All these other types of things before you can be a musician before you can blow as an artist.
It’s just not true people. Let me put this out here plain and clear: not only do we have people like Queen Nyjah, who recently, who was a youtuber and blew up with her song medicine, I did a article on her dropped. It just recently, there’s also so many other examples right here. Let’s just look at the fact that Drake was a TV star before he blew up as an artist long before he blew up as an artist on the grassy.
You have people, like Will Smith, who was a rapper actor, then movie star by the time that he was a movie star and next generation came a lot of people, even though he was a rapper first, they got introduced to him as a rapper. First, look at Donald Glover Donald Glover was a skit writer. Then he was a screenwriter for TV. Then he was a comedian. Then he was an artist that blew up and not only was he a rapper that he became a singer.
All of these things are possible. There’s so many examples of people doing one thing before the other and then changing careers completely and rebranding. I can’t tell you how many people that I might discover and say: hey Dad. You know that guy from such-and-such and then he’ll be like I mean that person that was a singer back in a day or this person, who was an actor back in the day, but I know them for something completely different than what they used to be.
Or what they blew up is all about getting attention at first, the only thing that’s preventing your music for not blowing up. If you already have a big platform like a big YouTube following big Instagram following is two things one in music, it’s just not good enough to your music is good enough, but you don’t have the ability to make enough people here, your music and I’m not just Talking about your YouTube father and who might be following you largely for one thing, but then a decent proportion of them actually listen to the music.
I mean to spread that music for real for real beyond that following now, if their song is strong enough, those people should organically spread it. When we even look at people who get record deals, those record deals usually allow people to easily spread their music pass. Their own social, following it’s honestly, not that complicated again and again and again, I can show you a billion examples of just people who have one career.
Then they get another career people who didn’t start off this on rappers or musicians, and then they got other careers and vice versa, do not let people convince you that shoot should not start a YouTube page or an Instagram page as a part of your brand to Blow up, unless you just don’t think that fits into the brand of who you want to be that just isn’t your personality. That makes sense. It’s all cool, it’s all good if it just doesn’t make sense for your particular path, but if you’ve got the talent to – and you are actually willing to – why not do it? It’s going to give you an unbelievable control of your audience and your own platform.
It becomes your own media platform to market yourself again and again and again and might get you to money a little bit quicker than it would take for a lot of artists to get something sustainable. Those are just my two cents. Please keep that in mind. Other than that, I would love to know, you guys comments, your thoughts go ahead and put them in the comment section below and if you like, this article go ahead, he did like letting me be like you.
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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 fresh a shout out to the shade 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. Right, 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 you exactly so it’s like it’s it’s night day but YouTube. Will I’ve seen it bro instagram has change lives, but I’ve seen a lot of the creators going 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, 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 Labadee, I’m running a lot of the the two girls famous ocean and kung-fu, the two sisters like they have literally they did nothing.
They 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 in like one hit, and we did a prank it actually hit. This scar 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, don’t keep pumping it. She pumped the next article. It went like a hundred thousand like two hours like if using I keep pumping y’all keep pumping, keep pumping cuz, that’s money in time. Y’All have these goals yeah I want to buy g-wagen see.
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 five thousand to ten thousand a month, and then you can go and create yeah. Just all 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.
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. If it’s hard, though it doesn’t convert, don’t think you don’t 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, the 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 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 couple thousand to do that. Artists have a perspective against doing what your influencers are actually doing. 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 not true. I don’t understand he still give themselves to believe that the proof is in the pudding blackhat. But what do you I don’t know? What do you say to the 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 notice, like a lot of the influencers, there were artists they blow it like look.
Narthex technically was an influencer troll. That’s why he does the things he does this. 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 templates. 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 weighing 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, what the guy you’re talking about! Oh he’s killing it and what he’s doing – and he there’s more growth to happen, but another artist might say: oh well, this is him a little baby, alright and I’m trying to be a little baby – and I here – and I want to have this this traditional type Of record level proper popularity that I’ve seen well, it’s the 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 main street name was like Main Street in certain niches like I never really was like it’s weird, Because the world is so big 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 named or like like that uh 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 then do that.
Somehow I don’t think something 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 it’s 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, we’re in a world where you don’t have to do that. Yeah right and you have the time when you said you got people find your families, and now you can monetize it without.
Even going in 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 yeah, but you look in the other direction: yeah yeah, okay,
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Typically a like a very common piece of advice from email.
Marketers is in your emails, like automation, sequence. When someone joins your email lists like the set of emails, they get automatically right there after the first thing you should do is first of all get them to white list, your emails, so they come through the second of all. Let them know the title of your next email or open a loop that you know that they know in their mind: okay, the next email I want to be looking out for because it has this ticket right, so they’re in stance, sheeting a behavior pattern and then Maybe before that email closes, they’re really good, get you to click the link over to a social media, just just to get you in the habit of a clicking, a link in an email from them.
So right, there they’ve said open my emails when they come in because something good is inside and clicked links in my emails. You’re already doing it and they probably give me something cool when you put that first link just to make it like a positive experience. Dopamine floods, whatever neurons, were used in that action and reinforces the pattern in your brain right there, like that’s, a common thing, is initiating behavior patterns but really to make it sound far less nefarious and complicated people do what you tell them to or ask them to Write you ask someone to do it there more likely to do it than if you never asked so ask and ask so many studies on that.
