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11 social media marketing tips for musicians

For what you should be doing and what you should be focusing on when trying to Get fans to your shows, pound-for-pound email is still the best online marketing Platform for promoting bands, and their shows, a good mailing list – is crucial for Building a fanbase who will buy your concert? Tickets, your merchandise, Patronize venues and buy beer when age-appropriate.

Well, this the fans Cultivated for your band newsletter is more dependable than fans on social Network follows and likes on platforms like Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram or Twitter, one method for getting people to sign up for your email list could be a Sweepstakes, you can give away tickets to future, shows merchandise or downloads of Music and articles, while you’re building out your email list do the same with Your SMS text list and use it don’t be as aggressive as with your email.

Marketing, though, perhaps send out a text before your next event, maybe a week Before and then maybe a day before and be sure you segment your SMS text list, By area codes and use that appropriately so you’re, not spamming fans in Kansas, About your next show in Kentucky in some large metro areas, there shows all over The city on any given day or night, don’t price yourself out of that market during The last South by Southwest Conference in Austin live nation labs reveal that They have commissioned studies which concluded that the ticket price and the Associated fees and taxes is the number one reason why fans decide on attending Live shows or not you’re, building an audience here and many folks in Attendance are taking a risk on a band that they’ve never heard of before make It worth their while you might have to take a hit early on.

While you build your Brand, but if they like you, they might buy your seat. Or other merchandise after the show plenty of your fans will say: they’re Coming to your show, but those who have pre purchased a ticket definitely will And even if they don’t you’ve already earned the revenue from the unused Ticket look for ways to encourage fans to buy tickets sooner if you’re needing To drive sales in a more predictable manner, one technique may be to offer the First, 50 ticket buyers a chance to go to the venue early on the day of the show.

And meet the band for autographs during sound check, don’t reveal who the first 50 are until you sold the first 150 250 or 500 tickets, or not a particular date. And time another technique would be to bundle the tickets with free downloads, Of your latest release, but only award the free downloads to the first 500 Ticket buyers, I think you get the point here. Just get creative and check with a Lawyer within the contest that you run because you can get yourself into Trouble fast with the FTC and not even know it assume the people you’re Promoting to have never heard of your band before when you’re writing your Description about your gig be accurate and current and better yet send a link.

To a article photos, reviews or EPK with tracks that they can sample, don’t be Afraid to find your audience from Twitter YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Accounts of similar bands talk directly to the fans of the music that is similar To yours and be responsible for being the one who starts a relationship, you Can also connect with fans in the comments sections of online music blogs. And magazines, don’t be afraid to reach out.

You already have your love of music In common and fans, absolutely love connecting with artists post your events and invite people no More than two weeks before the show date on Facebook too early, then people Completely forget repost new info about the event a week out three days out and On the morning of your event, find fans on Instagram and Twitter and ask them to Repost and retweet your posts using a hashtag with the name of your band Trending Twitter hashtags can make the front page of Google so mastering Twitter and contemporarily boost your organic SEO, which can in turn have a Permanent positive impact on your search rankings, while most of your Facebook Work should be done well in advance.

Twitter and Instagram are best use. Just A couple of days before the show and definitely the night before in the day, Of the show also make sure the venues you’re playing are promoting the show on Their Instagram or Twitter or Facebook YouTube tik-tok, snapchat blog tumblr, AOL Compuserve Friendster myspace geo cities and probably their dog store pages as Well, let’s be honest: Facebook has at best flatlined and at worst and most Likely it’s on its way out, but it’s still too big to ignore.

There are Several companies who can create a customized Facebook page for your band, I’ve used page modo and wildfire with great success in the past. If you like to Get your hands dirty and code yourself. You can build your own solution, though. Just start at the Facebook developer site: let’s get old-school now for a second, a Few weeks before your local show notify magazines and music pop culture.

Sites about your concert, these should be editorial sites like the Dallas Observer Nashville scene, the Free Press in LA and the Houston press, as well as websites Devoted to local event listings like guide, live bands in town and eventful Send them a very brief, well-written description of the show, a list of Notable shows that you’ve played in the past links to positive reviews. Impressive web traffic numbers that the band has had on their own website in on Social media accounts and a web ready search engine optimized image of the Band only submit the websites that list shows that are similar to the genre of Music, that you’re being plays, there’s no point in wasting your time.

If you know You’re not going to get listed on the site now. None of this is hard, but there Are no quick solutions either you ever heard of elbow grease, get it out because You’re going to need it everything that I’ve mentioned in this List is based upon organic online marketing techniques. It’s all online Marketing one on one to anyone who is savvy to SEO social media or other kinds. Of internet marketing with that said, it only works when you stick to it.

Build Your audience and cultivate your relationships with your fans. If you Don’t believe me look at the fans who have followed East Texas, indie rockers Eisley around the world on and offline, you can also ask decades-old members of The KISS Army, gene and Paul realized how important steady organic growth of their Fan base was to building a career in music long before the internet was Around approached local radio and TV stations about doing spots on the air The day of your shows approached local newspapers and offer interviews of the Band to be printed the day before the show they’re going to be told.

No thank You 999 times out of a thousand, but there’s nothing equal to getting local Coverage in a market that not only opens you up to thousands of potential fans, But it gives your bands brand instant credibility, assuming that the interview Goes well now, I want to know what you think, so I can create the kind of Content that you want to see leave a comment for me or let me know what Questions you have, I check them every day and I’ll be quick to get you a Response, I honestly appreciate you reading and I’ll see you in the next article

 

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Why Influencer Marketing DOES NOT Work – How To Fix It

Let me break it down start back. Historically, most of the time people say a a good influencer is not just someone who had a lot of followers. That’s right. It’s somebody who also has this engagement.

