Black Diamond Ent. (B.D.E.)is a record company organized by a recording artist, entrepreneur and business professional dedicated to the principle that central to the success of any music business venture is: Quality Music!
Promotion, marketing, legal, accounting, distribution, manufacturing, etc., are all important aspects of the business but, basically, supporting functions. The core element and activity at which maximum value is created is the music. BDE. believes that today’s record companies have failed to recognize the importance of music and have, in their rush to master the supporting functions, lost focus on music as the most important element of both financial and artistic success.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims that CD sales are down by nearly 40 percent over the past few years. This they attribute to sales lost to illegal downloads of MP3 (compressed format) quality versions of songs.
BDE. believes that sales are down because music lovers do not care for the majority of product being offered by today’s record companies. B.D.E. is committed to providing a distribution and promotion for seasoned professionals who have demonstrated the capacity to produce music that is ready for presentation to a worldwide audience.
B.D.E. is organized as a privately-held West Virginia corporation. All officers and directors are owners and have immediate influence over the operation of the company and a direct stake in the outcome of the venture. As technologies shift power away from the industry’s traditionally-dominant players and empowers the traditionally-exploited players (the artists), B.D.E. is convinced that the record production and distribution venture that best addresses the needs of its artists, ultimately, will become the dominant player within this new paradigm. B.D.E. focuses all activities and decisions toward the long-term well being of its artists.
B.D.E. must not only excel at the traditional record company functions, i.e., artist development, radio promotion and distribution, it must also recognize and incorporate all applicable new technologies such as video streaming, file downloads, custom compilation CDs and direct to point-of-sale manufacturing. It is also essential that B.D.E. recognize and promote real talent with the objective of establishing long-term careers or, in the case of many very talented artists, reestablishing careers badly damaged under the previous system. And, in order to operate effectively, B.D.E. must also provide a return sufficiently attractive to obtain the long-term support of the investment community.
BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY B.D.E. is an independent record company that utilizes Internet-related advantages of an interactive multi-media catalogue, immediate worldwide exposure and new strategies for product delivery including MP3 downloads. Additionally, by using the Internet to display its inventory, B.D.E. avoids the substantial expenses of printing, updating and distributing thousands of catalogues.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES Among the other sites selling CDs on the Internet, no major players have yet to apply all of the essential elements of the B.D.E. formula.
QUALITY CONTROL B.D.E. is very specific about what can be released, and the quality control department plays a major part in that decision.
B.D.E. promotes a select group of artists, every submission is reviewed by a team of musicians with extensive recording experience, whose focus is exclusively on the music.
B.D.E presents a manageable number of artists in each genre. To maximize the reach of its music, B.D.E. conducts targeted online promotions that promotes a select group of professional artists and strikes a balance between an interesting variety of product and an overwhelming mass eye catching videos, banner ads and emails. Are you going to browse through 10,000 CDs? Of course not and no one else is either. But would you browse through, say, 25 or 30 jazz artists (or whatever genre you prefer) if the first, second, third and, in fact, every artist you listened to was great? So this is why, if your music is good enough, you need to associate with other top-tier independent artists. At B.D.E. you are not buried under a pile of 45,000 (or more) amateurs. Nor are you a lone artist invisible to the search engines.
In this fashion, every great artist helps every other great artist by driving traffic to a select catalogue which is large enough to maximize promotional synergies but still exclusive enough to be practical for browsing.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT B.D.E is actively developing concert and other promotional opportunities for our select roster of artists. All B.D.E. artists receive proprietary databases of radio stations and expert consulting on gaining airplay and press. B.D.E. will post all of your live performance dates on our website and send notices to our proprietary email list of fans who are eager to receive such information. For artists interested in a partner to promote their publishing interests, B.D.E. will present their music to television and film producers.
FULL HOME PAGE FOR EACH ARTIST B.D.E. utilizes the standardized my space musicians home page with bio and reviews for each artist and enhances the shopping experience. B.D.E. maintains and updates these artist pages at no charge to the artist. B.D.E. is in business to promote great music and make money selling the music of a very select roster of world-class artists. NETunes is not in business to accept every amateur project submitted with the emphasis on quality music sacrificed to gain more set-up fees.
WHOLESALE B.D.E. currently offers CDs in their original format and packaging, (CDs are priced at $9.99) and downloadable full length MP3s (at $0.99 per tune) This will provide visitors with morecustomized selection.
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