Readers Respond: Which Social Networking Site Is Most Useful To You?

Responses: 11

There seems to be more social networking sites for musicians springing up every day, but which ones are worth your time? Share your success stories about promoting music on social networking sites and see what sites have turned in great results for your fellow musicians. Here are some suggestions to get you going, but feel free to share your own ideas!:

• MySpace
• Twitter
• ReverbNation

Good for promoting.

My top 3 for active promotion are Myspace, Reverbnation, and Ourstage. My preference, Reverbnation. You interact with everyone freely, and is very informative on the band. It even has spaces for other websites. Definitely worth the time and effort.

—Guest Meg Ertzberger

isound

is also a good site to promote your music on, i signed up yesterday and have 4 fans already :D

—Guest Andy Dowdeswell

Give OurStage.com a chance

I have a MySpace site .It's great for the ego but as far as promo value not so much. So I Get me an OurStage page and have found the right people to help promote my music and It's a lot more interactive people really talk to each other there. Check it out.

—Guest Jeffry

Garageband.com

Its not fantastic for promotion gigs but if you want your track heard, reviewed, ranked and get actual feedback on the song and production quality this is great! You must be prepared to take the negative with the positive and if you do get bad reviews its not the end of the world considering they're revewed by other users. Also you might get ranked lower for production quality which is no reflection on you as an artist. You can get cool awards like track of the week which you can copy and paste your award badge on stuff like myspace etc.

—Guest Kielty

Reverbnation

I find it hard to believe no one picked Reverbnation. That site does everything but perform the concert for you! MySpace, FaceBook, and Twitter should all be used and Reverbnation lets you connect to and interact with all three, plus some!

—Guest Wicked D

MySpace

I like MySpace for networking. It allows my to collect contacts and be as specific as I like as far as location and anything else I deem important. When its time for me to do a gig I can easily post a bulletin and send emails to all or part of my contact list. Even if just one extra person shows up it's a plus....and they do! SeasideJimmy.com

—SeasideJimmy

What do you want?

Im launching a business in the next few weeks which will provide "resources and exposure for emerging musicians" the main services will be releasing compilation CDs. The website will also include a "creative community" with forums, events calendars, links to free resources and all the rest. What do you all want to make it different from other networking sites? asherc@live.com if u have any ideas.

—Guest Next Step Music

Facebook rocks

I've been using Facebook to promote myself and three other bands and have had an awesome response. The ability to create targeted ads and events is awesome. I created a new page last weekend and on monday it had 134 views. Facebook has been really valuable in getting word out.

—Guest Brad

twitter all the way

My band and I recently joined Twitter and it has been the best thing for us. We found a manager using Twitter who is helping us promote our stuff and we put up a link to our new single that got lots of listens in the first day. I think Twitter really works to build up a fanbase and is much better than Myspace.

—Guest Gerry

Thoughts on Myspace

I notice many bands spending hours trying to utilize Myspace as a resource for promoting themselves. In my opinion, Myspace is the last place to attempt to build a Fan Base if that is your absolute intention because most 'individual' user accounts block friend requests from 'band' user accounts. Myspace is excellent for building relationships with Producers, Songwriters & many other Industry Resources but simply a poor option for promoting your band. There are far more options better served to helping you promote your band.

—Guest -Mark, Heartland Universal

I Like MySpace

I can't really say anything about which sites are good for promoting music because I am not in a band. I like to find new music on MySpace though. I find new music there all the time and when I am at work I look at MySpace all the time for new music. I also find out when the bands I like already have show because I read their MySpace page so I think MySpace is the best.

—Guest Steven Bradford