Another promotional technique you can use for your music and band is the trusty blog. Use it in conjunction with gig promotions. For example hand out mini-flyers with the band blog address on them. Get it up and running and keep in touch with your fans through it - build a buzz around it. You can list upcoming gigs and band news, promo videos and demo songs and so on. If you have CDs for sale, well this is a good place to promote and sell them too.

It's free to setup and maintain a blog, and one of the most popular hosts for blogs is Google's Blogger.com.

Here's a new blog I put together at Blogger recently, which shows and chats about some videos I made. It's not a band promo blog, but it gives you an idea of what's possible. It only took me a few hours to set it up MyMetacafe Blog You can set up your own blog account from this page.

So you have your blog up and running? What to do next?

You could sign up to My Space and promote your band blog there for a start. The audience potential there is gigantic!