Are you a recording artist? If you're looking for inspiration, or just want to hear a success story, watch this video. In it, I share how I went from working part-time to becoming a full-time music entrepreneur – and how you can do the same.
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8 THINGS MUSIC ARTISTS CAN DO WITH A SMART PHONE
1. High Def Photographs 📲⠀Gone are the days when you needed a professional photographer to handle your photography for you. Thanks to the technology you wield in your pocket, you can produce some of the most captivating pictures you never knew were possible. ⠀
⠀2. Download E-Books 📚⠀One tool so many of us artists fail to utilize is the power and convenience of e-books. Right. In. Our. Pockets. If you ever wanted to brush up on your music industry knowledge, guess what? It's cheaper to just buy the ebook on your phones bookstore. ⠀
⠀3. Canva 🎨⠀Canva is free, and incredibly easy-to-use graphic design platform. For those who have followed us for a while, you'd know that we use Canva to make these pictures for you guys :) ⠀
⠀4. Record Music Videos 🎥⠀You didn't think your phone stopped at photography, right? - With the addition to mobile accessories like phone stabilizers, it's easier than ever to producer some incredible quality music videos from your smartphone! ⠀
⠀5. Use Trello 👩💼⠀Trello is a simple and free project management tool that we highly recommend all artists use when planning their release strategies. The cool part is that you can add your team, whether that be your manager, your video directors, songwriters, etc.
⠀6. Go Live! 📹⠀Years ago we could only have wished to connect with our fans in real-time. And guess what? That smartphone you're reading this off of allows you to do just that.
7. Email Marketing! All online marketing gurus all say the same thing... THE MONEYS IN THE LIST. Build your email list so you can communicate with your audience all day every day. Social media sites are temporary, email lists are forever.
8. Record song ideas. Ever had an idea for a song whilst in the shower or whilst in the car? Well pick up your phone, open the voice app and hum the lyrics, beat or idea out. That way the next time your in the studio you'll have a full list of ideas and inspiration for you next hit song! Try it out, works like a charm ;)
⠀New Beats, Advice, Tips every week! ⠀www.thir13een.com ⠀Please share this post to help someone else out!⠀
Looking for a fresh new sound for your music? If you want a great modern hip-hop or r&b vocal production for your next project, check out my vocal samples below
Warren 'Thir13een Beatz' Young
Professional producer, singer and music coach.
Written by Adam (IG: @musicindustrycontact)
]]>If you want to impact your day in a good way, I suggest you start listening to motivational audio shortly after you wake up each morning.
Listen on your drive to school or work, or at your work desk at the start of the day.
The news, negative co-workers, family issues, and more can all bring us down.
Instead, we should fill our minds with good positive messages to lift us up.
Listening to positive audio can help us to put up a wall to block out negativity, negative people, and focus on what’s important to us.
So I suggest you bookmark this page and listen to these videos often to help stay motivated.
Uncomfortable vs Exhaustion
Be Fearless
Rise & Shine
The BEST Motivation
Silence the Critics
Arnold Schwarzenegger – 6 Rules of Success Speech
So those are a couple of my favorite videos.
More Motivational Videos:
Do you have any motivational videos that inspire you? Please share it in the comment section.
Have a good day!
]]>A ride whereby you better be strapped in otherwise you ain't lasting long.
To withstand the bumps and humps you need a solid foundation, you need solid principles.
If you've been in the music business a while or just starting out, you learn pretty fast that it can be tough. Its a rough ride.
A ride whereby you better be strapped in otherwise you ain't lasting long.
To withstand the bumps and humps you need a solid foundation, you need solid principles.
Watch this video to learn the 4 major music business principles artists need in order to survive, thrive and succeed.
'Share' this video if you found it useful!
I was like 'ok here we go another crazy metaphor for success by some random self proclaiming success guru.
]]>So I was on IG the other morning and came across a video called 'Building a following is like jumping on a trampoline'.
I was like 'ok here we go another crazy metaphor for success by some random self proclaiming success guru.
BUT it wasn't. Straight up and down it just wasn't. I don't know who this guy is or whats his name but the way he broke it down super quick and fast, it completely shifted my mindset.
He talks about success as a trampoline. Say for example you bought a trampoline and started jumping on it, maybe only 1 little girl across the street sees you. then next time you jumps a guy walking by comes over and says 'hey man nice jump'. This is how building a following is.
Each time you post something on the internet like a blog post, video or content on Instagram, Facebook or twitter, you may only get 1 follower each time. But one day you will jump and a whole school bus of 400 kids on it goes by and sees you jump! BOOM! you've gone viral now. Everybody's on your shit, knows who you are and loves you because your now the 'jump-off'.
It always has and always will be about consistency. Im a huge believer that "we all get our shot, its wether we stick around long enough to see it."
Stay in the game and be consistent. Even if your consistency is once a week... do it once a week! and I guarantee you, you'll reap the rewards.
Bless
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Does this sound familiar?
You've finished you mixtape or single but the only problem is every time you promote things it doesn't get much attention.
Why is that? There's several reasons but one of them is probably because you're not promoting it correctly in a way that isn't spammy, stupid or unprofessional.
In this video, I will show you How To Promote Your Music Like The Record Labels, that you can use, To TURBO Charge your Success Today.
Friend,
If you have less than 1,000 followers, you aren’t buzzing.
Sorry for the rude awakening but if no one in your life will tell you, I’ll tell you.
Certainly Twitter isn’t the only barometer of your buzz level, but it is a definitely a good one.
If you didn’t know Twitter is now the 2nd largest social network on planet earth. This makes it a goldmine for you to connect with and gain new fans.
What does this mean to you?
I hope it doesn’t prompt you to go pay for one of those: “Pay me 10 bucks and I’ll send you 1,000 followers in 24 hours!” places.
The only thing these places will help build is your ego.
Getting a bunch of fake accounts, bots, and what not, might impress your friends, but it will do nothing to bolster your music career. If you want to make an impact, you’ll just have to go balls to the wall and push.
It’s hard work. It is what it is. There’s no shortcut to anyplace worth going.
Here’s one of the best methods for building your buzz on Twitter. It’s simple as all get out:
1) Find someone who has the followers you want.
2) Follow these people.
3) Once they follow back, Give them value.
4) Repeat.
It’s called good ol’ fashioned hustling. And it always pays off. I’ll leave you with a quote I read that sums this up perfectly.
Life is easy when you live it the hard way, and hard when you live
it the easy way.
You use the cheap services and try to convince everyone you’re making it (easy way), your career will be hard. If you put in the work and build your fan-base person by person (hard way), your career will be easy.
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