It’s like, but it’s a it’s common sense. It’s like most people are, most people want their their audience to do something that they’re unwilling to ask them to do, and it’s something like yo you’re. If you’re unwilling to ask them, why would they be willing to do it? You know why do you think that is? Why do you think so many people are afraid to ask people are too cool for fucking, school and school.
They think that, like it’s uncool to ask, they think it’s T. I mean a lot of people, think it’s uncool to market them. So a lot of people think that a lot of people have been weird preconceptions about what their brand is and they fail to look at the people they admire and ask themselves if their standard that they’re holding themselves to is exemplified in the behavior of that person. That they admire their combo because it probably isn’t it probably, is that that person they might either come up there doing a collab with you know, they’re doing a collab with converse tomorrow and they’re, going to drop it on their Instagram story and they’re going to ask You to buy they’re going to be far more forthcoming with their desires for their fan base and their promotional messages.
Then the average artist we need to ensure they don’t have this weird hang-up about, like being cool. You know yeah. I hate to use this word because it gets what you so much today, but I definitely feel like it’s toxic and to artists to have these these desires right, but then you essentially philosophically, are against doing the things that it takes to get to that. At that point, right, which is marketing and not, and it’s in fan bases as well.
I these, like, I said too, cool for school type, spaces of specific, like some parts of music or culture aren’t as against. They are, but there’s some of them that are totally against it, like I just an ad where well, that was actually one of my artists. So the article, the guy we had he he ran the ad. A lot of people were like yeah. I found this do an ad, but there was one dude that found it through the ad and talked about he loved the song, but he hated the fact that he was running ads.
What kind of you would even know about this? If I wasn’t running an ad, but you hated the fact the artist was running because he was, it was a very uh. Let’s just like anti-establishment type artists brain you know. I just think that like because there’s so many people who we look up to who have no problem like selling themselves, you know, and but when we become when we begin to think about ourselves as a brand – and I know that’s because like when I was a Kid who it was like this, I know the feeling of being like ya know when I picture might come up in my wildest imagination and night.
It doesn’t involve me having to do anything. It’s like I’m the fucking funds bro. You ever read Happy Days slide in there. I hit the jukebox and I don’t have to put a quarter in it because it just starts playing my song automatically and a leather jacket. Everything just comes to me in waves. I don’t even even ask, but it’s a brother, that’s not real life like Gary Vee is one of the more successful people that way a broad majority of people have no problem looking up to they don’t say it’s corny and he’s out there doing all these things.
That these artists think are uncool and he’s way cooler than them like most of these people who think this shit is not cool, they haven’t done anything cool with their career, yet do some cool shit and then act too cool yeah, and I can definitely say I Underst, I understand it just because of some of my younger years, as you say, I know exactly what you like and if the sad part is a lot of, it is really kind of justifying some of your own discomforts and securities to a point, as opposed to You know just doing the work, but if you think logically enough, you just realized, you know this doesn’t make sense.
Anybody that you actually like feel they’re, cool and you’ll. See that this doesn’t this rule doesn’t hold yeah go, get their social. You ever seen it you ever seen my egg apps first big special, he says yeah, I don’t know I was waiting to see which it would. You were cool you’re going to. He was like the worst champ in the world. He was like well make some money. First and then we can do all we can do all that cool, especially using Gary being an example, because nobody sells throw look at.
Will Smith look at the rock look at like all these men. Look at Kevin Hart bro, oh my god, Kevin Hart has no problem. Asking you to go check this out on Instagram or go buy this or go see his new movie. None of these people have a problem with it and they’re, not cool. Well. How do you like to be fair on the other side, all right, how do you can? How do you get yourself seen? Well, how do you communicate and really give them a text to your brand without feeling like you’re, you’re begging me? I don’t know, maybe that’s what some people are trying to avoid.
I think that try to worry and devise you know bad bad sales. People feel like they’re, begging, good sales. People know that they’re selling, so, like you know, if you’re bad sales person, like you know, there’s training for that, like can become better catchy, like I don’t know like it’s just crazy. That is crazy. This is crazy that, like these, there are like there’s parts of the culture that respect it.
There’s parts of the culture that respect salesmanship hustle. You know what I mean and know how to do all that, but but yeah I mean I just feel like. I miss feeling a lot of people feel like maybe like insecure about asking people for like asking people to take the action that they actually wanted them to take. You know I get it man, I think like to me when it comes to cells. One thing I always resort back to it.
I can’t remember the first person I heard say, but it’s common in salesmanship, where they just basically leave back to the fact that, like if you believe in the product, why would you not tell somebody about it? Yes, that’s what I actually just posted online
Some boxes are bigger than others, but a brand is a box. Nonetheless, a lot of people. A lot of artists don’t like to be boxed in, but trust me.
You have to have a box in any relationship, think about it. This way and every single relationship you have with somebody there’s a brand at place and they primarily look at you. Do that brand. Your mother looks at you as son first and then you might be a rapper. Your fans will think of you, have a rapper first or whatever you do. They might have not even fit that your son, daughter, wife, whatever.