Don’t just look and see if they have a lot of followers. Do they have engagement? Now you know they don’t have fake followers now you know that their followers actually cares about them and those are the people that you want to follow up with. That’s pretty much become the agreed-upon thing, but there’s one step further people. I swear it’s one step further, that a lot of folks are missing. Straight-Up engagement does not equal influence, that’s pretty much it engagement does not equal influence.

What do I mean by that? Well, you know what first, let’s rewind back for a little bit of story time. Yeah I had his homegirl his home girl who’s, throwing an event and she was so excited. She had this host. That was a IG and no one, sir, when I say IG influencer, I’m talking about this person had a hundred and fifty some thousand followers Real Talk. Real followers, because these people were engaged matter of fact she was super excited because person was so cool that they start posting her event pretty early and then she says Shawn.

I really want you to come to this event like for real for real. Come to this event check it out, and I said: okay, okay, I come out to the event and I get there late mind you – and this is what I see I see about 15 people in the whole venue, including myself, including the probably about five artists that Were performing and their friends and the host, why was nobody that interested in coming to see this person, because that person was not an influencer, at least not in that way, being an influencer means being able to actually influence people in their decision making having a certain Level of trust, this person – I believe, if I remember correctly, was basically like a local media and they had got them scared going if people were going there to their page to laugh, but they weren’t going to really see what this person was about.

There was no buy-in as much as people hate them Kardashian a lot of people hate on her there’s a lot of people that look to her for influence. Alright, they look at what she’s wearing they looked at the lips, the button, all them things so keep this. In mind, when you pick your influencers for your campaigns who you’re trying to pay, because you can end up wasting a lot of money, paying somebody who has views and engagement but zero influence, there’s a lot of people that I know that I’m cool with or I Might even pick up the phone if they call, but I’m not really checking to them for what shoes they’re wearing right jay-z has a lot of influence right, but nobody’s really looking at his sneakers, at least not on the level that they might be looking at Kanye’s Sneakers right, this is just one specific category, and this is very important for you guys to consider for your music as well.

Jay-Z is obviously the influential person but they’re not looking at him for fashion as much or looking at Calle for fashion. As a matter of fact, people are now looking at some pretty ugly sneakers, just because this Kanye, like the ladies, I know some people might disagree, but the ladies TV collection type stuff mmm, but people are buying. So a great example is a homeboy is a rapper. I’r not going to mention his name or anything like that.

He went to the page of a very popular dancer named kid. It agreat that kid is that Nick, like kid, it can dance his butt off he’s dope. However, I told him Brett, don’t pay buddy to put your music on his page and dance to your music, and I tried to explain it beforehand why it would not work. This is why I said yo people go to his page to see him dance. I know. There’s a lot of views on his articles, but they’re going through his page to see him dance they’re, not really listening or caring too much about the music.

That’s in the background, they’re just reading his dance to the beat, so his influence is more so dance based. There’s probably a lot of dancers, they love him and can be influenced by him. Read his moves, but because he’s dancing all the time and that’s what’s on his page, no one’s really going to hear the music they’re just want to see him dance again. The same thing for a lot of these pages, where they’re twerking all the time, I’m sure people throw money at him all the time.

However, people are not really checking the twerk pages. It’s work they go on for the booty. We know what people are going for. Well, they’re also people who actually like twerking study and they wonder damn you know, twerk do sales and then looking at work move whatever. But point is people are not going to those pages for the music? That’s being listening to. You might have some people who drizzle over and actually want to listen to your song and they really get caught by it.

But it’s nowhere near as impactful as going to a different page where someone actually has influence and they’re not diluting their brand. In a sense of the music that they might listen to now, the same artists that I told to not use kids agree also saw amazing results, and this other campaign that I mentioned right in there’s these girls he got posted on the girls page, had nothing to Do with them actually dancing to the song or anything like that, they were just kind of listening to it.

In the background more so, however, these girls do not post music all the time. So now the people who are following them – and I have some – were influenced by him when that song is played by then they think they actually liked that song. So now these people that I like liked this song, I want to know more about that song. What makes them think that’s so great, but if I’m just dancing the songs all the time, that’s nothing to do with whether I like the song or not.

You don’t really think that I love this song, just cuz, I’m dancing to it. But if I did a song on one of my pages – and I was just like yo – this is the best song ever and people never see me. Talk about music y’all are going to probably listen to the song, because I’m usually talking about artists campaigns. I’r not really talking about this. Is my favorite song on this blog. It’s the same way, you should look at everything there’s context.

So not only is it followers engagement, but then you want to look at influence and influence has multiple categories. Right influence has first, two people actually look to this person and actually make decisions or see value in this person’s opinion, and then the other layer is when you analyze these people and their pages. What likely is their influence faced towards like? Are they influencing other people to dance or are they influencing other people to dance to specific songs? They just making people laugh and if they are making people laugh and they can they do a article in a unique way where the song seems so enjoyable.

They want to check that song too, like there’s so many ways, and so a little bit more nuance than just saying this person has followers and engagement. I had to put that out there. Maybe one day I might go deeper with very specific examples or some things like that. I don’t know, I think, that’s specific enough, because there’s a wide range of you guys who have a different scenario. So you kind of use it for your own situation.

But I would like to know what you guys think. I hope that was helpful, but other than that be like the article go ahead like button if it like he might as well share it and if you’re not subscribe, you know what to do. He dare subscribe.

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How To Build A Fanbase In 3 Months! | $5 Music Marketing Strategy

It’s how a mere used a combination of cover, songs and original songs, a unique $ 5 a day. Facebook strategy and distro kid to build a fanbase of over 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify is actually well above that I just can’t remember the number check this out so tell me more about because one of the things that baffled me, I wouldn’t say baffled, but what I loved because I didn’t hear other artists talk about doing something like this and once again just speaks to the assistants II was you’re a $ 5 a day, Facebook strategy.

