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Keith Dorsey: Managing Over 20 Social Media Influencers And Artists | Brand Or Die Ep #1

What’s up Matt man appreciate it appreciate everything good, a man like you have you have managed, but at this point he said about 20. Influencers connected with you know, 40-plus influencers. Of course the Rabi whirls lit twins and now you’ve even moved into management. You have in a very social world right, a very social media landscape. You have one of those unique perspectives where we hear so much on the front end from I want to be an influencer, I’m going to be an artist but you’re one of those guys behind the scenes that have been able to help get an impact from not Just the views but make money right and obviously you’re needed, because so many people don’t know how to make that connection.

So I’m interested to hear first and foremost what what made you get into it. Knowing that I Robbie world was a friend of yours, but what made you truly pursue it and say I see this as a true business. Well, I guess the budgets got, the promos got bigger and more starts to come and it was a guy. It came, it started to be more just like a little. Oh can you shot me out type of thing, like Brian started, to reach out okay and what really shifted like everybody knows.

My story see my other articles of how, like Robbie world is my best friend and how he began to blow up on vine and the rest is history, but like it really started to hit. When I got my first budget from Atlantic Records the biggest bucket from a budget from Atlantic Records, so we actually met Jordan and Justin overhead. We met them at rolling loud in Miami. That’s why I will forever go to every rolling out in Miami for the rest of my life because we met them there, and then we got a big budget for Sherlock mafia and I was like wow and they say how much is it going to cost for The main ones – and I sent them this this budget – that was at this time, a big budget and they approved it, and I was like wow.

This is for real. No, this is for real, say y’all. We need to tighten up and we need to really start doing more of this and start and and and then it’s like. That’s it’s a business now yeah! You know if you promos that come to the DM for, like smaller music artists, that just wanted to put the song in the skip, but that really hate all that once I was like. I can continue to do this all over and over again, and I was just just what I thought for myself, but they actually needed it.

I had one email, one of my influences. You know they creators artists. Did they don’t like to do certain things? I don’t like to check the email, so I just went email. So, let’s go through this email see we get. It was a contact from journey’s journey’s yeah, one of my influences that work with Brandon got fans and I responded to the lady and they say yeah. We want to give him out, I think it’s, they flew him out to Philadelphia, really nice check with other Creators, and he was in the winter 2017.

I believe campaign for journeys. He was on all the banners in all the stores, all the magazines that they sent out all over the United States, and that was a big deal and I was like man. We have to go higher. We have to go bigger when it comes to this. Okay, before I get tonight’s, the next question I want to say is not me, I’m it’s not you as me. Okay, can you project a little bit just for the mics? Okay? Absolutely! No! No! I want to make sure they good, okay production, I’m sure you’re.

Alright, you mentioned something that was extremely important to me. You said this isn’t just like posting paying for promo there’s a real business. How do you know that it’s that transition, or can anybody who’s already getting a certain amount of hey? Can you pay for my arm for a shoutout type thing and those people just transition into the business? How do you make that transition happen? Well, I truly believe that anybody can do it.

It’s how you go about it, but you can get a promo and it’s like. Oh, I just draw it up, but let’s really sitting and think about how I could make this promo very creative and how I can get put my thought into it and how you handle like oh yeah. Let’s just do just send me any money, I’ll cash out know y’all. Send you an invoice, you know. So it’s just how you handle the situation, yeah, how you carry yourself, because you can always just throw something up and then, when you don’t live that way, and you look at it as a real business, even like just not with the promo, just overall being a Creator is a business because there’s so many opportunities that can come if your portfolio, like your Instagram, like your social media platforms, those are portfolios.

You know, if you look at it that way, you’ll start to attract the bigger the bigger things. Okay, so you have to take the quality in mind: you have to start building the portfolio and then handle those back hand, systems like invoice, and things like that right. So you can can look legit exactly look that other side of this right. Let’s see that, okay, even for myself tuna, add this in I like to look for a while and it worked.

You know I was using a Gmail, but now I got a business, that’s in like it’s influencers at Keith, Dorsey calm and I realized like Wally’s. Bigger agencies won’t even accept emails from a gmail account over spine. And now, since I have my business, email, everything’s, look like okay, these people running a business and it makes me as a manager. So what I’m trying to negotiate things for them. It makes me look professional like we know what we’re doing.

So. That’s that small stuff is very strong important. It could be a deck, a media kit, all that it just it changes everything it’s important here, because at that right, people who already have a certain level of business things like that like getting your own email. It’s not that expensive right, but when you’re we’re coming from mentality, I’m just trying to make money and I’m trying to save money at the same time.

You really want to know. Is that really worth it? Cuz they’ll get an email, but that stuff like that? Yeah! Okay, I mean – I even makes me think about some of the emails that I use on cyber parties yeah. So what for you, especially alright? What well actually can kind of touched on this, but it brings me back to the idea of the brand for the fans. All right and look at summer side of things and the brand in terms of dealing with business, the professional brand right, how different are each of those things now? What’s the polished? Look like it on each side, um? Well, it’s! It is a it’s a big difference.

Now always learned by trial and error. When I first started to submit to labels like I used to like just send the links, copy and paste, but then they will come back. These people didn’t know a shout-out to max at 380. When I first actually started to do this, they would respond and say: could you put it together in like a PDF for me, so I had to polish it up and say actually create a deck that had all their pictures.

I spend like hours on this thing on publisher on my Mac and put their analytics together, put this together and put their best in and not just that, but not doing pictures they took on the phone with professional photos hit shots, you know, taking the Getty image Photos that they’ve gotten over the over the past year and putting those things in there and polishing it up it changed it. Just it makes the presentation like everything’s about presentation.

You know, even when we come into a when I bring them to certain places like the presentation of how you walk into the room, how you guys work together, even if, when it comes on the phone going on a plane, because people realize that what I mean, What does that look like look, I like the fact that I mean shows that you, actually you know you do this right, because you have such small details that you think about.

I notice. What does that mean how we well, I make them. Look like the stars that they are so when we come in we’re just not doing anything. It looks like okay they’re on a mission there, so they’re they’re booked to be here. You know they’re already famous people know them, but it’s how we move about like I make sure that we’re all together and we’re there’s different activations in the room I’ll make sure that they’re doing the activations they’re taking the pictures I’ll see who the photographers are.

Even when it comes to music, see who the DJ’s are and get the people who just read different things and how I know, because I get feedback even when it comes to as small as it became like some subliminal now, because on the plane we travel together. Like we always travel together – and I had this – it was kind of weird, but there is this girl that sat next to me on the plane in like the Dayton next day, I got a DM for her.

I was like who is this she’s like? Oh, she sent just long messages. I don’t know who you guys are, but I saw how you work with with your with your group and how much how you took care of them, how you made sure that they had their seats first? How do you make sure that it was just a small sounds like wow? It was creepy at first, but I was like how does she found my butt that happens all the time and people see they see me not necessarily demanding them to do things, but how I’m working with them like pulling them to this back up I’ll.

Do this all the time like this is what we’re going to do. I prepped them before we. This is what we’re going to do. You’re going to walk into the room, there’s going to be interviews, there’s a red carpet. This is how you do your red car, because a lot of the first time doing this stuff is new for them. Like I had two girls that I worked with their mom famous ocean and kongfu, they have a hit song called savage out.

Car active get active and we were able to get activated through fresh Empire for the BT Hip, Hop Awards in Atlanta. They booked them to come there and then walk through a cup. They had never done anything anything before on that scale, so I say hey. This is what I want to do when you’re doing interviews. You need to make sure that you’re listening. So it’s like a development in a way you know, and people really kind of know this debt.

So I want to switch gears a little bit because obviously there’s all that that goes into management. But when we get into the things that people see on the front end that people get so curious about influences from and that’s these platforms from an artist standpoint from an influencer standpoint, we’re how do you look at Instagram, first and foremost, because we hear everybody knows That most people are on there, but then you hear people like Gary Vee saying if the graph is going down and then we start talking about other platforms, how do you look at Instagram and what’s the actual impact you’ve seen it had have on your business and Moves well, Instagram is definitely how sold name and just like wake up in the morning.

Is it’s just automatically in that thing like you want to go brush your teeth, you’re, going to check your Instagram, your Instagram lose to be take your tech messages, Facebook and Instagram. You know, but the thing is it’s been big for us: oh it’s, it has its own ups and downs like the algorithm. You know, but if you study it and you create make it a business and you make it a lifestyle and you keep up with it, then you’ll you’ll go with the flow.

Just like one of things. Oh, we were moving views and likes everybody else going crazy. My team we’re studying it when we look at it was like well, it’s going to be like story. I was going to hurt our brain. No, it won’t because guess what you still get story, promos and all the company’s going to do is see the analytics. Now you know it’s nothing’s going to change, so we’re really had to be. On top of you have to study it.

You got to be ahead of the curve because it’s in it for me for business like I, I can make sure it also helps me connect with other Creators too, like I usually can connect so easily, like I have so many DMS, especially from artists now, who Want to work with me, I have our build relationship with other micro influencers in I saw artists who small, but they have really good potential, so I don’t necessarily work with them like IQ the relationship I’ll give them some tips and ideas.

This is what you need to do, I’m looking at your page. You know so I’ll. Do some free consult, you know, but it helps me to connect to help me to actually stay relevant okay as well and for me knowing, what’s going on like it’s my business, to go down the timeline and see what’s going on, see what’s going viral, so I Can filter that back to my group into my life as well? It also helps me with business, because I don’t when other companies hit me up say: hey wan na do this campaign.

