Wednesday 5 January 2011

Promoting Music Online - Getting Started With Social Media

By Dmitry Vasenyov


One of the very first things that you have to do in promoting your music on the World Wide Web is to make your music really accessible and developing online presence. In that way people will get to know that you exist. And whether they hear your music or not is absolutely another matter. However, as long as it is available they can easily find what you are actually doing. After that you can concentrate your attention on promoting it.

One of the ways of doing so is by signing up for another website like social media one where you are allowed to add samples of your music for people to listen on the internet. Even those social networking websites that do not allow uploads will be quite helpful for you.

Signing up with different social networking websites is quite a great way for making a connection with your new potential fans. However some huge social networking websites could end up becoming popular with spammers who want to take advantage of what could be gained from such exposure that people stop using it and it becomes a thing of the past with mostly spammers remaining.

You have to try to stay ahead of your existing and potential competition and sign up for accounts on various social media websites. In that way you could see which websites are working better for you and focus your attention and time on them.

Besides you have to network with as many related people as you can. In other words you have to be in touch with people from the same or at least similar industry to you. You have to make yourself known to people who really matter. In addition it is not a good idea to add anyone as a friend. Instead you have to be focused on the contacts and fans that have some interest in what you are doing as they are more likely to listen to your music.




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