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40 Ways To Encourage Your Band

Posted by Streaming Music | Posted in Streaming Music | Posted on 12-10-2009

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The 40 Ways to  promote  Your band or Music On-line and Offline:

1. Have Demo CD  Ready

2. Submit Expert Articles to ArticleDashboard.com

3. Get Cool Mini CD’s to give out at shows

4. Get Free Business Cards to Give Out Pay Shipping Only

5. Have Postcards Ready to Send Out to EVERYONE

6. Give Out Free Magnets Order Here

7. Have Press Kits Ready Order Here

8. Get Custom Promo Shirts Printed Order Here

9. Establish a Myspace

10. Promote Your MySpace.com on MySpace.com Forums and Music Groups

11. Try a FriendBlaster Program to Add Friends ( MySpace.com could Have Disabled These Programs ability to function)

12. Hire A MySpace  promoter – Ask For References!

13. Build and Launch a web site Web.com or GoDaddy web site Tonight On-line Builder

14. Promote Your website and MySpace.com Online With SEO Techniques (Google This)

15. Post In Web Forums and Message Boards

16. Post in Free Online Classifieds Such as Craigslist in the Musicians Section Craigslist

17. Post in USFreeAds Free Classifieds

18. Promote in Free Directories.

19. Use Google Adwords to  promote  Your website Signup Here

20. Use Yahoo Search Marketing to  encourage  Your web site

21. Get As many Links From Other web sites to Your web site and Myspace

22. Start and Maintain A Blog

23. Submit Articles to EzineArticles.com

24. Search For ‘Music Forums’ and ‘Music Message Boards’ Etc and Post, Network, Include Link to Your MySpace or website When Possible.

25. Submit Your Blog to Blog ‘Directories’

26. Get Newspaper Ads only in Entertainment Sections or Regional Newspapers.

27. Play As many Open Mics As Possible and Give Out Stuff!

28. Play At Festivals and Give Out Stuff!

29. Play For FREE Anywhere Possible

30. Signup For Battle of the Bands in your area (and give out stuff)

31. Play at Weddings! (If you do covers)

32. Ask to Open For More Established Bands

33. Hire a Booking Agent – Try to get a reference on this from a person else you trust.

34. Email Your audiences – Stay In Contact

35. Hand out Stickers!

36. Register For OurStage and Upload Your songs to Compete.

37. Contact the Music Critic at your Regional newspaper.

38. Try Reverbnation

39. Try MP3.com

40. Try iSound

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