Author: vasil morice

Marketing is all the activities and processes of planning, communicating and executing a product, with a price, the promotion and the placement of an item to an end user. Your music is your product which you are then supplying to the end user – the music fan. Between you and the fan is a big space on how to bridge this gap. You may think that if you just get a record deal with some label, your prayers are answered and this instant bridge is built across that space. This is for the most part, not how things work today.

As an aspiring indie or unsigned singer, songwriter, or a musician in a band you can not do just a few things to promote yourself and expect success in your music career. Offline and online music promotion and marketing exposure is an ongoing process in this DIY age. Music companies are looking for artists that already have fan bases, sold CDs, and are proven ready to move up to a higher level. Presented here are more than 100 tips and ideas for you to think about and tweak as you will, to get noticed, gain fans, and get heard. You have to find a way to stand above the crowd, for talent alone is not enough.

Promo Tip #1 A music artist must start somewhere, that’s usually locally, but it’s better to not just dive in without a plan. But begin you must. Create a plan with some ideas and set goals as to what you need to accomplish weekly, monthly, and yearly. Start small and make it progressive. Reach bench marks and keep at it.

Promo Tip #2 Image is everything. Image is the complete package – artist/band name, look, performance, merchandise, and style, to how that brand is marketed. A stage name can be a descriptive statement of the image you or your band project. Be unique and interesting to look at in some way….build your own unique stage persona.

Promo Tip #3 Word of mouth has always been the best promotion – tell people what you do. Get people talking. Create your buzz by just giving enough info to get people interested, but hold some secrets close.

Promo Tip #4 Those that promote the most win.

Promo Tip #5 You may be a truly great talent, but without getting out there and consistently marketing yourself, networking, meeting the right people, maintaining your image, and being humble, your talent will only get you so far.

Promo Tip #6 Be innovative in your promotional efforts! The Internet has made it possible to hear a LOT more music, from a LOT more artists. You are now a very small fish in a very large pond – you will need to find a way to stand out, above and glow in the dark. Think beyond the box on every promo tip.

Promo Tip #7 Learn web basics to use the Net to your advantage. The Internet thrives on links, quality content, keywords and consistency. Properly use the tools of the Internet to build your online brand.

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Or shall we say how bloggers can put up with heavy spammers’ comment? Are you more than a conqueror or a victim of non-sense spammers or a spam bots?

Spam bot Image via: Bloggingpro.com

These are just one of the regular activities that a blog editor must have to conquer every day to clean and edit comments sent by spammers every second or every minute. If you are a serious reader and leave comments on a site you like then you are not a spammer. No matter how these spammers leave comment on your website before it appears on your blog, we have to be patient and filter them as much as we can. Comments are great to drive traffic to your website but it needs discernment to pick what kind of comment you filter in your website. The easiest way is to check their websites if they sound like too good to be true besides from the obvious then those comments will be spam from our site.

1)      Websites that contains pornography marketers are filtered out or deleted.

2)      Websites that contains blatantly adsense with no soul content but just adsense!

3)      Websites that is full of games and nothing but games.

4)      Spammers that leave three, tens, twenties, or hundreds of comments on every page of your blog deserved to be spam filtered forever.

5)      Although avatars are not important but if you are serious blogger, social networker or an online marketer you must have at least a good photo or avatar icon otherwise a built-in avatar will give you an ugly face! (like the sample snapshot below)

6)      If you just leave comment just to link back your website that’s fine! You’re in as long as your comment is making sense.

7)      Spammers that are leaving comment on blog post or blog page that is not making sense to its content.

8)      Watch out those spam bots, they’re indeed nasty in the cyber space! Spammers that are robotic nothing but a slave spamming decent websites every second of the day on the Internet world.

and many others to mention….

***From our “dashboard” does comprise our “blog stats” where we can easily edit everyone’s comments or spammers on our site. Currently we can see the red arrow is showing us 2,154 spams. The reasons these spam comments are not auto blocked because some readers leave decent comments but the rest can be heavy spammers.

***The following snapshot below shows a sample where to edit those comments. Some of their names can be as bad as their non-sense comments.

***The snapshot below shows how ugly these spammers look like on their avatars! Of course it does not always work that way because some readers or guests who leave decent comment may not have website or avatar.

Tip: Make sure you don’t delete decent or good comment that is filtered on your spam page. It only needs patience and keen of a cat’s eyes to read those comments left by your readers or decent guests.

We are so thankful for for all your comments on our site. It’s a continuous journey and we learn new things every day in this information generation or digital age. We do take our time to filter them all as we’re humans not bots. We try to reply back those comments that are needed to be addressed or even personal.

One of the changes I’m making this year is to become an expert at attracting traffic to my website. It’s not enough to just add some good content, do a little blogging and submit to some social networks. That will get you some traffic but it won’t get you the amount of website visitors that you need to make a website profitable. One of the things that some of the most successful marketers don’t tell you is that they either became an expert themselves or they hired an expert. For most of us we don’t have the money to go out and hire experts so we have to study and find out as much as we possibly can and then take action. Seriously, what do you have to lose by spending some of your time on studying the methods that have made other people a fortune?

The thing is that once you have a website that is generating a good number of monthly visitors, making money from that website becomes a whole lot easier. After all, selling is a numbers game. The numbers vary depending on whether the traffic is targeted or not, but it’s still a numbers game.

So go back and have a look at your website now. Do you have lots of unique, quality content? If you were a web surfer and this was the first time you saw that site would you be interested enough to have a look around? Put yourself in their shoes. Also, whenever you click on a link, fill in a squeeze page or click on a splash page – learn from that. Ask yourself what it was that made you want to click on that link or splash page. Learn from everything you see and do on the internet. Learn from other people’s mistakes as well. If you see something that turns you right off a website, make a mental note to NEVER do that on your website.

Don’t just get through the day get FROM the day!

Until next time good surfing!

By Gary Smith
WhirlwindTraffic Owner

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