GoLives are one of the most important things to use on vyb. GoLives are meant to be quick recordings that engage and excite your fans, content they only get in your vyb account. Regular GoLives keep your fans coming back to your account and let you speak to them directly.
You can be really strategic with your GoLives by choosing the audience. Make some content available for all fans, make some exclusive to your subscribers. Here are a couple of examples:
You are recording new music and you want to hype your audience for the upcoming release. Record a short GoLive that only plays the hook of a new song, then announce at the end that if people want to hear more, they need to subscribe. Now go record a longer playthrough of the song and make that exclusive to your subscribers.
You are on the road with a tour, do a quick GoLive backstage, intro some of the other people hanging out there.
Do a rig rundown of the gear you are using for a show or on a recording.
Take one of your popular songs and record an intro describing the songwriting or recording process.
Every Saturday at noon do a GoLive where you play a couple of songs in your rehearsal studio. Let fans in the chat pick the next song you play.
Your fans can give you tips during the GoLive, so it can be a fun way to do regular engagements with them without all the setup of a ticketed event.
Here is how to record GoLives and start engaging your fans:
Step 1. Launch GoLive
From the top Launch menu, select GoLive
Step 2. Set the Title and Choose Audience
By default, vyb will use the date to set a title for your GoLive. You should edit this to something more descriptive for your fans.
Now set the Audience. This is who can watch this while you are live as well as well as view the video afterwards.
Not quite sure if you have the catchiest title, don’t stress!! The title and Audience can be edited anytime you want after you’ve recorded your GoLive, even years later
Step 3. Choose Stream Source
The easiest thing to do for stream source is to use your built-in webcam from a laptop or your phone. Don’t turn this into a big hassle, just grab your phone and do a quick video.
If you want to use a more sophisticated multi-camera setup, you can select Streaming Software to use OBS or other popular video software programs.
Step 4. Set Privacy Settings
Under privacy settings, you can choose if the recording is available afterwards. Usually we recommend that you do this, that way you build up your exclusiive content library.
Make your GoLive more interactive by letting fans chat with you during the GoLive.
Step 5. You are Ready to Record!
Now simply press “Start GoLive” and you are recording!
The chat will be on the sidebar, make sure to check that if you’ve let your fans know you are going live at a certain time.
After you are done, the GoLive video will show up in your profile in a few minutes.
Step 6. Generate a Preview
In the bottom right, click the Generate Preview select a thumbnail image for a preview
Select an image to act as a thumbnail image for your GoLive
Fans can now see your GoLive!
Any of your followers and subscribers will be notified that you have done a new GoLive.
If you’ve made this GoLive open to all, then any fan can find the video in your profile and watch it.
Make Edits to Your GoLive
To change the title or audience of your GoLive, navigate to My GoLives in your dashboard and select “Edit” from the action menu.
To change the preview image, select “View detail” and then re-generate the preview.
In vyb you can sell your original music directly to your fans. You have complete control over the pricing, timing, and even who can buy the tracks.
Top features include:
Upload as few or as many tracks into an album
Set your pricing, number of sales, and even who can buy them
Add collaborators to your track and vyb will pay them automatically
Set up seperate pre-order prices and timing
Below are the steps to setup and sell music downloads:
Step 1. Launch Create Album
From the main launch homesceen you can either click Launch and select “Create Album”
or else under your Dashboard you can select “My Created Music” on the left and then the “Create Album” button.
Step 2. Add Album Details
In the album details, give your album a name and description and upload the cover and banner images.
Step 3. Set Release
Edit the release date and time, you can select if this album will be sold to everyone or only your subscribers
You can limit the number of sales if you want this to be a very unique item, usually you will make this unlimited.
For pricing options, we recommend a mimimum price as fans often pay a few dollars over as a way to show their appreciation.
As always, you can adjust the discount for your subscribers.
Step 3b. Add Pre-Order (Optional)
Optionally. you can add add a pre-order.
A few different marketing ideas for your pre-order:
Set the price to be lower to drive some initial sales
You can set the price higher if you have fans who really want to be the first to hear the music
Include as many tracks in the pre-order as you want.
Step 4. Upload Tracks
For each track, you can give a track name and then select if the track is to be included in the pre-order or not.
You can add collaborators to your project, if you give them a percentage of the music track, then we will automatically track their earnings and pay them when they create a vyb account.
No more tracking splits for you with different spreadsheets, put the info once into vyb adn you are done.
Keep going until you’ve added all your tracks.
Step 5. Publish Your Album
Now you are ready to publish your album.
You will notice that two prices are listed for the release and Pre-order. The second price listed in (blue) is the price your subscribers will pay.
Check all the details and if they are correct, push Publish.
On the pre-order date, fans will be able buy the pre-order and listen to any tracks you included in the pre-order. We will automatically send them an email when the full album is released.
The Pro-order is automatically closed after the release date or if you set a maximum number of pre-orders, then when you have sold all of those.
