May 27, 2021 There are so many ways to promote your music online. It depends on how much time you can spend on the digital promotion of your music. They’re some of the easiest ways which can help you to promote your music to a larger audience than any other platform.
October 19, 2020 Whether you like the fact or not, Instagram and social media as a whole is a huge part of building an online music business in the modern age.
Your ability to utilise social media to get clients and session work as an aspiring professional musician may have a direct correlation to your success (or lack of).
You may have been posting great content on your business Instagram profile for a while but you’re just not landing any clients or even getting a glimpse of interest.
This is frustrating for you because you’re investing all of this time and effort into it but aren’t seeing any rewards for doing so.
July 27, 2018 With hundreds of shows on sale weekly and 3.5 million tickets sold in the last five years, Gigantic is one of the UK’s best-known independent ticketing agencies, selling tickets to big events such as Ed Sheeran, Reading & Leeds and Download Festival.
June 6, 2018 June 1, 2016 If you’re an artist or a band that’s new to the world of social media, hashtags may seem confusing or pointless. These little symbols are a vital way for way people communicate and digest information online. Not only are they important but they can also increase your engagement rate and followers.
April 11, 2016 Here is the key: If you’re releasing your content without a CTA, and you want to monetize it, you’re throwing that content away. It’s like casting your bate into the ocean without a hook. Worth noting, before you get a hook, I advise that you create a great experience to bring people to and that you have your products ready to buy, but if all of that is taken care of, you absolutely need some hooks (CTAs).
March 24, 2016 Instagram, the most popular app for sharing photos and videos, has grown over the past 3 years, more than any of its rivals on social networks, including Twitter and Snapchat. Currently, the number of people sharing photos and videos every month through Instagram rose 300 million, at the beginning of the year and now exceeds the number of people using Twitter every month in almost 100 million.
The application incorporates this year the possibility of uploading videos and gif, and also add some new filters, new features that have allowed to Instagram add users and some detractors, especially since they decided to add advertising to the timeline
December 1, 2015 Every artist wants to be noticed, and you don’t need a label anymore to do it. That also means that musicians must learn how to market themselves. The primary way people discover music these days is through the internet and the recommendations of their friends. Therefore, if you want to be noticed, you need to know where all the fans are hanging out.
November 2, 2015 Growing your following on social media is an important part of your social media strategy, whether you are a seasoned veteran or just starting out. If you’re finding that your number of followers is just not going up, take a look at this checklist and decide if there are any holes in your strategy.
September 17, 2015 As an independent musician, a digital PR campaign can be a critical component to an overall marketing strategy that will help you to:
1. Reach new fans
2. Increase online influence
3. Create new content that can be used to continue to build strength of existing fan base through social media
4. Better understand marketplace position
January 15, 2014 2014 is with us. And while there’s a good chance you’ve already made non-music related new years resolutions, have you made any related to your music? If not, today we’re going to fix that!
After my well received 2013 post (still useful today), below are 6 resolutions you can ‘borrow’ to help get your music career on track this year. Feel free to use as many or as few of them as you please. All I ask is that any you do decide to go with, stick with them for the duration.
Challenge yourself to do a few of them, but don’t pick so many that you can’t carry them all out. Ready to get going? Well here they are:
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Advice from the Experts, Branding, Developing a Strategy, Exposure: Getting Heard Now!, Facebook, Gaining Support, Sponsorships & Endorsements, Getting To Know Your Audience, Handling Public Relations, MTT, MTT Open, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Music Business Advice, Music Social Media, Music as a Business, Networking, Social Media, The Benefits of Blogging, The Future of Music, The Road to Success tagged Apps, Marketing Strategies, Marketing Tools, mobile apps, music promotion, record labels, social media for musicians, soundcloud September 16, 2013 The street team of the past hasn’t changed all that much, only the street they’re working on. Instead of physical flyers they’re sharing and tweeting tour posters, instead of leaflets they’re sharing your Facebook,Twitter and Youtube pages.
The digital street team has more weight behind it than the old model of actually going out and speaking to people. They hold the ears of the 500 or so friends on Facebook plus the number of people following them on Twitter. That is more people than you’d ever reach on a hundred rainy Saturdays standing in the high street. Not only that but your digital street team get more than one chance to influence these people.