James Social Media Tips

Step 1: Produce and Post High-Quality, Well-Presented Tracks. This is what SoundCloud is about—your material must be original, innovative and high-quality. The better it is, the more follows, comments and reposts you will get. Remember to tag your material comprehensively: this means genre, subgenre, influences and even the particular instruments and technologies that you used, especially if it’s something iconic like a TR-808 or a TB-303. Give your tracks compelling titles, and include details.  Music Think Tank emphasizes that people love to take a look at ‘New’ tracks that offer a ‘Free Download’. Create quality images for your account and music releases, in line with the standard of your music—this may seem shallow, but it’s how the modern industry works. If you want to keep costs low ($5), you can get a great-looking logo from one of the designers working on Fiverr, or, if it suits, try using some beautiful creative commons images. Step  2: Do...

1. Add Them All! Out of the 5 tips,s this one is by far the most important – adding people! As soon as I started adding people on my Soundcloud I instantly gained fans, met fellow musicians, got my music shared etc. The trick is not to add them randomly but in trying to add musicians with apparent similar tastes. If you do Dubstep adds people that make it and so on. The same as producing with VSTs. I often go to the VST company playlists I use and, besides adding them, I also add some of the people that added them. This way I will make sure that they all like and make the same music genre that I do and potentially like my work. One thing that I have recently started doing is to message, through the Soundcloud email, people that share a lot of music – referred to “Soundcloud & Youtube promoters”. These people usually have a fan base and they are often looking for new musicians to share their music. This way you will be able to reach their fan base and bring it to ...