Get more fans to your show!

I love learning from people who have tried an approach and then taken the time to write down what they've learned from that real experience.

That's exactly what Seth Jackson does here in his free eBook, 'Get more fans to your shows'.

And it's great.

Seth says:

In the book, I discuss how to get your shows listed everywhere, how to use social media to really engage your fans, and how to attract the media’s attention.

Also included:

• Managing your time to handle social media
• How to use Twitter and blogs to get more attention from the tastemakers
• How to squeeze every opportunity from your current shows
• Simple strategies to engage with your current fans and gain more.
• How to know what will make a show successful for both yourself and the club.

It's a no-brainer - go and get it. Every artist will learn something.

Use Songkick - unless you're a dumbass

I thought I'd written about Songkick before, but it seems not!

Below there are links to two articles about Songkick, which you can read for fun. It's an interesting company full of people who love music and it's destined for big things.

But, as a musician, what you need to know is that Songkick is becoming the leader for live music tracking.

As an artist, you can use the data that they track to automatically update your gig listings on your site, Facebook and various other sites.

And you don't even have to create an artist profile to do so, as they scour the web for all the gig information that they can find and list it for you. If your band is so new that you don't have a profile - you can make one.

It makes the process of updating your gigs on various sites a no-brainer and I can't see anyone usurping them now.

But, what's even better is that it's evolving into a social network that encourages people to go to gigs - users go to 4 times as many gigs as the average fan. It's not a social network like Facebook, but somewhere that people can interact about their concert-going experiences and can have a list of artists that they follow to be kept informed about.

Read their info for artists here.

Like I said, you're a dumbass if you don't use it.

And here's the two articles about them:

NY Times on Songkick.

Guardian on Songkick.

Songkick cracks easy gig listing

Songkick is rapidly becoming my favourite gig listing site and it's automated features have a huge amount to offer the diy musician.

Firstly, although you can log-in and create an account to list your own shows, Songkick is constantly scouring the web for live show data and may well import this info automatically - it will do this if you have reached any significant size.

And then, they are rolling out loads of partners who will use the data that they have to populate their own sites - so far including Facebook and Soundcloud.

See this on Facebook - where you can have a tab auto-populated with gigs and links to buy tickets.

And this on Soundcloud.

It will also auto-import into Bandcamp and your own site (especailly easy if that is running on Wordpress).

Well worth a look and something that we'd recommend any band with a few hundred following to check out. It's only going to get better.