And that’s it, you’ve posted your album for sale! Now promote it out to all of you fans and start selling!!
The Contact List in vyb gives you useful information about fan interactions on the platform. You will see who has followed or subscribed, purchase history, so much more.
Navigate to My Dashboard, the from the left hand menu select “Contacts Management”
You will see a list of all your contacts, with information about them..
Roles
Contacts can have one of several roles.
Subscribers: A monthly subscriber
Follower: Someone who wants to be informed of everything you do
Contact: Someone who has been added to your contact list but is not yet on the vyb platform.
VIP Guest: someone you have invited as a VIP guest to one of your ticketed events
Purchase History
For each person in your contact list you can see a lifetime total of what they have spent with you.
Purchase Total
Click on the action menu next to a name and you can see the action menu. You can select purchase history and this will give you the complete list of purchases by this fan
In this example, the fan bought one piece of merch.
Change Auto-Reply Emails
Clicking on the “Customize Auto-Reply Message” Button will let you make edits to the message fans receive when they follow or subscribe.
You can edit separate auto-replies for followers and subscribers.
Sending emails to your Contacts list
Send an email to any fan or group of fans in your list. Simply select one or more fans and then press the send mail icon.
You can use the filter button to get all subscribers, all followers, etc.
Any ticketed event allows you to send VIP guest list passes. You just simply need to know the email of your VIP guest.
And we know how it is, day of the event, you suddenly hear from a long-time pal that is in town. You need to quickly add them to the guest list. Here are the simple steps to add them:
Step 1: Navigate to the Event in your Dashboard
Navigate to My Dashboard and click on My Created Events.
On the right hand side, click on the action menu, select “View and Invite VIP Guests.”
Step 2: Click “Add More VIP Guests”
You’ll get the popup to manage VIP guests. Now click on Add More VIP Guest
Step 3: Add Guest Information
For each guest, you add the name, email, ticket tier, and number of tickets.
In this example, George and Susie are getting in-person tickets, they will receive multiple QR codes, one for each ticket.
For your livestream guests, only send one ticket, as we only allow a single access per ticket.
When you press “Save” all the invites will be sent out.
Invites sent to VIP guests
Your VIP guests will receive an email like this, with a link to claim their ticket.
They will be prompted to create a profile if they don’t have one already and then they will receive the ticket.
VIP Guest Claim Tickets
Guest are presented with a button to claim their ticket.
To claim their ticket they will need to either log in or create a vyb account. Once they do so, the tickets are claimed and they will receive an email confirmation.
You can go into your guest list at any time and edit the list, delete previously sent tickets, add more guests.
We’ve all been there, we wait in line for a looooong time, finally get to the front of the line and that killer shirt we want is gone, not available in your size. You quickly scan the rest on the wall, but often you just leave.
Or sometimes that line is just too damn long. You want to buy some merch but you also want to get clsoe to see your favorite band. You wait and you wait, but the set is about to start and you need to grab a beverage and find your friends, so you give up and leave.
Even worse, at vyb we’ve talked to artists who run out completely on the third night of a seven-city swing. Your fans leave disappointed, you’ve not made nearly what you should on the tour.
Every artist that tours consistently has it – boxes and boxes of unsold merch. Whole storage unit rented to hold oddball sizes of mech you didn’t sell when you were at your show.
To take care of all these problems, at vyb we give you the tools to sell more merch by letting your fans easily buy from an online store at your gigs. Here are the steps to download a QR code or poster that will take your fans right to your online store and buy your merch. Never lose out on a sale!
Step 1: Navigate to My Merch in your artist dashboard.
Navigate to My Merch on your Artist dashboard.
At the top you see a new button, Get QR Code. Click that.
Step 2: Edit Auto-Generated QR code Merch Poster
We auto-generate the poster using your artist name, your banner image and your profile picture.
Note that this is the vyb help account, so the band name is vyb, your band name will be there instead, there is no vyb brandign forced on your poster – lol.
You can replace either image by simply clicking the edit icon in the upper right of the image.
Step 3. Download and Print Poster
If you are happy with the poster, just go ahead and click the download button to get a pdf poster. Print a bunch of these and post them around the merch table. People who are tired of waiting in line can simply scan. Keep a few copies at the merch table so that if you run out of sizes, ask people to simply scan and order online. They’ll receive their order in two to three weeks, so no worries that it won’t show up.
Make your own poster
If you don’t love our dead-simple poster and are feeling creative, click and download the QR code itself. You’ll get a transparent png file that you can add to any poster that you create.
Fans are sent to a mobile-friendly store to buy your merch
Fans will be automatically send to your merch store on vyb, and from their mobile can easily purchase.
Never lose any merch sales
By using your vyb online merch store, you never have to lose out on merch sales or keep buying oddball sizes that never sell. Consider only buying the main sizes and letting people buy XS, 3XL, 4XL online, saving you money.
