TalkMusicBiz, Music Promotions & Using Social Media Site YouTube

I know my readers yearn for tips on getting there music heard, so I went to one of my favorite social media sites and video-sharing sites, YouTube, and subscribed to TalkMusicBiz because they always upload videos geared towards the music business and give proven to be successful ideas on how to market your business or just some new twists on music promotions.  In this new video that I’m going to talk about today, the speaker George discusses social media skills along with music marketing and other “geo-tagged methods” one can adapt to on YouTube. I wanted to share these tips he used for a band with you, my readers, because they will beneficial and advantageous to you and your music exposure. 

It was nice that he brought up keyword threading and how important that is for promoting music on social media networks and indeed, your choice of keywords are of the upmost importance in any social media campaign and for social media optimization, but that I will save for another blog post. He began to talk about this local Hawaiian band called Kapala that he only did a slideshow for because at the time they could not afford a video. They were a brand new band and he promoted their song on YouTube by using demo description type keywords that were Hawaiian related. For example, in the subject title for the slideshow, he included the title of their song, their name, and Hawaiian music, all in the same title. And then in the description box, he put Hawaiian music, their location and zip code, and clubs they had played at, both recently and awhile back.

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George even created tags with Hawaiian keywords and that helped boost their views up to 1,200 on the first two days of the upload! He made a good point in that the title of your YouTube video should have included in it the style of your music and perhaps the sub culture group within that style because that will help people find you. I agree that you should always take time and put information in the description box because I do notice that people forget to fill that out and it is a decisive move that can help get your video placed well in a search engine query. Another tip he suggested was to put your performance list and what town you are from in your description box. All of these YouTube promotional tips can bring in large audiences that may otherwise skip over your video while searching for music without these extra keywords or added descriptions.

Adding your url with the whole protocol, and the http, is always smart to have completed for any online promotion when using social media. You must also have an active url so people can actually see and hear your music or videos when they click on the link! Thank you George and TalkMusicBiz for these great music promotions tips and I will be giving more disserts about this channel and their tips very soon for you guys so join my mailing list so you don’t ever miss out!

Source: http://youtu.be/xLkh-JCYqNE