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Rather then simply adding many thousands of friends in the hope that they are going to listen to your tunes and be so impressed that they spontaneously run out and purchase your album, it is much more valuable to view MySpace as a way to make initial contact with a potential fan, the goal being to send them to your squeeze page so that you might ultimately get them to join your list, as email marketing is a far better method of creating album sales then comments and messages that actually don't amount to much more than Spam.

The fast answer to the question is that yes, I think marketing your band on MySpace is still important but I believe an adjustment of the mindset is necessary to actually make it worth your time. Because in the final analysis, any traffic creating strategy is applicable, be it MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or even just good old fashion live shows, so long as you're making that traffic count by capturing it in some form so that you can develop a connection with the people and finally market you music to them again and again again along the line.

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How to Promote Your Band Or Music on Twitter

Twitter is like every other social media site in that it could be a amazing way to push traffic to your music. However if you are just sending that traffic to your internet site in the hopes that somebody will see how great you are and purchase your album you are highly likely going to be pretty dejected.

If you are planning on ditching MySpace and using Twitter to promote your band or music, then i recommend you set up a squeeze page and make sure you are capturing the contact information of those potential fans so you can market your music later and, with a little luck, actually sell some albums.

The basic way that I use Twitter to sell albums and promote my music is by including my URL to my squeeze page in my profile. I use a twitter bot to grow my follow count by a couple of hundred everyday a good proportion of these people wind up clicking on my URL and ultimately signing up for my contact list. Once there, they are in my sales funnel and in time, the album sales start rolling in.

It is also necessary to communicate with the individuals that are following you and to a certain amount, the more posts you make the more people are apt to check out your profile and obviously your URL. In the end it's like anything, the more you put in to it the more that you will get out of it. But like in the early days of MySpace, I believe Twitter is a still largely unexploited traffic creating tool that is great for pushing your band or music on the internet.