So what is Records Store Day?
Records store day is a yearly event that was created by music enthusiasts – fans & record sellers alike who predominantly belong to the records community to unite together. Universal Music’s sales manager, Marc Fayd’Herbe, has described Record Store Day as “the single best thing that has ever happened” for independent record shops. In these tough times of 2020, with the global pandemic changing most brick and mortar stores to an online business store with music marketplaces & their own ecommerce platforms, Music sellers have no other option but to go online.
As the new online trend setter, sellers are looking at Discogs, a music marketplace for music lovers to discover, buy and sell music in multiple formats like Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Cassettes, etc. Discogs. Discogs has seen a rise of over 40% in 2020 in comparison to 2019 on Record Store day weeks. This is a significant change that sellers are adapting into owing to the surge in the no of orders & sales on Discogs.
Source: Discogs
Overall, In the first half of 2020, Discogs shows an increase of 33.83% in sales and 18.77% in submissions over 2019. The most popular physical music format sold this year so far has been vinyl, with a 33.72% increase in sales through the Marketplace year-over-year. Music sellers have been leveraging on this and they’ve been moving to the Discogs Marketplace. So as a music seller are you geared up for the ongoing Records Store Day? If not, here’s how we can help.
Who are we and what do we do?
ConstaCloud has Business & Technology savvy experts who identify trends like these and build various products & solutions for customers to address their needs. With our vast expertise we’ve been working on a solution for Discogs Sellers, addressing their pain points and building a solution which addresses them. And the solution is “DisConnect”.
DisConnect is a complete Inventory & Order Management platform for Business Sellers. We help you list your products from your online platform to Discogs or from Discogs to either your online platform like Shopfiy/WooCommerce or your Marketplaces like eBay. DisConnect also supports Integration of Discogs with accounting, shipment & POS platforms in the very near future.
We at Portland Distro save hundreds of hours listing our music for sale into Discogs.
With one of the most responsive support teams we have encountered, the team is there hand and foot to meet your storefronts personal needs. Our sales jumped 200 percent the first day and continue to climbs while you control your own profit margin with ease.
We are proud to be a partner early on and couldn't imagine life without out the Disconnect App and Constacloud team.
- Portland Distro
Portland Distro T-shirts and VinylI was looking for a way to successfully migrate my Discogs store to my Woocommerce one and then keep them synced. For a long time I could not find how I could achieve this, until I got in touch with the Constacloud team. Their Disconnect product surely does the job and the most important thing is the team's will to find solutions and answers to my questions during the process and being available whenever I had something to ask, no matter how minor this thing was. If you are trying to do something similar look no further.
- George Fertakis
A fine Discogs migrating solution by a great team.Working with the Constacloud team has been an experience like no other. Every member I spoke with was communicative, helpful and easy to work with. All my questions were answered in a timely manner and the team was able to customize the app in the best way to meet all my needs. As a record store owner, I've spent years looking for the perfect app to integrate our Discogs inventory onto our personal website. The system developed by Constacloud is everything we were looking for and working with the team, I am confident we can make it the best option out there.
- Colin Spin
SIT&SPIN Records, DiscogsWe've been looking for a solution to sync our Discogs store to Shopify for a while and this has worked seamlessly. Highly recommend.
- Justin Weems
Fine Southern GentlemenFeel free to check out DisConnect & should you have any queries, you can reach out at help@disconnect-app.com
Despite being postponed 3 times, Records Store Day Black Friday will be on November, 27th. Are you geared up? Or Better yet take your experience online as well in addition to your current endeavors. Ultimately, as music sellers, we see the potential & the need for entertainment from the online music industry keeps rising despite the ongoing pandemic, all the more reason why we have to make the best out the available marketplaces & make use of products which lend you a helping hand by completely automating your product synchronization with DisConnect, a complete order & inventory management platform for Discogs Sellers.