"How to Open Up Retail Store and
Distributor Doors to Your Music"

Dear Friends,

Let's talk about IR bar coding services. eZZyprint (artkhan.com) has utilize IR bar coding services for years now. If you'd like to see your CD in your local music store window or online at CDNow or Amazon.com, be able to report ALL your sales to SoundScan and keep ALL the money made on your music without a record label trying to get their grubby little hands on it, then this might be the most important letter you'll ever read.

Here's why in their own words:

Get a guaranteed, legitimate bar code with the ability to report your sales to SoundScan from the original independent artist's record label in business since 1998 or your money back!

Now, we know you're probably skeptical. That's normal and healthy. Let us give you three good reasons we can back up what we claim:

Three Reasons:

Reason one: Since the year 1998 we've helped thousands of artists put out their CDs successfully via our Independent Records’ services. Our IR online catalog proves it.

Reason two: The music business is a nasty industry where sharks are constantly looking for the next guy to screw. If you don't believe us we can show you a competitor that just lifted text off our site and pasted it on theirs. Talk about original.

Reason three: Read our testimonials to find out how we've helped many other independent artists like yourself.

Here is a summary of the benefits you receive

We generate and assign a bar code for you to place on your release and catalog it just like any other major or indie record label would do for their artists. In other words, the Independent Records label is cataloguing your item.

We also provide you the SoundScan "Title Addition" form when you register your release with us. Using the bar code number we assign to your product and SoundScan's "Title Addition" form you'll be able to add your release to SoundScan's database so retail outlets can begin reporting your retail sales to SoundScan. But it gets better.

Independent Records fulfills all the requirements SoundScan needs to be able to report artist venue sales into their database as well. So after you successfully register your release with us you'll be able to subscribe to our SoundScan Venue Sales reporting program (for an additional small monthly fee) and begin reporting your venue sales too.

All major and most indie labels subscribe to SoundScan and even Billboard Magazine constructs their charts using SoundScan data. What that means to you is that once you register your item with SoundScan, your item will be tracked under your name so you get the credit under the Independent Records label (and your sublabel if you have your own label). Hey, if you sell enough you might even show up on the Billboard Charts!

When you register your release with Independent Records it is not an exclusive contract. You can produce your release in conjunction with any other record label and best of all you keep all control, copyrights, licenses, publishing, profits and/or royalties from your release.

The best time to register your item with us would be sometime before you're ready to send your music and artwork to the CD manufacturer or graphic artist. However, if you've already done that we do offer other options for you too.

Don't take our word for it. Listen to what our customers say.

Testimonial: I had my haunted house soundtrack CD mastered at another design house and they use your barcode services. Your service was low cost and easy to use and fit perfectly within my product. Stores have been happy with the barcode and labeling and people love the weird spooky ambience of the CD. Once it gets time for our next release, you very much have a customer for life.
Antonio Gonzalez jr., Free Spirit Enterprises, "Dark Matter"

Testimonial: Through Independent Records, recording artist Rikki Lee Travolta has been able to reach a worldwide fan base leading to his inclusion on the 2003 Grammy nomination ballot in six categories including Best New Artist and Song of the Year.
Drake Miezel - Prime Time Entertainment - Chicago, IL

Testimonial: "My experience with Independent Records has been very positive. Independent Records has given me the tools to make my CD project come to life. Being associated with the label has allowed me to gain airplay and has given me credibility through having an actual product number that can be registered with soundscan and barcode that can be used to assist with getting distributors lined up. Dealing with Independent Records has taught me a lot about the 'business' of my songwriting craft."
Michael Coleman

Testimonial: My experience with independent records has been, a tremendous value for a minimum investment. IR gives the d i y , indie, first time , artist a sense of credibility and professionalism with a proper bar code and logo for your release. it allowed me to get distribution on the web and local consignment in my local tower records. Keep up the great work.....looking forward to using your service for my second release in 2004.
Alfie Gonzalez e:moderne

Testimonial: I've been with Independent Records for two and a half years and have found the company to be reliable, efficient, helpful and above all, very friendly. Not only does IR register releases with Soundscan and supply a barcode for the CD, they also provide many useful bits of information as well as arrange special offers for IR artists. A regular newsletter also provides much information and keeps you in touch with the latest discounts and trends. In my view, being registered with Independent Records is like having the backing of a record company, but without the 'men in suits' trying to run your life and the music you play, or taking bucket loads of money off you. IR is excellent value for money and I would strongly recommend any unsigned artist to become a member of the IR family.
Graham

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