5 Ways Musicians Can Build Their Social Media Presence

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Musicians can either make or break their career with social media. Record labels are no longer building the celebrity or artist like they used to. Major labels want artist to have a social media following before they get signed.

On an indie level it’s even more crucial to have a social media campaign, so you can connect with as many fans as possible. Here are 8 ways musicians can build their social media presence.

1. Build a consistent posting strategy.
Building a consistent posting strategy is a key to building a social media presence. Consistency will also keep your fans engaged with your music. If your social media accounts go too long without any updates, your fans will forget about you and your music. Social media accounts that have more consistent updates are highly correlated with an increased amount of followers.

The best way to create a consistent posting strategy is to get use a scheduler such as the auto scheduler built into Hootsuite. It can put all your updates in for the week, put them on a scheduler, and forget about them. That way you don’t flood your fans’ timeline with overload of information.

2. Tailor your content to the social media platform you’re using.
Some platforms perform better with visual content such as Instagram and Facebook. Other platforms such as twitter performs better when posting live content. It’s best to tailor your content to the right platform you can make the biggest impact on your audience.

3. Engage in one on one conversations.
It’s really important to engage in one on one conversation because it creates an instant connection with your fan base. If a fan reaches out to you, engage in a one on one conversation, you never know where that connect may lead you. Please note that time is of the essence when reaching out to fans. Studies show that fans expect musicians to respond within one hour.

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4. Utilize special giveaways and promotions.
Giveaways and promotions are a great way to build your social media presence. Rafflecopter is a great tool to facilitate giveaways for your fans. By using Rafflecopter you can choose the submission options that best suit your social media campaign. You can choose to have your fans tweet about your music to get an entry to your giveaway. This can help you build a larger fan base relatively easy.

In my experience, make sure your giveaway is something that is in line with your message and audience. One last tip on giveaways, do not be the musician that offers a free cd as a giveaway. Make sure your giveaway is a personal experience, not a product.

5. Share useful and valuable content.
It’s not enough to just promote your music. You need to share content that is interesting and valuable to your fans. If you are in the midst of creating an album, it’s a good idea to share footage of you creating the album. Fans love to see behind the scenes footage and it allows them to feel like they are apart of your movement. It’s also important to utilize a 80/20 rule when posting content.

80 percent of the time share useful content, 20 percent of the time share promotional content. Most musicians only share promotional content and wonder why they don’t have the fan base that they need to get to the next level. Please don’t be that musician.

3 Most Effective Stability Ball Exercises To Enhance Your Body Shape

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Some people call them stability balls, exercise balls, Swiss balls, or fitness balls. Whatever you call it, this piece of exercise equipment is undeniably helpful in targeting important group muscles like the back, core, arms, glutes, and hamstrings. So, go grab your stability ball and let’s have some fun doing cardio and strength exercises. Yes, you heard me. You can perform both cardio and strength exercises on this bouncy ball. However, before jumping on one, make sure it’s the right fit for you. Simply sit on the ball, if your knees and hips form a right angle, then you found the right one.

Here are the 24 most effective stability ball exercises for a stronger and shapelier you. First up, let’s emphasize some core exercises.

1. Plank
Place your forearms on the Stability Ball™, shoulders over elbows, fingers interlaced, legs together or hip-distance apart, knees bent, hips lowered, and body in long diagonal line. Inhale and prepare to exhale as you extend your knees and hips to come up to a plank position. Hold for a few breaths. Then, exhale as you lower back your knees. To make the forearm plank more challenging, Michelle Vodrazka of Inspired Bodies likes to place her feet on a bench instead of the floor. Aim to complete 5 to 8 reps. Here’s a photo of a perfect plank shared by Agata Kazimierski, director of MERRITHEW™.

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2. Plank to Pike
This is a challenging, yet highly rewarding move for most people. Are you ready? To do this exercise, place your feet on a stability ball with your hands on the floor, directly under your shoulders. From there, you contract your entire abdominal core tightly to pike up (butt leading), drawing the stability ball under. Hold the pike and return to your plank position. Try to do 3 to 5 sets with 8 to 10 reps each set. Watch Tosca Reno (New York Times bestselling author of Your Best Body Now, the Eat-Clean Diet® series, and The Start Here Diet) as she demonstrates this killer core workout

3. Pike it up!
Do you want to target and strengthen the deepest abdominal muscles in your body? Trying to master pressing to handstand? If yes, then there’s no better prop than a stability ball. Roll one out, and let’s have some fun with Ally Hamilton, a Santa Monica-based yoga teacher, writer, and life coach. She streams online yoga classes all over the world. Hamilton is also the co-creator of YogisAnonymous.com. This is a fun variation of your Plank to Pike exercise. The difference? It’s hella intense! Start off like your Plank to Pike exercise. Instead of flexing, your feet should be extended on the ball. Inhale, then exhale as you slide the ball towards you. Repeat 10 to 20 times.

Underestimating workout music

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We brought you the t-shirt workout to help you carve the perfect torso. Now, we’re going one step further by bringing you the sleeveless t-shirt workout. This routine was designed to target the key muscles of your upper body that must look good if you’re going to dare go sleeveless: your biceps, delts, shoulders, and upper back. “Inverting the body with the Handstand Pushup, then having the arms go to pre-exhaustion fills the arms with blood, priming them for a great pump with the barbell curls,” says Corey Burnham, who programmed this routine. “Anybody can make a bicep look impressive when they curl their arm, but to have impressive arms even when they are straight by your side means that you have been doing the right, full body exercises,” says Burnhamwho notes that the Barbell Curl is one of the best moves for accomplishing this goal. “Go as heavy as possible on these, but keep very good form,” he notes.

What’s more: You’ll also hit your abs: “Having super buff arms without core engagement leads to poor athleticism and is not a good look for the summer,” says Burnham who added in Handstand Pushups and Pledge Planks to help activate your core in a way that forces them to dynamically stabilize the entire body.

Fitness is not about being better than someone else… IT IS ABOUT BEING BETTER THAN YOU USED TO BE.

When you’re finished with your workout, hang from a pull-up bar and simply relax. Then, walk on the treadmill or outside for about 15 minutes to improve circulation and ensure that your arms recover adequately.

Do this routine two to three days a week, but vary the volume of sets based on feel.

But, don’t stop after the workout ends. Use your arms throughout the day: make a fist, lift objects, glove up and hit a bag, carry your office bag with your grip, not your shoulder.

8 Most Underrated Workouts

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