I've created an artist profile on a few more social networking sites. Myspace has slowly become a bit of a junkyard, but still holds the ability for musicians to upload new tracks, shows, and receive comments and direct emails regarding localized gigs, etc. I've gotten more than a handful of emails inviting me to play in music festivals and compete in a battle of the bands in "my area" and actually followed up w/a few. But it's time to expand the online musical presence.
Reverb Nation was the first music app for Facebook that caught my attention. It has a music player (that takes you out of FB to play, however), attractive design, and linked directly to my Facebook profile. I'm still haven't completed my profile yet, but keep my music tracks and pics updated, and receive weekly emails w/stats, telling me my rank against other local artists. Best I've gotten is #3 in my area. That's kinda' cool.
I then created a fan page for Kevin Heinz Music, hoping to gain a following through my online friends that are addicted to facebook, and have all deleted (or never even had) a myspace account. I wanted to be able to promote a facebook.com/kevinheinzmusic link on posters, handbills, etc. It looks/sounds more current. I then researched more music players that would keep you on the Facebook site and found iLike. A few music and picture uploads later, and I have another outlet for my online musical presence.
The trick will be to keep all the different sites updated, and hopes are one, if not, all of them will continue to allow me to grow credibility as a performing musician and land bigger gigs. I'm as ambitious today as ever to make music my fulll-time job, and keep it my life passion.
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