Welcome back! If you read last week’s post, you know that in this series of posts, I’m teaching you the basics of marketing your music. If you didn’t, check it out here before reading this post. It’s an eight-step marketing framework and last week we talked about the first three steps. They were:…
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A few weeks ago, I sent out an email to my email subscriber list and asked them, “Do you guys have any questions?” The questions fell into three main camps: songwriting, recording, and marketing. The general question with marketing was: “I don’t even know where to start? I know I need to promote…
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Starting with a disclaimer is boring so I’m not going to. We can slog through that in a little while. Instead, how about we begin with a short biography of me, the author of all the sentences you’re looking at? I’m going to imagine that whoever’s reading this has just said something like: “Hey man,…
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To most of us, songwriting can seem like a fragile art. There are times when ideas surge and the unforgiving force of a song is relentless. But once that tide ebbs, we’re left with nothing but a mind filled with panic. In these troubling times, I too have searched the internet for answers. My efforts…
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If you’ve ever struggled to complete a song or a project, you’re in the right place. Two weeks ago you learned how to effectively capture your ideas in an ‘external brain.’ Then, last week, you learned the best time of day to sort your song ideas. In today’s post, you’ll learn… How To Manage Writing…
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If you’ve ever struggled to finish all the song ideas that you have, you’re in the right place. Last week I introduced Ari Meisel’s concept of the external brain. It’s an effective way to capture and organize all your song ideas. However, once you create your external brain you may realize that your ideas aren’t…
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Have you ever had a great song idea at exactly the wrong time? Maybe you were on a walk, and you thought of a nice lyric? Then by the time you finished your walk, you’d forgotten it? Or perhaps you do a decent job of capturing ideas when you have them but… …soon they become…
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A few months ago, I sent an email to my subscriber list and I asked them, “What questions do you have with regards to crowdfunding?” One of the questions I received was, “Can you tell me more about the expenses that we can expect after recording. Expenses related to the release, distribution, and promotion of…
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Last May when my client, Nick Dahlquist, came to me and he was stressed out. He was busy wrapping up a semester at school and getting five songs ready to record. On top of that, he was launching his crowdfunding campaign. He sent me a short message that simply asked, “Which Is The Best Platform For…
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When my client, KellyMarie, first came to me, she was really excited about recording her first EP but… …she was a bit nervous because we were a few months out and she only had a third of the money. She wasn’t expecting a big windfall anytime soon. She knew that she would have to raise some…
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