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Beginner's Guide

Written before 2013; no publication date survives in the archive. Platforms and services described here have changed. This is kept as a record, not as current advice.

Welcome to our Beginner’s Guide section where we hope to share plenty of practical advice and how-to guides. We’ll be adding to the guide as we go and recommend you subscribe to the site to get updated whenever we add a new post. Tools We Use Building a website Free WordPress.com - Get a free address at “yourbandname.wordpress.com”.

It’s not the most professional, but it’s free! Paid (DIY) WordPress.org - Download the free “self hosted” version of WordPress Bluehost.com - buy cheap hosting (there are others out there, but we use bluehost) Themeforest.net or WordPress.org for some themes to sexy up your site. Paid (easy) Page.ly provide a hosted WordPress service - similar to all of the DIY but they make it super easy for under $20/mo There are other paid options out there, but we build all of our artist’s websites with WordPress.

Selling Your Music Tunecore - Submit your music to iTunes, Spotify and dozens more and keep 100% of the royalties CDBaby - Ditto! We mostly use tunecore, but CD baby is cool too. Help, Guides & Tips Facebook How to Create a Facebook Fan Page for your Band How to Change your Facebook URL How to Embed your YouTube channel into Facebook 5 Free Tools to Make a Facebook Landing Page Facebook Ads for Musicians Setting up automatic alerts for your Facebook Fan Page Twitter Beginner’s Twitter for Musicians Intermediate Twitter for Musicians Advanced Twitter for Musicians Youtube How to Create a YouTube Channel for your band 8 Essential Places to Share Your Mp3 Online How to Become a YouTube Superstar For a current social-platform reference, see Hootsuite.