Alright, this thing is going viral. So, let’s use this when, when it’s time to create to help blow whatever product or brand that they have do you think there will be any point where it starts to fall in terms of almost like a bubble right. We know if launchers become more and more expensive on a platform like Instagram over time as they start to learn the game. They were super under price, and now they learn you know, then it start to charge more as they get bigger more money comes in, but then, when Instagram starts to mess with its algorithm and of course, if you’re like you write, y’all are learning it, which anybody Should be doing that artist or whoever, if you’re serious about it, you should take that approach, but just a general macro perspective of it is: let’s go to other platforms.

So do you think the price that y’all or a lot of influencers will have to charge will go down? I think it’s very competitive now, because, especially with a lot of labels like they, some of them are like tight budgets, but my group. Well, I tell them to adjust to who it is like. We like Warner, contacted us through TIG. Now you think it’s a game through Lucchese label and for our artists name poster, and they told me that we only have a thousand like we have more, of course, but we want to start with a thousand, because I want to test it out.

So I said usually roughly a lot of the bigger ones. They only got like maybe three hundred dollars for the post and uses a no less than 700 750 to 1000 and 2500. But I said you know just work with me: they’re going to test it out. They’re going to come back with more, they did and guess what they did. They came back with more so my group knows how to adjust and not just oh, if it’s not 5,000 for the post, I’m not doing it.

You know depend on who it is. You know now, if it’s somebody, that’s like small and like didn’t, of course, take it hard to just kind of wait, but they even if they are small, they still work with lemonade. Sometimes they they’ll just do it because they like the song, you know or they like the product, but it’s just like. I hate it because there are some influences who are just like a hose and they just won’t do anything if it’s not like you don’t have to do that.

You never know. What’s going to happen, you never know this person can blow up in their name artists and then now you like, damn I missed out on opportunity. I could’ve just posted it for him, like you’re, going to make content anyway. So just take the money you know. I know you’re not going to undermined yourself like Oh $ 50, for it now you know, but sometimes you just have to kind of work with people, because it is, it is super competitive, there’s, a lot of influences that are there are getting paid and there are Figuring it out so my group, why we create long term, like we’ve, been working with these labels in these brands for years, because they know how to just when it comes to price.

So that makes a huge difference, I’m here, because I definitely like doing influencer marketing and things like that. I’ve definitely ran into people with or been working on, something for an artist and seen them hit a certain number or or the people say hey. You got this and if you don’t have that for that budget they don’t even respond or I or now this is it this is it and you know some people will do like test campaigns and things like that.

But what you said made me really think about is the fact that that long-term relationship over time yeah, of course, oh, you can’t do it with everybody, because even when people reach out to me for certain um for certain things, you can’t do with everybody. You know diem get flooded, you got to still take care of yourself and what’s going on, but you never know what’s going to happen with somebody you know and where they’re going to be, and also you never know which you’re going to need.

Sometimes you’ll have a tighter budget, sometimes you’ll have a greater budget for you as a manager. Is that kind of one of your did? You feel like you ever had to Train influencers to think that way? Yes, okay, because they don’t know like a lot of them. Just blow up out of nowhere, they had no business skill, they will not respond to stuff they’ll. Just do things very sloppy, like a lot of my time, I’m like really are cuz they’re, especially younger ones.

They don’t know, but I mean well and they know that and I’m you be going at it consistently, but is the ending we’ll get to this later, but like a lot of them, they’re like my brothers and sisters. So it’s like, we have a relationship, so I can do that, like I like what y’all doing like I had so few craters over here. They release a song, but they say here dance until another song said what the heck are ya doing: y’all released a song y’all you’ve made not one trill on your own song, you what’s this dog, it’s all I get to it like.

So it’s just like. I stay on them and I did this jacket available. You have artist development, that’s influenced your development and that’s something that we focus on too, because exactly even when it comes to creating the content like make sure that you created like cuz, it’s like they’ll do a lot of things and they’ll just put it up, and Then the people will come back and they’re like sometimes three or four times, and they didn’t like it.

I’m sorry we’ll put effort into it, don’t just just because, even if it’s I don’t care, if it’s, even if it’s three hundred, if you’re 300, our project should look just the same as your your your ten thousand dollar project always give quality, no matter what it Is and because people it’s about your image, you know they can’t even decipher keep it consistent like one who answer he poses something, and I said he they always saw some of them.

They had to send for approval. I say you know you know you didn’t want to do that, whose are you right you right, I’m going to redo it. I’m like come on just do it right the first time I get it out of the way yeah cuz. They they a lot of them. They so spoiled that they say, oh even when it comes to YouTube articles like oh, it’s just like a job time like what you don’t do, nothing you get up from your room.

Now I would say it is work, but you rather go work at Taco Bell or you will. Wake up out of your bed, create a dope article and post it and get paid to your PayPal, cash shop or whatever or a wire transfer. And you move on about your day: you’d make a decision, oh god, so as you found success personally, how how? How have you changed right and your approach to the game and how you see the industry, as you start, to work more and more with them? Music, as you way before this, I was, I started as a like network marketer.

Okay, like I sold like all the super juices, all the weight loss stuff. Yes, I had that skill, so there that’s the basis of my last interview. I did that that’s the basis of my life. I did that since I was 18 for like 10 years, so all the personal development, like I mean I so well, I got BMWs from companies like I built and I was able to qualify several people on my team. So that’s where the the personal development came to be able to work with people and be a to cross-cultural communication, because the companies were so big we would go like if so many different international law different nationalities.

A part of the company like I had to learn like all these people from Japan, these people from here, so I had to learn very to communicate. So that’s where the communication – it’s straight-up – transferable they’re, not yet. I can see that already then yeah. How have you adjusted as just a business person in general? Have you thought, hey there’s this greater level that you want to do with the music like? Is there still or entertainment? Is there a higher ceiling that you have there, or are you trying to immediately start to flip into outside other industries um? Well, I have other things going on which helps me focus on what I really love like.

I have never been B business like being different. Real estate things so I have other stuff, that’s operational and I still receive residuals from companies that I’ve done network marketing, but when it comes to influencers and the music, like my goal, like I’m shifting into the next level things I’m learning like at a 3 C, I was really learning like I’m learning from these. I have several mentors in the industry that I look up to like you know, QC, like Coach, K and P.

I really look up to them to have several other ones that I am super close to like footy over. He owns any a, never eat alone studios. They have artists, 24 heavy cash, talk and Mari, so lil. They know that mentor me because they hey. I listen when I talking I’m really listening and that’s the thing is, I don’t know nothing about music, I’m really listening. Even boo, a country like he works with the girls that I work with as well, and I’m really learning I’m literally listening.

Like I’m quiet like I’m nothing about music, nothing that I like, I do so they’re actually mentor me. They don’t really know it. So it helps me to go to the next level and I ask questions even though even working with Jason over at stream cut like I’m literally learning and I like women. Maybe they don’t know that when I asked a question, I’m listening, you know and I’m going to apply that. So it helps polish me because I’m going higher like my goal for 2020 is to get at least three of them.

Sign to a deal are three of the artist influences. A lot of everyone that I work with are influences. They just started you you music, now in it. Yes, some of your music in it really talented, yeah, really dreams of going like eat. Clams ocean come cool, like their song. Savage has over a million streams on Apple music in like a 900k on Spotify. They released this stuff and they wanted articles. Has four million views on these articles for music views on YouTube, so they release stuff, it’s good and they put the same quality of work in as like these bigger artists in and how the industry is a lot of the artists.

Big artists are trying to do the social media trying to get the social media, but they already got it. So a lot of labels are signing them just because of that and they’re getting bigger deals and the best deals that makes sense they bring value. Yes. So for me, what changed me like, I’m shifting from just all just doing this, to trading a solid management company in a solid label, so we’re the ones who are managing I’ll, be able to shift them to the label and hidden.

You know how all those different layers of things work, however, that works, I’m still learning it’s going to happen. Trust me because a lot of them are already being contacted by the law and I’m facilitating a lot of a lot of the label stuff when it comes today. Philosophy because it sounds like it’s what you’re doing or how you think. Primarily you work within the influencer market with translating that into music right and it sounds like that’s the business that takes most of your day-to-day attention.

Yes and but then you mentioned other things that you’re doing Airbnb business, the residual income from network marketing, and maybe any other thing it sounds like you have put energy into other things, but the other thing where you put your money elsewhere, it doesn’t require your attention. Is that correct right? So it’s like you always want to have unlimited, like streams, income, multiple streams of income, so I for the first part of my life, I focus on one thing and then is what it begins: typical my base and every now and then I’ll.

Just kind of like go in and do small things to kind of keep it going. They’re going to be businesslike is just automatic for me, like it’s really easy to do long, as I make sure that I’m managing it. But this is like my main focus because things go up and down. Excuse me, even when it comes to the influencers, there’s different phases of different markets that sometimes it’s high market, like like first of the year spring summer summer, like movement and then like right, now, is kind of like it’s like it’s not super slow.

It’s like not as much because they’re who reached out to me, you got any promos, no I’m working on them nobody’s, especially when how the music industry flows like when it comes to the end of the year, nobody’s really kind of dropping campaigns. Could I want to wait to the first of the year to do that run so I’ll. Make sure that, like my businesses are because once one business here, the other business skin here and keep it going, you know and then in a best world all I’m doing! Well, with the you’ll be all over the place, but do you have to put people in place to kind of run different things, so I put my every business.

