4 Things to Know About Marketing Your Band
The New Rockwells share four things they have learned about effectively marketing your band.
This article is being published in partnership with Soundfly in celebration of #BetterBand week!
Friends from college, musicians, composers and now out in the world making their way, with their indie-rock band The New Rockwells, Ben Muller and Marty Boyle got together and drilled down their list:
1. Be Social
Social media is exactly that – social. What makes these platforms so powerful for bands, especially as they seek to develop a fanbase, is their ability to help artists tell a story, form an identity, and affordably provide content to the masses. As our band, The New Rockwells, has worked with social media we’ve made sure to be purposeful in our usage of this medium.
2. Content Rules
For starters, we always tell fans where to find our content. That includes making an announcement during our shows (“Like us on Facebook, follow us on twitter, and always swipe right on Tinder!”) and having our website and/or social media links posted on business cards, stickers, and T-shirts. Obvious but true, make sure you keep all your social accounts up-to-date with information about gigs and events. Should you ever feel like you need some help when it comes to getting your content the best it can be so that it will encourage people to visit your website, you may wish to get in contact with a company like Victorious (https://victoriousseo.com/services/seo-content/) who can work with you to create and implement a strategy that will, hopefully, improve your reach and get you the site traffic you are looking for.
3. Build Up Hype
When dropping a new video or single on social media it’s important to build hype ahead of time. We always post a few days ahead of time with a “teaser.” Alternatively, we sometimes run contests – “If you share our posts, you’ll be entered to win a free copy of our single.” Contests like these help to actively engage your fan-base and will lead to greater reach and effectiveness of posts.
4. Know Your Data and Use It
We also make sure to look to data for insights. Facebook, Twitter, and all other social media provide analytics readouts. These figures help us to see how we’re engaging with our target audience, how many people we’re reaching and where, and how many people have seen and clicked on our content. Then we can take advantage of when our fans are engaged and use it to build momentum.
And oh yeah, building a better band is serious business but don’t forget to have fun out there!
– The New Rockwells
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