In response to the many inquires we’ve received about hosting multiple artists on one account, this edition of Tips and Tricks will teach you how to set up your Broadjam account to act as a virtual record Label.


The most effective membership for starting a virtual label is the Primo Mob. The Primo Mob comes with a hosted website that allows you to change the names of your pages and hide pages that may clutter your account.


First, you’ll want to upload all of your artist’s songs as well as a quality picture of the artist. After that, go to your Album Edit page and add a new album. Make the name of the album the artist’s name. Select a genre that best suites your artist’s music, or if they create many types of music, don’t choose one. If the artist is selling their music elsewhere online, enter a Buy CD URL. Next, enter the artist’s short biography in the album description section and click Continue. The next page will ask you to choose an image for the album. Choose the artist’s picture. Once the album/artist has been created, click the Add Songs button, and add all the songs that the artist has uploaded to Broadjam. You have just created an artist for your Artist page.


Next, we suggest adding the artist’s full bio to the Bio page of your Broadjam.com account. Another fun thing to add to the full bio is their picture. Make the picture small, 80 x 80 pixels, so that it doesn’t take up a lot of space and slow the load time of your page. A good example can be seen at www.djsportico.com/bio. You’ll need to learn how to add HTML tags, but it’s pretty easy. Go to the HTML-Images section of www.tizag.com/html to find out how to add pictures and learn other simple HTML tags.


The Bio page on Broadjam.com allows you to post multiple bios, which means every artist on your Artist page can write a full bio.


Once you have completed the Broadjam hosting wizard, Broadjam.com will send you a ‘Welcome to Broadjam Hosting’ e-mail with a new username and password for the administrative features of your website. After you have received your welcome email, go to your Content Editor and choose the Menu Editor. Here you can change the order, name and hide/show pages. We suggest hiding your Songs page, as it can be confusing with different artists and multiple songs in one place. You can also change the name of the Albums page to Artist or any other title. You’ll want to make sure that the name is not excessively long, as it can shift your menu and make it look unprofessional. If you have any questions or suggestions, please send an e-mail to customerservice@broadjam.com.

Posted by Broadjam on Oct 15, 2007 in Broadjam Blog