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4 Reasons Why Twitter is Better than Facebook for Music

Is Facebook a good place for musicians and DJs to try to and promote themselves?  Here is some perspective to think about.  Facebook was never meant to be an advertising hotspot, nor was it mean to host music files and fan pages, but it does.  This wasn’t the case until just a few years ago, when Facebook figured out it could make a lot of money by advertising everywhere on the page.  In some ways, the original idea behind Facebook has died, in favor of a profitable marketing schemes and untrustworthy tactics.  Still, it is hard to find a better platform to communicate with – it certainly isn’t Google+. Twitter is much different, but has its negative aspects as well.  Twitter is more of a one way system that allows people who are important (or at least think they’re important) to communicate with the rest of the world.  For musicians it might just be a better bet too.  See, fans want information about their artists, but they want to skip the hassles of have their personal life rooted at the same time.  The open access of Twitter is great in this aspect, when fans simply want to know a few things about their artist.  http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2013/02/4-reasons-why-twitter-is-better-than-facebook-for-music-marketing/

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Social Media for Musicians

Having some sort of social media outlet is key to maintain a certain image of your brand or perhaps your band.  As a DJ, there is often little we know about you until you open your mouth, and since DJs use their hands instead of their mouths to talk – you’ll need another way of speaking your mind.  There are the big three social media networks that will help you with your cause, but it won’t be made easy for you.  Just having a page, like a business card, is not really enough.  That is the old way of saying “hello”.  These days you are going to need to more interactive and friendly with your guests, even though you may never meet them face to face. Sometimes it might be best just to have a personal website to connect all of your social media and media sharing networks together.  It also gives you a chance to be more personal with your viewers rather than following the same boring format that is expected of you on every facebook or twitter page.  Content is also really key here, if you’re stagnant, then your readership will take that as a sign of how you see yourself as well. http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2013/03/social-media-for-musicians/

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Contests To Win At DJ Social Media

There is a fine line between online promotion and pure spamming of your audiences.  Most of us are used to a phenomenon where we buy something from an online store, which prompts us to add our emails to their mailing list.  At first, there is no problem here.  We receive an email every now and then about new offers and new products that might interest us.  Then, at a certain point, the line of sincerity is crossed and we begin receiving emails damn near every day.  What is the point of receiving ten different emails a day?  That signals me to either unsubscribe from their mailing list or to simply add them to my spam folder.  The art of advertising comes down to knowing how to not upset the customers. DJs and music artists can literally be the worst group of offenders, especially on Facebook and Twitter.  If they post nothing else except advertisements that flood your page, what separates them from a regular plain vanilla spammer?  I will end up doing the same thing I do with my email spammers and simply label them as a petty business who doesn’t really know how to reach out to their audiences.  http://www.djtechtools.com/2013/06/26/dj-social-media-3-the-media-contests/

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Check out this article to learn about using Twitter as an effective marketing tool to promote your DJ business

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"The Twitter DJ application utilizes feeds from an updated version of Traktor’s standard broadcasting technology to send 60 second updates during Hawtin’s set of what’s currently playing to a designated Twitter account,"

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