So when you look at somebody like Donald Glover, somebody who’s done all these different things. Acting rapping he’s done all these things. On a high level, even still she spent years in just writing first and he slowly slowly but surely started to amplify others. He focuses kind of individually on one at a time, and only now is he getting to the point where he’d do all the things and people can kind of just accept all of the things I want, and still I guarantee you when you talking to Fox, then I’m going to carry in the wrapper, they only care of him as far as a director and writer of a TV showing can they create success in that when you listen into one of his albums, you don’t really get it down, that you wrote Atlanta or any Of that other stuff, all you want at that time is you’ll, be the best rapper.
You can be create the better music for me right now so understanding. That is this understanding that you can brand and sell multiple things to the same people and once at least not in the beginning, at first fill this over here to that crowd, because the 30 rock probably was running a little bit different than his comedy crowd, which Is way different than his music crap, a lot of people listen to music, I’ve never seen or even heard of 30 rock one more quick example.
Little yachty in the article that I did about him and all his marketing and branding as routine even talked about how hey I got this here, and this is my brand right now. I start off with my image before I even came out with my music, but I understand that when I want to become an actor sometime in the future, is my brand at the moment doesn’t necessarily fit where I want to go? But for now this works because I’m showing to this particular crowd right now.
I don’t have to transfer until ready to sell to this crack by the way that often where this whole idea of a sellout comes from, because people just don’t understand that hey, I’m selling to somebody different right now and all these are really just being fitted to Really just point out one simple thing, but you create a brand. It makes you more attractive to certain opportunities, but it also can restrict and limit you from others and that’s not a problem.
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So, as I said before, I want to start doing specific articles that go over music resources tools and sometimes techniques and strategies on Fridays, and today we are going to talk about amuse they’re described as the world’s first mobile record. Company will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas is one of the co-founders and they’re looking to sign artists.
Before I hop into this article, I want to say shout out to Tuco from music ID TV, because music I’d be TVs where I first heard about amused. So a mobile record company. What exactly does that mean will amuse is an app that you can download right onto your phone Android and iOS? They got both of them. If you want to those people who have one of those weird other things like the Nokia app store, I’m sorry, we just might have to have a talk about your life decisions, but again for Android and Apple.
You guys can download it for free and what they do is distribute your music to any of these platforms in the same way that TuneCore does and the same way that CD Baby does and a lot of these other music distribution platforms do except they do it. For free that alone sounds amazing and you know the company’s credible because, as will I am behind it, so you know it’s nothing sketchy and then an additional benefit from that is you get all kinds of data that they provide to you? Also for free? Now? Let’s talk about them wanting to sign artists, how will they sign artists? What they’re doing is actually looking at the data, so you give this data for free but they’re, basically using the platform as a digital, ANR they’re.
Looking for the artists who are winning on that platform and the ones who are having success on that platform, they will look to sign those artists. All I can say is as an artist I would get on sooner than later. If I am going to make that move, because what you find these companies do is they’re looking for successes, they’re looking for proof of concept, when a company is young, desperate and trying to you know, prove to the world, their concept is valid and a-plus.
There’s going to be less competition on the platform, so if you get on now, they’re going to have more incentive to help you out. If you are one of those artists that bubble up in a plus there’s going to be less artists that you have to compete with on that platform, another cool benefit is, if you get signed by them, you keep the rights to all of your music they’re. Signing licensing deals for you, so it’s really a new-age type of record label they’re not really trying to take hold of you as an artist in your music, but really they’re, almost like a broker in my mind.
Well, they’ll be helping. You get strategic deals with brands and just finding other ways to monetize your music and they’ll likely be taking a cut of the profits, which, of course, makes sense right, they’re doing a service for you and they want to benefit as well and then another additional thing For the people who actually get signed is they get free access to will.I.Am? I think it’s called the future studio, which is basically like a music studio, but you can also get a article shot there and you can also get apps and things like that development.
So, of course, that’s super beneficial for you to have all kinds of creative things so for anybody who’s still finding a little bit confusing. This is a basically what amuse is they’re, basically, a free distribution service. Now, if you’re looking and comparing them to TuneCore CD Baby and the many other ones right there, I know you’re, like man, how can they be free? Because we all know people need money? Well, let’s think about it.
This way total court doesn’t take any of your music, but it’s kind of awful philosophy of we know that most of y’all are going to fail, so we just want to charge all more and get our money upfront. If you win, congratulations, and then a company like a muse, is basically saying that we’re going to give you guys this service they’re creative, a platform that really enables them to sift through the dirt to find the huge diamonds in a rough.
They don’t want to invest. In any of that small stuff, they just want to find that diamond and once they use the platform to find the artist that’s most likely that diamond they invest in them, pick them up and then off to the races. Each of them have a way of getting their cut and they’re all a lot better than the old ways as far as artists dealing with record labels and just getting their music out there anyway.
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Bothering me, you know a lot of artists when they are oh, I noticed because you know how to show coming up, and I have artists sending me stuff and if you call yourself an artist right, I would need you to have recent music. I have artists right now that send me stuff from 2016 right and I’m like and you’re saying that your artists right now so there there ain’t, no way that you don’t have up-to-date music.
