Submit Your Concerts to Social Networks All At Once

The actual number of social networking websites for musicians is a state secret, but scientists estimate it to be around eleventy-billion. There’s the big guys – MySpace, JamBase, purevolume – but also tons of smaller ones like Buzznet, BandsinTown, GrooveShark, and others.

One of the problems with having eleventy-billion sites is that it spreads too thin the promotional power of social networking. Of course, I don’t need to tell you that. If you’re reading this site it’s likely that you are a computer/tech-savvy musician already. If you’re like me, you’ve received 12 emails just today for shows that you should go see in places that you don’t even live. I imagine you understand the problems and limitations of social networking for bands. As Derek Sivers has said, “there are more Web 2.0 companies set up to help musicians than there are musicians.”

I stumbled across a site today that could help everyone with the dillema. Visit ArtistData.com or watch their website tour below. If you sign up for this site, which is free, you can submit your show and concert schedule to them and they will in turn post it to all of your social networking profiles for you. In other words, you post the show, location, time, etc., click enter, and BOOM! It’s loaded onto every site you have a profile on.

They also have some interesting features like submission to local press at your concert location, an automatic Kayak search for hotels close to your venue, or Google maps searches for coffee shops, or music stores.

On one hand, I wish I’d thought of this. On the other hand, what a strange industry we work in that we all have joined so many different social networks that we need to join another social network so that we can keep up with our social networks. Why not just all decide on one?

But that wouldn’t be very web 2.0 of us. The internet is about having choices. And now your fans and colleagues can choose whatever social network they prefer and you’re schedule will be there too. So now, instead of 12 emails a day, we can send them eleventy-billion emails a day.