How To Make Your Music Website Interactive

by K Haria

When your website is open for interaction, fans can meet others who are interested in your music and network. You grow a community around you, the artist, and your website. Here are seven quick and easy ways to make your website interactive:

When your website is open for interaction, fans can meet others who are interested in your music and network. You grow a community around you, the artist, and your website. Here are seven quick and easy ways to make your website interactive:

* Use polls and surveys. Create these interactive elements using FreePolls.com or SurveyMonkey.com

* Use guest books where people can leave you a note freely. You can have your guest book moderated so you have to check and accept each message before it’s visible online. This is great for stopping spam but can be time consuming. You can get free guest book scripts for your website from GuestBookDepot.com

* Install forums for discussion. Use free SimpleMachines.org software to install it. Instigate community creation.

* Allow people to contact you by Skype in just one click. Your website should always leave an opening for further communication, whether it’s connection through to your sky-click web call center or yourself, one click calls are the future of customer communication.

* Start blogging. This is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website. Start a blog free today using Wordpress.com or you can install it at your domain from Wordpress.org

* Run a competition and offer GREAT gifts. Competitions are now used everywhere but most offer mediocre gifts so they don’t get much response. Offer GREAT gifts. You don’t even have to spend, just network with other people’s products that YOU like. Regular competitions which provide good entertainment value to the users and the promise of a prize are also likely to get repeat users on an ongoing basis.

* Online games appeal to a wide age group of people and you will be surprised to note that the age group of people who play online games is not limited to the younger generation only. You can have games developed specifically for your music style and your songs which you are selling.