So, you’re doing a lot of things right – you’re show is tight, you’re giving out some free tunes and encouraging people to share, you’re building up your mailing list and nurturing it with content, you understand social media.
You’re building fans.
Now what?
Keep repeating what you are doing? Yep.
But what else [...]
With the latest wave of direct-to-fan solutions, such as Nimbit’s, artists can now easily build a strong web presence, make their music merch tickets and bundles available to fans, and build relationships with those fans in a way that they “have the potential” to support their careers — so they can do what they love to do, which is make and play music.
In the few short years since Social Media has invaded our lives many artists have been steamrolled into picking up the technology, but few have been trained in how to use SM. Not that there is a huge difference between how an individual uses Twitter vs the way a band uses Twitter, but there is a difference.
Band SM means you must know how to interact on 2 levels. You must have an idea of what is appropriate for your social group (your fans) and what media (twitter, fbook, YouTube) will work for you. Blasting away on Twitter about anything and everything may work for you IF you’re a singer songwriter whose already revealed much in your music [...]
Watch this video excerpt from Music Power Network— “an online information service for independent musicians and bands, songwriters, producers, and managers.”
Ariel Hyatt, expert music publicist, discusses the important of building, maintaining and knowing your Community as an artist [...]
Capture more fans, engage them, and use them to bring you more fans (and more business)