I did that in the early days so like I, I think I when I when I when I spoke to a year ago. I think that’s what I was doing bad. So I did that for about three months yeah and I’m like you know what I’m just going to, let it run like people like the song, I’m just going to just let it run and see what happens and honestly, like I kind of forgot about it, and I just let it run in the background and then after three months like I did build up when I looked back, I’m like wow and actually built me up a little bit of an audience and a fanbase and people were checking as I was dropping those songs.

Every Monday, my streams on Spotify were starting to slowly creep up and then I dropped a cover. A sorry, a mash-up I did of to me a song into you, ya know, and I mashed it with russa song, wife, you loved, like really exploded. You know so like people like that one just hit all the algorithms. It went crazy and I think it’s almost at half a million streams now on Spotify. Oh that brings a question to my head.

So that’s essentially a remix cover I’ve been axed before, and this isn’t really something I get into as far as some of the legality type things, but I’ve been eggs when you put a cover on a platform like Spotify, what does that do for you? Like? Can you do that? Have you gotten any kind of strikes or anything like that? No, I haven’t because well with district kid, the good thing is, and I would use just her kid for any artists reading they acquire the cover license for you, so you’re covered and keep in mind like there’s two licenses right, you have master recording and you have Song and you have the copyright, which is the the writing of the song.

So I don’t own the writing of the song, but I own my master, which is the version of the song that I created. So I’m allowed to use that and put it like. I’r only getting master revenue, so Spotify also pays publishing royalties to the to the songwriters that wrote the song right, so they would be getting the backend royalties that way which don’t come to me because it’s a cover. I didn’t write the song, but I created that arrangement of it and I created that recording.

So both sides, like just a songwriter and everybody who’s covering my song, is yeah. Oh there’s tons of covers on Spotify like yeah, like there’s artists, who only have covers on Spotify. It’s just you just have to buy the license right. You can do it through district head and there’s a company called louder. You can do it through them. Boom cool has their service too, or you can use it. I don’t use to incur.

The reason for me is not because they’re not a good company, but because I release so much music that it was cost prohibitive. Like I like, I would have been paying what five thousand dollars a year just a tune core and it just didn’t make any sense, gachi so um, just to hone in on my process a little bit when it comes to district kid and how they kind of Obtained the rights for you so you’re saying once you submit a song, their algorithms, pretty much picks up on the fact that it’s a cover and they obtain it or do you submit and let them know that it’s a cover.

So when you, when you choose the option, they ask you district ritas is a cover and then you click. Yes, it’s a cover and then they ask you who the original songwriter is then sorry who the original artist is and then they go and obtain the license for you. So I like that better because it’s less work for me now I don’t have to use a third party to go, get a license. You can buy a license yourself.

You can just go to louder, comm and buy one but hey anything extra. They just handle the money. No, you do have to pay, so you have to pay. I think it’s a dollar a month to have the cover license, so it can’t add up if you’re going to keep it up there. It’s not bad. It’s twelve bucks a year. You know so well, then, for the service they’re providing like now, you have peace of mind right. You don’t have to worry about getting a license and worrying about all that.

I’d rather just pay the twelve bucks and not worry you’re sure, especially as an artist I mean primarily I’m already doing too much work. Um and that’s like one less thing for me to do. You know yeah all right, as you guys can see that consistency. First of all and foremost, is what I want you guys to focus on when it comes to his $ 5, a day, Facebook strategy. That’s so much better than just doing one week right and just going really hard on some Facebook Ads.

He did $ 5 a day that allows him to stay consistent and you have to do one dollar a day. It’s something just worth trying out over time and you have to do one dollar a day over 60 days or 90 days. Do whatever you can. So you can only collect the data over time within your budget, so you can get that information and learn how to make even more specific ads for yourself to utilize. But then, of course, a big part of his strategy, which is huge when it comes to the peace of mind that district 8 offered by making it so easy for him to leverage covers, because we all know how to do YouTube covers right.

A lot of people can make that happen quickly, but when it comes to covers on Spotify, I always got a lot of questions about it. Not it necessarily know how to answer that question, and I didn’t necessarily have time to figure it out or ask somebody. So not only is it dope, they they make it super easy, because a lot of artists need peace of mind. They don’t want to town a bit like focus on all this stuff when you’re, just trying to you know being Indian grind your way up into a better situation, but it’s also relatively inexpensive.

But Mary you’re going to mention that in his interview saying you know if he was using chunk or it would have been cost prohibitive for his particular strategy and with all that being said, a lot of people have been telling me for a minute. Your brain way. You should do a podcast, you should do a podcast and I’m strongly considering it in some form of fashion, and I decided that if it happens, it will definitely happen on distro kid.

I actually already have an account, and I’m filling my way through the system and with all of the good things I’ve heard about it when knowing so many people who are using it, I felt comfortable go ahead and get a discount code for you guys and offer It up to you at all for 7 % off your first year of membership with district kid. Now, if you already have district kid great on well and fine, I will actually love if you provide your commentary and experience with it in the description below.

But if you’re something you want to check out, then you can check it through the link in the description below to get that seven percent off district kid calm, /bi, p, / brand man, but other than that. As always, if you like, this article go hit the like button and you like, you, might as well share it and if you’re not subscribed, you know what to do. He dare subscribe. You

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FREE Music Marketing Strategy To Get REAL Fans Using YouTube | How To Build a Music Fanbase

Now this is one of five cheap growth strategies. I listed in my guide that free guide is in the description below I’ll, also put in the top comment, so check that out after the article, if you’re interested and a great thing about this article right here is a lot of you guys have been looking for A system to use marketing wise because everybody needs a system, but you haven’t had one.

