The Age of Engage: An Urban Guide to the Social Music Evolution

Twitter.com is a great promotional tool for anyone. One day I received a DM from one of my followers. It wasn’t just the usual “check out my music…”. It actually said my name and greeted me and then said he wanted to share his presentation.

"An Urban Guide to the Social Music Evolution".

I liked the presentation of his tweets and I clicked the link. I enjoyed the slide show so much that I wanted to share it below.

The Age of Engage: An Urban Guide to the Social Music Evolution

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This is the way social media marketing is supposed to work. Making connections. We hope you enjoyed Danny Dee's informative presentation.

Fresh From South By Southwest

Danny Dee just got back from SXSW and he brought some gifts from his trip. Listen to Today's Music Biz Podcast on Sunday, March 28th, anytime on demand.

Now that’s great marketing. As soon as I left Danny’s blog, I received a Direct Message (DM) thanking me for visiting his blog. Now I’m impressed. When I shared this with my partner Jeronimo Black, we decided we’d like to interview Danny.

Today’s Music Biz is pleased to interview "Danny Dee" Aguayo of Digipendent.com.

Danny is a Digital Media Strategist and recent SXSW panelist. He has a background in Radio, Social Media Business Development, and has a whole list of positions among the urban music market. Danny Dee is currently advising various regional labels such as ABB Records, SMC Recordings and Town Thizzness; while overseeing digital strategies for Murs, Rakim, Mistah FAB, Glasses Malone, Killer Mike, and many others.

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Music Marketing: Top 5 Reasons To Have A Fan Page On Facebook

What Do Kings Of Leon, and Ani DiFranco Have In Common?

They have large Facebook.com followings. If you're a musician, singer, songwriter, producer in Today's Music Biz and you don't have a Facebook Fan page, you're missing a huge opportunity.

According to Entrepreneur Magazine (September 2009), Facebook has 200 million users, beating Myspace.com by 100 million. For that reason, Facebook is Today and Myspace "is like, so yesterday".


Top 5 Reasons To Have A Fan Page On Facebook

1.  Facebook allows Public Figures to have a 'Facebook Fan Page'.


A  Fan page is different from your profile page and allows people to comment  and  'like'  your  latest  updates. It also allows Fan's to show you some love without you having to worry about deleting spam comments.


2. Skanks stay away from Facebook.


I hate friend generators.  The good thing about Facebook is that it doesn't have any friend generator applications.  So people who become Fan's of your Facebook Fan Page, are usually not attention whores, trying to pad their friend counts.  I've been on Facebook for about a year now and I've never gotten a request from a 'Spam Skank' inviting me to come watch her sexy vid's.  Facebook allows you to truly build your fan base without the skanks and spam.


3.  Facebook makes Music Marketing easier

Facebook allows you to get more traffic to your website, YOUTUBE Channel, blog and even your MySpace and Ilike pages. For example, if you have a gig coming up, you can update your status and inform your fans. Kings of Leon have over 1 million fan's (which I'm one of a million).  Ani DiFranco has over 30,000 devoted fans on her Facebook Fan Page.


4, Facebook also allows 3rd Party applications.


If you're already on Twitter, there's good news.  You can have Twitter automatically update your Facebook Page.  Facebook allows many 3rd Party Applications.


5. Facebook makes viral marketing easy.


On Facebook, if someone likes what you're doing, they can share it with as many friends as the want.  I know from experience that friends like to pass on stuff their friends send them.  Facebook makes sharing easy.  Viral Marketing is just a savvy word for sharing and Facebook is a simple way of marketing.


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We obtained this slide show from one of America's leading Digital Marketing Guru's - Mark Ramsey from his 'Hear 2.0' Blog. This show is full of fact's and should be read by anyone using Social Media to futher their business. ~ Jeronimo Black.

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