Using,Twitter.com,Market,Your, DIY Using Twitter.com to Market Your Music and Attract More Sale

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In this article, I'm going to share with you a very popularSocial Networking site called Twitter.com that you can literallyspend just about 5-10 minute a day on and be able to attract avery good amount of high quality traffic in the form of fans andmusic buyers back to your website or myspace page. And its really fun.Before we begin, I want to let you know that very few people areusing this method of attracting new fans and attention to their music, why?Simply because they either A- Don't know or B- Are to lazyIn fact, if you take the steps that I give you below and apply themyou'll be way ahead of everyone else.Are you ready? Great, then lets begin!Things You'll Need to successfully use twitter:* Computer* Internet / mobile* Few seconds of timeStep 1 - SMM (social media marketing) is the latest onlinemarketing trend to hit the music industry because its an highlyprofitable and easy way to build brand recognition for you theartist.It's a also a great way to get new fans to your website, blog orMyspace page through social media like facebook, myspace, flickr,youtube, digg and the like.Social media sites are web sites where news, photos, videos and podcasts are hosted through user submission. If you've ever thought thatmarketing your music through social media is time consuming,Twitter is an exceptionStep 2 - The reason why I really like Twitter is because it isa lot easier and simpler social networking andmicro-blogging service. All you will need to do is answer thequestion, ‘what are you doing?' in less than 140 characters. Theseshort messages are called "tweets". Your tweets are immediatelydisplayed on the your profile page and instantly delivered to otherusers who are following you (i.e. your fans.)So for instance, some of your tweets may look like"I'm in the studio recording a new song for the next CD""I'm sitting at the park writing a new song""I'm at the SWSX music conference"So do you see how this works? Pretty easy right?So how do you start Tweeting?Step 3 - Sign up for a free twitter account. The most importantthing that you want to remember is to use you Artist name, BusinessNameor Real Name rather than some abstract alphanumericcombination. This will help build credibility.The next step is to change a few things in your profile,immediately. Include keywords about your music and genre, interestsand whatever you want to use twitter for. You can restrict your tweetdelivery to those in your circle, but I suggest leaving theDefault setting in place, which is "delivery to everyone".Step 4 - Click ‘find and follow' to follow people from your aol,yahoo gmail and other email contacts who are already tweeting. You canalso find people with similar interests by searching for a keywordaccording to your Genre or interest (i.e. Jaxx Music, Hip Hop,Country). Click follow, if you find any interesting.By the way, My twitter name is TyCohen ;)Step 5 - Now you are all set to send your first tweet. Type a smallmessage (max 140 characters including spaces) telling people whatyou are doing. You can send tweets through twitter website orinstant messenger or SMS from your cell-phone. You need to confirmyour cell phone number first. Do this by clicking devices.If you think it doesn't make any sense and is sheer waste of time,then you are under estimating twitter potential.Step 6 - Twitter allows you to add links in the tweets which is ahuge marketing benefit to you. You can usethis to display your own links. For ex: one of my tweets today was"Using MySpace to Make Your CD Sales Soar!Step 7 - By tweeting frequently, following and being followed, youcan grow a small community of people with similar interests and whorecognize your name and your brand!Step 8 - I downloaded a great time saver Twhirl. It is a thirdparty application for twitter. If tweeting takes around 60 seconds,Twhirl cuts down that time to below 10 seconds.Twhirl stays on the desktop (logged in). I don't need to visit thetwitter website during my hectic workday. All I do is, click the twhirlicon from the system tray and type a short "whatever I'm doing"tweet and send. Twhirl also notifies when I receive messages frommy followers or anyone that I'm following. So I don't miss a thing andall without wasting my time.You can also use twhirl to upload pictures to twitpic.com, a siteto share photos.There are many applications for twitter like twitterfeed (similarto twhirl), twittervision, which shows the geo position of the yourtwitter friends and so on.So there you go! A quick and easy way to expand your marketing tomillions of people all for free.Happy Tweeting.Your Music Business Coach!Ty Cohen