This article will show you a system for growing a fan base and if you can’t use this particular one, you at least understand what that looks. Like here’s, the things that you got to do to use this strategy, one you have to upload a content mix. This requires two types of content at minimum, but three would be even better. Those two types of content are your original music that could be a music article or just a audio track, upload it to YouTube, and then there’s cover songs.

Now I know a lot of you guys are familiar with using cover music on YouTube. Some people have tried it and haven’t had much success, but a lot of it comes from not completely understanding so listen to this entire article, so you can really get an understanding how best to use cover music and also to actually make sure you maximize this. You have to upload your cover: music, your remixes or your free styles, one of the others in the right way.

So read the article that I did on how to properly do that and I’ll also provide that in the link description below the third type of content. You can do is really just regular vlog type articles where you’re engaging your audience and different ways, or just giving them peers and peeks into your lifestyle. There’s plenty of youtubers out there that you know are just succeeding as just youtubers, no music at all figure out.

What you might be able to do in that type of category to give fans additional ways to connect with you? The second thing you need to do is manage your proportions. Now. What I mean by that is you have those two or three types of content that you’re dropping. You want your original music to be a decent portion of that, and your original articles to be a decent portion of that if you’re doing vlog type articles covers, can be some, but not all of your posts.

There’s some people who use a cover, type strategy or a remix type strategy, but that’s all they’re doing and then there’s some people who rarely ever do covers or any kind of remixes or freestyles. You want to create some form of regular schedule, even if you’re not dropping this music regularly, it doesn’t necessarily matter what your proportion is as long as you stay consistent over the long term, but just for those of you, my ex, if you do at least one Cover song or one freestyle, every four articles you drop, that could be pretty good for you, but on the other end, if you aren’t able to record quality original music, you might want to flip that and drop only one original song.

Every four articles you have to figure out what works best for you, but if you can do this at least weekly, then that should be a nice pace to work with. If you want to slow that down and do four articles every month, just realize you’ll be taking more time to get out more content and you’re working at a slower pace so expect success or certain numbers to come at a slower pace. Now. The third thing you got to do is links in promo.

It’s the equivalent of letting people know where your other music is in this article right here. I could have text pop up that says: follow brain man, Sean on soundcloud or follow brain man, Sean on Spotify or Apple music, if they’re not going to also have that in my description links. I can also have that in my top comment link now, if you don’t know what I mean by top comment, if you look at the comment section of this article, you’ll notice, that my comment is at the top, because I pinned it to the top and now Any links that I want people to see people will always see.

My comment first be sure to do this with relevant links for your articles. Now it’s extremely important that these links lead to places where it’s only your original content, if you haven’t realized it, yet we’ve been walking through pieces of the system. The reason a lot of people fail when it comes to covers is they’re thinking about it directly as creating fans as opposed to realizing that covers are marketing.

So now, when I talked about that marketing funnel remember, we’ve talked about this in articles before read my article on that, if you haven’t, this is how the system would play out. The top of the marketing funnel always has the most people your covers, because they’ll get views and organically are usually going to be the first thing people see, that’s just them becoming aware of you initially, the next step in the consideration phase.

That means they saw whatever cover article that they saw of you and now they’re saying. Let me look at this other cover article, or maybe they run into your original content. That’s what’s happening in the consideration phase, because they’re discovering more of you next is conversion. This is when they’re really saying yeah. Oh, this person’s original content is awesome and if you did the third type of content, that is the more youtuber, maybe blog type content, they’re discovering – maybe some of this in the consideration phase as well, but once they get down to the conversion phase.

They really like your original music and they really like your other articles. That is just you and your personality, not necessarily the covers. So now. At this point, you have people who are discovering you on your YouTube page and then some of your subscribers are probably casual fans and real fans. You don’t know what that number percentage is, but with the links, the people who follow you, because they see your link in your YouTube article or they see it in your description or your top comments and follow you on other platforms, whereas only your original music.

You now know that the people who went there through that route really love you for you. These are some of your true fans, and that is a system and the way these systems work is now once everything is in place. All you have to do is stay consistent with it, and on top of that, give it more and more exposure, because now, after you have let’s say a hundred articles of this combination, if article number 101, all of a sudden goes viral, all the new people that Come in and will go to the top of the funnel and be able to follow that exact same route, and now for those of you who get all discouraged like yo.

My original music doesn’t get anywhere near as many views as the covers. That’s how it’s supposed to be it’s the top of the funnel that’s people discovering you in the first place. Naturally, less people are going to even find out about your original music at first. But if you stay consistent with this system, you’re going to have more casual fans and more real fans and you’ll have more people who aren’t fans at all, but at least have been exposed to you.

Everybody has this there’s an artist out there that you can think of that. You know, has a pretty strong fan base, but you don’t really know their music like that, because you’re, the top of the funnel for them. This system could be a strong foundation for you and if you follow the criteria and follow these instruction and you’re, not finding any kind of progress in the content probably needs to improve whether that means your music isn’t good or whether that means the quality of the Audio and articles is just straight-up messed up, you’ll have to figure that out, but there’s no way you shouldn’t find some progress, even if it’s not as fast as other people.

Now again, this was just one of five cheap growth strategies to build a music fan bits. The rest of that guide is in the link in the description below go ahead and have at it would love to know you guys thoughts only when you get a chance to go through it go ahead and hit me up at brandman Shawn on Instagram. To give me your thoughts other than that, if you like this article, go ahead, the like button, if you like it, you might as well share it and if you’re not subscribed, you know what to do hit that subscribe.

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Why SoundCloud WON’T Die!!!