I have cleaners that I can hire to come in here and do all these things. You know so. Yeah, it is, it’s super important to make sure you have all that, but that helps me focus on cuz. I’m super passionate about the management, business and the social media, influence and management artists, because, like everyone, I work with this. I’ve been knowing them for like five years, it’s four or five years, and because what Robbie has I’ve been knowing the longest, but I’m it’s a passion when it comes to it like, I really want to see them win because they’re connecting me.

That’s like somebody who I just met not like some people. Some people actually go out to find people to manage my oh. Let me go here, I’m with our managers person. No, they all came to me or or we all knew each other and we figure this thing out. Let’s, how do we make this work? You know and because there’s a different approach, a different passion and it hits different way. Your family with who you work with yeah, so you it’s almost like building from a lifestyle, stand yeah a philosophy.

It’s like I’ve built my life, so I can focus on the area, I’m most passionate about yep and unfortunately, they area that you’re passionate about it’s. Also, a good business yep good, all right. So what do you we’ve talked about these these platforms and obviously you know tik-tok and trailer. We had that conversation which one do you have a favorite one o the other and then, if so, why? In terms of just your personal use, not necessarily saying that other platform is bad um when it comes to like, I just started to really use.

I like tik-tok, because you can really get kind of creative Triller. I like, because it’s for the it’s like more like for the culture like a lot of the artists or using Triller and not just to be biased, but like the trailer fam messes with us, like they work together. So, like I kind of like truly really took us to the office there, and we, you know, told us about you know and it’s simple a lot cuz the platform is very simple and anybody can use it even like an older person can use it.

I think that’s why all the artists, even though the the veteran artists are jumping on and they can just use it or click this you get the song boom, unlike tik-tok, is like all these different things you got. Ta put all these. It’s just it’s crazy that you really have to learn it, but once you learn it you’ll do it. So I mean I would go with trilha first, because it’s it’s a lot simple and it’s like more for the culture and more really what we do.

You know. I work with a lot of the dancers. You know when it comes to social media, and this is a way to go, but they’re, jumping on shoe tick-tock now and they’re, getting a million for holism my mom and going it one of them create as soon as she created. She was at 10,000 followers in an hour. She just started. Posting announced a once on her story and boom. It just started to explode yeah, but tick tock is, is the next wave I like it, because it really can take you to that next level of content, but results.

Oh yeah, each one is just different. It’s going to do something different, I believe, definitely YouTube. You, like YouTube, will change your life and its total is like 9 day, though, because, like ideal is 90 day cuz, I deal with a lot of these real life youtubers in real life instagramers, and sometimes the youtubers looked down on creators like instagram creators like because It’s one of my bros just shake frost and like Robbie that we’re all frenzy to shake shout out to the shake hill.

Why are you doing this like you? Just they don’t they don’t like there’s too much work on Instagram. They believe for a little of nothing because they see it differently but like if you are creator, you were created a lot of the Instagram. I must look at the youtubers, like oh they’re, little douchebags, who do nothing and have no creativity. You know so it’s like night and day like and they battle each other.

Then it’s like clicks like. Oh, this is a youtube click Instagram Cleo. We don’t click together. Like it’s so we’re, like you see this blog, I can go to LA you’ll notice it but they’re all still friends, but it’s like there’s a like dial. We had the YouTube exactly so it’s like it’s it’s night day, but YouTube. Would I’ve seen it bro instagram has changed lines, but I’ve seen a lot of the creator’s get on YouTube and I mean they’re, making twenty thirty thousand a month like we’ve died, read the shade like.

I saw all this do this, but I read the shade, like literally go for nothing to jump on buying a new g-wagen moving his family from one part of the LA to it in the best part of LA and we’re all the parties, because we like we’re Seeing this and I’m like bro, I’m so proud of you just out of nowhere just start to blow up even lana the –, i’m running a lot of the the two girls famous ocean and kungfu.

The two sisters like they have literally they did nothing like – went that they had like almost 300,000 subscribers on youtube and they didn’t even create, but they just started to create these dope articles and like one hit, and we did a prank actually, if this our last Week came from a prank, she did like this prank on her boyfriend. He got really mad. He was like he’s like. I tried to get him down, and this happened, but that article is about to hit a million yeah about the hit of million views.

Is that six hundred, maybe several hundred K now in like a few days and that one article has made, is making like thousands of dollars and I’m like y’all, you see if you create creating, can’t keep pumping and she pumped the next article. It went like a hundred thousand like two hours like if using I keep pumping I’ll keep pumping, keep pumping cuz, that’s money in time. We all have these goals yeah, I want to buy g-wagen.

I want to move your family here. Y’All want to live in these condos, it’s so easy to do because YouTube and came to become like that residual base of your life, where you know you’re going to get 5,000 to 10,000 a month, and then you can go and create yeah just off that article. In doing those articles, that’s going to make you go viral they’re already going viral just to copy. You know it’s so easy to do it.

You sit here and put a ring light up and do whatever it is, and just pranks challenges vlogs like because people wanted their fans can see another perspective of their life. They see the inside. They really want to read that you know and that’s why YouTube is it’s hard though it doesn’t convert, don’t think you’re going to go on Instagram and didn’t blow up your YouTube. No, it’s a whole other different algorithm.

It’s a whole nother different way of doing things and once you’ve figured it out, you can master. You could really do some big things with exactly yep, because they just did one for the first time famous ocean kung-fu, and they had to do what’s called lash BAE with these lashes and they want it like this 30-second 10-second clip in the front, and it was Like honey, that’s like well, it goes in the front, it’s like it was like.

How do I say it? How do I do it, so they got paid a couple thousand to do that. There’s a lot of artists right that have a perspective against doing what your influences are actually right. There’s this conversation where a lot of artists feel like you can’t translate over from an influencer to an artist. It’s my true! I don’t understand he still give themselves to believe that the proof is going to put him that hat.

But what do you? I don’t know? What do you say to this statement like? Well? It’s not true, like I know for a fact, because a lot of the because you could take in like you didn’t notice like a lot of the influences, there were artists they blow it like look. Narthex technically was an influencer troll. That’s why he does the things he does, because it is, you know, and you master and you put things out on certain platforms.

It’s going to blow up and they’re really take talents. It there’s. No, I mean, even if you are not talented, you can get a writer and you can go into the development phase and get a dope beat and it can go. You know it’s just because anything can be created nowadays, but then a lot of them were really passionate about music. So if you’re passionate about it, it’s nothing you can. They can do it, you know, and they got some good stuff in the streams in there I mean I have an influencer that I work with Lovato like he was waiting and freaking Philippines doing.

He was on a YouTube stage exposed to event in a in Asia. Like from a song like, it’s crazy, got verified and blowing up as an artist and with no label. None of that just management. Do you think so, obviously he’s moving a lot of people might not know him right, but do you think that maybe they might kill a lot of artists before they even get started by trying to see that type of popularity and for approval that you don’t really Have to have like, oh this art with the guy you talked about, but oh he’s, killing it and what he’s doing and he and there’s more growth to happen.

But another artist might say: oh well, this isn’t a little baby, alright and I’m trying to be a little baby, and I hear – and I want to have this – this traditional type of record label proper popularity that I’ve seen growing up well, it’s a world is so Big and if you leave that concept alone, you’ll make you’ll do well, you look at artists like Russ. Like live, people don’t even know who he is, but he has stadiums that are packed out and he’s making money and without being like this mainstream name, he has a mainstream name was like mainstreaming in certain niches like us.

We don’t. I never was like it’s weird, because the world is so big like a lot of artists who power like when it come from. They have a million followers and they do a show, and people show up like your fan base. As long as you focus on catering to your fan base and everything else will take off – and it’s good to be like that little baby name or like like that arm, whatever the big names, are it’s good to be that? But you know sometimes if you set your own goal and you said you get what you want like you may just your goal may just perform in front of 30,000 and make you know enough money to live like a superstar and you happy and it didn’t do That somehow, I don’t think some people want to be like, like super super stars, but if you tell us it, you really we’re at some point it’s going to come to that point.

You know whose talent will really take you to the next level. I think that’s important this whole idea that people are still in prison by their own, like local geography were in a world where you don’t have to do that. Yeah right and if you have the time when you said you got ta, find your family. And now you can monetize it without even going and overseas, if you don’t really want to, but of course then going overseas get touring checks or yeah.

Whatever kind of show you can do, give you’re just an influencer, but that’s it’s interesting that people are still confined to those ideas where the door is opening. You look in the other direction, yeah. Okay. My last question that I would like to get to it do: is I brand? What does that word mean to you and how do you protect it? Okay, so brand is super important. So it’s uh, it’s like a speaker spotlight that amplifies the perception of what you’re doing not necessary so a product but like how it’s perceived overall to people in this also like a culture in a way like the experience.

So the brand is like a culture experience. This is like a speaker, that’s speaking, that’s amplifying everything about you, what you’re doing or what you have to offer with a spotlight on it. Yes, because you’re kind of choosing that amplification area versus the other aspects of you myself, all right, just like Apple in a way Apple Bryn is not the iPhone or the iPod is the brand, is the coolness of the product.

