Yes, this is the end...of our elaborate plans, the end. By this point, we're all masters of manipulating social media, right? No?? Well, not too worry: there are tools out there to help you fake it til you make it. I ran across two that I wanted to share before we part ways, as they proved helpful to me.
The first is a site called Social Media Examiner; more specifically, I ran through their list of 21 creative ways to increase your Facebook fanbase. Oddly enough, they don't feel that carpet bombing your list of friends with a suggestion to like your page is effective, and from my personal experience, this seems to be true. First of all, they says it's obnoxious and you should use it as a last-ditch effort. (I seemed to have run into something odd, where I naively sent that very request to every friend, but most of them didn't get it. Very strange.) They seem to prefer adding your link in your email signature, embedding videos onto your blog or personal site leading back to your Facebook fan page, and adding a link to your fan page in your profile on your personal page. And yes, that's only 3 of the 21. Note: this article is now 2 years old, so some of this info is obsolete since FB has changed somewhat since then.
The second one is a source of music called the Free Music Archive. FMA's library of thousands of songs are conveniently arranged by genre and sub-genre; for example, you can go through their Electronic library and then select Trip-Hop, IDM, or Downtempo. FMA works through the Creative Commons so artists can upload their music to be shared under a number of licenses that are essentially free, as long as you're not using it for commercial purposes. CC "maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation" by providing a means to share and access creative works essentially for free, which discourages illegal downloading. Win-win solution, right?
There you go. That's all I've got. Good luck.
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