Music and social media: Focus! Focus! Focus!

The music industry has been historically tough on the struggling musician. But with advent of the internet, mp3's, cost-friendly cameras and social media, a person can share with hundreds or thousands of people in no time.

Unfortunately, many undiscovered artist tend spend the majority of their time online spamming links to people whom have no connections to share, nor money to spend, instead of spending the majority of time producing a marketable, quality product to sell.

But how does a musician stay on top of making quality music, making the best use of social media, and doing both well? From what I remember of my short lived musical pursuit, it's not very likely with out help. In a future blog I will get into some ways to effectively use social media for more than just link posting and shouting "follow me".

I guess this post is a mere suggestion to the talented yet undiscovered artists out there: find help maintaining your social media presence, and stay focused on what musicians love: MAKING GOOD MUSIC. (ok and partying too)

As usual, I've added a little bit of cheesiness to visualize the point. Enjoy.



DeVaughn
www.getlinkedsocial.com

Social Media Basics: Do you need it?

Today's dictionary.com "word of the day" is "yarely", pronounced YAIR-lee, meaning with quickness or agility. The word "yare" is defined: quick; agile; lively.

Seemingly outdated in use, neither gmail, blogger, twitter or facebook recognized these as properly spelled words and prompted me to correct them. But in spite of that I decided to try and find a connection to what I do as a social media coach, consultant, and advocate.

There's a great number of things that the small business entrepreneur must consider upon start-up. Despite this meticulous planning process, there are many times when the social media facets are yarely considered (or is it considered yarely?) before being thrown in the mix.

Things tend to boil down to time or money, and it's no different with marketing via social media tools. Either you have the time to do it yourself, or the money to have someone do it for you.

At a glance, using social media is a no brainer. We see all the fresh new ideas, the success stories, and naturally want to do what seems to be working for others.

However, when things like ROI, and other analytic considerations come into play, strategic planning is down right crucial. Yet, it's during this stage when many fail to answer one simple question:

Do I even need social media to achieve my goals?

Whether you're pushing product, services, or information, this question should be the first answered before walking down "Social Media Rd."

Tell us your stories about social media planning done right, and wrong. We'd love to hear your tales.

DeVaughn
@Musedgoods
www.getlinkedsocial.com

When boredom attacks...

It doesn't happen very often to me personally, but sometimes the greatest ideas are spawned out of boredom. Now, make no mistakes, the slideshow below is NOT a great idea. In fact, it's corny as hell. But you never know what'll drive a concept home, and it did make me chuckle, (well last night it did) so I decided to share. Feel free to pass it long.







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Solidifying your Social Media Presence Gets Serious!

Beyond the standard maintenance routine is where aspects of social media management get deep, especially when it comes to building your audience and maintaining an online community that's relevant and reputable.

There was a time when a business would place a new ad in the paper, sit back, and wait. Now, due to the social media boom, it's just not enough. People are talking and deciding what to consume based on the experiences and advice of their peers, and more importantly, based on relationships they form with businesses through social media.

Because of this, it's crucial for your business to tap into the information being shared about your market, and become apart of the very information being shared.  Some of the ways this is done is by:

• Monitoring your market's social space
• Maintaining your brand loyalty, image and reputation
• Creating relevant content 
• Rewarding brand loyalty and advocacy
• Customer support
• Analyzing what works and what doesn't
• Profile and community optimization

Get Linked Social can help by providing these services alone, or combined with Basic Start-Up or Standard Monthly Maintenance.

For further details or pricing information e-mail us at:

contact@getlinkedsocial.com

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Day in, Day Out: Profile Management Fundamentals

Profile maintenance is one of the many integral parts of a social media manager's job. These time consuming, yet fundamental duties include, but are often not limited to:

• Posting approved status updates and content daily
• Accepting/declining friends requests
• Performing relevant follow-backs
• Filtering spam from pertinent e-mail and other inbox messages

Establishing a plan to have your social profiles maintained will assure these essential tasks are performed daily, going a long way towards growing your audience.

Get Linked Social can help by providing these services alone, or combined with the Basic Start-Up or Full Service Management.

For further details and pricing information e-mail us at:

contact@getlinkedsocial.com

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Getting Started with the Basics

Developing a strategy is one of the first steps in establishing your social media presence. Part of this planning stage includes choosing the best social media tools and channels to integrate with your current marketing strategy and achieve your goals. 


With Get Linked Social's Basic Start-Up, you'll get help with selecting the right tools, and implementing them to meet your objectives. In this straight forward package we will create up to three social media profiles of your choice, explain how they work, and link them to your existing blog or website. If you have existing social media profiles, we will assist with optimizing them to greater potential.


You may choose up to three of these social media outlets:

• Facebook 
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Youtube
• Flickr

Simply provide all graphics, images and video, and you're on your way to integrating social media into your current marketing strategy! 


Get Linked Social can help by providing this service alone, or combined with Standard Monthly Maintenance or Full Service Management.


For further details and pricing information e-mail us at:


contact@getlinkedsocial.com 


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