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5. Listen first, then talk

January 23, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Good face-to-face conversation involves listening more than you talk. Likewise in social media. You want to spend more time listening to what it already being said, and seeing where you can contribute to the dialogue, rather than shouting overtop of existing conversations or trying to monopolise the bandwidth. This is true at all times, but […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative, Facebook, Musician, Singer, social media, Twitter, YouTube

3. Define your goals

December 4, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

This is part Three of my series ’65 Social Media Strategies for Performing Artists’ What do you hope to achieve with social media? Who would you like to meet? Without goals, you will be floundering around not really making any impact. You will also have no idea if the time you are spending on it […]

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2. Stake your claim

December 4, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

The first thing you want to do is to stake your claim by registering with all the major social media platforms in order to capture your name, or a close to your name as you can get, on the popular sites. Even if you don’t use them all, or don’t want to set them up […]

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Social Media for Performing Artists: A Guide

November 9, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Social media is ridiculously important to performing artists. I spent the last year studying for an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship through the University of East Anglia. This was a fantastic year filled will learning of how to thrive as a creative business person. My dissertation was entitled: Keep the Conversation Going: 65 Social Media Strategies […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Social Media, Uncategorized Tagged With: actor business skills, Actors, Artist, blogs, business, Career, creative, Creative Business Planning, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Industries, dissertation, Money, Performance, performing arts, social, social media, Twitter, websites

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