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I recently put this video tutorial and guide together to help generate ideas for how new bands can promote online. Several of the ideas came directly from friends who are in bands, others aren’t so intuitive and could really give you an advantage, check it out!

10 Steps for Promoting Your Band Online

1. Get a website, use BandZoogle, Bombplates, or WordPress if you’re more advanced
2. Sign up for Twitter, try to get your name and vanity URL, connect to Twitterfeed
3. Get a MySpace… register your vanity URL, post updates and ping your Twitterfeed
4. Register for TheSixtyone, Uvumi, & PureVolume post some songs & Art
5. Post your lyrics here at indilean so people can find you & comment, link your songs to your website or MySpace
6. Play small local gigs, go for Battle of the Bands and consider the Van’s Warped Tour Battle of the Bands contest. Encourage friends to film and post online with a link to your site and your band name in the description (URL’s highlight automatically in YouTube if you use http:// at the beginning)
7. Film a music video or some of your live shows and put them on YouTube, ping Twitter, share them on Facebook (videos automatically embed if you use the link URL from YouTube)
8. Share your music with friends who are making snowboarding, skiing, biking, sports videos. This will expose a new audience to your music and help them avoid copyright infringement since your music is label free
9. When you get bigger and have a full set sign up for Sonicbids so organizations and parties can find and book you for gigs. Post availability for gigs on Craigslist and look for parties that might need music.
10. Update your website blog regularly with short stories and summaries of what’s going on with the band and where you’ve been, the stories will help you get exposure in new locations, also consider playing a charity event at a hospital or local vet center (depending on your band) this will help get you gigs later and spread the word