The way it’s perceived like? Oh I’m going to getting the Apple, because this is the best for creativeness. It goes beyond the products, even the boxing. Oh, this phone looks cool or the camera like it goes beyond just what it is. How do you protect the brain? Well, you protect your brand by knowing well first doing what’s right in serving the way you should serve and providing a product or service to people the right way and things happen, handle it because all brands go through phase with this bad press, but you just handled It respond, you know or fix a lot of people take like different reviews and different things that they’re saying that’s wrong offensive.

No, it helps you to become a greater greater product, a greater brand, a greater person. So, like I mean you protect it by responding the right way in and adjusting and also being putting yourself in a position to where you could stay relevant. There’s a lot of these brands like go obsolete because they don’t adjust to what’s going on just like Blockbuster and Netflix. You know so you have to be ahead of the curve you have to understand, keep reading it, keep studying, what’s happening in the world and shift what your brand to roll with the flow.

Everybody is keep Dorsey once again, really dope social-media, influencer manager, but obviously an artist manager now, and I think he’s going to be somebody that is just going to be one read over the years and obviously the people connected with them because he’s already killing it already With your IG is young, young buzz doesn’t see you. I know I was going to forget a part of it, so I’m going to put all that.

You know I’m on the bottom of the screen, make sure y’all follow them, reach out to them. Hope they don’t flood you too hard. You know, look it’s all of that. Just do what you need. I can handle it. I can handle it, but this is the first of a series brand or a die again. We’ve talked to meaningful and individuals. Who’ve been a part of building, I’m a great brand or have great insights on branding themselves.

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How The TikTok Formula Will Transform Music Industry (It Already Is!!!)

Com, because I saw myself now we got to talk about two major ways that tick tock is it’s ruining music and a lot of people’s opinion, but really the impact will be everlasting and A lot of people aren’t even seeing it right now all right for me. It started on January 22nd of 2018, when I said there would be a unique artist with a unique hit.

That’s only 15 seconds long, but some people didn’t take it too. Well, people are saying things like absolutely not lol. I can’t see it being 15 seconds I wouldn’t enjoy it. Maybe 30 seconds see I’m a push back on that, because there’s already some 15 seconds hits out there and y’all actually probably know of them. Michie got moves said. I rebuke that in the name of Jesus and Bull City, Dion said maybe 30 seconds, but not 15 seconds.

That’s not enough time for anything, but understand. I’m not saying that everybody will create 15-second music, not intentionally at least, but I am saying the format will become more popular and hits will occur and before I get into that, what better way to actually make the point then starting with music in the first place. So we’re going to show some examples of why this has already been present in some ways anyway in music over the years, because there’s been a lot of odd moments in music.

So, let’s start with rowdy, which, though, if you know about rowdy rich rowdy rich, is a rapper from Compton. He’s really been rising it up starting in 2018, and he has a song with marshmallow EDM producer. The song is called project dreams. It’s about two to three minutes, long, that’s it, but somebody actually took this song and they looked it for an hour, and I know that sounds weird, just listening to the same song, looped and loop in luton and looped it for an hour.

But for one we do like to hear certain songs on repeat, but this song being looped for an hour sounds absurd. However, I’m not going to lie when I was playing this just to see what it sound like. I end up long portion of this, and I was feeling it personally but check out some of these comments as well. Now, out of all these comments, the most interesting one is Jase Jones. This is my second time listening to this in a year.

Oh and if you go to the article you’ll see that his comment isn’t the only one like that, so just being able to listen to one song again and again and again and again and again is interesting. So if you want to argue for the 15 second hit, let’s think about the fact that some people say that’s too short. But don’t we already listen to songs and repeat so? Maybe people might want to just loop that for like three minutes and then they still get their feel just like.

We listen to other songs and repeat and just listen and listen and listen. Even if you think about how certain production is made. Some people literally take 15 seconds nine seconds 20 seconds of a beat and then they’ll loop it and that creates the entire beat for the song. So that’s something to consider as well. For example, this song by a group named mandrill is called children of the Sun. Came out in 1972 people and it’s a five-minute song.

You know it used to make some long songs back then. This is probably short for a song back then, but what’s important is from 314 in this track to 325 there’s this portion of the song. That sounds nothing like the rest of the song in that portion. That 11 second stretch was actually repeated again and again and again in a song called. They know by shawty low for three minutes long, so they took an 11 second sample and then literally just looped.

It for three minutes, and that became a hit when you think about something like that is not even that foreign of a concept I would play the two songs and instead, I’m going to put them in the description below just because you know YouTube with these. Copyright strikes, I ain’t trying to get one and I’ll make sure I provide the timestamp below as well, so you can easily see where they match up, but let’s play some other songs that were legitimate hits in their time.

That song only had six unique words in it: the entire song and we talked about format and why it happened. It’s going to be a glaring insight for you to understand why tick tock is going to be a huge part of this moment in a way that some people don’t understand, but here’s another song only has about 15 unique words in it. Here’s another song with only a few sentences and here’s another song with only a few sentences.

Now, while I use so many examples, well just to show the range, if you’re already able to have songs to only have a few words in it again and again, and they become hits or songs, they have the same beat over and over and again and they Become Beats, or you have songs that only have like two or three sentences and the whole song, and all these things that become hits in their own way. It’s not so bizarre when you think about it that way to have a short song, especially when you think about the capability for it to just be looped.

Just like the marshmallow Andrade, Rich project, dreams track and as a reminder, you can see links to any of the articles or just music that I’m referencing in the description below. But let’s get back to tick, tock, so co2 child fast. Now some people actually know the song. Some people don’t realize they’ve heard the song, but trust me there’s a good chance that you might have heard this song. So, but let me go ahead and play the snippet buzz fo hundred on the fifty five bills per city.

Footage now I played a real short snippet of stepping at the beginning of this article because it took off on tick-tock and fast did the same thing, and this is where it gets interesting, though, because if you go to the YouTube article, that’s where you can listen To the full track versus just you know, being on tick-tock, look in the comments and you’ll see something pretty interesting. Business from area 51 said at six seconds: tick tock has entered the check in at 22 seconds tick.

Tock has left to chat. Now that’s about 16 seconds when that adds up, but even somebody named babby BAC said maybe 20 seconds actually so that takes it down to 14 seconds either way it goes. You can see we’re straddling this 15 seconds that I’m talking about. So what exactly does that allude to? What does it mean? Well, the big point that I made in my original article is musically, first and foremost, because musically was the thing back then it was it tick tock, but you get it they’re.

The same thing at this point and on musically people be listening to this content right, I might take a song, let’s just say, fast, existed back then, and then I’m listening to multiple people take the exact same loops from the song and then also dance to that Song for the most part, because either I’m a content creator, I’m trying to jump in so I’m going to take that same 15 seconds or I’m the listener and I’m just reading all these different pieces of content.

But I’m not necessarily going back to the same song. So to clarify the impact of that and what that actually looks like, let’s think about the platform, tick-tock who’s, taking the challenge method right, and they basically put that on crack. It’s exploded. It’s a far greater version that then we’ve seen on any other app at the time. I’m recording this article, the music article for fast, has four million views.

Now, if we go to Spotify, we can see that there’s 31 million streams of it and I’m sure it’s around that number as well somewhere on Apple. That’s a lot of place, people for it to have blowing up on that platform because for y’all who don’t know so good, a child did use tik tok to blow this song up. But at the end of the day, if you go back to tick tock, you see three million. Ninety seven thousand 44 post on fast.

What does that mean? That’s not streams right! That’s not place! That’s unique articles that was created on this, so you’re talking about four million views on the music article versus three million different articles, no telling how many individual plays each article collectively got in this category, but what we can do is just scroll a look at a Few of them this one article on fast got 2.4 million streams, this other one 1.

7 million 1.6 million – where are already clearly above the amount of place for the music article 1.3 million 1.2 million 1.2. 1.2. 1.1. All right now just 70 that, like we’re slowly getting down there right, but it’s going to take a while, and we have three million of these articles. So I guarantee you that these articles add up to over 31 million streams. So, let’s stop and think about a few things one.

You will have a lot of people we’ll hear this and then they go find it in other places because they’re like yo. I really like this song and then some of those views on the music article and the streams on Spotify they’re, coming from completely outside of tick-tock people, and I hadn’t seen it on tick-tock. So there’s a huge portion on tick-tock. That only saw the articles posted on the platform, and this is really going to lead to this second huge impact that tick tock is going to have that I’ll mention at the end of the article.

But for now focusing on this, you have to realize this means that a lot of people only know the intro. Basically, they only know a hook to the song, basically even further an article on the ringer that com called memes or the new pop stars how tick tock became the future of the music industry has a quote by a guy named Jack. Who’s worked at companies like planned, hora and United masters, and he said, YouTube created a class of five-minute content.

I’m curious if tick-tock will create the 15 or 60-second song and then that journalist writes the error of the tick-tock single is upon us, and why are they saying this? Well, one of the big arguments that I stated on why I see the 15-second song as a real thing and a real possibility is because it’s all about formatting. They mentioned YouTube just because of the amount of time that it allowed of content to be posted.

But then, at the end of the day, when people were playing around with the amount of time that actually creates an effective article on YouTube at a specific era, it was around 5 minutes right and it’s all about what the actual platform allows. Tick-Tock does allow for. 60-Second content, which is why the person in the quote said the 15 or 60 seconds song but 13 to 15 seconds, is where you see the most viral post consistently on tick-tock and that’s important to consider.

