Tips to Sell More Music Online: Blog Promotion

 MP3 Blogs can cause significant music and gig ticket sales There are currently tens of thousands of MP3 Blogs with more springing up each day. If the MP3 blog community embraces your band, you could potentially have thousands of them talking about you and providing MP3s of your songs to hundreds of thousands of music fans. What better way to get the word out than by a real grass roots campaign of music fans talking about you because they love what you do. With the Internet, they have a vehicle to communicate with the world.

The best way to reach blogs is to go to their websites and follow their submission policies. In many cases, contacting a blog is as simple as sending an email. Below is a perspective on MP3 blogs from a well respected MP3 blog called Gorilla Vs. Bear.

Over the past few years, music blogs have become an invaluable medium for new bands to garner positive, and occasionally, even life-changing exposure. By establishing personal relationships with blogs that are most relevant to their particular sound/genre, new artists have the opportunity to reach vast, unexpected audiences.

Producing unique and high-quality content is the foremost concern for any artist set on approaching influential bloggers--i.e., bloggers with a built in, growing audience. In developing ideas, artists should take advantage of all available media resources -- YouTube, Myspace, message boards, etc. -- to develop quality and compelling content and a unique, differentiating online presence. In a day and age where new acts emerge left and right, it is fundamentally essential that you have your name out in the vast web domain. Otherwise prospective fans outside of your town or inner-circle will not have any reason to know about what you do.

Since bands and bloggers continue to develop a keen professionalism in promotion and content delivery, utilizing the web space (as well as the wealth of media tools) effectively will allow you to distinguish your efforts from your peers. Just be tactful in approaching the bloggers you've identified. Remember that bloggers with significant traffic are constantly bombarded with all kinds of press materials from bands big and small, and are much more inclined to post about something that comes off as natural and personal, rather than manufactured.

Once a connection with a like-minded blogger is made, your content can spread like wildfire, producing what's known as a viral effect, where one source with an audience disseminates the information to countless others, much like a virus. And when that happens, it can become a vital and rewarding aspect of your own online media campaign

Music Blogs 
www.gorillavsbear.net 
www.stereogum.com   
www.brooklynvegan.com   
www.music.for-robots.com   
www.saidthegramophone.com   
www.aquariumdrunkard.com   
www.chromewaves.net    
www.fluxblog.org    
www.myoldkyhome.blogspot.com   
www.iguessimfloating.blogspot.com   
www.youaintnopicasso.com 

Comments

[noise]

this it's totally true, this is a big tool that can be approachable, last year we released our debut E.P. called 'We're in love, yeah righ!" via some important net label from Mexico and suddenly our cd came to be reviewed in a lot of blogs from Mexico,US,Spain and even Germany getting some positive buzz to our band.

www.myspace.com/noisebeatpropaganda

[Edward Ware]

Thank you. I never would have thought of this valuable tool! You, "Tune Core", never cease to amaze me.

[Peter Pote]

Thank you for this information you guys never cease to amaze with all your help and tips for bands to get out there!!

[Rez Rek]

that spretyy cool i will like to participate on the promo....this is a great apportunity for us all trying to get our music heard...i'm with it...

[Rez Rek]

want to know why this is a cool apportunity go see why at www.myspace.com/rezrek1 Listen And vote for my new singel today.....listen and vote today.....also includes free ringtones...to my upcoming album-0LYFE OF THA PARTY...Coming Soon! Stay Tune...

[Rez Rek]

stop by at www.myspace.com/rezrek1 today to listen and vote for my new singel...vote...today

[Funkified Entertainment]

Thanks for the information! This can be used with several of the acts we support, and will really help with getting new groups names out there. Thanks again!

[Jonathan laurince]

wow!! thanks a lot...

[dave]

good info, u may like my track hurricane. check it out

[Michael Bishop]

I have released a two-sided single with Tunecore.Some great people
worked on "Favorite Scenes/December" Barry Rudolph co-produced
and mixed, he's a muti- platinum engineer and Brian Ray from Paul
McCartney's band has endorsed the record and written a statement
I can use for promotion. I'm unable to perform right now because of a
serious accident that left me with a broken back and a fractured neck.
I'd really like to use this Blog Promotion. If someone reads this, please
contact me if you can. The record is on iTunes by Michael Bishop.

[ALTRA]

It's really good support! Thank you!
ALTRA

www.youtube.com/altraband

[ALTRA]

It's really good support! Thank you, TUNECORE )
ALTRA

www.youtube.com/altraband

[Carlos H. Marin]

I am a singer and songwriter and my production is mostly in Spanish. Does anybody can point me in the direction of music blogs in Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries?

[Enid]

Great information, thanks for sharing, think I will share this with my facebook crew!