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Convincing Viral Marketing Gifts For Your On-line Music Promotion – Part 1

Posted by Music Archive | Posted in Online Music | Posted on 25-05-2009

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In On-line music promotion, word of mouth, or more precisely, viral marketing is an extremely influential tool. Who would not want to be one of the lucky few people to capture notoriety, just by creating something people contemplate cool?
You could furthermore create fun digital gifts for your music marketing campaign.
Whether, the materials you create go viral or not doesn’t really matter. What matters is that your fans have something that makes them value you more. The stuff you are about to learn contains things they could make part of their everyday lives.
Let us do this.
1) Mp3s – the apparent choice – a lot of artists are truly resistant to giving away tunes. However, if you want your music to spread out you need to give your fans your best, all the time!  Do not forget “garbage in – garbage out”.
If fans like your tunes they will put them on their iPods and on their phones. And they will share with their companions.
Plus they will come back for more. That’s when you make your sale.
2) Ringtones – Most phones now aid mp3 ring tones. You could readily use the best parts of your tunes to make cool ring tones. Make clips about 15 to 30 seconds long and you have ring tones ready to go!
You could download Audacity free sound editing software from audacity.sourceforge.net/
3) Wallpapers – These may be made for both your fans ‘ phones and their PC’s. You could make them using free software like Gimp. If you could afford Adobe Photoshop, that is amazing too.
You could furthermore visit mytinyphone.com to create and even upload your wallpaper. Who knows, it could just end up becoming a top download!
This is it for now. Watch out for the second part where I will show you more ways to create viral marketing gifts for your On-line music promotion.

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