Infinite Fan Base

“What’s the one thing I can do to engage my fans?”
This is a common question. People want to simplify their life and make it easy on themselves. What’s the one thing I should focus on to keep getting new fans? You are probably wondering the same thing. Well, there isn’t one single thing, there are two: [...]

There are two versions of this post. This is the long one. Here’s the short one.
InfiniteFanBase ::  Fan Explosion Group
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How 2 simple conversations led to a fan explosion…
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The problem? Too much info, not enough time…
Musicians and artists are flooded by information overload. There’s some new, hip website occurring in the music industry everyday. New marketing [...]

There are two versions of this post. This is the short one. Here’s the long version.
InfiniteFanBase ::  Fan Explosion Group
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How to have a fan explosion…
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What is this?
I’m going to create a mastermind group consisting of 10-15 artists/bands/musicians. The idea is to create a special group where we can all share our marketing success stories and give feedback [...]

Turning on your auto-follow is a way to automatically follow people who follow you. This is one of the ways to incorporate automation into your Twitter marketing. If you don’t enable the auto-follow, then you’ll have to manually follow people by hand.
To turn on auto-follow, you’ll need to use an external service, like Twollo or [...]

Don’t be afraid to go find people you admire and follow them.
Go find your favorite bands and artists and follow their Tweets.

You’ll see why in the next tip, but it’s important for you to seperate out the band identity from the individual.
Having multiple accounts allows you to not worry about things like changing band members and personal comments versus band comments
Also, if each of your band mates builds up a following, you have the potential for [...]

This is about start-ups, but the lessons for artists and musicians are the same. Keep going. Don’t give up.
Link: The Difficulty in Identifying Your “Big Break”

Here’s a story to a few more success stories using unconvential methods. You struggling musicians out there take note: You can make it. Just stay at and don’t be afraid to try new things.
Link:  Readers as patrons in the digital age

It’s very easy to want to start promoting yourself as soon as you get on Twitter.
Hey!! – Buy my CD!
Hey!! – Come to my show!
Hey!! – Buy a t-shirt!
When you start this type of conversation, you immediately turn off your crowd. There are ways to sell stuff (which we’ll discuss later), but this direct method [...]

After much research and discussion, it’s obvious there is a wide discrepancy in regards to the use of Twitter. Some have good ideas, some don’t. Anyway, if this many people are having problems, then there are likely many more.
I’m going to post 50 Twitter tips for musicians in regards to promotion and finding fans. I’ll [...]