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Jelly Selfie Token Giveaway and Prizes

Posted on October 11, 2015

Take a #selfie in front of a StreetJelly performer, post it on Facebook or Twitter, get 10 Free Tokens for yourself and the musician, and a chance to win more prizes from BandMix.com and BandVista.com!

What: Jelly Selfie Week
When: Monday, October 19th, 2015 to Monday, October 26th, 2015 (midnight pacific time)
Who: Everyone

Here is what you do…

  • Take a picture of yourself IN FRONT OF your favorite musician in a live performance on StreetJelly.
  • Post the image on Facebook on the StreetJelly.com page (required) 
    Or post on Twitter and include our @StreetJelly name (required)
  • Include the hashtag #JellySelfie (required)
  • Include the StreetJelly link to the musician (required)
  • Add the hashtag #BandMix or #BandVista to enter either grand prize drawing
  • Receive 10 Free Tokens into your StreetJelly account
  • The musician in the picture gets 10 Free Tokens, too!
    (For their account, not in their tip-jar)
  • Limit 4 selfies per member (40 tokens, a $6.40 value)
  • Each selfie must be of a DIFFERENT musician to qualify
  • No Limit how many times a musician may be in a selfie to receive tokens
  • Prize drawings on Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Example post would look like this:
(This is a selfie of Frankie during a Don Brandfas show.)

#JellySelfie http://www.StreetJelly.com/DonBrandfas #BandVista

JellySelfie

Note: “#JellySelfie” not required inside the picture.

Prizes

We’ll have two drawings on Tuesday, October 27th, for prizes from BandMix and BandVista.  Each selfie gets entered in a drawing for ONE of the prizes, depending on which hashtag is included in the selfie post: #BandMix or #BandVista.

  • #BandMix – One year subscription to Premium Membership on BandMix.com. An $89.95 value.  BandMix is the leading website for searching for musicians, finding band members, setting up auditions, and musician classifieds.
  • #BandVista – One year subscription for a Gold Plan professional musician website from BandVista.com. A $130.20 value.  BandVista is a fantastic new tool for bands and musicians to easily create and maintain a powerful web site with industry level features.

Other Considerations

Please post the JellySelfies to Facebook or Twitter.  Posting the same selfie to multiple platforms only counts as one entry for free tokens or the prize drawings.  Feel free to post to other social media websites.  But if you do, send us a note as we don’t normally monitor other platforms besides Facebook or Twitter.

Disclaimer:  StreetJelly reserves the right to disqualify anyone from this contest for scamming the system, idiocy, inappropriate content, or just plain being a jerk.

Commitment to Musicians Payout

Posted on February 24, 2015

A message from Frank Podlaha, CEO

Pile of TokensMany of you have probably noticed the new Payout Percentage we now display on the StreetJelly BuyTokens page. On the right hand side, we show a running average of the amount of cash that we pay back to musicians from the tokens purchased by fans. Let me explain a little deeper how it all works.

We do things a little differently on StreetJelly than most sites. Instead of just tipping in US Dollar amounts, we use tokens (and Rocker Pin awards) to show our love to the musicians. Each tipped token is always paid out at 16¢ (US). However, we sell those tokens for various prices depending on the size of the package a fan purchases. People like a deal when they buy in bulk. No difference with our tokens. The more you buy, the better price you get. The percentage of the money that goes to the musicians then varies depending on which package is purchased. The tokens vary in sale price from 32¢ to 20¢ (or 50% to 80% payout).

Of course, different people buy different packages. If we average out all the packages sold, we consistently get a payout above 70%. It’s been like that from the very beginning. We have just as many fans buy the larger token packages as do the smaller ones.

However, this is not the complete picture because we also give away tons of free tokens with promo-codes, contests, and other events. Think for a minute what happens when you get a promo-code worth 25 Free Tokens. Those extra tokens still become real cash that we payout to musicians. For example: if you buy the smallest package of 25 tokens at $8 with that promo, you actually receive 50 tokens (25 purchased + 25 free).  The payout to the musicians becomes $8, or 50 x .16 = $8.  100% of your purchase goes to the musicians. Cool, huh!?

We are displaying that full Payout Percentage on the BuyTokens page. It’s a running average over the past 30 days, and includes all the extra tokens we give away. On a side note: it does NOT include any fees/royalties we payout to the songwriters associations (BMI, ASCAP, etc). Those artists get their piece of the pie from our revenue, not the musicians. It’s our obligation to take care of that portion.

We are very proud that our true Payout Percentage is running in the mid-80s! It is our goal to always keep that at or above 80% and still stay in business.

Thank you for all the support!

~Frank Podlaha, CEO – a.k.a. Frankie

Payout Percentage - Feb 2015

Payout Percentage – Feb 2015