There are a lot of steps you can take in getting your music promoted online. Here are ten great tips to assist you in becoming the famous musician you are striving to be!
Stream It
Get your music streaming anywhere and everywhere online you can find to upload it and make it available to any public in your chosen genre to latch on and get a feel for your tunes and style.
Own Your Name
Purchase your bands name as a domain name. Getting the domain reserved may seem useless if you have no immediate plans for a huge website. But a small investment now can save you much in the future if someone else purchases the domain before you, they can sell it to you at any price they desire. Even a basic site can be set up at minimal cost if you are completely net ignorant.
Spread Yourself Around Online
Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, as well as many other sites that cater to music promotions and sharing can be some of the best resources to drop your energy into. Considering they are also free, you really can’t ask for better marketing opportunities than what these giants already offer.
Link Around
Make sure your links to your YouTube videos are on your website, make sure your Myspace music widget is also there along with FaceBook and your other social media means are shown and easily accessible from the website you have now with your bands on name on it!
Free Music
Give some of your music away for absolutely nothing. Sometimes you may be sitting on a gold mine, but if you don’t share the wealth you may find it is not worth as much to others as it is to you. Turning on possible fans to music they may not be able to afford, or may not want to buy because they are unfamiliar with the band name, may just take one free song to listen to to become instant fans!
Blog MP3′s
Check around for the blogs that sponsor MP3′s and MP3 contest and activities. Getting your tunes onto one of the popular MP3 blogs may be just the coverage you have been looking for.
Respond to Your Audience
When your fans on Twitter or Myspace send you messages or make wonderful comments. Respond. Don’t let those niceties just hang there alone in cyberspace. Keep up a good relationship with those who are loyal enough to want to follow your social media activities.
Offer But Don’t Spam
Whenever given the chance offer a link to a free tune from your band but do not attempt to force it or post it multiple times on the same place in hopes of getting more attention. That kind of spam will likely get your present and future post banned.
Ask for Input from Fans
Allow the fans you have to be interactive or even proactive for your band and tunes. Having contest where fans can win the chance to name the title of a song or win a free t-shirt for submitting a verse of a song are great ways to keep fans interested, thinking and coming back for more.
Share Your Tools
Promote to your loyal fans and readers widgets or tools that you can create within blogs and web pages that allow quick click able access to your social media or websites. Have a graphic designer create a widget that looks like your bands logo so that proud fans can display their loyalty, along with a link to your tunes!
There are many more ways to promote your music online but these ten items are a great start. Keep banging out those tunes and barraging the internet with your style and you may see it end up just where it should be, on top!