So for all of you guys and now I’m not saying that sounds great though so, is it like this because it sounds so or just the fact that it was created back then the fact that first of all, I feel like sometimes a lot of times. Music gets dated, so you can hear a song and the beat the vibe it feels like something from years ago. You know I mean, and with this show in particular, I have multiple artists sending me stuff.
Now I have requirements like. I need you to have a article all of this, so all of it looked oh, you know I mean like all of it. Look, oh and I’m like. What do you have this right now? Are you? Are you still an artist, or are you just so it’s like if you’re a person and you’re reaching out to people because you’re trying to get placements you’re trying to get booked for things like people want to see? What have you done recently? You know what have you done for me lately, what have you done lately if you try to get booked for shows you can and you you can’t send me anything.
That’s up to date. That kind of tells me as a booking agent as a promoter like if you don’t even got another reason that tells me you probably don’t even got no fans right now or you don’t have nobody moving for you. It’s just like a bad look man. So it’s like first of all, artists should be recording or producing music on a regular basis. Now, there’s no like: oh, you need to bust down the song once a week or release the song once a month, but you definitely should recording and creating music.
If this is what you do for a living on a continuous basis, you know exam. So it’s like. If you are artisan, you don’t really have anything new. Maybe your thing right now is to get a project together, create some new music get your your imagery together. Get your presence together. Maybe you are trying to go through a rebranding phase and maybe that’s one reason why you kind of took them on it off but, like you, got ta hit people with some stuff with right now and it starts like sending all of those old super old music That sounds outdated.
The visuals look outdated, you know in the article you had brains and now you got a cut like brain man Shawn. You know, I mean you, you send me pictures. Well, you have locks, and now you got a low cut, like everything has to translate with who you are right now, because if you want people to promote you as who you are like and we’re putting out flyers and we’re putting our content and then people were Seeing like people that look too different like to different people and don’t correlate like I don’t go together, so we need to update everything.
You need new music. Now is the time to start working on something new get some fresh sounds. You know, get everything. That’s that’s new. I can say, as like two artists. What you’re hearing right now is the type of person you want to do business with, because the people who don’t care about those things, the quality of their show or whatever they’re doing in the other spaces, is going to be on the same level.
So they’re not carrying and holding you to those standards. Yes, you can say: oh I got in, but now you can also expect those low standards to be in the other aspect. So it’s actually not worth being a part of that thing in the first place. So you want the people that you do business with, to hold people to those type of standards to have barriers to the level of quality of artists and other people.
They do business with, because I’ve definitely been do that, especially when I was doing my festival. That’s my big biggest experiences with artists and things like that, so one, even if the music doesn’t sound, outdated and isn’t whack, you have the idea just from a business standpoint. Am I trying to put an artist out there and promote an artist that isn’t active right? They’re not committed in they’re, not you know, constantly working towards their career because it’s like yeah, I believe in you, but I’m not sure manager trying to build you up right.
So I want like my incentive is to have an artist – that’s dope right now and for that artist to continue to be dope and in large in their platform, because now I’m associated with that. That’s how the people who are throwing events with doing certain things are going. I want to be thinking so it’s in your best interest or in their best interest to work with people who are currently active, currently grinding and doing work without them, because now I can add my sauce on to it and then, if people really see me doing That stuff they’ll add something extra or they’re, really old man.
This artist is dope and I think this artist is going somewhere. I see the momentum, let me get him on cuz. I want to let everybody know about him and I want them to know that I was the one that told them about me, but you have to put yourself in a position to look like that, because then people will start coming to you more or doors. I’m opening for you a lot faster right and from us like a fan standpoint like if you, if somebody hears a song right, I just hear a song, but now I want to look you up.
So I go. Look you up on YouTube. People look at dates. I know I do like I look at like when was this article posted? You know I mean, and it didn’t article especially yeah right and it’s fun – to follow us right on Spotify, but I feel like a lot of people I know mean personally, I think when I listen to something new, I’m always trying to find the visuals, because me, I’m just activated visually like I like to see something.
You know. Sometimes you read articles and it makes you like a song more because you’ve seen some type of visual to it and it kind of like engage with you. It’s like reeled, you in versus you just hearing it. You know, I’m saying so like a lot of people will go and start to look you up and I’m one of those people like. I go to YouTube because I want to see like what your visuals look like, especially when I hear our artist and I don’t know who this person is like.
I want to see what you look like. You know I mean so I’ll, go to youtube and search for some type of article, and I always look at the date like in this article. It’s like is this a recent artists? Oh, what does it mean to you like if it’s, if it’s old and I can’t find anything, that’s recent – it makes me feel like I’m wasting my time, oh and, and you can’t right – and I can’t find something – recent I’m just like okay.
Well, maybe this artists not even doing music, no more so like. What’s the point you know, Danny or Dobie could have went somewhere to do something but yeah, but you got me all exile, all hot and bothered you know and then just let me down, I’m unfinished! You got ta come with the package and you should want to cause – I don’t know whatever, but it’s like yo before you, it’s like yo. A lot of your artists are constantly reaching out to people to to like put you on and do this and do that and then they’re asking you like.
