James Social Media Tips

1. Create a new Profile Picture for Each Album. Your profile picture is a very important piece of information which is presented to everyone who finds you on SoundCloud. To keep interest in your account high, and to keep your band on ‘brand’, you need to change out your profile picture when you move on to a new project or album. You may think that an image, whose ideal size is only 300 x 300 pixels, doesn’t matter for getting plays. You’d be wrong to think that. You can change out this image to look active after time away, bringing people back to your account who have been away. If it’s your first profile photo, make sure it’s professional enough to warrant attention. 2. Use Your Header Image to Highlight Recent Releases. The header image is displayed at the top of your page. Using this huge digital space to push your latest album, rather than just being a bland photo of your band or yourself. With new tracks from the album right there on his SoundCloud account...

1. Lockdown You Repost Game with SC Planner. The SoundCloud game is all about reposts. On SoundCloud, a “repost” is the same action as an upload in the feed so you want to be sure to be getting as many reposts as you can in front of the audiences you want to reach. Some repost groups exist on places like Facebook, or some closed groups will go as far to create a shared calendar in which everyone will alternate reposting each others content in order to keep play counts up and the music fresh. The ultimate tool for scheduling reposts is SCPlanner. Here you can schedule out an entire month’s worth of reposts with you and your friends. It also has a Trade Hub in which you can schedule and share reposts with people in the community you likely don’t know to boost exposure. The key, however, is to not go repost crazy as to dilute your audience, you want to be sure to be making repost trades with like-minded collective, label, and artist channels. 2. Find Active Youtube Chan...

1. Network with Other SoundCloud Artists. Musicians love music. You can't solely focus on your own music if you want to create exposure for your own. There are other artists out there making similar music to yours — or at least music within the same genre as yours. Find these musicians and give them props for what they're doing. By networking with others, you own music will start to get plays — even if it's just from other artists that you've connected with. As you probably know, plays beget plays on SoundCloud, so this exposure can only be good for you. So here's your game plan: - Find three or four musicians that are not that popular yet, but who play the same kind of music you enjoy. - Connect with these musicians on SoundCloud and social media. Play their music, comment on their new posts and follow their progress. - Without pushing your luck, look for opportunities to share your own music within comments or when/if someone asks you to. - Participa...