Editing Your MySpace Band Profile - Part 1
February 19, 2007 by Jo Minor
NOTE: If you haven’t set-up a profile, read this post to do it correctly.
Now I’m editing the profile of Superbar, my case study band on MySpace. This profile was created more than a year ago when I had no idea how to use MySpace properly, so if you follow the case study series you’ll probably learn shit loads of info.
Most of the profile options are already done, so lets take a look as what can be improved.
I can see that one of the band members have already uploaded a good picture of the band. If your profile is new make sure you get a good photo in there as soon as possible.
When you go to your profile manager page the first thing you’re likely to see is “Upcoming Shows”. You can ignore this until the rest of your profile has been set-up.
Here are the few things you need to edit:
- Listing - Make sure you select a few related genres for your band. If you’re not sure what to put, search for the band that you feel sounds the most like yours, and follow what they have chosen.
- What you choose here will ultimately decide where MySpace decides to place your music among the thousands of other bands.
- This ia also where you get to create the web address (URL) for your band. Do it carefully as you don’t want to change it later
- Manage Songs - This is where you get to list your songs for your visitors to stream / listen to. This will be covered more in Part 2.
- Band Details - This is perhaps one of the most important parts of creating a good profile page for your band. See Part 3 for more info.
- Basic Info - This is really simple, so please dude get this done. You just need to insert your band name and list where your band is from (country, zip etc).
See the other parts for detailed instructions.
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