Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you no doubt have heard about ReverbNation or at least stumbled across an artist using its tools and services. Simply put, no one is helping musicians out more in promoting their work then Reverb is, and here are 16 reasons they’re going about making it happen.

1. Ability to share high quality files, fast and cheap.

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A few days ago I was asked to check out this great presentation on the “science” of “ReTweets” using Twitter from social media scientist Dan Zarrella.

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It is an interesting time to be a musician. While many ask themselves, “how am I going to make money when people are just going to steal my music?”, there is an increasing number of opportunities for them to eliminate some of the marketing and distribution costs.

Actually, there’s an overwhelming number of free marketing tools online that enable artists to connect with fans. Once you break through the wall of no-brainers like MySpace and Facebook, it can be kind of intimidating with all the other networks and tools out there, especially when you run into someone like me and I geek out on you about things like Twitter.

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ReverbNation, a leading ‘Online Marketing and Promotions Platform’ for Musicians, has integrated the popular communication service Twitter into all Artist Profile Pages.

The integration allows Artists to import and display their Twitter ‘posts’, keeping their fans informed about the Band’s daily activities. Artists can also create new Twitter posts directly from their ReverbNation account, saving them from having to login at both sites.

Artists don’t always have a new album or tour to talk about,” said Lou Plaia, V.P. of Artist Services at ReverbNation.com. “Twitter gives them a way to keep the fans engaged in between the big stuff – maintaining the share of mind that they have painstakingly acquired, and keeping the fans warmed up for when the album finally drops.”