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Categories: HHD History, Wordpress
Tags: Wordpress Plugins, wordpress plugins for musicians
Using WordPress has made life easier for me as a musician and blogger. Free WordPress plugins can add so many different dimensions to your music operation.
I created a list of plugins that I have found useful in my music marketing efforts. Discover your options: Build subscribers, create mailing lists, stream your music, or create a music store.
- G-Lock Double Opt-In Plugin: allows your visitors to subscribe to your mailing list, once they sign up they receive your message. Place it in your sidebar and manage subscribers through your WordPress Admin Menu
- Audio Player: Flash mp3 player for your blog. Give the fans some new music in appreciation for visiting your site.
- Wp e-Commerce: add a shopping cart to your blog with this plugin. Great for when thinking of selling band t-shirts, ringtones, and videos. Great compliment for your digital distribution. Different avenues for musicians to make money.
- Bookmark Me: adds social bookmarking buttons to your blog posts. This is a great tool to increase your traffic and let your visitors choose their bookmarking service of choice. I use Digg and StumbleUpon while others prefer delicious and yahoo buzz. Cover your ground.
- What Would Seth Godin Do: Increase your RSS subscribers with this plug-in. It creates a message at the beginning of your post welcoming new visitors with a default message, “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”. Increase your fan base and customize your message accordingly.
- Myspace Crossposter: Bridge the gap between your blog and Myspace account. This plugin publishes all your WordPress blog entries to your Myspace blog. You can either publish a notification of it or the whole story. I have a nice friends list that could turn into potential RSS subscribers. Keep marketing.
I will keep you posted in the future of more marketing techniques and cool plugins to increase your unique visitors and sell your albums.
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I tried all these plugins for my wordpress site http://www.friedbeats.com and find them very useful. I would definetly recommend all of them if you are planning to enhance your music related site. Hip hop distribution has been really helpful. Thanks
Thanks J Mathew. I will be creating more lists and building up on plugins that can make a musicians life easier.
Nice article. The only plugin I wasn’t aware of was Myspace Crossposter. I think i’ll be installing that soon.
Not a fan of Wp e-Commerce…
i’d suggest
WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart – for simple needs
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/
eShop for more advanced needs:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/
or Shopp if you’re willing to pay and you need a real ecommerce solution
http://www.shopplugin.net
Thanks Universal Indie Records for the additional shopping cart plugins. Its great to know the different levels of expertise needed to use these plugins. For me, integration and simplicity rank high.
I see Myspace Crossposter is no longer available and I can’t find a similar plugin.
Myspace has been changing its stuff so much, I dont know whats going on. I was able to use it for a while then had issues with it. Time to request a better myspace crossposter in the developer forums.
For myspace, you could use this wordpress plugin. Its a bookmarking plugin that has a button for posting/bookmarking to Myspace. It will do the job, just click the icon and post.
Good piece.