So we were thinking about content and format, restrictions, particularly around the success right where people are finding that people are going to mimic the areas and things that give them success on specific platforms and the limitations of whatever the success formula is is how people will adjust To once the content creators are just to it, then you have the consumers who become adjusted as well, because they are consuming that consistently somebody who’s born in nineteen, eighty or nineteen ninety something it might not be completely adjusted to listening to really short music into them.

It sounds absurd, but then you have somebody else coming up that is used to that format. They hear a lot of the content and consume these bite-sized pieces. So it’s not that bad of a concept and to truly solidify how it’s not just whatever we want to create what we think sounds good and more about the restrictions, the forces to do things differently if we still want to find the same success, let’s revisit the Old song that I mentioned earlier in this article fly Robin fly now remember the thing that was so unique about.

This was the fact that it only had six unique words in the entire song. We can count it out on the screen, but what’s more interesting is when you find out why they had only six unique words in the song? So here’s the truth. The group who sang that song, his name is silver convention silver convention is a West German euro disco recording act right. The group is not from America, and English is not their native language.

So when actually writing a song that they wanted to become a hit, they knew they couldn’t just create an entire song in German that would become a hit over in the US if they could. That would be really really hard. So, let’s just opt for creating a song in English. However, if the entire song was too intricate a unique, it was going to be far too many words for them to remember personally, so they needed to make it super simple and something that they could easily remember and perform over and over again the restrictions that they Faced in this case, not knowing English well enough to really be able to remember it forced them to create a different type of hit.

It just so happens making it super simple for themselves made it super simple for everybody else to remember right and now you can think about other people who don’t know English and those other languages. Now that you can know the whole song, because you’re only saying six words so before we get into how tick tock is secretly warping, genres and music in ways that people do not realize. I got a question if you sing something right.

If you dance to a piece of content, if you remember it, and then you hum it over and over again, what’s the difference? Is that not a song? Does that not qualify or do we have to go by what somebody else’s definition is of a song? Is I’d argued that this is why, again and again, from generation and generation, we’re always arguing what’s real music and was not real music, we’re trying to define something undefinable so what’s to say that 15 seconds isn’t a song now I do understand that there’s a large Amount of people that waits for a larger group of people or some sort of perceived authority to acknowledge something before they can see that it’s happening, but ignoring the fact that this thing is happening right now.

This really isn’t a future thing. It’s truly happening already in its own way, not being able to do this, just because it hasn’t been acknowledged in media. There’s, no clear data for this. It’s the same thing as waiting until 2016-17, where people are like yo hip-hop is the number one genre just because streaming allowed for people to truly measure his impact, even though it had already been number one for like 15-20 years.

People who pay attention see this when it’s happening, and they understand it early on. It’s usually the big corporations right in the larger media that wait to understand these things because they’re at the top, which leads back to exposing tick-tocks influence on music and again. Here’s another quote from the wringer article and you’ll be able to find a link to that article in the description below, but a 16 year old girl said this who’s using tick-tock heavily, but she actually has this Instagram page that has compilations of tick-tock.

But anyway, the quote said: I didn’t really listen to rap before I got really invested into tick-tock, but I’ve been listening to a lot more starter rap, which I have no idea. What starter rap is because of it. The thing to really think about and hone in on from this particular quote, is the fact that the reason she wasn’t listening to hip-hop or rap was because you know that just wasn’t what she was into.

I guess right or that wasn’t her environment. She didn’t perceive it as something for her. Maybe she didn’t even like it. She felt like not a not for me, based on the surface level perception of what’s going on in hip-hop. However, when she got on Tik Tok right hip-hop is that genre there’s so much of the music is borrowing from so with that being said, she’s looking at all this content, these 15 seconds newbies and I’m being entertained through dance and these other types of content that Are happening on the platform, but the backdrop of this content is the music and a lot of this music happens to be rap.

That slowly builds familiarity. It becomes a gateway into the genre itself and that’s something that people who want to even bring more influence into a certain genre should keep in mind. If you want to bring more influence into a genre, then you need to hone in on platforms like this and get let’s say your entire drama. You can get all here all together if I’m in lo-fi or just some kind of weird nondescript type genre and then get those people to run campaigns and become familiar with people or get people to become familiar with you through other forms of content.

Because now, once they’ve warmed up right, once they’re primed to understanding and just like snippets of you, the next step is an entire song that goes for an individual artist. That goes for a jammer at home, and it goes for so many other variations of what you’re trying to introduce people to this is where it starts, because at the end of the day the truth is people always say things like I’m not going to listen to Certain type of music – I don’t listen to this.

I don’t do this, but at the end of the day it’s not words but behavior that determines the actual result. So when you even think about the fact that you know there’s some people who are like man, I would never do this. I would never do that or when somebody got beat up and then one of the homies or somebody else was reading on reading the article. No one ever took that. I wouldn’t do that if I was doing but then the truth is they probably would have at the end of the day.

What a lot of people do not know is humans, love to project themselves into situations and inform you of how they would act, but humans are also very poor at judging how they would act in particular situations. I know I know you might be special. You might be different, but just generally speaking, this is the truth. People poorly predict and incorrectly overestimate the action of the masses based on their own opinion, but then equally they underestimate how much their actions will be affected by the behavior of the.

In short, people’s conscious projections, of who they are often disagrees with their subconscious, which has far greater impact on their actual action, and it might have something to do with the fact that a lot of times people often talk and know more about who they want to Be versus who they actually are, and this is why marketing and branding works on people again and again and again. This is why politicians sway people’s opinions again and again and again, because when it comes to media masses and just content in general, a lot of things begin to happen.

Whether we like it or not, whether we know it or disagree with there or not. And it’s not a matter of opinion, though the 15 second song is here and if you think about it, there’s probably a song that you know that you only know 15 seconds of even before tick-tock II probably grew up just knowing a certain part of certain songs. You never knew the whole song all right in your head, that song is already a 15-second hit.

Yes, there’s a complete version out there, but the part that’s known, the part that has the greatest impact and Reach is only 15 seconds, and as always, this article is brought to you by brandman network.Com, because I sign myself, we have artists, develop their brand and build Their fan base, so if you like this article, go ahead like button, if you like it might as well share and if you’re not subscribed, you know what to do.

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How To Get TikTok Famous P3/4 | Make Your Music Go Viral On TikTok

Com, because I saw myself now we ought to talk about how an artist can get their music popping on tik tok. That simple, but there’s two things in this article that are extremely relevant, because this is part three of a four part series on how to get moving on tick-tock. So there’s two things that we are going to go over in this article right here: one: should your music even be on tick-tock in the first place, because a lot of people are going to like hear the wave and follow the wave, because that’s what people love To do alright, they’re going to say yo music is popping on tick-tock.

I need to get on tech talk about want to blow up like these other guys like little knives X like SuperDuper. You know there’s so many people, but everybody’s music doesn’t work into the tick-tock formula right, there’s a square and you might have a circle or vice versa, or whatever that’s saying is so we’re going to talk about how you can kind of identify that and then some Of our ladies into the second part, which is what is the tick-tock formula for your music, we’re going to talk about some of it just some of the sauce? Alright, so one to understand if your music works on chick talk first, you got ta kind of consider.

Why a lot of people were ignoring when I was saying before that she needed to get on musically right? I did articles back in like January or February of 2018, saying yo musically is that thing and a lot of people need to really really make more use of it and then in 2018 still, but in August of 2018, when they merged. I was still like yo brah y’all got to use this thing, but a huge part of why people couldn’t understand that it’s because tick tock has a younger user base than when we think about Instagram, because Instagram, I’m just going to say Instagram, because Instagram is it’s.

Like that main thing, it’s the main cool thing Twitter. It’s like something that everybody uses at this point, but they’re all in their own pockets. Youtube is just like TV, everybody uses it. You know I mean, then Facebook gets looked at as the old thing, but we look at tick-tock a lot of their like users were like 15 and below at the beginning, all right and now people are starting to get older and older, and now some of that Influence is also moving up into their big brothers and and just other people, as the word starts, to get out there yo.

This is a thing and, as other people start to experiment and bring their own types of fan, bases or interest groups on to the platform. So for a lot of people before, if you didn’t have music that cater to that fan base or that fan base was relevant to then you weren’t even looking at it, it wasn’t even relevant, but one that’s a bad way to look at things sometimes because sometimes All you need is that younger group to influence and get you popping and moving, and then you might find a fan base, that’s more relevant to you in terms of going out to your shows.

It can be used that way as well, but think about this, though, how relevant is it to your fan base or your type of people on there? And then we can look at Triller as an alternative, there’s tick tock, and then there is trailer. Trailer Aires is pretty much more hip-hop R & B based, and is it simple enough because there’s a lot of songs when we think about tick, tock and the ones that are moving most of them are relatively simple, not to say that you can’t be an outlier, But just know that you’re working against the formula at that point and kind of along the same lines as the age thing.

Do you see people that look like the fan base that you want to have on the platform? Take that time do that research get into those categories and niches and all that good stuff and see if it’s even making sense for you to get on there. It is a great space, but it’s not a great space for everybody, but I’m going to get into that a little bit more as I’ll talk about other things in this article, like the formula for success that a lot of people are using for now, though, let’s Bring out screen share Sean well, first of all, how do you get your music on tick tock? Well, we have a article completely dedicated to that.

