What’s Working For You? Social Media Strategy.

Keep em coming Tunecore!

Cheers!

Uncle Jed
http://www.unclejed.com.au

Good stuff here!

It could also be because she’s just bloody good?!

I put these words down in no way taking away from the
the fantastic accomplishments of the Music Artist.
Obviously Social Networking is an unbelievable tool that can give anyone
access to millions of people, but you also need to have a good product to make it.

I know why I’ll never be successful(sarcasm)………….
I would never do some of the things (needed) to sell myself
Like…….
“the singer decided to ask her Facebook and Twitter followers to help
choose the 4 songs to go on the EP”
I don’t want to do this.
and……………
“Gabrielle asked her social media friends to weigh in and vote on an album cover.”
I don’t want to do this either.
I know they are great ideas, movies producers screen 3 different endings to different
audiences to see what they like. It’s a proven marketing strategy.
I just can’t do it.
Another thing I can’t do is ask 10,000 people to be my friend on these sites.
I get more than 10 a day asking to be my friend, and I’m not sure
they even listened to my songs. lol
Good music is Viral, and I know you’ve got to spread
the Virus, but I guess I don’t want “it” as bad as others.
 

Exactly how I feel about what everyone in the music business (and book business now too) tells you.  I’m not the type of person to “twitter” any random crap to my fans.  To me twitter is a huge distraction from the important things in life.  The fact is that everyone expects artist to be more of a salesman than anything.  If I was that good at selling a product, I would sell something else instead of my CD and actually make a real living and have a life.  Artists are often misanthropes, loners, outcasts, NOT the popular kid in school, and now record labels and managers are expecting them to act like the student who was class president.  Can you see Bob Dylan, or John Lennon, or Ernest Hemingway, or 99% of other serious huge artists doing this?  No way.  Never in a million years.  I’m not going to beg people to be my friend or “like” me on facebook.  I and I know I’ll never sell as many copies as the people that do those things, but keeping my dignity will make up for the loss in revenue.

hey yes this is  where  it starts cos  i keep reeling  around  in  circles

My guess is she has no job and therefore she’s got time on her hands, I produce music for a TV series, Think there’s time for me to twitter? not a chance!  I don’t find twittering to be very productive anyhow. More power to her, success is a hard thing to come by, what ever you have to do to get it , you do,      what ever it takes, separates the kids from the men. Have a great day!! DD

The trouble is if you aren’t willing to self promote, then unless your get a PR company doing it for you how on earth are you going to get new fans??  You don’t have to ‘beg’ people to like you on Facebook, just post a link to one of your songs and leave a friendly comment inviting your friends to listen and leave some feedback.  If they like it then they’re likely to share it among their friends, and so begins the viral phenomenon!  Just make sure your song page has a link to buy it on iTunes though, otherwise you’ll miss a trick to monetise your traffic.  In fact, you could use my website to do just that! (shameless plug …lol!)  - http://www.moozi.cc

So far, I have been pretending that there is a strategy to use during tonights MIAMI and DALLAS games.
According to an article and sound system update , I think that the cess or stress dessert that unifies the PEOPLES ideology, like BOB MARLEYS’ music, would be a good example. Slowing down something…warping it, CHOPPING and SCREWING it, while addressing the text and content of what is being said should probably be considered:
But! AND THATS’ A really big but, A PERFECT CIRCLE and BRAND NEW is a good definitive outlook for now….BUT, again; song 8 and song 15 from the RECOVERY album would be a good one two for whomever brings the game down to its final seconds tonight.

If you are an independent artist and you don’t promote
yourself, we all know what’s going to happen. There is
also something to be said for artist integrity(something I have too much of LOL).
But, artist Integrity does not sell downloads, or albums. There is a HUGE amount of
luck needed(along with decent music) to even be found (no matter
how much social media you use). I’ve seen many local bands/artists
over the years that I thought should “make it”, only to hear that
they broke up, or are no longer in the scene. Is the definition
of success making enough money so that you don’t need
another job ?, or that you can retire on your music related
earnings? or is it how many friends you have?. If no one knows
who you are in 5 years from now, did you make it ?
It’s all in the mind of the artist. I don’t begrudge anyone’s success in this
crappy business, only that the music they create, or
play is meaningful to them, and not just some crap
being manufactured and sold to us.

you need to write a blog about me i like your ideas great work !

Awesome to see someone creating their own success.  It is totally not easy to create and maintain a good social media strategy. Social network marketing  is or can be a full time job generating amazing results