Creating a Following On Mixify / Online

Kent Sandvik, post: 31692, member: 3967 wrote: Mixify is nice but I doubt many will get more than 1-3 listeners max at those events of many reasons:
* Most broadcasts are one to many with little social interaction, the social part is the fun part me thinks, more important than music. I do think a DJ that chats with the listeners at lot will get a following faster than someone who is passive.
* Lack of interesting visuals, people want to see other people party or goof rather than a bunny DJ:ing.
* Having someone to listen to a long mix streamed pushes the attention span levels of most average listeners
* There’s just little chance to schedule time for a listening experience.
* And in this age of billions of downloadable mixes and music there’s nothing special about listening to a DJ mixing live, unless you are at a party.

All that could be re-constituted if you are a big name with an existing following, similar to Chevy Tuesdays with Alex Paterson or something similar. Still, I don’t know. I’ve followed web casts with famous DJs/producers and the max is around 10 listeners. Which is fine for me as then I have a chance to talk to the producers via the chat window.

Personally, I use Mixify as a justification to get out of my lazy bun and make a mix that I want to listen to later, zero follower or more, I don’t mind as I get that out from the event. And just scheduling a live mix event and doing it periodically is much better training than doing mixes in your room/studio.

LukyNumba7, I’m the Product Manager at Mixify and have a few tips for how to build an audience online – at least on our platform. D-Jam is right in saying that consistency is one of the most important things. For example, DJ BLing hosts events every Friday night and has built his audience from 10-60+ over time. There’s plenty of other DJs that have done similar things on Mixify.

Aside from that, you should market your online events just like you would your real ones. Try to brand them properly to interest your audience and plan them at times when your audience is available. Opposite to live events though, we’ve seen more success with DJs who spin during the day as opposed to nighttime online – because more people are at their computers looking for music as opposed to at home or out on the town.

For more tips, here’s list of 5 Best Practices here as well:
http://blog.mixify.com/how-tos/best-practices

As for the Trap complaints, haters gonna hater. Trap is one of my preferred genres so holler at me next time and we’ll get it going.