After reviewing quite a lot of artist's websites recently, I was amazed at the number of bands making it difficult for themselves to deliver their music easily from their website. This one simple but essential detail could be losing artists thousands of new fans every day.
Some of the artist's websites linked straight to an MP3 which took ages to download, others had complicated javascript code that must be difficult to update every time they want to post a new track, some weren't compatible with most popular browsers, some were in Realplayer format (which I couldn't play) and some just didn't work at all. Operating like this also means that you have to upload a new track to every place on the web where you have music, your MySpace, Facebook, the list is endless.
If people cannot hear your music easily, they'll quickly lose interest in your site and go elsewhere. If this sounds familiar, you owe it to yourself to sign up for a free Reverbnation account without delay. I can't believe more people aren't using the features of this great service on their site.
Reverbnation has been around for a couple of years now and offers many free promotion tools, including a free stylish music player widget which is easily customisable to your web site's colour scheme. There are a choice of styles that not only play your music, but also feature your upcoming show schedule. online releases and much more.
You only have to post the widget code once on your website and social networking pages (for some sites like Facebook, Reverbnation even give you a one click process to publish your widget without having to paste the code). Your fans can share your player on their site too with the one click 'share' button, making it very easy to spread your music to many people very quickly.
Reverbnation's widgets are fed from a single control panel (which I like to refer to as my 'cockpit') and every time you add a new track or video to your cockpit, every single widget you have out on the web gets updated automatically. It's a fabulous way of keeping your content fresh on a lot of sites without spending forever updating each individual page out on the web.
Here are some tutorial videos from Reverbnation, showing you some of the widgets they have available. Particularly recommended is the retail widget that gives you the ability to set up a one stop retail outlet in just a few clicks. Sign up, post your widgets and spend more time making sweet music...
Some of the artist's websites linked straight to an MP3 which took ages to download, others had complicated javascript code that must be difficult to update every time they want to post a new track, some weren't compatible with most popular browsers, some were in Realplayer format (which I couldn't play) and some just didn't work at all. Operating like this also means that you have to upload a new track to every place on the web where you have music, your MySpace, Facebook, the list is endless.
If people cannot hear your music easily, they'll quickly lose interest in your site and go elsewhere. If this sounds familiar, you owe it to yourself to sign up for a free Reverbnation account without delay. I can't believe more people aren't using the features of this great service on their site.
Reverbnation has been around for a couple of years now and offers many free promotion tools, including a free stylish music player widget which is easily customisable to your web site's colour scheme. There are a choice of styles that not only play your music, but also feature your upcoming show schedule. online releases and much more.
You only have to post the widget code once on your website and social networking pages (for some sites like Facebook, Reverbnation even give you a one click process to publish your widget without having to paste the code). Your fans can share your player on their site too with the one click 'share' button, making it very easy to spread your music to many people very quickly.
Reverbnation's widgets are fed from a single control panel (which I like to refer to as my 'cockpit') and every time you add a new track or video to your cockpit, every single widget you have out on the web gets updated automatically. It's a fabulous way of keeping your content fresh on a lot of sites without spending forever updating each individual page out on the web.
Here are some tutorial videos from Reverbnation, showing you some of the widgets they have available. Particularly recommended is the retail widget that gives you the ability to set up a one stop retail outlet in just a few clicks. Sign up, post your widgets and spend more time making sweet music...
Don't forget to also keep up to date with the best independent music promotion techniques over at our website http://www.mymusicsuccess.com. Whilst you're there download our free eBook 'The Secrets Of Independent Music Success' for more free tips and tricks on result driven artist self promotion.
Simon Adams
Co-Founder
MyMusicsuccess.com
http://www.mymusicsuccess.com
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