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For an artist marketing their music is secondary to the creation. With the advent of the internet, a good product is not enough to take a great artist to the top. What makes an artist sell their music, you might ask. Popularity. The internet is a veritable popularity contest. For an unsigned musician or artist, people need to like you before they even bother listening to your music.
Easier said than done. To be popular first you need to know what your audience likes and then take your brand and adjust it to match the likes and wants of your audience. The best way and free-ist way. If you're truly an indie artist than you know that free is always best first. Could you plunk down a few thousand and have someone do this for you yes, but can this generate a sustaining following for you? Sure, if you can keep plunking down those thousands of dollars.
Start testing the waters with a blog. Your first step is to post every day for at least thirty days. What should you write about? This is the number one problem, an independent artist faces. Remember before someone wants to hear your music they want to get to like you first. I suggest you first start out writing articles about your hobbies, things that are outside of music, and every once in a while (like once a week for instance) include a post about one of your songs. At the end of the month check your stats and see which articles are getting the most hits. If your article on exercising is getting the most hits start thinking about how you can stretch this into articles about exercise music, or alternatively music that is relaxing after exercise. Don't be discouraged if you are only averaging three hits a day, the beginning of a blog is always the hardest, but most crucial step in building your network.
Blogging although, powerful is not enough.
In grade school your teacher said some people are visual learners and some are auditory learners. Once you post a blog, tweet about, it go to your Facebook fanpage and invite people to read it. Then hit stumble and recommend it. Afterwards make a YouTube post about it. Think this is a lot of work? You betcha! But here are some statistics to justify the madness. Over 53% of women 25 and older read blogs, while 57% of men 18 and up watch videos. You can't make your topic accessible to everyone, but at least targeting one auditory site and one visual allows you to cover the spectrum.
Last but not least, if you receive that coveted comment on your blog, Twitter or YouTube post, reply with a comment of your own and the slowly you can start selling your work to your followers.
Keywords to remember friends first, buyers second.
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