Myspace aquires iLike

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Be sure to enter your band in our Socially Awesome Band of the Week contest and thanks for visiting!Woke up to this message from iLike in my inbox this morning.

We wanted our artist community to be among the very first to hear [...]

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Twitter is a powerful tool for promoting your music online

I was cruising through some of Jimmy Shelter’s posts this morning. If you haven’t been to Jimmy’s blog recently, you should check it out. He has a great collection of resources for do-it-yourself indie music marketing.

In his Band Promotion Links IV post, Jimmy links to a really important article by Ariel Hyatt posted at musicthinktank.com (check it out). Ariel talks about Twitter, and how it’s a great tool to use for reaching new fans and making industry contacts.

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What People Want to Read About Your Band

Sitting down to write those first mind-racking band descriptions and introductions on your profile can be very hard. It involves a great deal of thinking, planning, and usually a lot of collaboration with the rest of the band, your friends and family members for ideas and the “right” thing to say. But, rather than worry excessively about what you want to say, you should consider what people want to read about your band.

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Using Twitter to Quickly and Easily Build a Devoted MySpace Audience

Twitter is one of those micro niche tools that has developed in the last few years to take advantage of the various different opportunities available through Web 2.0 technologies. Basically, the service allows you to post a short, 140-character line about whatever it is you are doing at any given time. You can upload them directly to the website or from a cell phone. It is basically a take on the status messages so many people use on their social networking profiles as applied to the Internet at large.

Popularity: 24% [?]