Okay, send me what you got send me pictures send me there simulate and it’s like you just don’t have nothing recent, so it makes people feel like they’re wasting their time you’re trying to put into you. You know I mean when you don’t even clear. It looks like you’re not putting it to yourself so nah why’d. You say I still always go back to these artists who rejected him for your show, and I was like bro, you don’t have anything right.
Like literally, I could tell you what the artist looks. I’m looking this Instagram, I couldn’t find music, he really had nothing and then this artist had the nerve to get mad and say: look man, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. I was going to debut my music at your event, you think I’m a risk. My credibility, all right, I have no idea about so I I don’t understand how artists put themselves in that position to to think of themselves.
I get the having to build up confidence and that becomes a part of the game, sometimes, but the level of the goal that some of these people have like. As far as not understanding the other side of the business and the value that you need to be. Bringing not just the fans but to these to the other people, what what matters to them right, the more you can put yourself into the state of the person you’re doing business with understanding their business model and just what matters to them, the more you can make It easy for yourself to be a value to them into just just create a relationship that actually gives an impact.
That’s been on my mind for a minute. I want to debunk the rest strategy and the way this came about is a lot of times. I’ve just been talking to people or run into people and they’ll say something like the old man, I’m using the rest strategy, and then I would say what are you doing and basically they would say: I’m posting a song a week.
That’s the rest strategy. I don’t even want to make this long article, so I’m going to try to make this as simple as possible. I get the idea of the song a week representing the rush strategy, because that’s the easiest thing to remember, but there’s a lot of other things that just had to come into play right. You the way SoundCloud especially SoundCloud when people would say they were dropping a song a week on soundcloud.
The way SoundCloud is set up, the algorithms. Don’t really allow discovery to happen like that they just don’t. So if I create a SoundCloud tomorrow – and I just start dropping a song a week – a song a week for a whole year – I would be surprised if I had zero subscribers after a year. I don’t care how dope the music is SoundCloud, just like Spotify an apple in many ways. You really need to push people into the discovery, whether that’s through repost or you know, just getting on other playlists.
You really have to have some way that other people from the outside find out about your music. Now somebody told me that Reza mentioned in some interview, I didn’t take time to look it forward, but like he said he did some kind of collaboration of somebody and that brought in fans. Many at this point know that he had Carol Lewis as a picking agency. Eventually, there’s a lot of pieces to the come up that came to play.
I don’t know what just happened. Someone screaming going to figure that out for this article, and this all leads back to the system that I’ve spoken of before. Yes, you can have dropping a song a week, dropping content consistently a part of your plan, that’s a great part in centerpiece to your system, but you have to figure out a way to consistently bring in new people. Even it’s not having you know like an ad running everyday, like some people have done, even if it’s not getting posted on influencers pages every day or just hustling and getting in front of people whatever you still have to say, maybe just once a month or just Whenever the opportunities arise, I’m pushing people to this stuff, but it’s not just going to happen from you posting into the abyss of all the content.
That’s being dropped on the Internet. So, what’s the point of this article, you got ta figure out ways other than just dropping music again and again on soundcloud. Even when you consider the fact that rest had a lot of music on YouTube, YouTube was better for discovery and finding songs on the side and all those things so just being on that platform alone was helpful. To remember the way these platforms are set up and less than YouTube, specifically SoundCloud Spotify.
They don’t really get you any more views like that. Like Spotify has already said they have millions of songs, just all kind of content that has zero views. Zero zero listens like there’s artists out there to have their art their artwork on this platform with no listens. That’s because you have to create the push at first. You have to figure out how to get people to look at you, don’t think you’ll.
Just keep posting it’ll happen. That’s it for this article. I want to hear you some comments from you guys because I know a lot of you guys have known at least some people who are doing this or if you know somebody who is doing this just sending this article, I could go in deeper detail, but I’m Just going to speak at it at that level, if you like this article, go ahead, hit that like button, if you like it, might as well share it any of you not subscribed.
Com, because I saw it myself now this article right here, the dis Lippitt that you have to see is talking about diversity. It’s a this is subject right that we’ve talked about a lot on this blog, but there was an interview that I did with TJ Chapman Bo B’s manager and he specifically went into what b.
O.B goes through as a truly diverse artists and I’ll wait to the end. Before I get into some stuff, that’s perfect because I would like to I mean you know your perfect person person I eggs because for me you know, he’s such a unique artist right and, like he’s very diverse, and so many artists want to be diverse. Like so many people say you want to be a verse and they not, they aren’t diverse for real, but he is like truly diverse, and I remember, like you know, are the cloud knives and things like that and and then you know the the it was a Track that was that would be on a radio everywhere and I’ll be in the sky.
Exactly those tracks were like some of them were a little bit smoker. Some of them were a little bit more Atlantic. A little bit. Hood did Hill had the ones that are more poppy or Hydra 2000s, but right when he blew up with the nothing on you right that will straight pop and when I saw because I was just me, but it wasn’t dome what if it wasn’t bruno board boys On there it could have been urban and it went number one urban true, but a universal sound.
