THE STARCHIVIST BLOG — Navigating the Digital Content Universe
DIgital Life
Calling all creatives!
Use your quarantine ‘downtime’ in a positive, productive, and valuable way.
You’re an artist and your gigs have been canceled. You’re a manager scrambling to support your artists during this unprecedented time. You’re a content creator stuck at home staring at your stacks of hard drives and thinking about what to do next. What can you be doing to set yourself up for success right now?
Gather your media, curate it, and share it – we’re eager and ready to help you. We know that you mean a lot to your fans, that your tribe wants to hear from you, and that right now the safest way to connect with them is online.
It’s time to finally pull together your creations – your songs, beats, videos, photos, lyric sheets, logos, merch designs, etc. – to build the content library you’ve always wanted and that your creative projects deserve. And, we want to help you get started for free.
If you’re like most artists and/or artist teams, your Dropbox account is full (or a total mess), your hard drives are at risk, your media is scattered across several distribution/publishing channels and media-specific tools like YouTube, Vimeo, iPhoto, iCloud, G-Drive, and more. Does this sound familiar and perhaps give you anxiety?
It’s ok, we understand and we can help. It’s why we made Starchive. Starchive is a simple, affordable, private content library in the cloud that empowers you to preserve and share your valuable creations.
Right now, we are feeling compelled to lean in hard to support the
creative community through this unique and uncertain time.
Whatever tool or tool(s) you use, we encourage you to use this time to think and act productively and positively, and we’d love to connect with you to share our thoughts, tips, recommendations and more. A few tools (in addition to Starchive) that we think are worth checking out:
- Use Canva to help you make beautiful designs easily
- Set up a Patreon account to establish a direct relationship with your fans via membership
- For our videography friends, look into Seed & Spark as a way to crowdfund your work
What’s the next step? Choose your own adventure (with our support):
- Signup for a 30-day free trial of Starchive and dive right in (no credit card required and no commitment required); if you need more time than that to get going, reach out to us and we can work together to craft a plan that works for you.
- Email us at: support@starchive.io to schedule a time to connect and talk. We’d love to answer your questions and provide support & recommendations for building your content library (Starchive account not required)
P.S. And, seriously, if your hard drives are 2 years old (or older, yikes) then your media is at risk – please get that media to a new home asap!
Wishing you safety, health, peace, and productivity,
Your Starchive Tribe
We love Starchive and We know you will too!
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