Gaining many people listening or seeing your material is the most important aspect of using a platform to promote more material. There is massive competition for people's ears and eyes, so you have to make sure that you are in the perfect position to entice visitors to your profile. Joining these types of sites, is a great first step to gaining a wider audience for your music, art, photography and other material. Unfortunately, just signing up and uploading your songs, pictures and videos is not enough, you have to remember that on all sites like this there are many other unsigned, upcoming and talented bands, dj's, artists, singer/songwriters, photographers etc who want to get noticed as much as you do.
So, to ensure that you can expand your popularity you have to spend a bit of time marketing yourself to ensure that visitors look at your profile and become your fans. The first thing you must do is keep your profile information recent and up-to-date, no one wants to visit a site or a page that looks like it has been left unused for months. Doing this is simple, here is how;
• Writing a short blog will help to keep visitors and fans informed about what you are up to and will help you to tell them about yourselves.
• Advertising gigs that you have coming up is a great way to show how active you are, you may also manage to gain some new people in your audience. To add to this, you should post some pictures and maybe a video of your gigs.
• Simply commenting on other members material and writing status updates will help to give you more exposure. The more items you comment on and status updates you do, the more your name will be bounced around the site, making you stand out.
These are some very simple activities that anybody can conduct to help gain more interest in you music, art, photography etc.
The best exposure possible is to gain features on the homepage. Achieving a featured status means that everyone who visits that site is highly likely to see you. You are positioned at the very top of the homepage, meaning your are one of the first things all visitors will see. The chances are. that being positioned here will mean that anyone who visits the site will click on the feature and check you out, and remember you have a music player with your songs positioned on the homepage too making it extremely easy for everyone to listen to your tracks. Being on the homepage and/or gaining a featured status on any site is a superb marketing tool. You are being recommended by the site to all of their visitors and getting a prime position, so when this sort of opportunity comes along it is important to embrace it and share your prominence with as many people as possible as it is something to be proud of.
By getting your music, art and photography onto plenty of online platforms for unsigned material, and ensuring you put the effort into getting visitors of the site to actually come and look at your profile will pay dividends with more listens, more views, more fans and more feedback.
Happy fan hunting and good luck.
Jack Hillaby
CEO of bustars.com
http://bustars.com/
bustars.com is a brand new creative community for upcoming and unsigned bands, dj's, musicians, artists, singer/songwriters, rappers, photographers and more. We are a platform that allows members to upload their music, pictures and videos so that they can gain feedback and exposure. So, become a bustar and see your music reach a wider audience.
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