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What To Do Every Time A Hip-Hop Blog Posts Your Music
If you want to build a true relationship with hip-hop blogs, show them that you respect that they posted your music up.
If you don’t, they might not ever post you up again. You need to realize a big reason that a hip-hop blog will post someone is because they get free traffic from your fans to their site that helps them grow. You probably weren’t looking at it from this perspective.
This is how all hip-hop blogs grow exponentially. So, if they see that you are promoting the post to their website and it’s gaining them traffic from your fans, friends and family, they are going to be thankful and post your music every time and have nice things to say about you in their blog post.
To Do List
- Post the direct link of the blog post/article to every social media platform you have. Quote the best line about what they said in your status post. This is beneficial to both them AND you. People are clicking over to their website link and reading GREAT things about you AND are getting more clicks and views on your videos. Why wouldn’t you do this?
- Like, Favorite, Retweet, Share or whatever social media site ability you have to post/article of your music.
- Now that you have Liked, Favorited and Shared the link to their post/article, you need to email them saying “Thank You”. Not only that but also tell them that you did everything in your power to spread that post/article around. That shows you actually appreciate it instead of just saying it.
- Every couple weeks, shoot them an email staying in contact with them to continue the relationship.
- Keep a list of the blogs that have posted you and what kind of relationship you have with them. This way, you can look at the list and remember what songs they posted and anything important, such as the name of the person who posted it or the information you need to remember about that person. Maybe they told you what college they go to or what they’re in school for or the name of their dog. all of this is important information.
If someone tells you their dog was sick and they haven’t been checking the music submissions as much because of that, you can ask if their dog is finally okay a few weeks later or “How is your Lab, Rex doing? Is he finally over being sick?”
If someone has this type of information, it shows they care. It builds a MUCH stronger relationship with that person. So, keep a list of information like this so you will never forget the important stuff. You have to treat this relationship like you would any other.