If my FaceBook page is dead, am I doomed as an online DJ?

Don’t worry about Facebook too much, it’s actually more of a secondary thing to get done. Focus on your mixcloud because that’s by far more important than anything for online work. It takes time so don’t try and rush it. Listen to other people’s work, comment on it, follow them and then you’ll get people listening to your stuff in return. Give a bit, take a bit you know? Just keep pushing and it should eventually come, it’s hard work even just online.

For 3 weeks on mixcloud I’d say those are pretty decent numbers. I don’t get much of anything on there. I think my most recent mix has 15 listens and 1 favorite.

Dude, my day job is in strategic online marketing, social and web applications. Outside of my day job, I’m currently doing side projects on YouTube, Facebook and Mixcloud. Not all for DJing. I have a FB page for my YT channel and in one month gained 100 likes. And I’ve reached thousands of view on YT. But I’m talking about cooking. Lots of people love to cook.

One thing you need to think about – do your FB friends share you’re musical tastes? I have close to 400 friends on FB. But I would say maybe less than 50 of them are into house music and/or are DJs. I know statistically less than 1% would post a response. So I don’t expect to get high response because Personal friends on FB are more inclined to respond to what’s relevant to them – cute puppy photos, foody shots etc. Your Mixcloud responses are good because you’re talking to other DJs or music enthusiasts or FB friends who have clicked on your posts. They want to hear music. The other thing I would suggest to do is not use your personal FB account to promote your music. Instead create a page as a musician and promote your music that way. Using pages you can personalize it, invite peeps to “like” your page and track who’s listen vs just liking your individual posts. I’m in the early stages of my DJing project and next year I’m focused on growing on my online audience and create more events. But I know it will take some work (eg. regular posts, sharing, inviting friends to my page, offline word of mouth etc.). Don’t be discouraged. Keep it up!!!

Screw Facebook…Screw Mixcloud…Screw Soundcloud. Until you have enough exposure in your city as a legitimate DJ you are just one of the other hundreds of people on FB posting about the same stuff as everyone else. What have you done to make yourself more noticeable to others?

I have like 30 or so soundcloud followers and i havent even posted a mix on it. I dont have a fan page on FB, and i just use my personal one for everything.

Yet my residency nights are ALWAYS packed. Get personable in real life…build a following in real life…then add them to facebook, Chat with people add to their wall, comment on their status…thats how you develop a following…if you just post shit about your mixes, or what events you are doing…then you becoming apart of the other 95% of bullshit random crap that people dont even bother to look at on facebook. If you spend the time to actually connect on a personal level and develop a dialog that is when you will notice greater feedback.

I only have around 400 people on facebook as well…and out of that probably only 10-20 that actually follow me because of my DJing…yet when i go out there is ALWAYS people that come up and talk to me saying oh hey ur so and so friends with so and so I heard you guys destroyed it at so and so.

Facebook/Twitter/Myspace etc. is a cop out and imo a really cheap and useless way to find fans and to increase your fanbase.

Facebook should be used AFTER you have already gotten people to know who you are. Social Media only works imo once the Social Aspect is already put into place.

Posting mixes, events etc. are a complete waste if people dont know you already.

http://digitaldjtips.com/forum/threads/something-that-i-havent-seen-people-talk-about.7173/#post-33117

The Link above i speak about how i got my “success” which really isnt success at all but as to how i was able to get up in our local scene and become known.

You need to have a connection with your peers and it is really hard to develop a connection solely off of facebook.

Go out and meet people…go dance with them get drunk with them….Then once they have gotten to know you hunt them down on facebook and add them.

IMO Facebook is like my mailbox….95% of it is garbage while 5% is actually something important, and to be honest…im not really going to pay attention to the 95% and just look for the stuff that is important to me.

I Totally AGREE with HEE WON JUNG ! Social networking should be “in addition to” not “instead of” good old fashion HARDWORK. When u work hard and become respected for what u do, people will LOVE to be a part of your online presence.

@DJ Homei I would take Hee’s comments with a grain of salt.

There is some sense in he what’s he’s saying. In the sense you can’t bank all of your exposure or growth on one social network only. Building a name for yourself takes a lot of work (online and offline). But it depends on your goals and approach. The key thing is if you’re using online you need to know who you are talking to and where are they.

@Hee to say the FB or any of these networks are a cope out is totally rubbish. Having built numerous events, campaigns and programs on these various platforms I can say confidently they do work. However, it does take planning and significant level of work. In the scene here if you’re up and coming or have been around you need to think about your online audience. And these platforms if used correctly is an effective part of your mix to market yourself.

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