Marketing Tools & Resources for Promoting Yourself
BOMAR MUSIC Management Group has included a powerful compilation of resources for you to utilize in maximizing your marketing efforts to get more exposure within video, distribution, retail, websites, agencies, and promotional platforms.
Social Network Marketing Tools - Utilize these sites designed specifically for the music business as well as social media platforms to maximize your exposure.
Video Marketing Tools - YouTube is not the only video hosting site on the web. Utilize other video hosting sites to maximize your exposure.
Retail, Distribution & Promotional Tools - Utilize other online platforms geared for distribution, retail, and promotional avenues which will increase your fanbase and open more opportunities in attracting Radio, A&R, Managers, etc. in the music/entertainment industry.
Websites & Blogging Tools - You don't have to be a programmer to build a professional looking website. Take advantage of the latest in technology online website and blogging tools.
Music, Business, & Trade Associations - Here you will find trade associations utilized in the music/entertainment industry. They provide services involved in social, legal, and commercial aspect within the music/entertainment business.
PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Each artist has a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists have the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans can also create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they like.
SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare.
MediaFunnel is the easy to use, enterprise social media management platform that will allow you to involve more employees in promoting and protecting your brand.
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Discover: Monitor for mentions of your brand and other keywords
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Engage: Converse with your audience
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Support: Assign & manage customer requests
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Market: Drive more visitors to your landing pages and your blog
HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audiences, and distribute targeted messages using HootSuite’s unique social media dashboard. Streamline team workflow with scheduling and assignment tools and reach audiences with geo-targeting functionality. Invite multiple collaborators to manage social networks securely, plus provide custom reports using the comprehensive social analytics tools for measurement.
Konect.me allows you to connect your pictures from Instagram, Tweets from Twitter, music from SoundCloud, videos from YouTube and status updates from Facebook all together as friends and neighbors in one sexy profile. Konect one, two or all of your social accounts to create your Konect.me profile that combines all your tweets, status updates, photos, videos and audio into one giant mashup.
Audimated helps artists and fans share, discover and monetize music. For the first time, a music community gives Fans the ability to make money sharing their favorite independent content, and Artists the tools they need to make money in a music career.
ShoutOmatic
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ShoutOmatic is a “Voice” overlay technology that allows your actual Voice to be heard across all social networks, web sites and blogs.
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ShoutOmatic also brings offline items to life with “Voice Messaging”: ads, business cards, posters, billboards, product packaging, POP Displays, Bobble-heads, apparel, merchandise, etc
Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2012, Myspace had 25 million unique U.S. visitors. ...
FanBridge is a leading Fan Audience CRM platform, currently used to manage fan acquisition, retention, and engagement for more than 600 million fan relationships. Clients include the world's largest brands, premium content producers, influencers from music, sports, film, television, comedy and publishing, and YouTube channel producers - all of whom use FanBridge to grow and profit from building direct relationships with audiences across email, social media, mobile and high engagement destinations.
ReverbNation provides over 3.31 million music industry professionals — artists, managers, labels, venues, festivals/events — with powerful, easy-to-use technology to promote and prosper online. Our wide array of distribution and promotional solutions provide the hands-on tools and actionable insights that allow musicians and industry professionals to reach their goals in an increasingly complex music world. We operate worldwide with customers on every continent. In fact, over 30 million visitors come to reverbnation.com every month.
Foursquare is a free app that helps you and your friends make the most of where you are. When you're out and about, use Foursquare to share and save the places you visit. And, when you're looking for inspiration for what to do next, we'll give you personalized recommendations and deals based on where you, your friends, and people with your tastes have been.
Last.fm is a music recommendation service. You use Last.fm by signing up and downloading. The scrobbler, which helps you discover more music based on the songs you play.
BandPage allows you upload your profile, bio, pictures, videos, tracks and tour dates. And we update that information across the web - Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, VEVO, Xbox Music, your website, Pandora, WordPress and more - to help you grow your fanbase and increase revenue.
Ning makes it easy to launch your own social network in a matter of minutes.We give you the tools and expertise to nurture and engage your own community on the largest, most scalable, and integrated social platform of its kind. Whether you're building a new site, looking to integrate community into your existing site, or re-launching your current site, Ning can handle it.
BuzzNet is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network, owned by Buzz Media. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a platform for members to share content based on their personal interests. ...
Taltopia is an online artistic community which connects aspiring artists with fans and talent industry professionals. It was launched in Los Angeles, California on February 28, 2008 by Allen Vartazarian, a UC Berkeley graduate, and Anthony Zanontian, a UC San Diego graduate.
LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 225 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories.
PitchMyStuff is home to thousands of fans and artists worldwide. You can browse music find collaborations and sell your music.
Google+ is a social networking and identity service that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances the many online properties.
TweetDeck allows you to monitor multiple timelines in one easy interface. Schedule tweets to be posted in the future. Turn on alerts to keep up with emerging information. Filter searches based on criteria like engagement, users, and content type.
MailChimp is an email marketing service provider, founded in 2001. It has 3.5 million users that collectively send over 4 billion emails a month through the service. It is a web-based application, although data can be downloaded and for some features there is an offline application.
Tweet For A Track lets you easily trade a mp3 for a tweet or facebook post from your fans.