What social media to use for my band.?

[armedflamedragon]

So me and my friends have a band and now that we have all the content we want we feel like its time to mass distribute our stuff out there through social media. It's just we are confused with what social media we should use as aband and which ones should be personal. The obvious ones are Facebook, twitter, and YouTube which should all be personal and band. The ones I'm confused about are websites like Instagram, tumblr, Pinterest and Flickr - should we use these social media sites as just for our personal uses or should we have a band account on those websites also? Are stuff like tumblr Pinterest, Flickr and Instagram suited for bands or are they more for the account to be personal because if its a band then we all have access to the account or are all admins or whatever.

[Gianna Askldjasd]

I think you should use them all.

Facebook - make a "like" page and update often. Promote it on other sites.

Twitter - type #followback or #f4f in the search bar. Follow people who say they will follow back to get followers. Update often.

YouTube - post videos of you playing live. Update at least once a month (or do a daily/weekly blog). Give some free music away by uploading a video of it and giving a link to a free download of it in the description (upload music on megaupload or something)

Tumblr - Great way to blog and promote. Tag your posts a lot and follow people who follow back. Update often.

Instagram - Only make if you take a lot of pictures relating to your band OR if you're well known.

Flickr - Use it to upload live pictures

Not sure about Pinterest.

I suggest Reddit sometimes. A lot of good unknown bands become known from it.

Hope that helps

[Social]

Social media is free and it has a super far reach as well as a huge impact on how well you show up in google and other search engine searches. get on every social media platform there is out there even the less known ones like fark or high5.

one other tip id give is to have the same branding across all your sites so use this tool http://namechk.com/ basically say your bands name is the dudlestrummers. you want that name across all social networks the same you dont want to be "dudlestrummers" on twitter but dudlestrummers123 on youtube. You wnat consistant branding across all platforms.

alsop you may want to consider buying likes, favs, views, followers, subscribers, etc. lady gaga, an dmany other musicians as well as politicians like mitt romney have done it to give your profile and your band an artificial boost.