𝟭. 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮: You Need To Start Building Your Social Media Presence. Create a facebook fan page invite friends to like it, post only unique and worthy content about your art only, share your event dates, share a photo, or post a short teaser video about your experience in the studio. Just make sure the page is active.
Also create social media handles for twitter and Instagram etc.
As an upcoming artist you can follow people so they could follow you, you can even beg people to follow you. You need fans to view and share your art.
𝟮. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: As an upcoming Artist, you need audience, forget about the money yet, focus on building your fan base, they are the money, perform for free, beg for shows, seize your moment, prove to people that you are good. While performing you would meet new people who would also like to sponsor you art because of how good you are and also new fans.
Consider concerts as means of promoting your music.
𝟯. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗗𝗝𝘀, 𝗠𝗖𝘀, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘁𝗰: Building a good relationship matters.
As An artist, you know what you want, at this upcoming stage, you need to create a good rapport with people that matters, the good news is that when you need their assistance or help, they could do it for you for free or even less than their standard price. You would be favored by this people according to your relationship with them.
𝟰. 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀: You will gain more popularity and your songs will reach a wide audience when you offer your songs for free downloads.
People generally love free music downloads, so if you can upload your songs to music sites such as our blog (www.smrecords.com.ng), Audiomack, Reverbnation, Soundcloud etc., you can promote your download links to your fans on the social networking websites.
For you to keep your songs in circulation, ask your fans to share the links with their friends.
𝟱. 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀: Consider collaboration as a powerful tool for your music promotion. It is one of the fastest ways to promote your music and grow your fanbase because you will have the opportunity to get your music in front of a new group of people.
