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June 18, 2009

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not to sound like a song of the past, but where are all the creative edgy publisist that prefer the original old time music. Getting a facebook account or my space has not been a problem for me. However managing and keeping it up to date has been. often times my contacts tell me its time to post a new song or cartoon. I'm in desperate need for a publisist with a modest rate. I would have that I would be very successful with a multitude of fans and keep my good friends. I know myself I would much rather be writing a song, drawing an animation, or editing a film, anything but promoting myself. I always thought of people who brag on themselves as annoying. However my music is playing on volcom's web site and, you can hear it on fuel tv. Including my archives I have written over 200 songs. In closing I'm sure I'm not the only artist that needs a publisist, Is there a web site that list them?

I hear ya sosush! I have 170,000 fans on myspace and 535 on FaceBook. I usually just use FaceBook for promoting shows because you can send out Event invites directly to your fans. Until they setup a decent player on the main profile page of FaceBook it wont take off as much as MySpace does for artists. FaceBook is more school oriented, people arent on there for entertainment as much. They're just there to connect with old classmates and relatives.

We have 13000 fans on Myspace and 30 on Facebook.

With myspace it's easy - you make friends requests to the friends of bands of a similar genre - people hear the music straight away and add if they like you. It's also proved amazingly useful for hitting up on radio stations and DJs. I don't bother with sending unsolicited CDs to music directors any more because I'm inundated with requests for CDs via the myspace inbox.

Conversely - I haven't a clue what to do with facebook. I'm guessing they've deliberately made it difficult so you'll promote the page with paid for ads - which have proved to be an utter waste of money. I'm guessing what traffic we've got has come from the [Bookmark and Share] link from our myspace.

Facebook's should be called Farcebook IMO.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/So-Shush/29505394218

http://www.myspace.com/soshush

I set up an artist page on Facebook shortly after they started having them. I'm nowhere near the fan count needed to get the vanity URL, so my Facebook artist page is pretty near impossible to find (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Paul/6208021724), though I did at least put a link in my normal user profile so my Facebook friends can find it.

I do think Facebooks pages are quite helpful after you've signed up a fan, and it's nice that they distinguish between fans and friends.

They do have an integrated music player without resorting to using ReverbNation or some similar thing. I didn't have any problem setting it up, though it has sufficiently long since my most recent release that I'll have to try and remember how to use it when I get my next one ready to go (in the next few weeks). And you can set up a Buy link from each song to wherever you want to send them (I just send them to my main web site's "store" page, so they can choose their favorite download or CD store from there).

Hi,
was just reading the latest newsletter about Facebook and it's lack of players.
There's an app you can load into Facebook from
"Reverbnation". At least 12 songs, direct links to your tracks on iTunes, Napster etc,lots of good features. You can see it in action on my page here..

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545303542&ref=name

then select "My band" to see how it connects.
If you're logged in to Facebook you can sign up under "Artist signup"
and of course if anyone wants to say hello while there I'll be pleased to meet you.

I have a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nancy-Nelson-Music/89283992024?v=wall&viewas=1319734512

I have 882 fans and slowly growing. I still do not know how to use the page or myspace for that matter.

http://www.myspace.com/nancynelsonmusic

I have my own web page at http://www.nancynelsonmusic.com

Would love ideas on how to improve and connect with new fans

Hello
We at Yotanka have nearly 100 albums on Tunecore.
We find Facebook is much more usefull to manage an recruit new fans, since profiles on facebook are real people (up to now).
To display our music on Facebook bands pages, we use Yozik, who also provides direct shop for CD and better quality downloads from Facebook. It gives a basic flash player but with progressive streaming so we find it more secure.
like on these Facebook band pages :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mas-Bajo/68076421231
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZENZILE/49727293188
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mei-Tei-Sho/42507843662
We're looking forward to see if Tunecore player does better.

We have been on MySpace for years! The better part of that seems to be spent just floating amongst a sea of music (much good AND bad)!

With Facebook everything seems more direct and instant! I think it's good that there are no music players per each musician page. It sorta makes the fan put forth the effort to investigate further and study up the various links and apps to discover more about the artist!!

Viva La FaceBook!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mellow-Down-Easy/131645902488


We've just released our second CD on Tunecore which has now aggregated through to iTunes and all the major e-stores!

We've been using Facebook to promote the band for a while now and have found it to be more succesful than MySpace.

Our Facebook pge is: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Euston/9391026212?ref=nf

Facebook really needs event sharing between pages. With local shows in Boston, generally someone from one of the bands will create the event and everyone from all the bands becomes an admin and invites their own group of friends. But Facebook won't allow you to share events between pages, meaning I have to create a duplicate event in order for it to show up on my band's page, and then my fans who view it will think no one has RSVP'd because it's not the official FB event.

But unless you're on the high school scene, Myspace is not very effective as a tool to gain fans–the 18-24 market hardly uses Myspace anymore unless they are other bands/creative types looking to network with bands. Facebook could borrow a page from Myspace and integrate Amazon MP3 into their Music Player app.

Keith

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RIBS/42094107613

I have a Page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alvin-Pingol/34201375395

Unfortunately, I cannot yet establish a vanity URL for it, since I don't have 1,000 fans (not even close! in time, maybe... hopefully ;-)). I agree about the music player thing, though. I'd like to have it right up top - right now, it's on the Boxes tab, which isn't all that intuitive, but it's the only place Facebook will allow the full-size player. Oh well.

Long before the vanity URLs were even announced, however, I still wanted to spread the Page without that clunky address, so I used one of those URL shortening services. I think it works well, for the meantime, at least. http://snipurl.com/alvinpingolmusic

For anyone who publishes an RSS news feed from their artist or label site you can use Ping FM (https://ping.fm) in conjunction with Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com/) to automatically publish headlines to your Pages status updates which then of course gets aggregated out to fans via their Home page.

Lots more little Facebook page tricks out there as well. Looking forward to seeing the new widget by the way.

Thanks guys,

Cam Merton
Hidden Shoal Recordings

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hidden-Shoal-Recordings/13172357155

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