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OUR STORY

We're music fans and technology nerds, and were concerned about the current chaotic state of music. The digital world is helping more musicians make music but provides less revenue for them to make a living. Now, mobile technology is here, and we believe mobile can completely transform the music experience and provide new revenue streams that sustain Artists. We started Adva Mobile when we saw a way to help Artists connect with their fans on mobile phones, engage their fans where they are (on their phones!) and give them tools to sell music, tickets and merchandise, and let them keep all the money themselves.

We built our first version in 2008 and over 1,400 bands have found us and signed up. We give artists everything they need to take advantage of mobile phone friendly web sites, Apps, text messaging, downloads, tour dates, and a storefront to sell stuff to their fans. Most of the bands choose our free service -- we think every band should be able to take advantage of this new mobile technology. More of them are starting to upgrade to our paid services. The back end software and databases of our site works great and provides the most complete mobile marketing functionality and tools available to Artists anywhere.

 So we are doing amazing things for artists to help them connect with their fans and make money and have music careers. We've made some really cool custom mobile websites (including one for our friends at Constant Contact) and Apps and have run some great campaigns that get fans to sign up and download music. They're just starting to make purchases on mobile phones. The artists are excited and believe we are giving them a good service and a path to their future, which they know is mobile.

Lately though, theyre telling us that their mobile site is not cool and our web site dashboard to manage their mobile campaigns is dated thus, they are reluctant to use it. Some of our partner opportunities are turned off because the portal looks so old, and one has refused to partner with us until we display current design standards. Its like what Steve Jobs said: Great Products are useful (check), emotionally satisfying (check) and attractive to look at (definitely uncheck!). So we need to fix that.

  WHAT WE NEED & WHAT YOU GET

We're looking to raise $6,500 to design a modern image for our webpages and layout the user interface that manages our software in a modern, attractive look that will be appealing to our customers. We need to hire a graphics web designer with experience in user interface technologies to take our existing mobile marketing services platform and make it easy to use and beautiful to look at.This individual or team will deliver approximately 30 webpages laid out with the user interface designed for the task -- uploading music to download, entering concert information, managing fans, etc. Their deliverable is HTML and CSS files that execute the design. This design next needs to be tied into the existing backend database, so that, for example, when you enter a tour date, it shows up correctly on the database so that it shows up correctly on a fans mobile phone. We need to hire a software pro expert in .NET/ASP programming to integrate the front end with the back end. We financed the company so far out of our own pockets, sweat, and credit. The money raised here will go directly to hiring a contract design and user interface professional that can deliver an outstanding user interface experience for the services we provide.  If we raise more than our goal, we'll use the money to improve the platform with more features, and marketing.

As long as we're working with a design expert, we would also have him design new mobile web templates for our free and paid subscribers. The current mobile designs are functionally amazing but boring to look at, and artists are not excited to promote their own mobile web presence when it looks so lame. For artists that choose our free service,even they should have a design that is current and modern.

 We're offering a wide range of perks to our Indie GoGo pledgers. If you're an artist or someone in the music industry, you can take advantage of the paid versions of our mobile platform at terrific discounts. Youll get to work with the new platform you helped create! If you're part of a business that can benefit from mobile advertising, our mobile websites display thousands of ads each day and we can offer you mobile advertising targeted to the music demographic -- 18 to 34-year-olds. Friends that help us out get to claim support for our mission and weve thought of a bunch of fun stuff from Adva Mobile to thank you. Take a look and make your pledge now! And THANK YOU SO MUCH!

OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP!

If you'd like to see this become a reality as much as we do, but can't make a pledge (or already have), please share this with everyone you know! Spread the word via Facebook/Twitter/blog and tell your friends about our mission. IndieGoGo has some great sharing tools.