You can find a link to that article in the description below and other than that, though, we got a look at the fact that there’s so many people blowing up on the platform, and this is going to lead to the tips right. So let’s use low Nozick’s with otero so get a child, and super duper humble stepping we’re interested in seeing some other rappers and their songs that blew up there’s. Actually, an entire playlist has been created by a youtuber named Patrick CC.

So in my process of doing this article, I said you know what let me see what somebody else is already saying. I happen to stumble across this guy’s article. He has some really dope articles. I readed his tick tock article and like two other articles, but he created this entire list of rappers that blew up. I’m tick tock having their song so I’ll. Put that link in the description. Um y’all want to check it out on soundcloud and then also y’all.

Go check out, Patrick CeCe’s blog, and now what are some of the things that contribute to success when it comes to having a song that blows up on tick-tock. Now we can, when we get into the strategy and targeted omnipresence and approach that I’ve talked about in so many other forms of marketing. That applies here as well, but when we think about tick, tock specific, even the type of music that tends to find success on tick tock is similar.

If you go listen to that playlist or if you go just look at the songs that I already listed, everything a lot of times is about. This beat drop right, it’s like the music is playing, and the next thing you know there’s this hard bass beat drop. Where people are able to do something interesting when that beat happens, let’s think about the example O’town role, because you know I don’t really want to play people’s music and stuff like that anymore, to get y’all familiar, I’m not trying to get any YouTube copyright strikes.

So we think about Oldtown role. You already know it’s doom doom doom doom and then you know you get into the whole base drop your the old town, roll starts and all that good stuff right and then the huge base drop happens. When you get. I got my horses in the back that whole thing is when everybody starts to make something interesting happen. You will see this formula again and again and again and then another common thing.

That’s really hopeful and it’s more of an SEO thing search. Engine optimization is the song names being the most recognizable part of the song as well, so think about solution has fast right in the first thing that he says when it gets to the most recognizable. Part of the song is first and of course, we all know we’re little nice XS Old Town Road. So this leads to another thing, which is the simplicity of those songs.

The song have lyrics that people can hear. Clearly it’s not too fast right. There are some fast songs that have taken off like Eminem’s, rap God, but that’s also Eminem, and the way that took off was more of people playing with the fact that it was so fast that it was almost a joke. And I personally say: that’s probably one of the walkies tick tock mean challenges. I’ve seen so, as always as I always make clear, there’s always exceptions to rules and things like that when we think about creativity.

However, what’s working a lot a lot? Is these simple songs? Recognizable lyrics easy to understand and easy for them to interpret to actually do things based on what they hear in the actual song now alright. So this is a basic formula for you to start with. Now, when it comes to me, I do have a more personal, specific formula that I use it’s a lot more comprehensive and it’s really dependent on the person it’s about helping them design their own campaign and where exactly that fits into the landscape.

Now, I’m not going to go all deep into mine right here, but before I get out of here, I want to say: do recognise that you can go live and make money on this platform for those y’all who haven’t seen any of the other articles in this Series, because this is article number three out of the four part – tick tock series you can go, live and make money as artists. This is a great way for you make income.

If you have built a following on tick tock, because then, when you go live, you are able to take donations now again: tick tock, there’s a 50 % of that money that comes through so that part sucks. But it is one of the easier ways to make income in general, so sometimes making 50 % of money that comes a little bit easier is a lot better for people who are having trouble to get fans to go into one of their own platforms at all.

To give them some money and that’s pretty much it. Those are the basics to keep in mind when thinking about promoting a music on tick tock, but also keep in mind that if you need some hell designing campaigns and getting influencers for tik-tok us at brandman Network, you can check us out at the link in the Description below specific to tick, tock right, because we have a database of over a thousand tick tock influencers and we can figure out where to connect you, and not.

Only that, though, help design where the music should be placed. What else should go into the campaign? And all the smaller nuances that go into campaign design, but other than that. As always, this article is brought to you by brain man network calm, because I saw myself if you like this article go ahead and like, but if you liked it might as well share it if you’re not subscribed, you know what to do.

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How To Choose Your Online Platforms As A New Artist And Grow Your Music Brand

Com. This particular clip is with Russ B. What are we talking about a subject that a lot of artists don’t get into enough? It’s more than just. How do I build a fan base on Instagram, it’s more about? How do you choose where you blow up? It gets so much deeper and nuanced.

So I’m going to go ahead and let Russ V talk and then I’m going to give you all some gems at the end. So you know you know how in another, in other paths like you know, if you’re trying to be a doctor or a lawyer, there’s kind of like a set path or patterning or things that you need to do like you need a good I school or college Or grad school in it, you know, there’s like there’s a way to track your progress per se.

Yeah, there’s like a lot of different things that you know as an artist that you can that you can do that. You might, you might not necessarily know if they’re like the right things to do, or it’s just just a lot of different things that you can do like performing trying to get on somebody’s tour or you know, going and network out with music executives or like really Honing and focusing all your attention on social media like just a lot of different things that you can do so.

My question to you is with, I guess some of the stories and comic story that you’ve heard recently. What are some of the most important avenues? I guess I’ll call them to like focus on when you’re trying to you know when you want to come up trying to do it and make it for yourself yeah. Well, obviously the elephant in the room is social media. You know, that’s the most obvious. I don’t think social media is everything some people preach that it’s Dan they’re everything I don’t believe is everything, but I believe you know it is what it is and you do have to play to it.

After that, I would say really just really just um like creating. I feel like a lot of artists, are waiting on like a label or like to be big to like actually monetize the dip themselves and actually like create their brand identity. I think that some artists should be doing on the ground level. I think you should in in 2019. I don’t care if you have seven fans. If you have seven fans, you need to sell seven t-shirts.

You know I’m saying you need to you need to like brand yourself now, because that’s actually the whole game. You know you look at like Travis Scott’s and everything and they’ll sell 500,000 and actually sell 500,000. He was selling clothes. Nikki was right, you know I’m Sam, but that’s actually the way these artists coming in the game now, especially like going into like this next decade, like yeah artists, should you know our artists with a thousand fans without a deal should be selling like 200? Something 200 pieces of experience to two hundred people.

You know um and I think once artists really have that mindset of just like complete independence and just like figuring it out like like, like a real business. That’s really like that’s really the route to go. You know what I’m saying so as far as like. What’s most important, I really can’t say anything is more important. I’ll tell you one thing: as an independent artist, don’t focus on radio, don’t focus on television um! Those things.

Are they don’t matter boy? As far as the club’s you can you know without the clubs but depending on where you live, I wouldn’t suggest it. You know you said you’re in like Idaho, I’m in the Iowa right now so Iowa you can skip out on the clubs yeah I mean like that’s, not good, [, Laughter ]. You can probably skip out on the cloud, but you know it also really depends on the artist man. I can’t stress that enough.

Some artists are YouTube’s dream. Some artists are Spotify as dream. Some artists are: are the shit on Twitter? Look at lil Nozick’s, some artists. You know is really depend on the artist. You know some artists are hard. Are you know? It really just depends on the artist man, because, depending on what you’re talking about who you’re talking to all of these different things, that’ll tell you where you belong.

You know if you’re, if you love dancing and you’re 16 years old, and you rap I’m not going to tell you, go to Twitter, I’m going to tell you go tick-tock, you know what I’m saying I’m going to tell you go to Triller, I’m not going to Tell you go to Twitter in there, so it really depends on who you are and um. You know the type of music you’re making and all of that alright, alright, I got a start here.

Brush v said something that was, it was pretty big. I don’t know if you caught it, but he said. Branding yourself is the whole game. Today he said go ahead and get that merch started. You have seven fans, you should be able to sell seven shirts and get that whole business in line, because branding yourself is the whole game. Is that true? I wonder I know a lot of people are wondering that, yes, it is true in so many ways when we look at the fact that so many of the artists are looking at.

How do I flip the brand that I built into actual income when we look at the top of the Billboard charts and that’s where artists, even the big artists, will have a whole lot of streams right? Who have all these record sales quote-unquote, whatever they’re? Still looking to monetize outside of music, you need to be building your infrastructure to do that as soon as possible. It doesn’t mean that you can’t focus on building your music and getting your streams.

First, a lot of people still need to start there, but at the same time breath you got to monetize right and to monetize, and especially, if you want to consider yourself independent means you have to have business systems in place. You have to know what your merge plan is going to look like you, don’t have to sell merch immediately but know what the plan is going to look like start getting into those designs.

Get an idea of what your system would look like other things that you can sell on other ways that you can monetize outside of just a regular tour show right. Can I do private sessions with my fans somehow online? How can I connect with them and what kind of calls can I do? Maybe there’s there’s so many different things that you can touch on. Maybe I do shoutouts to my fans, birthday shoutouts was my friend fans they charge, for maybe I don’t charge for it.

There’s so many ways to flip this, you know, maybe you can write little custom songs for your fans, there’s so many ways to flip it, but you have to get those business business systems in place and see the opportunities because, especially as an indie right, you want To be able to figure out how you’re going to bring in more income – and you are a business and your brand is the core of how you flip that brain, because we’re not working on needs.

This is Anna knees markets where we’re selling soap, or I mean you know some people argue that your needs so but we’re selling – I don’t know some medicine or something like that that people need to live. They don’t need your music, so you need to have a brand that makes them want to make some kind of exchange with you. That’s first and foremost, we got to start there. Of course, there’s some people who just have music and most of their business and is built on selling music through placements and and you know just scoring and in so many other ways of monetizing music, where you don’t have to be a front facing artist.

