Using soundcloud to promote your band - tips?

[uk_lefty]

Interesting thought came to me... My band uses sound cloud to share jams, good and bad so we can listen to them through the week and work on specific parts. We have a handful of random people listening to these and "liking" some songs. Probably with them being covers they're searched for a lot. Is this a good idea? People can hear some pretty ropey sessions this way!

My main point is - is soundcloud a good way to promote the band? Any tips on getting the best from this? We are a local covers band who do festivals and parties, etc. Not looking for the big-time, but want to add a few new venues to our regular gig list.

Thanks

[ambient]

It's a great way. Look at the people who use it. Olafur Arnalds, Harold Budd, Steve Lawson, Eric Whitacre, they all have Soundcloud pages.

It can look as professional or otherwise. Add a good biography, and photos. Link from it to Facebook and other sites.

I think it's brilliant.

Edited September 5, 2016 by ambient

[charic]

Worth noting that it is REALLY easy to download from soundcloud even if download isn't enabled so I wouldn't put anything you're hoping to sell on there

[uk_lefty]

Good tip! I think the plan is to create a page for the band where we can put out some "teasers" of twenty to thirty seconds of some songs so people can see/ hear what we are about. It's just whether anyone on our kind of local band level has found this successful, or is it best to use it to then embed tunes to a Facebook page and the actual soundcloud page isn't as important....?

[ambient]

It's free, just take advantage of it.

The good thing about it is people can just go on and listen to stuff. They don't have to download anything, or subscribe or register.