Comments on: What websites should I be on? (part 3)

By: How to promote your night/gig/event online | Chris Unitt

How to promote your night/gig/event online | Chris Unitt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:42:03 +0000

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By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:56:48 +0000

A way round the passport issue is to sync up your ilike.com profile to your facebook page, you can load tracks up to your ilike profile without so much as a bus pass and get them to appear on your Facebook page.
If you don’t have a profile on Ilike, chances are you actually do but didn’t even know! You can claim your profile as your own at any time.

Facebook’s music pages seem a little ‘cold’ and don’t seem to gander as much traffic as ‘groups’ in many cases.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:09:37 +0000

I’ve got a facebook music page, but didn’t send them my details – I just used the Reverb Nation widgets to add music to my page, and youtube for video… easy enough to do -

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Lawson/13831895413 – that’s my page :)

By: Fmt

Fmt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:07:07 +0000

I’ve just started dealing with Facebook and there’s a big red flag here – What is the deal with them requiring a passport or driver’s license to upload music to my musicians page? Is this new? Has anyone even done this? Do people just open a personal page and use it as their biz site? Faxing them a copy of my ID is just not something I’m willing to do and I believe they are stepping over the line in requiring this.

By: Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:04:57 +0000

Though I agree it’s good to have one, I remain unconvinced that FB pages are really all that useful for band promotion — though I agree with the poster above that the events pages have great potential. I am just not sure that explicit promotion fits as well within the practices of FB users who are mostly there to hang out with their peers rather than seeking out music. My take is that it’s probably a better investment to put your energy into something that can be posted on multiple sites — by fans as well as bands — like Last.fm playlists, YouTube video playlists, Reverbnation widgets, etc rather than trying to recreate a strong presence in every site.

That said, I would love to hear stories of bands who have been able to use FB pages effectively.

By: Matt @ Kurb

Matt @ Kurb — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:46:06 +0000

I dunno, all I’m saying is Facebook didn’t make no Tila Tequilas or no Jeffrey Starrs. I don’t see Facebook as a site for music and musicians “instead of” a Myspace.

The nuances of the platform just don’t favour artist promotion as myspace did – just doesn’t frame the fan interactions in the same way, and forget the serps (search engine results). I do find promotion there a little bit like work, except obviously you can set up a lot of auto updates from your blog and such so it doesn’t need much maintenance.

Otherwise the groups section i find is a good place to start laying bait.

For networking I’m sure it’s great but you don’t break a new band networking on facebook. If you’re more focused on a short term goal such as getting more people to your next gig, I’ve seen the most effective stuff done on Facebook around events.

From what I understand the advertising platform is not that saturated so a campaign on Facebook could be worth a look if you can make a budget.

By: Clint

Clint — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:11:06 +0000

I was all about this whole Facebook Pages thing.. until I went to use their music player.

I have to “verify my account” by uploading a photo of my drivers license or passport to post a song?…..

Um. giving my passport to facebook….. um… NO!

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:06:03 +0000

Is it preferable to be on one social networking site over another? Will just having and remaining actively involved with one suffice? If used to their potential, I can see adding more social sites as quite time-consuming.

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By: Atul Rana

Atul Rana — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:12:42 +0000

Actually I started using Facebook pretty much from it’s outset when it was made global in 2006 to promote my band. The first thing I set up was a Fanclub which grew quite fast to start off with. After that I used the Fanclub to set up events and discussions etc.,

But the now new Facebook page is a lot more powerful and business like to use if needed.

To be honest I think their iLike application is the best for all this and a more powerful viral tool. Facebook is about relationships with people…and in my case this mean that my band’s music appears on my profile. Because of this I can start dedicating songs to others and slowly a viral effect can start of this. A combination of all three of these on Facebook has worked for me best.

Atul from DonkeyBox
http://www.donkeybox.co.uk