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Simple determinations to get yourself known for free…
I read an article in a well known magazine the other day and found that they were advising artists to spend out 100’s in advertising expenses to get themselves known. True.
Is there another way?
Well yes, there is. What  we  have useful to us all is the Internet. This amazing 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 nice spread, costing $100 and you only spread one quarter of the bagel (this expensive food doesn’t 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 prefer ly you’ll have much less opportunity of being found than if you spent less money on a similar spread and used all of it, all over the bagel.
Now this is what happens everytime someone logs onto the Internet. You have one shot, you’re being targeted roughly by random and too much money spent in one area is a decidedly bad idea. So what do you do?
Well, the central thing is not to spend any money if possible. If you have music to hand out then do that. Sign up to all the MP3 hosting web sites that you can find, there are so many now on the Internet that they are 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 decreases 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 increases your Public Relations rate with the search engines and increases your link status (roughly: more links in the higher you rate). additionally you gain 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 someone comes to your web site and goes away the prefer lihood of them returning is decidedly low, and then you have lost them. This is why the newsletters and blogs are so necessary, they keep the one-time visitor coming back for check-ups to YOUR web site, in the absence of them trying to find you again (very unlikly).
One thing that I can never understand when I’m 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 has been te of Internet real-estate. Your web site ought to be targeted, your name ought to be targeted. I’m into Techno etc, so it is 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 genre 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 still many 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 performer 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 Doctors 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 everywhere that you can and keep on adding amazing music.