This weekend I looked at over 1000 MySpace Music Profiles. In short – we have a lot of work to do, people. What you need to understand about MySpace music is that your profile is, in fact, a website. If you were to hire a web designer to build a site for your band, you’d [...]

OurStage is a music and film competition site where you can put audio and video content up and compete for monthly cash prizes. The entries are judged by fans that are played two songs or videos head to head they vote for which they like best. The top ten entries for each category go head [...]

You’ve got the friends and you update regularly, now what? Well, it’s time to reach out and touch someone. Keeping in contact with your MySpace Music friends is essential in promoting your music, and it’s pretty easy to do.   MySpace Music is great because it’s like having a mailing list. That said, the traditional [...]

Now that you have more friends than a coke dealer in the 70′s it’s time to start promoting you music to them. So, how do you do this? Let’s take a look at what tools MySpace has to offer and see what you can do to reach out to your newly acquired friends/fans. First, you [...]

MeetYourBand.com is a fairly new social networking site for musicians that seems to be catching on. The concept is that same as MySpace and Friendster, in that you get a profile and you can build a favorite list of other’s profiles, but it’s specifically for musicians and bands. In fact, there are two types of [...]

So you’ve gotten 1.7 billion friends on your Myspace Music. Congrats! How many of them are likely to be into your band? Having a lot of friends on your band’s Myspace is nice, but when you consider that many of those might just be people who either didn’t care when you added them as friends [...]

When you sign up on various music sites you’ll be asked who your influences are. Sometimes this is just informational; it gives your profile some depth. Often, however, you’re being asked because this will define where you’re positioned on the site. This means that if the site is searched looking for bands that sound like [...]

Myspace Music has become the starter site for bands trying to have an online presence. There’s a good reason, everyone and their mother is on Myspace and a Myspace Music profile is free (you’ll still need a regular website, but that’s another post).There are a lot of benefits to having a Myspace Music profile. For [...]