidden fees to anyone. However, we do take a fee of only 18% of your total download sales. This is the lowest percentage (or highest artist payout) in the industry. We plan to balance our costs with (minimal) outside advertising. This will help keep payouts to artists higher and costs to music fans lower.
  

• By uploading your content, you're only giving us permission to digitally distribute your content and NOT any ownership rights of any kind. Plus, all your content is non-exclusive with our website; meaning you may upload/sell the same content to/on any other website, or however you see fit.

• We pay you for all your sales from the past month, after 30 days, if your total earnings reach $25 or more.

• "Plugging" feature allows other members/fans who have already purchased your music/videos an opportunity to help you distribute & sell this same content, at your approval. By default, your "affiliates"/fans will receive and incentive of 5% of the download price, but you may set this percentage to whatever you like.

• You control pretty much everything. You set the prices, your band's image, you choose the content available for "plugging" or promo, even who can promote you and who can not.

• We have both online and offline free promotional tools. These include; an embeddable digital music store you can include on any web page and 'free download' coupons you can hand-out to your fans at live events.
  

• Your personal media player/digital store can easily be embedded on any web page, including your own site, MySpace & other social networks. Plus, registered Plugola members can buy directly inside your player, without ever leaving the page. Of course, anyone can listen/view content in player.

• How artists are displayed on the site is based on a user activity algorithm. Of course, members (both 'artists' & 'fans') with the most activity, ranks higher. It can't be cheated by hit bots, proxy servers, etc.

If you have any more questions you can probably find the answers at the links listed below, or please feel free to contact us directly.

Main Page:
PLUGOLA (www.plugo.la)
Sales/Distro Agreement:
http://www.plugo.la/index.php/home/pages/sales
Artist Terms:
http://www.plugo.la/index.php/home/pages/upload_terms
General FAQ:
http://www.plugo.la/index.php/home/pages/faq

I hope you & your band finds this useful. We hope to see your stuff uploaded.