MySpace for musicians : [the comprehensive guide to marketing your music online

MySpace is one of the most popular websites on the Internet today, with millions of pages of user-generated content. This makes MySpace an ideal tool for musicians interested in promoting their music to the widest possible audience. Many acts have gone from the garage to a recording contract by using MySpace as their launching pad. MySpace for Musicians is for every band, soloist, side musician, record label, publisher, music manager, and entertainment-affiliated company who wants to use MySpace to its fullest potential. It teaches musicians how to design a MySpace page optimized for music promotion and distribution and how to best use MySpace to effectively market music. It includes expert advice on how to market oneself to the MySpace community and how to best position and advertise MySpace pages in the real world. The book caters to musicians who are unfamiliar with the network, as well as musicians who already have a MySpace page but who want to learn how to make better use of it. This is the most comprehensive book on how musicians can maximize the most popular and successful band promotion site! With over 85 million users, and adding an estimated 270,000 each day, MySpace is one of the most popular destinations on the Internet. As such, it's an ideal tool for musicians interested in promoting their music to the widest possible audience. There are literally hundreds of acts that have gone from the garage to radio airplay to a major recording contract by using Myspace as their launching pad. This book teaches musicians how to design a MySpace page optimized for music distribution and promotion, with exoert advice on which MySpace communities to join, how to best position and advertise MySpace pages, and how to best use MySpace to effectively market music. MySpace for Musicians caters to both musicians who are unfamiliar with the network, as well as musicians who already have a MySpace page but want to learn how to make better use of it. This is the one and only book on how musicians can maximize the most popular and successful band promotion site!