The mega website MySpace.com has become the premiere way, next to radio play and live performances for an artist to promote theito promote your music to millions of people across the Internet. Every up and coming singer, rapper, producer or record label needs to have a MySpace music page for their material. So you are moving slowly if you do not have a myspace page by now, and there for a decade behind the competition. I suggest that you go ahead and sign up now to start promoting your music. But first I must let you know what will work for your music and what will not work in reguards to being effective in your myspace marketing so that you do not waste your time and money, because you can spend a lots of time there with out serving your initial purpose.



Where the first thing that you will need to do is look for some very effective ways that you can stand out from the crowd. And the truth is that there are millions of other recording artist in this business that already have a MySpace page so it is essentially important to do something completely different in your approach to effective promotion. Having said that, the coding boys at MySpace have not made it particularly easy to do that, (it's a free service after all) and hence the slew of external companies offering free MySpace layouts. To find a layout you like, simply do a Google search for "Myspace layouts" and you will find a great deal of layouts to choose from. One site in particular that I like is www.spacedoutcodes.com When you find a layout you like, you will get some code to insert into the about me section of your profile field.

But on the down side of it all there are way too many artists spending far too much time promoting their MySpace pages and even worse the waste time typing with goupies instead, when their own artist websites are being ignored. You should expect, that the almighty MySpace might be out of business in a couple years. Most of these mega sites come and gone, especially when there are billions of dollars involved. On the other hand, the company known as Google Inc. may thrive, who knows?

But a good thing to do is to make your MySpace page personal. Talk to your fans like you know them and post comments on their pages too. If you take the time to show love to your fans, then your fans will show love back to you. Also you should try to take some time to add some very interesting personal information about your musical background, your up bringing, and the entire band if appropriate. Try to include some great photos, both professional and regular home photos, and of course allow people to download some mp3s of your music.

Now the next thing to do is to grab some new fans from MySpace. What I would suggest is that you accept all those who people who make a request to be your friend, and try to add every body. And I would even go seeking friend adds from other bands. The reason is that other bands love to listen to the competition, and you may even want to discuss joint ventures with them, but whats better than going after the bands is to go after those other bands fans instead, cause you already know that they like music. To make this happen, you will need to find artist that have the same musical style that you have.

As it can be some what overwhelming to see some stars with just about a million friends and over 10,000 song plays per day, but wouldn't it be nice to get to that place? I can't stress this point enough which is the need to get your new potential fans to come visit your own website and not your myspace page. As the more places that you are at in the Internet will draw more people to look for your myspace page.