Are you among the crowd that are desperately searching for ways to get their music recognized? Are you tired of not getting anyone’s attention for one minute? It is true many are jumping into the MySpace wagon to take advantage of its advertising potential. Using MySpace to promote yourself may be free, but not that easy. If your goal is to create a fan base and thus attract a record agent to sign you up, your dreams are big, but they can be accomplish if you do it the right way.
As you may know, everything in life is done in steps. It’s like trying to climb an invisible ladder while being blindfolded. It may seem easy, but its certainly a struggle. In this article I will only touch the surface of explaining. In other words, you will only learn of the first few steps before you actually set your foot on it. To start off, using MySpace as your means of advertisement is an excellent idea. MySpace attracts millions of visitors each hour; therefore, it is obvious how it will benefit you and your music. To obtain a few of those visitors and direct them to your own MySpace is a task. This task should be taken seriously and on point. Let’s begin to break everything into sections. There are four start key points to using MySpace to promote your music. (1) Be motivated & have patience. (2) Add as many “friends” as you can. (3) Take advantage of MySpace resources. (4) Attract and keep your visitors coming back.
(1) Be motivated & have patience. This step usually fails immediately with many people. Hoping to receive visitors out of the blue simply because you created a MySpace account is a dead end. As an artist or musician you need to be motivated. Motivated means to log in every day if possible, and try to convince people to listen to your music. Be extremely patient! Sometimes it takes a while for someone to finally comment you on your song. Sometimes it takes a while to convince people. Do not let your patience override you. In other words, do not spam MySpacers with your urge. This will only keep them away permanently.
(2) Add as many “friends” as you can. This does not mean you need to add your entire real neighborhood friends. Although yes, that will help immensely; nonetheless, “friends” is basically the title for adding “anyone.” This is only good when you are trying to promote your music. (Note: Do not add anyone if you’re simply a MySpace personal user) Moreover, you can do this free without having to pay someone to get you “400+ friends in a day.” Sure, it may help, but that’s the key to patience. To begin search for friend adder websites. A really good one is entitled Adder Demon. This is free and all you do is add a few friends and in turn more friends will add you. The more friends you have, the more opportunities there is of someone actually bumping into your profile and listening to your song! The more friends you have will also benefit you when directly sending bulletins or comments in regards to your new material.
(3) Take advantage of MySpace’s free resources. Use your bulletin, blogs, comments, blurbs, status, and messages wisely! Do not simply let them sit there with no use. These are free resources you can benefit from. As previously mentioned, do not spam your friends with information. Post it once or four times periodically throughout the day. Do not post continuously and “in there face” this will simply cause people to ignore you. You don’t need to spam people to get them to listen to you. All you do is spread your information around. They’re bound to bump into a link sometime. Create catchy titles that are within your news. Do not say “Open naked photos!” this will cause them to ignore you completely! Liars don’t get anywhere. Instead create good contests, sales, or give freebies. Example of a catchy title may be “Receive a free shirt!” Then you may elaborate more on who may get a free shirt, why, and how. You may even connect the freebies with your music. “Purchase an album and receive a custom-made shirt.” Hook them in & be creative!
(4) Attract and keep your visitors coming back. A bare MySpace will only get you visitors that are in the same position as you. Ever received those comments “listen to my song tell me what you think?” Isn’t that what you’re trying to get others to do? If you’re a beginner you may search for free layouts out there. However, these layouts will not really help in the long run. Keep in mind, a clutter/other artist’s pictures on your MySpace is not as attractive as you think. You want to be your own person. You want to represent yourself, not Lil Wayne or Fall Out Boy. While everything else that has been mentioned can be done free, a MySpace design is the most important and it can only be obtained in one way. If you’re not a custom MySpace designer you will need to hire one. Please be aware of the person you hire to design your layout. When you are ready to move to this step you will need to sit down and do some research. Compare prices & graphic quality. How would you like to represent yourself? People will not visit your MySpace again if its hard to read, overwhelming, or have glitter graphics all over the place. At Ale Creations – MySpace Layout Studio, we create our designs from scratch and 100% professionally made. We design within your budget & we strive to gain our customers’ satisfaction. Visit us when you’re ready, and let us help you climb a step further!
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