With the growing use of social networking, Internet marking for unsigned bands and musicians has taken a whole new approach. The use of social networks along with some clever Internet promotion can bring a whole wave of new followers and fans to your music.

First steps in social networking promotion is to make both a Facebook and Twitter page. Also, make a Facebook fan page that people can 'like'. Connect all these up along with your Myspace Music page and you have instantly formed the foundations of a decent marketing platform.

Theres more however to just creating these pages, you must add friends, share links wherever you can. Place the links on your website. Ask people to 'Tweet' and more.

The above are the basics but here are a few more 'advanced' tips you can try to gain many more hits.

1) Write articles and stories about your band and submit to free article directories. Include links back to your music and material. This will gain fast and lasting results in Google search. Use press release websites to announce news (most are free)

Popuar article directories include E-Zine or Go-Articles. Write about your band or material and link back to your MySpace Music profile.

2) Check out www.fiverr.com. Here you can purchase mass Tweets or Facebook group posts to tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. All for a small fee of five dollars - Very well worth the money! There are also many more interesting advertising offers which could help any unsigned artist, so take some time to browse through.

3) Create viral marketing products, pictures, songs or anything to get the attention of just about anyone. Create funny or unusual advertising means (something that people talk about) Anything that someone would send another with your brand on.

4) You can also use www.musictalkers.com to distribute news and get massive Internet exposure free!

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