We’re going here like a kid’s perspective and I’m just reading YouTube comments and stuff like that. At the time like you need to hear the airplanes and stuff like that, like that introduced him to such a pop world, and then, when I started to see just reading as more music, I released from the comments perspective. I would see he might do something back more on to you know: Atlanta hooter type size sometimes, and then the pop fans will be calling him a sellout and then I’ll see you know and into her.
Then we won the pop stuff. Those other people are looking at a woman side on some real shit right there. It’s like it’s like as an artist. You work all your life to become a superstar. That’s what you want! That’s what you’re working for five come from the hood. You know I’m saying he don’t come from no suburban night. Please a fan, you know he can’t he come, he come from Decatur, he come and and that’s what he how he grew up.
It just so happened that he makes worldly music, yeah and, and so when he got all he just made Universal saw he he never wanted to be a pop guy. You know I’m saying and and and and really they don’t they don’t even sit well winning. You know a lot of people, always wonder why I like yellow man, you know that’s what every rapper aspires to be, but you know he wanted to be embraced by his people and he just you just made really big music and you know it ended up becoming It’s a gift and a curse having all these different types of fans have been able to make all different kind of Records and having all this success, the fan base is so huge and so diverse um between the age groups, to the cultures to to everything um.
It’s almost impossible for him to make something nowadays that going to go well with everybody and and so then it it, you know, become something’s. You have to deal with and people on our side really don’t really don’t get it and they don’t understand and when you to artist you just wanted to make records yeah you never never tried to. You know they never try to do it. On the only poppy record was on the album that was like.
Okay, damn this, this thing is pop to pop. I was magic, you know him with Rivers Cuomo, you know it went double platinum, it might be triple now, but you know that was the pop record. Yeah um, we did airplanes on bt with Keyshia Cole singing, you know Sam, and so, if you had Keshia on there over Haley now this song, because an urban feel there were Universal records of what they were pop, it was what was put on the made up.
It took him that rock hmm. Yes! Well, yes, oh well, he never tried to do that in and so you know so it’s been a gift and a curse and and be honest is something that you know that he did. He deals with like, and it’s and his crazy, it’s crazy from a management standpoint to to know no matter what he does and no matter how good it is it don’t matter, it’s going to be a segment of people, it’s going to fade and bash.
You know – and this is like wow what I should this is hard. It’s weird, that’s what I was asking, because I was so deep into it and I would literally yeah because before you say it before you hum before you say that. Let me say this because I just helped at for an artist that gets confusing. You know I’m saying: okay, so you’re making this sound and then your fans start talking about hoedown. Are you selling out, and this is that other than this ain’t? What you’re trying to be so now you’re trying to make something to please them, but when you do that you know, then you got these people over here now bashing, you – and this is okay, should it there if I do damned.
If I don’t that’s exactly what I was actually about to say, I know interrupted. That was it. It was fifty to me because I have a diverse like type of music that I like, because of just how I grew up. There would be so many different types. My dad, and so I could enjoy both sides, you know, and they know in the journey of where he came from and all that stuff so I’ll be looking at comment like barely Brewer.
Do you mean, but it was it’s. I always imagined I was a wild situation and he came out with no drama trying to make a point like you know, I mean like there were so many but yeah. I always wonder like how maybe yeah what that was. So that’s why, when I hear artists talk about being, never especially when it’s truly diverse, like some people are stylishly diverse, you can do a lot but you’re still in this pocket like Tori Lane right he’s like he might pick it right and do anything.
But it’s tough that he might write for people and do that stuff. That’s way outside the pocket, but as far as his music, he keeps it pretty much in a pocket. You know and it has similar or overlapping fan base, but like to just do it. How Bobby did it – and I like he, never came out with that rock album that I remember let’s talk about at least I didn’t catch it yeah and he’s you got it. He got all that music and he got.
He got a whole bunch of projects. You know his record. I have magic make music a lot. I just want to know for like for the air for an artist. I definitely wanted to get your opinion, your insight, which you shared life, because I think artists don’t know what their what it actually looks like. We always they hear the message of organics so much and they hear the message of it. Doesn’t matter just make what you want, you can be that versed and consumers are not as trained for diverse music, as you really think like they just aren’t.
They are not. You know, they’re receptive, even yeah, all right. So that’s a snippet and I definitely have some things that I want to say, but before I get into that, I just want to remind you that you haven’t seen the whole interview you can check out the entire interview by just google searching. I mean YouTube: searching TJ Chapman brand man, brand man, Shawn and that’ll pop up, because I don’t know if I remember, to put the link in the description below, but the things that actually keep in mind about this is yeah.
We have a lot of artists that say: they’re, diverse right, but really diversity is this kind of kept within a box right and there’s still the same fans that you’re speaking to you’re, really just speaking to the same fans from a different direction. But when we get into diversity, diversity, then you’re talking about types of music and types of sounds where one fan base might hear it. But then you have a completely different side of your fan base that does not even relate to it at all right and that’s when we start to find these troubles when you’re a truly diverse artist when you’re a a widely diverse artist.