That’s the Homer anyway yeah artists like the leads and gives condolences if it sounds loud, our sixty underneath in get it’s great. So many other artists making comments.

But what I want to get across in this article is the fact that I do not believe SoundCloud is going to die, and I want to talk about how we should say about this situation so far. We got to think about why people even believe this earlier. This year, SoundCloud actually reported that they lost fifty two million dollars in 2015. It was kind of arming for a company that raised over under ninety million dollars and is ten years old.

They tried to frame it infamous people that don’t bad days or behind them. Until this week, when SoundCloud reported a 40 percent lay off that’s a lot of people, just gone no job now, there’s a more specific rumor that they only have enough money to get them to queue for basically they’re earning more money than they are speaking and are About to run out after rumor and in my mind, there’s two out number one: SoundCloud doesn’t have any money and they’re about to death.

Number two sound flower doesn’t have any money, but killing off forty percent of their staff will position them to be forgiven of their sins and saved by an angel. In other words, investors do understand the value of the assets that SoundCloud pad, which were the most part of the user base of the data, but they don’t want to hop on a sinking ship, so SoundCloud by cutting their employment. Cutting their cost in return increases their probability, even if that’s from like new negative fifty million to these negatives, 1 million even filled a healthier company, which increases investor comedy basically like when Ashley gets hurt in the rest of their career, depends on it.

They in turn around, like Adrian Peterson, came back and had a record-breaking season. Active ACL injury for is they’ll kind of fizzle out and only be a shell of what it used to be kind of like a Derrick Rose situation. These investors need to evaluate that. I strongly believe it is that second situation SoundCloud giving in a healthier position to be bought out or to increase investor confidence, because the value of their access is extremely that valuable.

Yes, yeah things like Apple, music, Spotify and tidal, who have increased the competition in that market, but really they still haven’t kind of touched completely on that court that balance loud has created. There is a little bit of goodwill of it. It’s out loud. Not only has a user base and some sort of revenue coming in also there are a lot more unique compared to the other streaming services, because they have this culture that is developed within this system and what they mean right now in the assembly line is how Artists are getting discovered, and this is so much extra there, which might be hard to argue to investors.

They just want to see their bottom line but, like I said, the data alone is very valuable. If I can say valuable, because I can put the number on it, I don’t know enough of the details, but what I can say if they aren’t required by some investors that allow them to act independently, they might just be acquired by some bigger companies that data Size Esquire than before, but is looking a little bit more bullish on them after they’re available for discount.

Once again, I know those other streaming. Services has created a lot of competition, but they really had it fully stepped over into South our market. Actually, an amazing title: Spotify those are really built: distribution networks that are geared a lot more towards curation for the consumer, we’re SoundCloud census. Birth has been more for being people who are uploading, the sound it’s a DJ, the person who has a podcast, an artist, a producer whatever so again, we’ll SoundCloud, I I don’t think so.

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I FINALLY Tried SoundCloud Promotion… | TEST 2

If a Dyson’s repost exchange campaign, you could check out under the link in description below, but I did a another test with her with the same amount of money because I didn’t want to just you know: do one-off article and say: oh those was also pretty good.

I wanted to give you guys context, because I don’t want to waste you guys, dimes. I don’t want to waste you guys time on even trying a platform like this. If the results aren’t worth it so check out what I got from the second time around same type of money, I’m a little excited angle. I was kidding alright, so with this second test with pedasus, my funny valentine, I want to tell you that the results are pretty exciting and we’ll kind of analyze.

Why afterwards but straightforward the numbers are different. They’re better and I put in the same amount of credits. 500 and here’s what the changes look like so remember the first time I had four thousand five hundred and twenty nine streams and he jumped two hundred and twenty seven streams after the five hundred credit campaign to four thousand seven hundred and fifty six. Now, what makes this exciting this second time around, which I was pleased with the first time around, instead of getting two hundred and twenty seven more streams.

This time I got six hundred and ninety eight more streams, and also all the other results were indicative right. I had let me see 35 more shares. I had 22 more repost right, which is interesting though, because now we start to look into the details and actually what’s indicative of the fact, this thing is real right because actually, the first time around, I got 24 different reposts from different people.

This time I got 22 different repos from different people, so that means two things that I got four hundred more streams than that. First time around one more quality people reposted my stuff, all right to those people who repost it might have kept my stuff up even longer. There is a minimum of having stuff reposted in at least two days, but maybe these people really liked it in May repose differ even longer, or they had bigger pages and followings and three well.

I actually waited a little bit longer after the campaign. Then I did that first campaign, when I recorded a article or I did it almost like the next day like as soon as it finished, I got to it this. It was probably a week in between when I finished the campaign and when I decided to record this article right here, which shows also that a maybe more people kept listening and kept listening from those initial listeners.

All these things pretty much conclude that there is something real going on here right. These are the behaviors. We look like look for it. Alright, there are real people listening. You never know how you get to listens right, there’s so many ways to get the listens. You know it’s pretty much, never going to be organic per se. Well, you know organic until people listen and then once you get people to listen through artificial efforts, then their behaviors after is the organic that you really want to happen.

So at its best in today’s age, organic just means the activity. After real people experience. Do they listen again? Alright, you push that first, listen on them, but did they listen again alright and did they tell their friends right and then that becomes the organic traffic and that’s the big difference so just bring your focus back to Hadassah’s campaign, though I love the fact she had More results or better results, the second time around with the same investment, because it shows something right.

It means something and you can go back and see the exact changes that I made throughout this article from campaign one to campaign too, but you even see you know. I mean these comments. You know people still are loving, it they’re loving her and you actually do get followers. Her followers do go, there’s more followers specific type campaigns that repost exchange offers. I will show some kind of experimentation with the campaign like that.

