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 of yelling isn’t it.

Start out by talking with others and just having conversations. People like people who are nice.

I translate that into musician speak: Just be cool, man.