You have this conflict of interest that we talked about in this interview, snippet right and that’s when you find a lot of trouble. That’s what I’m trying to get a lot of people to avoid when they’re starting off, because if you put out some music and on one hand your fans are loving it, but then, on the other end, you have these other fans. That, literally, not just say, that’s not the song for me, but he’s selling out for creating this type of song, and then I drop another song and now.
Finally, this fan base side is completely okay with it in their back and love with me again. But now this other side of my fan base is like yo bro. We hate you or you’re a sellout from their perspective, you’re always going to be in this conflict and it’s just a hard thing to work with, but even greater than that for artists aspiring to blow up. It’s just a hard thing to ever create a foundation to blow up off of again a lot of these artists that you see that our diverse quote unquote, write a lot of air quotes, they blew off off of one song or one sound right, and then they Found other ways to get their fans to like them: either it’s the personality that they had.
That became larger than life right onward. It’s something like. Let’s say they create songs that have different sounds, but that those same fans like it. They, like the content of it’s more about the content than the phonics itself. There there’s so many ways to get around that stuff, but the more you focus on trying to be completely diverse, and maybe you aren’t as diverse as you might seem, and that’s what I want people to think about as well, because somebody some people, I honestly feel Like after talking to some artists, they feel like they have to be diverse, they’re aspiring to be diverse when they’re not capitalizing off of what they already are right.
And then it’s really just creating confusion in the music and that’s just the honest, guy’s truth. Where, sometimes you aren’t super diverse, you aren’t really good at a lot of different types of music but you’re killing it in one area and you’re, not capitalizing on that, because it became cool and training too. Everybody wants to beat our verse, but in the 90s it wasn’t this huge cool thing to say I listen to all types of music, but now you ask people, what do you listen to and a lot of people say I listen to a little bit of everything, But then, when you go down and looking through their playlists and the things that they actually listen to based on their real behavior, they don’t really listen to everything right and that’s where your fans can throw you off.
You see people like giving people Big Ups right and praise the people for being that verse, but then you actually find out it once you go be diverse. They don’t really feel that way right and it’s not exactly what it seems. So that’s just something to keep in mind: there’s no better way to see that other than what was in TJ at Chapman’s interview. Talking about this real experience of what it’s like, this real conflict of what it’s like when you have a truly diverse, not just sound right, but more so even in a diverse fanbase, because your music so diverse, it actually speaks to different people.
Not just please. It’s the same people from a different way and how hard that could be as a career other than that man. As always, this article is brought to you by brandman network.Com, and, if you like, this article go ahead like button, if you like, you might as well share it if you’re not subscribed, you know what to do here. Subscribe.
Now, for those of you who don’t know who I am I’m a digital marketer myself, I specialize in helping artists, like you, guys, get their songs heard through platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Instagram and a bunch of others. Now what I want to talk to you guys about today is a very important step in beginning your marketing campaigns, and that is determining what your product is now, if you’re treating your music career like a business, what you guys should be doing, you will know that Every single company pretty much determines what their end goal is, or what the end product is with every single marketing campaigns, and you guys should be doing the same pretty much.
The way I see is there are two major types of campaigns that you could be running and those are artist, centric campaigns and music central campaigns, I’m going to get a little bit deeper into the tools that you guys can pretty much figure out, which ones make The most sense for you and it’ll help you moving forward with determining what you should be doing in your marketing campaigns and which ones make the most sense for your immediate goals.
Now the first types of campaigns are typically referred to as music centric campaigns, and these are the ones in which your music is the star of the show, meaning that if you’re someone who has a strong single or a strong song that you really believe in then These are the types of marketing campaigns and marketing strategies that you’ll want to focus more so on because of this, it’s best to use when you have a song that you really believe is worth all the efforts and that you really believe can make a lasting impact That will actually help you in your career.
Thank you for artists. Like early on the weekend, when he first came out, he wasn’t really putting his face out there that much or really relying on his brand to build his fan base, but they were going more. So from people who really believed in the song, looking for targeted fans who were actually fans of the song and not just fans of everything else that the weekend still for so, if you’re running a music central campaign.
That means that your music is where all of your efforts should be going towards. You should be targeting all of your resources back to finding fans that wants to actually just listen to the song. I thought of everything else. So typically, what you’ll want to do is these types of campaigns? Look for things like playlists Spotify playlists are one of the best ways to find people who are just genuinely interested in the song, as they can’t really see other things about you without first going past, the song is so you’ll also want to figure out different ways To disseminate the songs within different audiences, maybe reaching out to different influences, are getting your songs placed into their campaigns and there product placements or figuring out creative ways that you can just build around the Tsongas so and the second types of campaigns are typically referred to.
As artist centric campaigns – and this is what you guys get to be the star of the show now in these campaigns, your brand should be the endgame and an appeal to all of your marketing campaigns and all of your marketing efforts. You should be trying to disseminate information and articles and content that relay your brand to your audience, so that you’re bringing in people who are like-minded and similar to you.
Typically, these types of campaigns are usually article focused as you’re, finding a strong visual that represents you and your brand or represent you in your music in the best way and you’re trying to figure out how to get it out there or you’re working on viral content Strategies that help to push you out there and everything that defines you as an artist. These, in my opinion, are some of the most important marketing campaigns, as you can build a strong songs.
