Thursday, August 23, 2012

Digital Music Marketing Tips for Self-Publisher



Digital age is transforming the way people experiences music. Digital music becomes one of the main revenue in the music industry while physical CD sales drops. It is time to learn how to engage audiences through digital marketing.

Most independent artist has struggled with marketing and promotion strategy. They focus on physical sales and concert tickets instead of the power of digital marketing. Some independent artists have been using digital marketing for years but seems like it has not worked effectively. Digital marketing is not only signing up for Facebook and gain followers. It is about how to manage your audiences through social media.

Let me show you how!


First, define your core audiences.

If you do not know who is your core audiences, how will you know who to convey your words to?

How to find your core audiences? Find someone who loves your music. Get in touch with them and expand them from a small community to a large community. The best way to get in touch with your fans is to interact with them and bring them with you to your journey.

Then, you need to have a digital marketing strategy.

The first thing to do is to bring your band into digital social tools such as website, Facebook, Twitter, SocialCam, Instagram, YouTube, SoundCloud, and etc. This is the most effective way to reach your audiences. The next step is to provide rich contents of your band into each tool. More rich contents you have, the more you can promote yourself. I suggest you to connect every social media sites together to make your audiences explore your world in one click. Most valuable thing is to describe your contents with an attractive title as well as a keyword rich description. Remember that everything you put in each site is to engage your audiences with your band.

Now! Let’s collaborate! Be open, honest and reachable. Share your activities each day. Bring your audience to your journey. Let’s have a meet and greet event or mini concert to keep in touch with your fans. Create some viral activities through social media. You should offer your audiences bring their friends, families or communities to your live events. Then, let them share their experiences! It certainly increases fans!

Remember that more clicks, more likes, more shares, MORE FAMOUS!

After you finish all these processes, keep UPDATING and REPEATING it!


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