Social Media for a Busy Band

I play in a small rock n roll band, and that means I have to do all the promotion myself.  Updating songs, tour dates, pictures, trying to connect with old fans as well as find new ones.  This presents me with several problems.

1. How to connect with the most possible people
2. What is the most efficient way to keep all of our information up to date
3. What is the best way to present our information

I have found two websites that help me solve these problems in the best way.
 The first problem can only be solved by putting up a profile on as many social media platforms as possible.  That brings up the second problem because with connections to so many sites it takes so much time to keep them updated with new information.  Both of those problems can be solved for musicians by a site I found called www.artistdata.com

On this site you connect all of your social media profiles to artistdata.com and then you just log on to this one site and by updating that profile it in turn updates all of your profiles at once.  In addition, it will automatically make updates on your behalf if you have a concert coming up, so that you don’t have to spend any time at all.

The last problem has a similar solution.  The problem is how to present all of your information in the cleanest form possible.  The solution that I’ve found is www.onesheet.com . Much like artistdata.com you link all of your social media profiles to it and it combines them into an attractive looking onesheet.  This is affective for bands, groups, or even a specific project.  After you go to artistdata and update your profile, your onesheet is populated by your youtube videos, songs from soundcloud.com, tweets, and show updates from eventfull and bandsintown.  Everything looks clean and organized and the people interested in your info can come to one spot to see all of your information, while at the same time your information is on all the individual social media sites for browsers to stumble upon it. 

-Andrew Pate