But if you want people to see your face as an artist and you’re building that type of brand, the typical celebrity artists brand, whether it’s a huge, celebrity or a minor, celebrity you’re trying to build a brain, and that is the core. That’s what it’s all about. Now something else I know, a lot of people are really weird on this pick, your platform everybody’s, like you know. Why are we even talking about this? Because we already know what the platforms are? We already know that you need to be on IGN YouTube or we need to be on.

I don’t know, maybe tick tock today. I know that that’s what some people are thinking, but the reality is no. You need to be able to reverse engineer and we’ll talk about that in a second, your particular brain, and how you decide where your particular brand and fan base will lead you to a particular platform. Why is that? If well here’s a perfect example there’s an artist. I just spoke to we were sitting down yesterday and he was telling me that most of his fans right are on Facebook double his fan base, and this isn’t like some old guy he’s a pretty young guy um and he has there’s a matter of fact.

And it’s not even like he only has a little views on YouTube. He has articles with a million views, but he’s like literally, if my article has 1 million organic views on YouTube, then I have 2 million on Facebook and really, I think one particular article. I probably added up to like 13 million on Facebook went with all the people who shared it to other blogs and other bigger blogs on Facebook. That started to you know posted and get views themselves.

So when you think about this, you got to remember at the end of the day. Where are you the best fit, and I always try to tell people, even if you’re winning a game? If it’s not your game, you’re, probably losing right chances are you’re losing. So what does that mean in this practical situation? That might look like you doing your thing on Instagram, I’m a hundred thousand followers, maybe five hundred thousand followers and getting good engagement and all that stuff.

But maybe if you were doing the exact same thing almost on tik-tok, you might have two million followers and and who knows what your engagement or maybe you should be on YouTube? Alright. So, even if you’re winning don’t get stuck in the fact that you’re winning to keep you from experimenting and finding, if there’s someplace better and don’t just listen to the general places that people are talking about.

Because all of these things at the end of the day are opportunities that we talked about, but they don’t mean that you need to be there and that’s the beauty of reverse engineering where you belong. There’s a few questions that you can ask that can help with this. So here they are number one. What are your strengths? Are you really really good with the vigils or your visuals funny? Are they really short and using you’re good at doing that? Really short content? Do you need long-form? Do you do good at telling stories? What are your strengths? Are you really great with lyrics since there’s so many types of strengths figure out what those strengths are number two? Where is your audience? This is a huge one right, your potential audience, not the people that you want to follow you, the people who are likely to follow you.

Where do they spend a lot of attention? But that’s not the last thing because we know there’s, you know big platforms that have some of everybody’s audience. So that’s not the only thing number three. What type of content do you to create? Remember we already talked about whether your strengths. What is that lean towards this should help you and inform you on the type of content that you want to create, because you should want to create something in the lane of your strengths, because it’s going to make it easier.

Not only you to do one article but to create content at scale, and we know that social media. You know quantity is a very real thing. Those simple questions, your: what are your strengths? What type of content do you want to create, and where is your audience? That’s a great place to start, because then you start to look at the platforms and say what are the platforms with all of this criteria in consideration actually speak to these things and where I need to go.

Listen from there and figure it out from there and that’s pretty much it is that simple, because after that, it’s all experimentation. So once again, this is another episode of inside the network. What is inside the network, where we show you inclusive clips and artist sessions from inside brandman network.Com to show you how we go deeper into the artist process? And we can go back and forth as opposed to just answering these one-off questions and get the nuances of whatever your situation is.

So we can give you a custom answer for you, but not just a custom. Q & A session we’re building your marketing strategy with you. We’re building your advertising strategy with you and even greater with so many people need, is just developing your brand, which is the foundation that you do the rest of that mess on top of in the first place. So keep that in mind, especially if you’re an artist on a budget, you can’t afford a full-time marketer.

We help develop you into the systems that can market for you. We become your ongoing marketing and business managers and mentors. So we can help you build those branding and marketing systems where you don’t have to actually need a full-time marketing manager. You can do these things yourself, but it takes true progress and guidance versus just taking random information and trying to piecemeal it together and then starting back at square one after a year, hard time of work.

We’re seeing artists make far more progress in four months than they made in one or two years of just reading or in consuming random information from other places on the internet. That’s another episode of inside the network. Thank you. There are a couple of calls. What’s been your impression of the network or your experience so far, you like it man, I like how there’s the cause I mean only joined like less than a week ago and I’ve already.

This is my third call already so like I feel like it’s very you’re. Very approachable like if I had an urgent question: I’ve run out of questions already.


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Best Strategy For Artists With NO Budget

That could be platform that you personally like to use this on a daily basis that this platform that you feel like we really be beneficial for you to just like you know, learn how to master and then really dive in to study how those platforms work. Look at how they crunching out you don’t sound like how what different types of things triggered an algorithm on these platforms.

What type of content moves them up the best on these platform like as far as like natively level? What content do you make before the platform at booth 3? Well, and then look at things like whether other different factors that affect the way content spreads out right, like Instagram is half size. You see with keywords and thumbnails all this shit dive into all of that shape for the platform that you want to, go it and then just get into the game of like content creation for a consistent concentration, because that’s something that you should be figuring out anyway.

We always have the big thing with our comforting life, so we can spend like thousands of dollars on you and ad dollars, but if you’re not doing shit business, I’ve been there situation with someone that a shit ton of money spent on Adler when doing anything all Right all these people are coming back to you, but you have anything like the constant bodies so, like I’m really big on even before you start to put money into yourself, figure out that content foundation that we’re talking about anyway pick your two platforms that you’re going To go hard on the exhaust, you saw she from Tommy content for these exhaustion.

Monetarily be my little pig to now really good. I should learn a game and I should dive into it and then once she mastered the consistency part like once you go like okay cool. I know that I can comfortably put out X amount of articles a month, these entire solarium pieces of content, and I see what is reacting and not reacting even with the small audience. I feel. If you do all these things right, you will get an audience.

It’ll be slow, but you really start to get audience then, once you get that down, that’s the point when I think you should start going like who let me spend money on those a lot you’ve already laid a foundation at that point is easy. It’s just putting leniency should their brain from people into the funnel right. So that’s what I’ve been doing on too much YouTube right now, just like one article a week, every Sunday just you’re starting to build it up, I think is definitely slow right now, but no I’m definitely sure if these are going to pick up this time.

It’s triggered by the actions of audience. So when you have no audience you just really going on for like cold, whatever the fuck, you put a special youtubers one, that’s like you choose hard. Cracking YouTube, really takes a lot of a lot of like consistent person. I read something, whereas I, the algorithm, doesn’t really start to fuck with you. That means you get close to like 100 poker. So I don’t know how accurate that number is.

But I know like all these platforms, pretty much like categorize you and they look for certain things that you do to live in Miller. Okay, this is a person, that’s actively Chomp growing platform, or this is the president just like cat. So the more of the ways as we played a game on the platforms away today, once you play the more Suze, they start to do your account and then go like okay who this person wants to grow on Instagram, but this person wants to grow on YouTube.

Now, let’s see if their content measures up to whatever par – let’s put it in there put it in front of a certain Google people see how they react to it and posted with it, and I go I for the best. You push them more of their content out. So, like that’s the game, you have to get into playing. If you don’t have any money like I said, I think you should get into the game before you start spending mind yourself anyway, once you get it down, the spinning money part becomes easy, and then, by that point you own the platform’s long enough.

That you know are, who are the influences, that move shit into space on satellite word accounts that move shit into space for the people that move shit into space? What type of content works best for these? Probably because you’ve been in them so much. I, like you, you’ve, been in that shit, so my school, that’s a lot of shit. We do just as marketers in general a lot of the ideas that we give. This come from our reverse engineering shit that we saw in the platform that we like, like I’m like, oh shit.

You know I saw this. I found this artist because I saw a beam on just one account like shit. What happened if I make them leave this place on down to start my eyes, the decide to figure out how the game is played, and then I used to play it to feel what you make and then once you get it out stock, your bread or get Your budget gives it going


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TikTok Music Promotion Results And Platform Comparisons | How To Use To For Music Marketing

I really don’t understand this thing. I decided to go ahead and do a free training using real campaigns and I’m going to go through some real results, but also explaining it in a way that if you get tick-tock in this way, it will be a game-changer for you with your music. I promise not only that, no matter what type of music you have and no matter what age and you’ll see why.

So, let’s start here Muse, seven hundred and thirty, four thousand nine hundred views on this particular campaign. Twenty seven thousand eight hundred and ninety nine likes two thousand six hundred and sixty one shares and eighty-seven articles have been generated from this campaign. Now, let’s look at the finer details, though, because this is where it becomes more important for those views than views came out at point: zero, zero, one, one, five cents per view: that’s a fraction of a penny, twenty seven that will the same thing for the likes Shares were thirty, one cents per share and articles came in at nine dollars and seventy seven cents per article now you might not have Rannoch tick tock campaign, so I want to ask you in general: do you feel like these are good results for anything they’re? Not the worst results in the world I’ll tell you that, but they are the worst results that I’ve ever gotten on tick tock.

