Five ways to uncover content marketing ideas for music

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Five ways to uncover content marketing ideas for music

September 29, 2015{ No Comments }

Generating content marketing ideas for musicians[This post is an excerpt from Bob Baker’s book, The Five-Minute Music Marketer: 151 Easy Music Promotion Activities....]

If you’ve spent any amount of time researching online promotion strategies, you’ve certainly come across the term “content marketing.” This is the act of strategically creating cool stuff to share with your audience online.

The content you create can come in many forms: the written word, the spoken word, music, images, and video. This content can be delivered via your website, email, social media sites, YouTube, SoundCloud, smartphones, tablets, computer screens, the telephone, and more.

This post features a list of quick ways to generate ideas for the online content you create. Use them to promote your music and transform yourself into a content creation machine!

1. Capture content ideas as they come to you

You know how this works with songs, right? You start humming a great new melody while you’re driving or in the shower. You vow that you won’t forget it. Then, a couple of hours later, you can’t remember how it goes, no matter how hard you try. Read more »

Are you using Facebook as a music video platform?

Facebook for musicians: the new video platform?

 

According to Digital Music News, Facebook now serves up four billion videos every single day (a quadruple increase over last year), and that number is rising quickly.  “A year or two from now, we think Facebook will be mostly video,” says Ted Zagat, Facebook head of ad product.

Obviously Facebook’s ongoing mission is to make the platform more attractive to advertisers. And what’s more attractive than the prospect of rolling highly-targeted and unskippable ads before trending videos?

Thus begins the loop: Facebook pushes video, so advertisers favor video, so Facebook will favor video (even more than it did before) when determining what content should be displayed in users’ feeds. That means musicians with an active Facebook following will need to adjust in order to reach fans.

You might want to start thinking about Facebook more along the lines of YouTube

If Facebook shifts to become (primarily) a video platform, the pressure will be on for musicians to post more video content there. The bad news? Well, your video views and engagement will be split between two competing platforms, Facebook and YouTube. The good news? Much of the same content you’re currently creating for YouTube could easily work on Facebook, so at least you’re not going to have to do double your work when it comes to video production.  Read more »

Vine introduces new features for musicians

September 1, 2015{ No Comments }

Vine is now more music-friendly

Vine, your favorite place for 6-second looping videos, has just introduced some new features that will make the platform even more useful for musicians.

Among the additions is a button that allows users to see what track is being played in the video and a list of featured, pre-licensed tracks that video creators can use in their vines. Most useful for DIY musicians who create their own music, though, is a feature called Snap to Beat. With Snap to Beat you can easily create seamless loops.

Here’s what Vine says of the tool:

Once you’ve chosen a song by tapping the music note from the Details screen, Snap to Beat identifies how much of the song to use to make a seamless loop and then trims your video to fit that clip. With seamless audio looping in our mobile apps, you can make Vines that sound awesome and feel like magic — something that’s only possible with Vine.     Read more »

5 ways to raise your band’s Facebook page from the dead

5 ways to bring your band's Facebook page back to life

Is it time to resurrect your band’s Facebook page?

Okay, okay — fine. Facebook wins. We’ve all calmed down. We’ve gotten used to our reduced organic reach. We’ve accepted the fact that our video views will now be split between Facebook and YouTube. The mass migration to an alternate social media platform didn’t (fully) happen.

So yeah, Facebook wins. It’s still alive and kicking. It can still be an effective way for musicians to reach existing fans and make new ones.

But throughout these uncertain times (the last couple years), many musicians have been way less active on the platform than they were in the glorious (free) salad days of Facebook. If that’s you, chances are good your band page is starting to feel pretty stale.

So while Facebook itself is doing just fine, your presence on the site may’ve suffered. Luckily there are a few simple things you can do to bring your page back from the dead. Read more »

Facebook advertising for musicians

Facebook Advertising for Musicians[This article was written by Tyler Allen, and it originally appeared on the SonicBids Blog.]

Facebook is like that best friend that you had in high school, the one that was constantly going through phases. Your friend was always there for you, helped you out, and supplied you with hours upon hours of entertainment, but you just never knew which version of Kevin was going to walk through that door. Would it be Goth Kevin? Yoga Kevin? Fitness Kevin? Same great guy, but small little changes each time.