At some point. Don’t know when, but this stuff is, these results are dope and they still rated her a nine right. So the at the score average is the same, but something about how it clicked that second time around helped and maybe I’ll get better and better at using this platform. To the point where at some point we’ll be able to – I guess you could say he have the biggest bang for the buck, just like I optimized on Facebook, ads and Instagram ads and and YouTube ads, maybe there’s a way to figure out.

What’s the best setting? That’s going to give you the most and I encourage all y’all to get in there figure out what that might look like, at least for you. I have a couple other articles that I’m going to be recording when it comes to results and how to get the best results. So with that in mind, repost exchange, it’s free. It’s definitely worth checking out. Why not give it a try? You don’t have to pay for it at all.

I pay for it. Why? Because I’m a marketer man, that’s what we do like. We have to be able to accelerate things. That’s going to make things move a lot faster, but you don’t have to do that. Tier right, my clients sometimes need a million views on a YouTube article in two weeks. So you know I’m testing this to stretch it out and see how far it can go, but most people won’t require the needs that somebody like I would need.

You can use a free tier of the campaign and just interact with the community and get credits that will help you incentivize people to check out your music and get real feedback real comments. I’r going to do a article on why I think repost exchange is not only a dope tool in community, but why it’s pretty much necessary in today’s age for beginners I beginning artists, but I’ll do that. Another time definitely check it out, link in the description below it’s worth it, not everything, I’m seeing so far right now, it’s worth it now that changes at some point I’ll do another article, but not these things worth it in description below.

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Soundcloud Repost Networks? Real + Fake

So I want to make sure I cover those bases.

Number one is SoundCloud reposes networks. I’ve talked to people recently who had no idea what those were. So I want to first say I’m going to do this a little bit differently before I talk about it a little bit more extensively, I want everybody who’s reading and who has any kind of experience with these to kind of detail. Your personal experience in the comments below maybe some point out some good repost networks or repost pages that you’ve used, so other artists can use it at their resource that way.

People who don’t know about it or people who’ve just used it once or twice, can get the experience from different angles and make educated decisions by themselves based on reading these people’s experiences. The comments pre shade it that’s going to be super helpful and, of course, we also know there are scams out there and that’s another reason. It’s good for everybody to share the information, because some of these pages are trying to make a quick comment.

Definitely not all of them, but just thumbs and soul, to quickly define or to explain the brief postal network is basically you have your music on soundcloud and then you either have an individual reposted or you have a whole network of individuals reposted. Some people will do it just because they, like your stuff and some people will, you know, say, give me that money and a lot of people most of the times.

You probably want to pay them some form of money either right works anyway. That’s basically a short explanation for those who didn’t know what it was already everybody please make those comments and help each other out anyway, once again, as I said, I’ll, be doing things about specific tools and websites and all kind of resources throughout this series, I don’t Know how often I’ll do it, but that’s it stay tuned.

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Is This SoundCloud Promoter Real? | TEST 2

This is the second artist that I tested again that song is Brenda again by sama, and if you check this out, you can see pretty simple. There are some more comments right, there’s some more views if you read that first article, but let me break down I’m going to get straight into the facts, alright, so the first time around.

If you see the change in results, well, let’s just go to the blue columns. I got an additional 359 streams. 34 likes 48 repost and 12 comments. Now after this second test, I had 171 streams, 15 likes 26 repost and 6 comments. That might seem disappointing. Alright, I understand him when I seem like a smaller number and I was kind of you know thrown off at first, but then I had to think – and I remember alright one remember the difference between test 1 and test 2.

The primary thing was one I targeted any genre when creating a campaign and test 2. I targeted a specific genre but Ozio who might have missed that and for some reason, are just reading this article before the other article review, which all reviews of repost exchange will be in the link in description. So you can understand all the processes, all the learnings, that I’ve I’ve gone through all the testing, so you can use it well, the first time alright um and you don’t make any mistakes.

No! No! I don’t want to do this with credits where the campaign start a new campaign just to make it clear again, I’m just going to click this Ram step, I’m song. What is it doing so I’ll go back to Brenda again. So when you see this the first time, I clicked any genre second time, I click specifically the track genre, so these results don’t see necessarily appeasing, but I had to remember: I had to even the playing field, the first time when I got these results right here That row, that was with 1500 credits and this these results are from 500 credits.

So when you even it out that any genre campaign was 116 streams, the song specific genre campaign was 170, one stream. So what I did was divide the campaign results that came from 1500 credits by 3, so I could now have it even out, with 500 credit campaign, so per 500 credits. When I targeted song genre, the results actually did improve right. You see that by targeting just a genre of type of people who listened to your song, which seems to make sense right, you will get better results.

The reason I decided to do any genre with the first campaign in this case was just because it seemed like it was a little bit more abstract that it wasn’t necessarily a deep house thing, but you know I’m not a huge, a Thor’ti of John Roos anyway. So looks like I was wrong. That’s an important thing to note, though, about repost exchange, because this is showing that this targeting has some effect.

It has legitimate effect and it makes sense with natural logic you targeting random genres, you’re, not necessarily going to get the same results as people who already love and listen to the genre, especially if you don’t have a more pop type song. So that’s one thing, but there’s more! Oh and don’t forget people when I say 500 credits that is half of $ 30 half of $ 29.99, like 1449, is basically what people are paying.

When I say 500 credits. That’s that’s nothing! Alright! To give these results. So I know these numbers are small, but I’m testing right, I’m testing, so you guys don’t have to test as much in test as long so keep those things all in mine. But again I’ve ran multiple campaigns at this point and it’s showing to be. You know really relative to the song, and it makes sense to me that Brenda again, although I love the song and I have an affinity for the song, it has a lower rating than the other songs.