This was a situation where the artist had some business issues in the back end where the campaign didn’t even come to fruition like it was supposed to it had to halt mid campaign. But we still got these results and I’m going to go through the rest of results before I talk about some more aspects of tic TOCs, so check this out right here that same campaign just market it on tick, tock got some streams.

They’ve got about 1700 streams and those streams came out at 49 cents per stream industry average, and you have a really good play on this broker: you’re, probably going to see around two to four cents per stream. This was at 49 cents, but remember this is over time we just marketed on tick-tock and it bled over to here same thing for YouTube about about 1800 views on the YouTube article 47 cents per view.

You can get lower. You can get better than on YouTube. If you are dangerous enough, you learn it well enough. It’s easy to get 1 to 5 cents per view on YouTube. Of course you got. You know, fractions of a penny views that you can get on YouTube as well. If you really know what you’re doing, but let’s stick stick with an average of what most people are going to get one to five cents, all right 47 cents per view higher than that? That’s what this campaign got.

But again this is overtime. This is extra now, with that being said, a campaign. That’s currently running right now, point to one six well, two point: one cents per view is what it’s getting per stream on: Spotify, that’s right in the pocket of an industry average, and this is about 50,000 views that this campaign is gotten. Probably you know it’s still going it’s still going on. I just talked about it talk to the people earlier today.

So that’s still going remember this one only got 1,700 streams. This one at point, zero to one one. A fraction of a penny is at fifty thousand streams and still going on Spotify just from being marketed on tik-tok. Now we look at the YouTube results. It’s about 15,000 views in on the YouTube article that came from tick tock now the average well get remember. We said went to five cents if you’re pretty solid.

The average, for that particular campaign is about that’s a zero five. Seven. You probably can’t even see that so it’s about five point, seven cents right per view on that campaign. So that’s on the top end. If you were running but remember this, is it ad on YouTube? This is come over from tick-tock. Lo and behold, it’s about 10 million views on tick-tock right now, thousands of articles being created to it so you’re talking about four.

What this artist has done. The first campaign, by the way, when we talk about it being the worst campaign, it hasn’t it’s not even a thousand dollars spent on that campaign. Isn’t it’s not that much money that’s been spent and it got the results it did. This is somewhere a little around neck, but it’s some very good results, so maybe double the money, but you have far more results because we were able to keep running it and run with the strategy that we planned for – and this is what I love about – tick Tock you run in one place and get all of these results that get pushed in all these other areas right where traditionally, you might run something on Instagram and it stays on Instagram or it might be a programmatic ad, where you’re running it on Instagram and you’re.

Pushing the Spotify, so you see the results there or you’re running on YouTube and you push it there or it’s just one platform. That’s really seeing prime results a lot of times and a lot of people’s campaigns, but this is one campaign. That’s having people go to all other aspects because of something on tik-tok that I like to call transfer ability that has to be kept in mind. Whenever we consider any type of campaign, people will discover your tick-tock and they will happily go find your music, because up until now, there had it even been other direct link to select on Tik Tok.

For a long time, people hadn’t even been able to put a link in their bio when it comes to tick tock, so people could go directly to the music. So this isn’t people even saying hey. You go check out the link in my bio with the call-to-action. This is people literally hearing a song and then going to find it. Google searching in YouTube, searching it so 50,000 streams based on that behavior. Not go.

I’m pushing you over here. This is oh. I hear it whoa. What’s that song and that’s what we’re seeing again and again and again on tick-tock. Can you look at Instagram? We already know those prices have gone up: you’re not going to pay $ 100 $ 100 per 10,000 followers for an influencer, because we know it’s not worth that anymore. Right $ 100 per 10,000 followers means you’re paying $ 1,000. Just someone who has a hundred thousand followers and stop and think and tell me if you think, that’s worth it on tick, tock, I’m not on Instagram today.

I don’t think it is. As a matter of fact, I know for a fact. Many of those influencers know that it’s not they’re trying to hold on as much as they can, but so many of them have come down since I’ve been working with them because they already know and understand that there’s more competition in these other spaces they’re trying to Maintain if they can, but a lot of them have come down because they know it’s not worth it.

Instagram is suppressing traffic. So, to really understand, though, here’s something to consider when we look at tick tock right. This is how the content flows through tick, tock. There’s four buckets that you can look at content always starts in bucket number one. It’s shown to a small audience. It gets stressed test for a period of time and I can go deeper into the algorithm in another article, but just understand that is here for about two hours and it starts to move throughout the platform and it stops on level three for about four days.

Actually, you understand that when you start to get into tick-tock and see how the content flows as well, but if you need to make it there once you make it to each level, it’s shown to more and more people, so these levels also coordinate with the size Of the box you’re being shown to a small bucket, let’s say maybe 2,000 people and then you’re being shown to maybe 20,000 people think you’re being shown to 200,000 people, think you’re being shown to two million people and beyond right.

That’s how the flow of the content works, but outside of the transferability, which is one of the most important factors of tick-tock. When it comes to an artist. People are looking for your music they’re hearing your music and then they’re actively going to look for it, because this platform works like promo daily. Every single article is promo, except people are giving you permission to show it to them.

That’s um, marketers dream. The other thing is viral loops, so because of how this works, the way the platform is built. If you drop a article right, then it’ll go through these levels and your article might make it to level 2. Somebody sees that article and they decide I’m going to create a article, and this person could be better. You then creating articles. In matter of fact, they might actually have a lot more followers and be a strong content creator, so they might do it and then it’ll take it to level 3.

Multiple people see their article and then they might do it. Let’s say 5 people see their article and one person stops on level 2. Two people stop on level three and then four four of them make it. No that’s wrong, math to people who make it to level four alright. So now you have people being planted as seeds on different levels, all coming from one article, all right, so you drop a article that article creates other articles and being dope that article inspires other people to make articles, and next thing you know you’re entering into this Viral loop right so now it’s marketing for itself.

In the same way, we think about passive income and people say I want my money to work for myself on tic-tock. Your content is working for itself. It’s a little soldier that gets other pieces of creators and content out there to create for it and then, when they create. That brings back more content that gets created and it continues this loop. While your article is working for you, you can continue to make strategic moves to boost that content as well.

So that’s one of the biggest beauties we have the transferability of content on tick, tock and then also the viral loops being built in and just to actually drive that point through. Let me pull this something right here, so that first campaign the worst campaign that I talked about 87 articles generated. We only created four articles for this campaign, so 83 of those articles all came because of that viral concept, that’s ingrained into tick-tock.

There were other people who saw those articles and said I want to create articles off of it, which allowed our cost per article to come down to nine dollars and 77 cents. As a matter of fact, remember I mentioned this is that worst campaign that I’ve ever had run on tik tok, that artist was actually extremely delighted from the results and what based on what they had to pay any results. They saw somewhere else and they wanted to do more and more work, hopefully after they finished figuring out all the back end business troubles that are going on right now.

We because we know what it could have been and it could have gotten closer to those other campaigns that we run. We were kind of sad about it. We were highly disappointed, especially with that song and another thing about that particular song. It had zero bass in it, zero, so the type of music that you think blows up on tick-tock, it’s not just high-end, energetic hip-hop. It’s not just super poppy songs that song.

I don’t even know what to call it. Honestly, it’s pretty slow. It’s not even our abhi song, it’s some kind of mid alternative, modern, whatever you want to call it right, but it’s it’s an interesting type of sound and it still is taking off in its own with those little pushes that we put behind it EDM. I see that blow up on Tik Tok, all the time country plenty of traction on tick-tock. It doesn’t matter your type of genre and it doesn’t really matter your age, because it’s about the music itself, if you run and understand how to push the campaigns in the proper way right, people are hearing the music and going to find the music before they even Think about who they see in it like who the actual artist is.

That’s after the fact, as a matter of fact, there’s there’s some I’ve seen some instances where people have been highly surprised to find out who the artist is, how they actually look and all that after they hear the music and become fans of the music is so, But that’s what you want right! You want followers based off the merit of your music. First, that’s what so many artists are looking for tick.

Tock of is that, in a way that a lot of these other platforms aren’t necessarily affording all right, it’s more Spotify. In many ways than it is Instagram because people are truly discovering music or in tik-tok that’s another conversation for another day, but just understand that this should be enough to give you an idea that you don’t have an excuse on age. You don’t have an excuse on your type of music, because all of that stuff is there.

Alright, Gary Vee is talking about it, a lot, because it’s a very real thing. You hear a lot of people talking about it, because it’s a very real thing from using results, and so much of the industry, I’m in meetings all the time. These people are coming right. These people are coming and the prices are going to triple at minimum. For a lot of these influencers and a lot of these other types of campaigns that you might be looking to run on tic toc, because they’re going to bring the money, you need to make sure that you get in before the prices rise.

Particularly if budget is a constraint for you, so if you want to make sure you understand tick-tock and you want to get onboard as quickly as possible on how you specifically can benefit as an artist, because there’s a lot of content and ideas for just creatives. In general, but how you can benefit for music then check out our free training. It’s at tic, toc, music, promo calm, and you will reap a lot of benefits from not having to go through figuring out tic toc.

It’s a completely different platform so get on there. Utilize the information and put it to work because tic toc is a game changer and I’ve yet to see a social media platform that impacts an artist music directly like this get on while it’s sweet, because it won’t always be this easy, tic, toc, music, promo dot-com. We have an entire free training and for those of you who want to share this article with your friends, you can check it out on the brand man page I’ll, make sure it gets posted on the brandman page on YouTube.

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