Where most articles go wrong with any kind of MySpace tips is that they fail to mention that there are many different accounts that you can join. Two of them are a musician account and a user account. If you are a musician, you need the musician account. It might sound smart, but if not, you don’t have access to 3 additional MP3s to display … which is a lot.
Anyway. Let’s continue with these MySpace tips:
MySpace Tips: 1. If you use games, flashy things and large files, it will turn people away, mainly due to the slow loading time of MySpace. If you have to use graphics, don’t let MySpace host them for you, upload them using your own bandwidth this way, images and larger files will load a bit faster.
Remember these few words for any site:
Short, clean, clear
See if you can come up with an identity for your site, certain colors, etc. The best sites are the ones where you can easily navigate and find what you want quickly. To get the friend, it must be clear as day for them to sign up.
MySpace Tips: 2. How many people are registered on MySpace? 106 million … so will they become your friends? It is not the answer and the main reason is that not everyone likes your music. So we have to find
Like-minded friends and downloaders
To do this, MySpace has provided us with some tools. The first is the search engine. Click on the drop-down bar to reveal: blogs, musical interest, etc. You can then search for artists similar to you.
If you look below, affiliation for networking allows you to get in touch with record companies and people in the industry (make sure the “field” is in music).
MySpace Tips: 3. To get more friends, go to a similar genre artist, find your friend comment list, and then click see all. Now if your initial search was correct, then these like-minded friends could easily like your music. Also, these friends are active spacers and also fans of the artist (most recent comments are at the top of the page). Just be sure to contact the friend with the most responsible comments.
MySpace Tips: 4. Sometimes even though you don’t want a friend who is 3000 miles away, especially if you want to play. By doing a general search, you can find people who are close to your hometown by doing a zip search or a county search. This has great possibilities, as when you start to play, these people are more likely to come to your place.
Also increase your zip search for the surrounding areas. When you have a gig ready, post it to your forum a month before, a week, and then a day … just to give everyone plenty of time.
MySpace Tips: 5 MySpace has grown thanks to the interaction between friends, a kind of pimp blog. So we must also interact. This is the part that takes a long time and is also the best way to network. What you need to do is go through your friends’ home pages and leave a comment by clicking the Add Comment link at the bottom of the page.
Now, as we have seen with the weapon of sending a message, adding a comment can be done right or wrong.
Wrong way (but you see this 80% of the time … it doesn’t work!)
1. = “you are rock”!
2. = “see my music at http://www.myspace.com/artist”
Right way
Wow, what a great melody [name] it is. I specifically like the middle part with the drum solo. Also, where did you get that great experience from?