If you are an artist and you are finding ways to create a buzz without having to pay a lot of money for advertisements and full-scale campaigns, you will need a knock-out web design and social media sites to display your talents effectively.

The most important rule in social media marketing is being able to maintain your profiles and accounts active, interactive and updated. You need to establish presence in top-ranking sites which allow audio and video postings. Your latest audio recordings should be posted once they’re done for your fans to have a chance to listen to them and provide useful feed backs before you finally release them to the world. You should also post recent videos of your gigs and updated schedule of upcoming shows and events. This way, those who just stumbled upon your site and was quite intrigued with what you have to offer a.k.a potential fans, would be able to know where to catch you in action!

Effective social media sites for artists and bands would be the likes of YouTube and MySpace. You can post hundreds of video clips on YouTube to advertise your brand there while in MySpace and Facebook, you can practice your networking skills. This way, you are inviting your fans to take a peek into your life and in the process, you will be able to get to know them and vice versa. This is how to do social networking effectively and not by blatantly promoting yourself there.

Artist marketing is all about strategies; knowing what people would like to see and hear. In the world of social media and networking sites, you are required to be a person first before a marketer. In this world where spammers rule, it is very important to let your people feel that you are not one of those spammers; instead you belong to your fans.