SoundCloud is a great music sharing and promotion platform. However, when having the mindset to make use of the platform to display your talent, it means you're not leveraging the Sound Cloud's opportunities coming your way. Let look at it this way, what happens through your mind having that thought of building a significant audience through the art that you know how to do best on SoundCloud platform? It'll surely pave ways to get noticed and add more fan base to your existing audience, and not only that, it'll give you some visibility you deserved. 

Below are FIVE ways to leverage the SoundCloud platform and build a well meaningful audience for your profile:

1. Don't forget to portray the right image

You have to put an excellent impression in place on your profile so that when anyone checks on them, they'll be amazed by it. Let assume you're through with getting your brand or self a first profile page with a great logo and picture as that fit in your contact information (bio) that are linking to your social networks or website. After doing all the profile set up, it's time to give it some upgrade leverage on it like a professional. When you set up a good profile for yourself, you surely have some benefits like more music upload and giving you some premium features.  With the Pro accounts, you have access to be among those having great tools as an artiste – users' data; giving you broad insights on who are those listening to your craft and use that information to marketing your work consequently.

2. Portray yourself as the best  

Most persons only click on your profile to eavesdrop on what you've got for them. This is why you don't want to take chances on your visitors' when they check on your profile; hence, you should put in your best craft to get noticed. When your profile becomes a Pro Spotlight user, you'd be able to use the feature in gaining attention for yourself to a sound you want to promote. Spotlight feature will enable you to pin up to 5 significant songs to your profiles' first page, so when new fan check on your page to list that best music of yours, they'll be happy to listen to it and convert to your fan base. Your song would be easily seen when being searched on, based on artist name, soundtrack title, and the genres and keywords related to them. 

Let discuss the SoundCloud spotlight feature
Make sure you do your best to tag any song you've posted into the SoundCloud platform. You can make use of both specific tags such as; shoegaze, glam rock, and commonly used keywords like “acoustic sound” so that your prospective audience can have the means of seeing your song quickly. Moreover, when you've decided to upload a cover remix of another person, you'll be attracting the attention of those persons' audience to your page and also convert them as your fans. This is a hack like that'll drive significant traffic to your profile, and the audience will keep following. 

Make sure you do your best to tag any song you've posted into the SoundCloud platform. You can make use of both specific tags such as; shoegaze, glam rock, and commonly used keywords like “acoustic sound” so that your prospective audience can have the means of seeing your song quickly. Moreover, when you've decided to upload a cover remix of another person, you'll be attracting the attention of those persons' audience to your page and also convert them as your fans. This is a hack like that'll drive significant traffic to your profile, and the audience will keep following. 

3. Share your Link on Other Social Platforms

SoundCloud is an essential social media channel that has the means of getting you a much-needed audience, whether you are a newbie or a pro it doesn't matter.  Every time you upload your music on SoundCloud, be keen about posting them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook page that your audiences are also paying attention to. It doesn't mean you'll have songs rank high, but your audience in SoundCloud can help you out by sharing and putting likes on your songs.

4. Get Social and Engage 

Like any other social network out there, getting the best from SoundCloud requires your constant interaction with others if you truly want to have an audience. Firstly, you begin by following other music artist's profiles. Put a like and comment on their music, then kindly make a repost of their art who knows they may be encouraged giving back your favor. By doing this will surely allow you to give your song some real exposure it deserves, builds an audience around it, and get rewarded.

Interacting and following with other music artists is undoubtedly a great deal of increasing your fan base to massive followers, it improves the visibility of your profile. When you follow other artists that you desire, they'll as well follow you back, their audience will get noticed, and before you know it, you're already building an audience for yourself through their fans.

By interacting with new music enthusiast SoundCloud, you should make sure you follow the followers of those that post music similar to yours. By following their followers, you're attracting direct and indirect attention for your sale that you've gone to the fans for free. 

In addition to that, put a comment space on your creative work asking your audience from other social media platforms to comment on them. For instance, when you post a kind of new stuff on your Facebook or Instagram Page, ask your audience to comment on those through SoundCloud and also make sure to at all-time respond to others' comments. 

5. Offer a Podcast Session

Feeling like a Pro and you like to bring such expertise to SoundCloud aside your music work? Then be kind enough in hosting a podcast session for your targeted audience. Podcasts are a way better tool you'd be able to communicate with your new audience on almost any theme of discussed you think would be kind of interacting with them. A Podcast session gives your audience a unique outlook on your brand and personality. If you think you could not handle constant podcast, then you look out for a short-term podcast that suits your capacity. Your audience will value a short audio clip of your personal life event when you freshly engaged them. Never forget while on your session, you should be kind enough to give room for questions and answer them adequately.

Date: August 29, 2019 / Categories: Tips, / Author: Kam R