As a musician or band you need to be utilizing every opportunity to market and promote your music to potential fans on a global basis. The good thing with MySpace is it can be used as a functional music website if you don’t have your own, plus it’s free!
To upload music you will need a MySpace Music Artist Account. A standard profile page won’t allow you to upload music files. Plus you can get help online with all sorts of MySpace backgrounds, graphics, layouts and widgets to help promote you and your music.
Besides adding, music, photos and video to your MySpace profile you can also use a MySpace profile editor to change the look and feel or your profile page. You can change colours, fonts and layouts to make your profile page personalised. There are a number of free sites you can use to customise your profile. These include:
www.profilejuice.com www.myspavehun.com www.strikefile.com/myspace www.mywackospace.com www.myspace-editors.com
Most of these are straight forward to use and provide plenty of scope for creativity. Follow the onscreen instructions, choose your various preferences and once complete you then copy the final html code. Returning to your MySpace edit profile you then paste this code into your about me section.
Alternatively you can find existing profile layouts online. All you have to do is choose a layout, copy and paste the html code into your about me section and your done.
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How your MySpace page looks and how you market yourself on MySpace, what you do to follow up and how you integrate all these aspects with other targeted marketing efforts will affect your visibility to fans and help you make money from your music.
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To learn how to make your MySpace page look great and get started using this social networking site, you can watch this video and you will be up and running in no time. It is a simple step by step video and only lasts about 4 minutes. Use it as a guide while you sort out your MySpace profile.
