Now I was going to blog about HeavyAsHell for today’s update, but I think it would be more important to make that post on Monday. So you will all just have to wait. Instead I am going to blog about the site LinkedIn. Now many of you may not know about LinkedIn because it’s not one of the hot and trendy social websites. This is not the new cool place for kids to hang out. This is the business social network. Now for the longest time I didn’t really care about this site. Then I discovered they had forums they called “Groups”. I started looking around and found several music industry “groups”. I joined the two that I thought fit me the best. Now I am networking with all levels of music industry types.

With all the other social networks I have talked about in the past two weeks it was about finding more fans. This one is about finding contacts. You might want to give this job to the member of the band that is always way too serious and really has a business mentality (probably the one reading this article). You might as well just accept everyone that wants to be on your contact list for this site. One person may know another person, that may know the guy that gets you on a really amazing tour. So this site is all about that other type of networking bands need to do.

Don’t just beg for help “getting a record deal” though. There are tons of people doing that and they almost never get anyone of value. That is not the way to do it. Posting new topics should be about ten percent of what you do on this site. It should mostly be about replies. Be very picky about when you plug your stuff. Otherwise you will be dismissed as a spammer. Instead ask questions, give your viewpoint on a debate, offer info someone else needs. Then when you do plug your stuff in that ten percent of activity people will pay more attention.

It may not be as fun as playing with the millions of time waster type apps on Facebook, but this will do your band 100 times more good. Why waste time anyways. Screw Facebook I say!