How to promote music without spending lots of money!

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Same old question. What’s the best way to promote online without spending funds? How do you engage people?

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Hello @SimonG, @Efosasimon,

Always happy to share my experience with this musician community :heart_hands:

I must said, I have tried a lot with all the internet places, apps, means to distribute my music, and also reading advices. And my current conclusion is, first I wanna have fun :wink: :ok_hand:

My personal results are :

  • My distributor is now iMusician
    I have tried other ways in the past like audius, audiomack, soundcloud, and even recently bandcamp posting pre-songs, more to learn the different ways of doing. A long time ago, I have not tried because vynil, cd was too complicated, recently it seems more easy but too earlier for me

  • Youtube - if you do not make a videoclip is not so great

  • Twitter - is very tied to trends

  • Fb (now Meta) - costs much in ad not very valuable to build my audience

  • Instagram - is now my focus but take care of what you publish to it

  • Tiktok - you could have hundreds of views and suddenly 0 without knowing what’s wrong

  • Reddit - can ban easily your publication if you have not read the thread policy carefully tied to the subject and applied it

  • Snapchat - seems in regression

  • Linktr.ee - only target my Spotify

  • Paid promotion services - I never, never used it

To answer to @SimonG I created also accounts on these channels to own an official artist name windows opportunity.

I publish mainly on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer now also on Beatport but I wait since 3 weeks to have access to my Beatport artist profile to be able to customize it ; as Simon said it takes times to manage too many ways.

My artist pro hub with links to many of these :

A2D new single ECo (imusician.pro)

Currently, even I you have seen the series Playlist about Spotify history on Netflix, I must said they paid the more. This is only my personal experience of course.

Hope my answer help.

A2D

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@SimonG,

Thank you a lot for the recommended links. Now, I’ll be busy :smile:

To answer your question about linktree ; why I do not use a direct link to Spotify is more a question of spams of all kinds you received when you have link types that are searched by bots or bad guys to fool you. That’s also something a musician or a band must be prepared, a lot of garbage messages, emails, and we must be able to be as save as possible.

Have a good time with the music :headphones:

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Wow , this is truly insightful. Thanks a million. Here’s a link to my EP Chop my money, Baby (The EP)

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