Alright cuz honestly, when I first heard it and my homie made it were younger, like of course I had low mixing, but you know when you’re in different spaces of your career, you don’t have as high as a taste for certain types of technical aspects of music. You don’t need the mix to be perfect, you don’t need certain things and I also knew and understood the background. The story, all those things made me love it in that time and I still love it, but I can’t expect everybody else to have that same perspective.

So I understand that this is the lowest rating song and if you understand how reposts exchange works, we have to remember these songs are getting reposted. We always talk about this stuff. If something is getting a repost, it I’m going to work it. Something is advertised which is essentially what a reposting is. What a Spotify playlist thing is what, if you’re targeting somebody on a YouTube, that is it’s that beginning of the song, is extremely important to capture their attention immediately and that’s something that this song doesn’t do, because it doesn’t start until 40 seconds right.

This is something that I would suggest people have as a album track right or you shorten diversion if you’re going to advertise it, but as an album track. When people are already fans of you, then it’s a great thing to do, but all these results that I’ve gotten from repost exchange are pretty much in line with any other real marketing platform that I’ve used, which makes me a fan of repost exchange and I’m going To continue to use it until I see something that I think needs to change or makes me think otherwise and the same thing with Facebook ads right same thing with YouTube ads.

I always try to update you guys when something major more significant is happening or as prices are rising or just something isn’t irrelevant, but you can still use a platform in a different way. I’ll treat this no different. But I’m a huge proponent of this and I say: hey, look, click the link in the description below check it out. This platform is really dope and they have completely free tiers.

So it doesn’t make sense to at least not sign up to check it out right, but the platform is pretty dope and supple. I mean one thing: well know I’ll, save that for a whole nother article. But let’s, let’s just keep this in mind, though, so you don’t make this mistake. This is the action item. If you decide to run a campaign all right, the paid campaigns which, like I say I do I’m a marketer – I don’t have time to just like do hand to hand with every single thing all the time, I’m more so hey.

Let’s get these really quality results in a fast period of time. Let’s get you to 200,000, let’s get you to 1 million, but it be quality versus going the longest of long ways, so in each genre does not do good as good as song genre. There’s some other things that I want to break down. Campaign wise will platform wise explaining some rules, but I do that in a completely separate article, but yeah I mean that’s it, it’s just another test with another artist.

These aren’t even the two tests that I’m showing aren’t even the best results, I’ve gotten from the artist as of yet as well, there’s one artist that I did, but I’m not going to talk about it, because it’s a current client that you know I just don’t Really have permission to talk about. The results will crazy, some very, very, very good results. So I’m excited to continue to use this platform and that’s it, and you know anybody got some feedback, positive or negative.

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SoundCloud Makes a Power Move: Monetize Your Music!

Now, those of you who don’t know who I am. I am a digital marketing that specialize in helping artists, like you, guys get their songs hired through platforms like Spotify, Instagram, YouTube and bunch of others. Now what I want to talk to you guys about today is a recent Power Move that the streaming platform SoundCloud has made.

I want to get you guys to start to take advantage of this power move, what exactly it is and how I think it will affect you guys as artists in the near future. So with that being said, let’s get right into it. So what exactly is this power move that SoundCloud has made? If you keep up with SoundCloud in any way, shape or form, then you’ve probably heard that they now allowed monetization of the music on their platforms, meaning that you can now make some money because of SoundCloud before the only way to just stuff will get monetize from Them was if you were invited to their SoundCloud premier program or if you knew someone like your distributor, who can help you get your stuff monetize through whatever other means that they may have so like.

I was saying before SoundCloud premier program used to be invite-only, meaning that some flower pretty much had to ask you to come, try it out. That was the only way that you can make money through SoundCloud through them. But now the SoundCloud premier program is open to all creators who use the platform as long as you meet their basic bare minimum requirements. So what exactly does this mean for you guys? It pretty much means that now you have another way to put some money back into your pockets now before.

One of the main arguments that I used to hear against SoundCloud is that you were literally giving your music away for free, and why would you do that? Now I know technically on platforms like Spotify and like title you’re, not charging your fans for your music, but at least those platforms were attempting to pay you guys for your streams. I always thought it was kind of weird that, with SoundCloud the main source of traffic, which is you guys, was not being compensated for the amount of work that they put in unless SoundCloud deemed you worthy to be so.

To be honest with you guys, I think the SoundCloud opening up its premiere program is an attempt for them to keep their core consumer base happy, which is music artists. You guys, I think that SoundCloud has finally realized that they have been driving you all the way to their competitors, to Spotify, to Apple music, to title to Pandora, all of their competing services, and they aren’t you guys back.

I think they want you all to at least seriously consider SoundCloud as a platform that you need to really work and drive traffic to, and they knew that. The best way to do so was to finally start paying you guys for the work that you’ve been putting in and finally the part of the article that I’m sure you guys have been waiting for. How can you join SoundCloud premiere program so that you can start to monetize your music and make some money well, like I was saying earlier in the article, you must first meet their basic criteria, which are pretty much as follows.

First, you have to have at least a SoundCloud Pro or SoundCloud Pro and limited account, meaning that you can’t monetize your music. If you only use their free account, you also can only monetize original music, meaning no remixes, no cover songs. None of that guys. You also can’t have any copyright claims against your account. So if you ever uploaded something that didn’t belong to you and you got a claim against it, this may be something that causes you a little trouble.

I would definitely look more deeply into it if this applies to you and lastly, you must have at least 5,000 strings within the last month from countries that SoundCloud Dean’s eligible I’ll make sure to leave the article about that in the description below, so that you can Dig a little bit more deeply into it. There’s always guys if you feel, like you learned anything today, please like and share this article hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn’t want you guys to miss anything once again.

