After the mission of submitting your content to numerous amounts of sources, now its time to play the waiting game. Waiting for that special feature. When that moment finally arrives it’s now to put in work. For an indie artist you just can’t expect that one feature to make you a superstar over night. It’s all about how many people can get aware of the content.
For my site, NikkiSiixx.com. When an artist gets featured you automatically receive 1 week of promotion via my twitter accounts. Daily mention of the article and the artist twitter link. I’m blasting the post in order for more people to take noticed.
That same promo approach should be done on the artist behalf as well. Say if the artist, his team, and any fans that want to help push your content. The more people that talk about it the better. Build awareness for your content, and this goes for anything related to upcoming releases. Here are a couple of tips to promote your feature on a website or blog, even including mine:
1- Get TWEETDECK! They have a special feature to help pre-schedule tweets. I use this to help the continuous promotion of a tweet for a week without having to physically tweet it myself. I highly recommend you get it and have your team as well! and this will be able to setup daily tweets for
– Features on anywhere they feature you
– RT’s or Screenshots of Feedback Given from fans or colleagues
2- How to promote the featured article on twitter:
Audio: @ArtMorera – Job [Produced By @Nixononthetrack] http://t.co/JdLjhKMFxR via @NikkiSiixx pic.twitter.com/N5lMsPUcx1
— Team Art Morera (@TeamArtMorera) October 7, 2015
VIDEO : SIN — "Dark Waters Interlude" (Prod. @Nuezism)
http://t.co/jEhJz47OD4 (via @NikkiSiixx)
— SIN (@LISTENtoSIN) October 12, 2015
#MoveThatHope read @NikkiSiixx: Project Review: BLACK-EP – @LYRICLEVELLE http://t.co/G0EMe8aNd7 via @SpiegelDFE pic.twitter.com/fj3a9SaIJ7
— Hope Dealers (@HopeDealersPR) October 13, 2015
@NikkiSiixx did a feature on my latest music video! Check it out below https://t.co/mKxGOufAi8
— -ToBy- (@Official_ToBy) October 17, 2015
-You know what these links are creating? They’re building the awareness that site actually featured you. This gives the listeners a good reference to why they should listen to you. And you’re building more awareness for the site that feature you. When sites notice a certain artist brings traffic, they’re going to want to keep building more with you.
3- How to promote via Instagram:
What I also recommend when posting it on instagram.
-Hashtag keywords relevant to the post and anything regarding your campaign.
-LINK the article to your Instagram link on your bio! Fastest way to get instagram users to view the content. Have this up and promote it for a week straight.
4- If you have a website that has a press section (this section will have every link that has ever mentioned you). I find this to showcase to anyone who wants to see how many features without having to do a complete Google search. Its right there ready for the viewer to peek and look at your references.
5- Create your own custom images for post by viewing my article Top 6 Apps for Music Artists. I recommend some pretty dope apps to give you the presence you need online.
6- Don’t just retweet one time the link from the blog. Think about it, they probably took from 2 hours to couple of days to get the post ready and review the content genuinely. Well, I know for sure that’s what my contributors and myself do for all the posts. When you show real love it’s only expected 10x more. Also, when other sites see you pushing the content they made for you. They’ll expect the same push for what they’ll write for you. That’s when sites will become aware that you support the sites.
7- I recommend to push article features for more than a month, twice a day (AM+PM). Reason why when tweeting at different times of the day, is because when someone sleeps another is awake, and vice versa. This doubles your chances in reaching different people than always the same people at the same time everyday.
Those were couple of tips I recommend for Artist to do after getting featured on my site or any other site. When you’re an indie artist, your fans will only know when they see you mention it. If your fan doesn’t follow my site and you don’t mention it. How can they support and promote you when they didn’t find out from the artist themselves?