SubmitHub Review: How I Got Featured on Blogs and Spotify Playlists

As an indie musician, you’re constantly looking for new ways to get your music out there.

But you don’t want to hire an expensive PR agency.

And you want real fans to connect with your music, not fake streams.

Enter SubmitHub.

I’ve been using this platform to promote my music for a while with some success.

So in this SubmitHub review, I’ll share my experience and give you a basic intro.

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How to Leverage Word-of-Mouth Advertising for Your Music

As a musician, it’s important to promote your music in multiple ways. Many musicians focus on self-promotion through advertisements, appearances, and meeting fans.

 

Although this method produces an increase in sales, there is a strategy you may be missing known as word-of-mouth advertising. To learn more about this strategy and ways to incorporate it into your next campaign, read on.

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Five Ways To Promote Your Music As An Independent Singer-Songwriter

Sometimes it’s hard for an independent singer-songwriter to change gears from creation to promotion and figure out where to start promoting their new release, some of these examples may be obvious but I hope they help! Here are some ways I’ve been promoting my new EP “Life Gets Strange”.

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9 Music Marketing Strategies That No Longer Work In 2020

Once you get the hang of it, marketing can be a lot of fun.

After all, marketing is tied directly the results you want as a musician – ticket sales, streams, merch sales, contest votes and so on.

But there are marketing strategies that don’t work, especially now that search engines and social media platforms have had time to evolve and adapt their algorithms.

So, we need to ensure we’re going about this the right way. Here are nine music marketing strategies that no longer work in 2020.

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How Event Planners Make Music Concerts Possible

An article about the importance of event planning

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5 Tips For Music Promotion On Soundcloud

If you are not exploring SoundCloud as part of your strategy to promote your music, then you should have a rethink. SoundCloud is a community of music lovers and also an amazing location for music promotion. SoundCloud is known for its ability to help upcoming artist gain their first audience, it is a place where you share tracks and interact with fellow music lovers. 

The major challenge about this platform is that it has almost 20 million music creators on the platform, hence getting upfront or standing out requires hard work. Don’t feel discourage thousands of people are still making it big on the platform every day. This article presents good tips to improve your profile on SoundCloud.

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Online Music Marketing | Tips To Promote Your Songs On Google

The internet is the biggest marketplace there is. However, harnessing it potentials involves understanding how search engines work. Online marketing has evolved and is used as a propeller to business development and advertising. These tips suggested by Noria - a digital agency in Thailand will help you reach your goals. It touches on word structure, frequency, the right platform and customised words. Google is the biggest search engine globally, thanks to its content promotion and complimentary services. If you need your song to reach out to more people, utilise these marketing tips to the fullest. 

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How To Find The Right PR Firm As A Musician

Odds are you’ve just released a new album or single and you’re thinking about the best way to get it out there, engage your fans, and make the largest impact possible. If that’s the case, it’s time to consider finding a PR firm to help you out.

Good thinking—you’re already a step ahead of the rest by knowing that simply releasing and hoping your fans notice is not a good strategy.

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How To Get Your Music To Stand Out From The Crowd

Today, it seems like technology and the internet have drained all of the uniqueness of the music industry. All you need is a computer and a few sound clips to churn out song after song. They don’t even need to be good sound clips.

 

Anyone can create music. However, when everyone with a guitar and a YouTube channel fancies themselves a musician, it can be hard to set yourself apart. Here are a few tricks to help you stand out and succeed in this competitive industry.

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How To Promote Your Music And Grow Your Fan Base

You are fond of music and want to make your name in the music business. That’s a good thing, but in today’s music industry, talent and uniqueness alone is not enough to reach on the top. If you want to stand out from the crowd and gain recognition, you have to figure out your strengths. Many aspiring musicians are finding it hard to gain name recognition and fame in music industry. You cannot get them only on the basis of talent and uniqueness. You need to express your skills and target the right audience.

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Submit Hub - A Scam

I’m part of a band that has had its fair share of false-starts over the years. Preparing for these false starts, I’ve repeatedly put together lists of potential blogs to pitch our music to when we’re building up to a release. To do this, I head over to The Hype Machine, head to the indexed sites, filter what’s relevant to my music, and then take down the details from the list I’m presented with. I’ll generally head to each blog, look up their submission guidelines, and make a couple of notes to personalise my emails to them, where possible. A couple of years ago, the vast majority of the blogs suggested the same – a variation on sending an email with a link to stream, be it via your own email or a web form. Since then, there has been an increasing trend towards using a service called Submit Hub.

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Email Lists for Musicians – Where The Heck To Start!

Did you know that email marketing is the top way to get people to move from being fans to fans who actually buy your music? 

It’s true!

Email marketing has come a long way since the early days of AOL and it is the perfect things for musicians to incorporate into their music strategy. Emails can help you build deep relationships between you and your fans. They can help you launch a new album with massive sales. And they don’t have to be a standard newsletter of tour dates. 

So how the heck do you start if you’ve never thought about having one before? 

Let’s chat about where to start with email marketing, how to get people to sign up, and what to send those new fans.

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Marketing For Musicians: 6 Essential Tools

This guest post by Patrick McGuire originally appeared on the Bandzoogle Blog

If you’re a serious musician, I don’t need to tell you how tough it is to cut through the literal and symbolic noise to find and reach audiences. Yes, creating great music should always be at the top of your list of priorities, but figuring out how to get that music in front of listeners is a difficult task you’ll have to think about if you want to sustain a career over the long-term.

Don’t have a clue how to market your music? Today, we’re highlighting 6 tools to help you get started:

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4 Ways To Draw More Denizens To Your Venue

Running a music venue can be a blast. It can also sometimes be rather anxiety-inducing. Lack of guests can make owners and operators feel nervous. If you’re looking to bring in more guests to your venue, there are several approaches you can test out confidently and easily. Get ready to welcome a hopping and lively venue to the world.

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