Comments on: Twitter: WTF Do You Do With It?

By: Introduction to Music 2.0 | GrindEFX

Introduction to Music 2.0 | GrindEFX — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:25:59 +0000

[...] Introduction to Music 2.0 August 22nd, 2009 Terry Hart Leave a comment Go to comments I’m not entirely sure what people mean when they refer to “music 2.0.” I’m not entirely sure they know what it means either. Perhaps it’s just a buzzword – a way to trick people into thinking Twitter is exciting and useful. [...]

By: Build Your Own Network! | GrindEFX

Build Your Own Network! | GrindEFX — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:17:39 +0000

[...] does this mean in music terms? Sure, sign up with Twitter, Facebook and all the rest of it, make people aware that you exist. Connect with your fans, be [...]

By: Sam K

Sam K — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:29:19 +0000

Thanks for the links Jacque and Terry. I think I am starting to get it now. When promoting a business (which is what you are doing as a musician) I guess it comes down an excellant piece of PR advice I heard some time ago.

“Don’t draw attention to yourself unless you have something to sell”.

At the moment I don’t have anything to sell, I am still working on it, so it doesn’t make any sense for me to try to do anything to publicise myself until after I’ve actually released something.

I guess then it’s a matter of trying to put out new stuff as frequently as possible (I include merch and live shows in “new stuff”) so I have things to talk about.

By: Terry Hart

Terry Hart — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:24:35 +0000

@Sam K –

I know what you mean, it’s not something that comes too naturally. Twitter has just released a Twitter 101 guide for businesses, seems like there’s some really good advice and tips in there: http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/

By: Sam K

Sam K — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:39:16 +0000

Hmm… I still don’t get it, and I really want to. I am working on my first bunch of home recorded tracks and i keep hearing about what a great tool twitter is, so I really, really want to understand it and make it work for me, but I just can’t get it through my thick head WTF I am supposed to say to people.

I’m still stuck in that “Hey, I just ate breakfast!” sort of way of thinking about it. I just can’t help the feeling that using Twitter seems to be a great way to show my fans that I’m actually really boring and ordinary.

By: Jacque Lewis

Jacque Lewis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:30:30 +0000

Here’s good supporting article for this post.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/community/opinion/e3i4d0b1b4303c8399754828f55f04fa57c