Late 2017, I received a social media friend request from someone who played in a band I had grown up knowing about. I thought it was pretty cool until he messaged me and mentioned that we were both members of the Christian punk & spirit filled hardcore social media group, and asked if I had ever seen certain popular bands in that genre live in concert. I told him I had not, but that I knew of his band from a compilation I had stashed away at my parents’ house. It turns out that’s what he wanted to talk about. It wasn’t long before I discovered that he was contacting multiple people in many punk and hardcore affiliated social media groups with the same questions and the same copy-and-paste responses he had sent to me. What’s worse is that he was doing this so often he was getting on people’s nerves.

The last time this guy reached out to me, I told him very kindly that people were getting annoyed by his requests and he should probably cut back. One of the next messages he sent me was a copy-and-paste response to a question he’d sent me several messages earlier and that I had already answered. It wasn’t long after, that I asked him to stop contacting me all together.

This is not the best way to promote via social media. To avoid alienating your target audience, here are some examples of good promotion vs. bad promotion.

In today’s day and age, it’s not enough to just make music and release it. While it is not impossible to just release music, go viral, and jump-start your career, it’s becoming increasingly harder to do so.

The entry level for producers to create a professional sounding track is very low because of how affordable professional grade equipment is. The result of this is an overwhelming amount of music being released every day. This makes it more and more difficult for artists to stand out and build a career.

The playing fields have been leveled for music producers all over the world making social media an absolute necessity for artists.