Are you an Indie artiste, Independent artist, record label owner or artist manager looking for strategic to promote music to the right music consumer, this simple tips are meant for you.
Having spent several hours in studio recording music with your producer, but still looking for direction to promote your music to the local market and also the world generally.
Based on what you know that it takes a lot to build your own professional website as part of your marketing brand plan. As a music entrepreneur in this statuary industry, you will understand the factor and power behind time and money, but if you have both factors in place please kindly leave this post, don’t waste any of your precious time and get out there and do it! If you don’t have this in place, then after you check out my list you’ll know that not everything has to take so much time, money, and knowledge of how to get traffic to your site.
The idea of this post is to teach you strategic that work to place your creative artistic on other websites that have the aforementioned resources (time, money, and website traffic).
Let jump to this post discussion, if you really want to know the strategic that work for music promotion in this modern age of technology and if you know how to search on Google I’m sure you could find plenty of places to sell and promote your music online, but have safe you several hours for you search in this post.
In short, there are thousands of online music stores where you can place your music, but just like search engine or other written books materials on any certain subject, there are only a few places that really matter for your music promotion. Then why bothering yourself with several hours to promote your music on those sites that will not give you the ROI you are really looking for.
Promoting your music on sites that have millions or thousands audience is the best for any musician, record label owner and artist manager. In other word, your music will be in front of millions of users. Not only do you want exposure, you want to know that other musicians and recommending this, and that everyone comes to this site to hear new music.
However, the promotion of music to the final consumer is one of the biggest challenges that many indie artists or independent artists are really facing in recent time, but with these powerful secret on how to promote you music, I think the problem is solved.
Before this strategic can work very well as already planned, you need to have upload your songs on various networking platform for people to get them easily whenever they are searching online for your song. You can upload your song to various music submission networking sites such as MyNotJustOk.com, Soundcloud, Hulkshare, MySpace or if you planned to sell the music you can easily upload your music to various digital sales platform such as iTunes, Tidal, Spotify, Pandora and many others.
How to Promote your Music: Simple Secret on How to Promote your Music
Live or Referral Promotion: This is the easiest and most task free avenue of promoting your music. Many people usually underestimate the power of Live and Referral promotion.
—- Live Promotion: Is an avenue whereby you put every strategist in place by promotion your music at any event such as party, church, school orientation day, club and many others places. It doesn’t cost you any thing, what you need is to ask for few minutes from the organiser or the MC of the show to give you few minutes in other for you to showcase your talent and also an avenue of promoting your music.
—- Referral Promotion: This is another free avenue for you to share your music with friends, family, business associate, colleagues in school and many others people through the word of mouth. I will advice you to use this con artist strategic for this process — You can ask them that you need their candid view on your new song and also for them to give you advice on how to promote your new song. Ask them to help seek opinions and advices from their friends and family also.
Social Media: The social media cyber space is community where billions of people interact, network with each other. Never underestimate the power of social media because Facebook have over 1Billion active users, Twitter have 700M active users, Youtube have over 400M active users, Instagram have over 300M active users, LinkedIn have over 350M active user and many others.
With illustration overview what must be in your mind is how to leverage or put your music in front of these active users on social media. The strategic for social media is in 2 ways, which is Free and paid avenue, before using this process please first create your social media profile in a professional manner with link of your song in the bio.
—-Free: This strategic is process whereby you put your human power to work. You can pen your own view or opinion on any trending topic in your community. On social media controversy sales very well but you must be very careful so that it will not destroy your image. The most important thing on social media is content because ” Content is King” in the web cyber space. Thousands of follower or good social media profile is nothing without good content. Social media users consume good content that will impact their life than wasting their time to consume crappy content.
—–Paid: This is situation whereby you put aside your human power and send money on errand. There are selected users on social media that have large following; you can contact them to be part of your publicity team based agreement terms.
They will help you promote your song to their large following and also help you to trend your music to what you can’t imagine or you can place an Ads on any of your favourite social networking sites, but my candid view is for you to pay social publicity users for this job because it save you some money.
PR Company: Using PR Company to promote your song works wonder because it will reach major music blogs, entertainment blogs, best music reviewers and journalists that will showcase your music to their large following on cyber space.
Precisely I love this process and recommend the use of PR for your music promotion in this new age because PR company have build a strong and business relationship with major music sites entertainment blogs, best music review and journalist over the years which you are limited to.
They will help rearrange your press statement into a professional and also put it in an economical value that site administrator and music consumer will acknowledge. Through the use of PR Company your music will reach all channels you don’t imagine because the have already made template and software blaster machine that will put your music on autopilot.
OAP’s & DJ’s: OAP’s & DJ’s are one of those people that determine how far you song can also reach because they are the people that play your songs for their various shows. The OAP’s are not supposed to collect money from upcoming musician but due to unstructured music industry will are running in this country many upcoming acts fell in to this scam of making money by the OAP’s.
One thing that upcoming artist must know is that you are already a brand that the world cannot wait to see, make an approached to the OAP’s that you will love to do business with him or her — Approached them that you will love to move your music career from this level to another level and you will love him or her to be part of your project.
They will accept your offer and they will request for their own copy of the blueprint for the project, in other for them to go read and re-think about it, while the same strategies goes for the Dj’s. Never disrespect them no matter how small the person might be to you, show them their respect and love.
Thanks for reading this information and I hope if you put this information to work, you might be the next Kiss Daniel or Simi.
Safe and Stay Bless.
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