All that you want, but you’re not really a major artist or an artist with a strong fan base until you have fans that believe in you and your brand there’s no better way to get it out there than by focusing on your brand itself like. It was a product now, one of the best examples of an artist who running strong artist. Centric campaigns is six-nine every single one of his marketing efforts and our strategy is all playing directly back to him and not necessarily its music itself.
So you should be looking at as the same type of way you were to start. These shows you are the start of these campaigns. What things make sense and bringing people back to your story back to your brand and back to you as an overall artist outside of your music? So, just to recap, with you guys, the first thing that you should be doing in any marketing campaign is determining what your product is: use, your music, the product.
Are you going to be running music, central campaigns in which you’re getting your songs to Spotify playlist and to influence the articles or finding other creative ways that get your music out to the masses and outs of people who actually be fans of it? Or are you the product? Is your brand new product and you’re going to be running artists into your campaigns and what you start to figure out Barbara content strategies that push you your message and your brand out to people who relate to you and be genuine fans of everything that you have Going on and everything that you have planned for the future trust me guys, there’s really no right or wrong answer there, both campaigns that you’ll have to do at some point in time and they’re, both campaigns that are equally as important and can yield equally great results.
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If y’all don’t know, lil yachty is supposed to be a Green Lantern in the upcoming Teen Titans movie, which is going to be interesting. And then you have people like Travis Scott, who created this vivid world and a lot of people around him have said he had that strong vision for the world you wanted to create from the beginning. So that’s not you here, a few steps. I was hopping to it figure out what matters to you at the core.
Do you want to be known for your music, or do you want to be known for your aesthetic, some kind of character you create it’s, not that you can’t have both at the end of the day, but we’re talking about the very beginning which one matters to You at the very most your personality as an artist or your music as an artist. Now, if you look at an artist like her people, pretty much don’t even know how she looks.
That is a very music heavy brand. It’s so far to the extreme. On that side, then you have people like lil yachty. Like I mentioned earlier, that’s very faith-driven. He does have music that people like and love, but it’s very much so that personality over a lot of other things. Some once again, if you look at somebody like Travis Scott, it’s very much so the world and aesthetic that entire environment he creates.
So you have to figure out what you’re trying to do or you trying to create some kind of world. Are you trying to be a face? Are you trying to be music first, whatever that is start to think about small things like that and even within music? Do you want to be known for your melodies? Do you want to be known for your lyrics? Do you want to be known for the energy you bring start figuring out a few basic things that you feel like matter to you most and don’t necessarily go towards picking something that you just think sounds good know why this is so important is for one your Brand, it’s not going to be perfect from day one.
You wanted two primary reasons. This is so important is because your brain is not going to perfect from day one and there’s so many facets to the brand. You confuse yourself, if you don’t just keep it simple. So you know you’re about creating this specific world. Then you know you’re going to attract people. You want to look for people who are interested in that world and I want to be a part of that experience and if you consider yourself a lyricist, you know you’re going to look for people who, like lyrics.
These are the things whatever you choose, your core to be that’s going to be the thing where you have the most quality control, because that’s the core of your brand, meaning that’s got the core of your fans. Outside of that everything else can be developed over time. There might be one two, maybe three, but I would say especially for my beginner. This is your day. One figure out two things, maybe that you really want to put energy in and focus on and just keep building those and bettering those improving that quality.
Everything else will come to the fold and remember, there’s a lot of different cores out there. You also have humor driven artists like little Dicky, there’s so many different things that you can choose as your core. It doesn’t have to be the traditional. Oh I’m a lyricist or oh I’m, a hype, artists or whatever. Now, what you don’t want to do is pick something super broad like positivity positivity is like saying Millennials or I’m targeting people 18 to 30 years old yeah, but there’s so many different nuances to being 18 to 30 years old one.
Some people are college students. Some people didn’t go to college. Some people are into hip-hop, some people are in the country. You can’t just target that broad thing when you say positivity is my niche. There’s a lot of different people, pie, type of people who are positive right, there’s positive people who, like country, there’s positive people who, like hip-hop, okay, even between positive hip-hop people, there’s different styles, so understand that when you pick a niche make sure it defines people and Outside of just the term, the term sounds good, but if you really don’t understand what those people really look like what they like, what their self narrative is for how they like to live, and things like that, then you probably haven’t figured out a niche once again.
Those are just a lot of things. I hope I didn’t confuse it when I said those things but start at the court figure one or two things out that are important to you, build the rest over time. You’ll figure out the rest over time, don’t even try to figure them out by you know, sitting in some kind of room, studying branding and all that kind of stuff. Let the rest of them come to you as you grow your audience and get more experience and naturally just lean toward certain directions or get certain feedback from audiences.
And then you double down into what you think that people liked from you and you see that people liked from you. If, of course, it’s actually authentic to you, because sometimes we do stuff once and people like it, but we probably don’t want to do it again and don’t want to make a whole career out of it. You know what I mean so other than that I would love to hear you guys thoughts in the comments I’ll hop in the comments, as well other than a view like this article Kuwait he did like like it might as well share it and if you’re not Subscribed, you know what to do.
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