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How to Grow On Soundcloud [Digital Dash w/ Kohrey]

Now, for those of you who don’t know who I am digital marketing myself, I specialize in helping artists, like you, guys, get their songs heard through platforms like Spotify, Instagram, YouTube and a bunch of others. What I want to talk to you guys about today is how to run up your place on soundcloud, and this isn’t a platform that I necessarily will recommend you guys to work.

I do personally have my own beliefs about SoundCloud and trust me I’ll be doing a article on that in the future. But I haven’t gotten a lot of questions from you, guys asking me how you can start to build your place up on soundcloud how you can start to get your songs out there so on and so forth. So I want to give you guys a couple of tips, some that I’ve noticed and kind of seen in my recent past working with SoundCloud and some they have come directly from SoundCloud themselves.

They recently put out a blog article talking about ways that you can optimize your soundcloud page, so that your songs are spread a lot more, so I’ll be digging into that as well. So with that being said, let’s get right into it all right now. The first tip comes directly from SoundCloud itself and it’s make sure that you’re as discoverable as possible, meaning that you want to have your titles and your descriptions in order.

Don’t have anything like track number one. The track number two and don’t add any unnecessary and extra characters or symbols that will make it hard for people to find you. So whatever your name is on Instagram or Twitter or whatever other profiles, you use make sure that it’s as close to it as possible within the track description and the track title for your song, so that people can easily lift you up and find you.

You also want to make sure that your album art is the highest quality and resolution, as you can possibly get. Soundcloud doesn’t really like to work with low res photos and I’ll make it a little harder for you to be discovered and for people to want to actually come and check you out when they do stumble upon your profile. The main thing here, guys is consistency. Consistency across your track descriptions, consistency across your titles and consistency across your album art will make you very discoverable on soundcloud, giving you a better chance of being picked up by the platform’s algorithm and having your songs actually spread out within the platform, and the second thing That you guys want to make sure that you’re doing is taking the advantage of sound clouds genre and mood now, just like all the other streaming platforms.

Soundcloud does in fact have its own algorithm that they used to determine how other people are hearing songs and what songs come up next after this song and so forth and so forth. So SoundCloud uses their algorithm based on the tax and the genres that you guys are using. So you want to use as many as you possibly can. That relates to your song and relate to your audience. So if you’re a rapper, your manager, I’m attack may be hip hop.

You may have a chilled mood or a sleepy mood, or something like that tagging it with as many relevant tags as possible, increases your chance of being picked up by the algorithm being spread to these people, who are looking for songs based on these types of tags. In these types of genres and increasing your chance that you actually hit the audience that you want to hit and that’s the best way to make sure that your music spreads on soundcloud, honestly so before each song release make sure that you have a list of tags.

And subgenres listed out that you can use with each song time and time again. This way, you’ll make sure to hit the same niche over and over spreading your music out amongst the people, who really care about the types of songs that you’re making and putting you in front of a relevant audience anyway. Now the next thing that you’ll want to make sure that you’re doing is taking advantage of repost networks and the repost function on soundcloud in general.

Now, in my opinion, they don’t work as well as they did. I would say two or three years ago, but they’re still the most effective way for you to grow your song on SoundCloud itself. You can either reach out to people who are bigger than you and see how much they’re charging for repost I’ve seen a couple of popular DJs and even like smaller lesser-known artists, who still have large fan bases who offer repost as well or you can take advantage Of repost network, which is a website that actually sales repost from different large SoundCloud accounts, just go in there and make a profile dig through the ones that make the most sense.

For you see how much they cost and get those guys to repost as long as well or if you guys, are trying to stay more inside of your budget or if you don’t really want to spend money on repost at all. What you can do is start the build your own repost network, using friends, artists, DJs and producers, who are all in similar size and demographic as you as well. This would make it easier because your starter kind of associate brands with people who are also trying to build themselves up and pretty much be sharing fan bases with other people who can pretty much pitch it into yours and you’ll be helping a lot.

By doing the same now on SoundCloud, your repost network is like gold, so they’re stronger, vennett way that you build the better chances that you have of spreading your song out outside of your own network, increasing its views, increasing its reach and increasing your chance of picking Up new fans, so just to give you guys a little recap. The first thing that you want to do is make sure that you’re as discoverable within the platform itself, meaning that you want to make sure that your titles are order, that your descriptions are in order and that you’re using the same name on soundcloud as the one That you’re, using on all your other social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter or whatever it is that you guys are using the second thing that you’ll want to do is make sure that you’re using SoundCloud genre and mood tags, like I said, SoundCloud has its own Algorithm that it uses to determine songs that played next with in other people’s on Play, listing and their track efforts, and things like that.

So, the more that you tag your songs or there’s many relevant tags as possible, the better chance that you have of SoundCloud algorithm, picking you up and spreading your songs in the platform without you even having to do much work. And the third thing that you guys want to do is make sure that you build a strong repost network. You can do this by hitting up DJ’s or rappers or other artists who are offering repost for whatever price.

It is that they offer make sure that you’re getting the best bang for your buck and it actually helps to spread your song or you can always tap into artists who have a similar genre and niche and same size following as you two start, the build you Guys it’s on repost network of similar style artists, or you can always use a website like repost Network, just go in make an account find pages that are actually offering repost and figure out, which ones make the most sense for you, your style of music and your Budget now make sure to leave their link to the original SoundCloud blog post in the description below, so that you guys can check out some of the other tips that they had.

I didn’t feel like really needed that much of a real description, but you can always go through it, read through it yourself and get from it. What you need now, as always guys if you feel like you, learned me pain today, please make sure you like to share this article, hit those post notifications so that you guys don’t miss anything. I want you guys to learn everything and anything that you possibly can with.

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