Promote Your Band On Facebook

Now when it comes to networking on Facebook things aren’t much different than Myspace. You are going to want to choose who you target and let them know who you are and why they should take the time to listen to you. There are a few ways you can get your name out there on Facebook.

Fan Page – Fan pages are great because it lets people know how many other people are really into your music. Again, the higher your numbers the more likely the person is going to check you out. You are definitely going to want to add a link to your Myspace page on your fan page. You’ll also want to add apps to your fan page like My Band by Reverbnation. You must join Reverbnation to use them, it is free. The My Band app allows you to upload songs and put a “join band’s mailing list” on your fan page. The Mailing List is a great tool I will talk about later. Now I’d definitely say that it is a lot harder to get a fan on Facebook than it is to get a friend on Myspace so I’d suggest what my band has done. Create a personal profile for your band.

Profile – With a band profile you add friends like you do with myspace which makes it much easier to grow your network. I’d grow my network for our profile and send people messages with a link to my fan page asking them to join. Sure enough some people did, and they listened to us and loved us. You can also add the My Band Reverbnation app to your bands (and your band members personal) profiles. Always keep your status up to date and let everyone know what is going on with your band and what you are currently working on. Participating in groups and getting social will drive more traffic to your profile and fan page.

Events – Creating a Facebook event for your shows is a must because it will be the only way that the majority of your friends and fans will know you have a show going on. This is also another reason why you are going to want to target friends/fans who live somewhat close to you (where you play most of your shows). If your band isn’t already huge then fans who live in the city of the venues you play at are going to be more valuble to you than a fan half way across the world. Get your bands friend list full of potential fans who live close to you, then let them know you have a fan page. Everytime you have an event make your fan page the host of it, so you can easily invite all of the members of your page. As your fan page grows, so does the number of people you bring to your shows (confirmed guests).

The Facebook email list invite trick – Now this trick is great for getting a ton of friends on your bands profile page, but like adder demon there is no way of targeting who adds you.

This trick is simple. I’d suggest making a separate email for your bands facebook account that you don’t really care about since your email address will be posted on groups discussion boards and could get into the hands of spammers. So all you have to do is search facebook groups for something like “add lots of friends fast” or “mass email list” and find groups that are made just for growing your network. Now I’d say most of these groups have a topic called email list on their discussion board. Click on it and you will see a list of emails that progressively gets bigger. What you are going to do is go to the last page of the topic (where the most emails will be) and copy the whole list. Now in the comment box paste the list, add your email and post your comment.

Now go to friends at the top of your page beside your inbox link and hover the mouse over it and click invite friends. Paste the list you got from the group and invite them to join facebook. Since they are already members Facebook sends a friend request to them and since they put their email up willingly on a friend adding group they are going to accept. You are also going to get a bunch of requests coming in because everyone after you who does the same copy/paste invite trick is going to copy the list with your email in it. And since you are already a member of facebook, you are going to get a friend request from them.

Facebook also has a friend adder similar to Adder Demon. You can check it out here.

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