How to Self Promote Your Music

Unless you have major label money behind you, the ability to self promote your music is one of the most important skills you can have. When you don't have money to hire PR people to run media campaigns for you, it is up to you to make sure people know about the music you are making. Getting started can be a little overwhelming, however. These steps will help you start out on the right foot, to make sure all of the right people are standing up and taking notice of you.

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10 Great Places to Promote Your Music Online

It’s no earth-shattering news that the internet has basically changed the music industry for good. Technologies like file sharing, social media and eCommerce are giving artists more opportunities to expose their music to larger audiences and increase their fan base . But with so many websites and communities available, choosing the right online venues to promote your music on can be challenging. To help you make good choices, we put together a list of 10 great places to promote your music online today. It reviews the most popular, most effective online hangouts you should join (do let us know if we missed something!).

Wix

First things first, any serious musician needs a website where they can show off their art. Like the album art of days gone by, websites are the first place that your fans turn to to get to know more about your music, your art and your personal style. The only website builder designed with musicians in mind, Wix offers a variety of fully customizable free website templates that allow you to show off who you are and what you’re all about. Wix also makes sharing your music incredibly simple with fully integrated music streaming apps, that put the music sharing services you already use on the forefront of your own site.