That, my friends, to me, is Facebook. It seems every few months new changes come through that make marketing people like me have to readjust. It’s the same platform with the same features, but just with small pesky little nuances. The most difficult adjustment with Facebook is its algorithm changes.

What a lot of people don’t realize is that Facebook’s algorithm is dependent upon your fans’ interactions. Therefore, if you have 5,000 fans and publish a post, but no one comments, likes, or shares that post, a very small fraction of your fans will see it. Conversely, the more people who comment and engage, the more visibility it receives. Read more »

How to post an update on Apple Connect (Apple Music’s new social ne...

How to post updates on Apple Music through Apple ConnectConnecting with your fans on Apple Music

I just posted my first update on Apple Music using Apple Connect, the streaming service’s social networking feature, and I figured I’d share some step-by-step instructions.

Before you can use Apple Connect, you’ve got to:

* get your music onto Apple Music,

* claim your profile,

* download Apple Music onto your device, and

* familiarize yourself with this new streaming service.

From there, sharing content with your fans on Apple Music is pretty easy.

Here’s a quick tutorial with screenshots on how to post an update on Apple Music

1. Open Apple Music on your device, go to “Connect,” and click the compose icon (to the left of the magnifying glass search icon).

 

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Creating a “community” vs. a “fanbase”

Creating a music community vs. a fanbase[This article was written by Dave Kusek, founder of the New Artist Model, an online music business school for independent musicians, performers, recording artists, producers, managers, and songwriters. He is also the founder of Berklee Online, co-author of The Future of Music book, and a member of the team who brought midi to the market.]

The concept of “fans” is so completely ingrained into the music industry. The artist creates the music and the fans watch from afar, but there is often very little personal and direct interaction between the two. It’s almost as if the artist is up on this untouchable pedestal while the creative process remains much a mystery to fans. Indeed many artists promote this distance and try and create this myth about themselves, such as the DJ ZHU.

Of course, these days many artists “talk” to their fans on social media but these conversations still generally happen within the traditional artist-fan roles. How many of us have tweeted things like “check out my new song,” “check out my new music video,” and “I just released an album.” Notice how one-sided those statements are? The old model was about push marketing – music was created behind a curtain and pushed out to fans who consumed it — but I want to take this opportunity to propose a new artist-fan relationship. Read more »

7 common mistakes musicians make on Instagram

Instagram for Bands: 10 Tips for Promoting Your Music with Instagram[This article was written by Amy Sciarretto. It originally appeared on the Sonicbids Blog.]

Instagram is a terrific tool to connect bands and artists with their fans. It’s the direct line in and the lens through which the fan can experience the band in ways other than through sound. It creates a visual and allows for a keyhole view. Exciting!

But while IG can be used for good, some artists and bands make many mistakes when it comes to the social media photo-sharing service. The good news is that those errors are not crippling, and they’re way easy to fix. Here are seven common Instagram gaffes that are remedied with a couple of minor changes to habits or routine.

1. You don’t hashtag enough

You want to connect with your fans and hopefully have your posts go viral among them and others casually browsing. That happens with hashtags. Someone looking for “bands on tour” could stumble on your band accidentally, if you hashtag a photo with “#BandsOnTour.” That person could become one of your newest fans! Read more »

“No matter what you think about Facebook, you have to market your m...

Facebook marketing for musiciansAs a musician, do you NEED to be on Facebook? And if so, how often?

A couple months ago we posted an article written by singer-songwriter Eric Eckhart called “Time to STOP marketing your music on social media?

In it, he talks about his frustrations with online music marketing and how it can easily become a distraction from the things that matter most: improving your craft, writing better songs, etc.

Plenty of people agreed with Eric, while many others thought the article ignored the fact that social media marketing, when done right, can be a great way (and is sometimes the only way) to build an audience in a world where everyone is online all the time. Read more »

Instagram for Musicians: how to use the social photo platform to pr...

Instagram for musicians (and its dirty secrets)More than a thousand artists are now using HostBaby’s Instagram tool to display awesome photos on their websites, and it reminded me… we’ve written quite a few articles over the years about promoting your music with Instagram.

Time for a recap!

Here are 6 articles about Instagram that might give you some new ideas on how to promote your music with pictures and video:

1. Why you should be using Instagram as a musician (and all its dirty ... Read more »

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