Simple solutions to get yourself known for free…

I read an article in a well known magazine the other day and found that they were advising performers to invest out 100’s in advertising costs to get themselves known. True.

Is there another way?

Well yes, there is. What we have useful to us all is the Web. This excellent medium is so underrated it is unbelieveable.

The key to getting yourself known is to spread yourself all over the Internet. Pretend that the Internet is a slice of bread, a bagel….hmm…yum.

Sorry, stay with me, you need to follow this one. If you bought some really wonderful spread, costing $100 and you only spread one quarter of the bagel (this expensive food does not go far). Now you have only one bite, only one and a random one at that, so you randomly bite into the bagel, more than like ly you will have much less opportunity of being found than if you spent less resources on a similar spread and used all of it, all over the bagel.

Now this is what happens everytime a person logs onto the Web. You have one shot, you’re being targeted roughly by random and too much resources spent in one area is a substantially bad idea. So what do you do?

Well, the primary thing is not to invest any resources if possible. If you have music to distribute then do that. Sign up to all the MP3 hosting websites that you might find, there are so many now on the Internet that they’re free and provide some cool incentives ( prefer unlimited bandwidth, hardrive space and such prefer ). The more you apply to, the more prefer ly that you’re not going to be missed by anyone.

This technique additionally lowers the possibility of your paid web site being shut down, having any failures in the future, or being ranked less in the search engines (with so much competition this is a high possibility).

Phase two, make sure that you have your own web site. On each paid web site put a link back to your own web site, this then stimulates your Public Relations (PR) rate with the search engines and stimulates your link status (roughly: more links in the higher you rate). also you secure free traffic for many years from these web site s.

Make your homepage appealing, provide ing blogs and newsletters, even “guides and DIY articles”. Why? Well once an individual comes to your website and goes away the like lihood of them returning is incredibly low, and then you’ve lost them. This is why the newsletters and blogs are so important, they keep the one-time visitor coming back for check-ups to YOUR website, without them trying to find you again (very unlikly).

One thing that I may never understand when I am searching through MP3 hosting web sites is “why do people give a range of their work on one page?” All fair and well, and much kudos for doing so, but I think that this is a was te of Internet real-estate. Your web site ought to be targeted, your name ought to be targeted. I am into Techno etc, so it’s rare that I will hunt out jazz songs. But this is what I find when I go onto a techno artists web site. My tip would be to call yourself something divergent for each type of that you do. For instance : deejay Harsh for your electronic music, Earthly for your New Age music, The Fields for your Country and Western music…you get the idea.

Having a separate name for each of your styles will then target 2-3 (or however a lot of genres you do) times more visitors- a possible 100-200 % increase in visitor downloads. But again, you would link each web site to each other just in case. You would even make up separate web sites for each genre anyway. Many people in the artist world do this. For instance : Les Rythmes Digitales who made “Jacques your body (make me sweat)”- a cool techno song, and Stuart Price are one of the same. Who is Stuart Price? Madonnas new producer under his real name. The KLF, The Physicians in the Tardis, and The Justified Acients of MuMu (no joke) are all one of the same.

Diversify yourself to get yourself known, apply to all over the place that you could and keep on adding amazing music.