We choose the most relevant artist category, artist type and keywords that apply to your craft.
Bee Found!
We Create a profile in the directory that will improve your visibility on the web for search engines.
Bee Seen!
Together we are creating a network whose standard will redefine the Independent Music Arts
Bee Heard!
What is GiGhive? Think of bee hive colonies. In nature, bees play an important role, pollinating flowering plants, and keeping our planet's ecosystems thriving. Every bee in the hive has its own gig and the skill and talent necessary to succeed and ensure survival of the entire community. Hence, our 18 categories, so every unique artist out there can get their "buzz" on.
Many corporations and businesses, including the far-reaching music publishing and recording industry, function in much the same, colonizing way. While the corporate music industry may be in apparent disarray as it adjusts to new technologies, don't be fooled by the hype! It still follows the proven, basic business fundamentals upon which it was founded. Functioning as a veritable colony, it is far more effective than the individualized, independent artist movement in every way.
What is our purpose? As full time independent artists here on GiGhive, our primary purpose is to function much like the thriving, communal beehive. Whether you are an indie or major artist, all music is still about business, optimizing capital. For that reason, every artist should also be in the business of learning, building, and monetizing their artist brand.
Our solid approach to achieving this is to build a conduit to professional peers within our niche – the indie music community. Why? Because every unique variety of artist contributes a specific skill set that will ensure the survival of the entire community. As with major artists, it requires a cohesive professional community to build a brand. Established, popular artists you see today, exist in large part because of such unstoppable community strength and vitality. Without it, their careers would be effectively choked out of the competitive edge, denied their very existence.
Why the GiGhive way? Independent music artists contribute vast amounts of online content, including: tweets, status updates, music, videos, blog posts, articles, images, news, podcasts and art. This content creation has a huge impact on how traffic generates and flows on the web.
Online corporations today are successfully overpowering and conquering the music industry, designed to take full advantage of this traffic, through influence, branding and ad saturation. Many artists, who understand very little about web dynamics, are now being monetized by these same corporate brands and entities.
So, whether you choose to or not, you either contribute to your own colony or play the role of the lower worker bee, producing ever more content yet sustaining the growth of another. One person's solitary beehive will never sufficiently compete against a buzzing colony working in steadfast harmony.
We are all too familiar with the fact that artists are often not the true beneficiaries of the very content they create. The productive GigHive colony seeks to rewire that pattern with the inevitability of accomplishment, achievement and undiminished success. Artists who genuinely comprehend the business of branding, can most effectively monetize their art and music to the fullest.
In the long run, we hope artists will be so inspired to host their own websites, forcing sponsors, advertisers, app developers and businesses to deal on the artist's terms. If we take heed now, we will avoid the pitfalls of repeating past mistakes and trading one corporate master for another. With the right commitment and tools for success, the future's absolutely brighter and more brilliant than ever!
What makes this site so important for artists? Websites that were once exclusive to artists, users and early adaptors, are now home to some of the most recognized corporations, people and brands in the world. Therefore, now, more than ever, exists an urgent need within the marketplace for a network decisively dedicated to the independent artist approach. Unwavering in our solid commitment!
So, what's the big deal about this network over the rest? Not all artists or artist brands have their own website, but to be listed on this site, you are required to have one. Why? While it might not be a surefire indicator of an artist’s future success, it speaks volumes about you as a professional musician or artist, who is willing to invest that extra energy, to stand out and have your unique musical gifts heard and recognized over all the noise and clutter of the rest of the crowd.
Most networks are “get in where you fit in.” The problem with that, the majority of artists in the game won’t be around in 5 years. It’s a competitive, congested field. By maintaining definite criteria and standards for entry, we, the gatekeepers of the GigHive colony, can most effectively bypass and eliminate most of the counterproductive, free-for-all, "anything goes” nonsense you see on other networks.
The primary function of the GigHive network is to support the healthy growth of the extended indie community, to ensure that you will be sent directly to the creators of the original content. We serve as your gateway, guiding you in your steady navigation to success.
Why list my site on this network? If you are like most artists, SEO starts and ends with seeing your name and profiles come up in Google searches. Artists rarely use descriptive keywords and phrases to title their site pages. While coming up first in searches for your name is important to your brand, we focus much of our attention on your top keywords and phrases. We continually research and optimize this site, tending to all the minute, techie details. Many visitors to this site find us using targeted niche keywords, which leads directly to your listing and website.
As our network and resources grow and flourish, likewise our influence in driving targeted, music-related keyword traffic to your site.
As with any industry hierarchy, independent bands, musicians, music producers, artists and music industry professionals have a clear advantage when they can rely on a network of professional peers to power their specific goals and aspirations.
To bee-come recognized as the creative Kings and Queens of this vast GigHive colony of unparalleled opportunity, we must find each other first . . . in whatever community, social network, blogging platform, web site or forum we belong to or own.
Gighive's mission: To empower members of this niche community using some of the same technologies that drive search engines and niche link directories on the web. Combining this with organic search engine optimization techniques and listings linked to music industry keywords/tags, we are committed to offering independent artists optimum exposure by continuing to invest our time, energy and resources toward improving visibility and being discovered and fully utilized in the ever-expanding and evolving web universe.
Implementing these goals and standards, GiGhive is driven to zoom to the forefront of this new and emerging brand of artist. Together, blazing a new trail as we boldly venture into the future . . .
Now, the quest begins . . . Are you an indie artist brand? Is your website listed?
The Independent Artist Network for the Music Arts (IANMA) is an online membership network, artist alliance and promising new organization that is intended to promote the creative endeavors and support the financial freedoms of independent artists under the music genre.
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