Using Social Networking for Online Music Marketing

Using Social Networking for Online Music Marketing 
By Joshua Martindale

Independent online music marketing strategies and information can help individuals find a way to be recognized. If you are reaching for the stars and trying to become famous, the internet offers you a surplus of tools and strategies that you can use to promote your music.

One of the most successful methods for online music marketing is video marketing. Videos sell fast online. At YouTube and other areas online, millions of visitors including producers and other musicians visit the site to watch videos. By adding videos to social network sites, you can increase your chance of being noticed.

Software to make videos is available on the Web. You can download software programs and start making your music videos in less time by using comprehensive tools. Other information online offers you music marketing tips, plans, strategies, and promotional tactics that other musicians used to promote their music.

You can learn how viral and social network marketing works. Social networks give you proven ways to broadcast your music online to millions of users. At one time, social media was a trend, but today the social networks have become one of the leading methods for marketing businesses, music, or services.

Marketers post information about how effective social networking is on the internet. According to statistical reports, around 64% of the United States internet users interact with user-generated content. Around twenty six million of the United States visitors used Twitter. Over 220 million users from around the world used mobile social networks.

Solid research information is available online. Using social media to market your music is effective if you use listening skills, establish trust, add value, and project authenticity. Importance is placed on strategies and actual tools you use to promote your music. The best strategies are found in social media networks.

Pepsi recently started advertising in social media after finding that the social networks offered the company a broader spectrum of internet marketing solutions. The company invested millions. Pepsi expects to triple the revenue of expenditures in less time. Pepsi will appear in commercials during the Super Bowl.

Of course if you are just starting out, you cannot afford to spend millions in media commercials. Save money by adding your videos to You Tube and the social networks. Ensure that you list your information and videos in the right categories. If you put your music in the wrong category, chances of getting exposure is reduced by about 90 percent.

Studies show that people who add their email address and contact information in videos increase their chance of building email campaign lists. Therefore, if you choose to use social networks for online music marketing, add your email and other contact information so producers can reach you.

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1. Know what all direct and indirect competitors charge

2. Know what they can and cannot offer

3. Know where they work, and what their buyers budgets are

4. Know what you do that the cannot or will not do

5. Know the secretaries or other gate keepers by name, be their pal

6. Know when to book (timetables for different types of gigs on your working areas)

7. Know how the buyers want to be contacted and treated

8. Know what they need before they do and offer it to them with an offer they can’t refuse

9. Know how to under price and over deliver

10. Know when to ask for the next gig, testimonial or referral

+ 1. Know how to surf and link leads!

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