Do You Know How to Make Extra Money Online as a Musician? Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn More as a Musician
Years ago, I attended a workshop given by the German avant-garde vibraphonist and composer Karl Berger where he said he followed this simple model of musician survival: with almost 7 billion people in the world, he would be happy to find ways to get 5,000 people to give him $10 each year!
That's it -- simple math.
Of course, once you can do this consistently and make that living wage of $50K, you're totally free to create your music and live your musical life anyway that you choose. But how do you find those 5,000 people? How do you connect with them? How can you bring in diversified revenue streams that don’t require your fans, followers, listeners, and ‘clients’ to become over-saturated with sales of your latest project?
Can't find enough gigs where you live?
Believe it or not, but web is actually still in its early years (relatively), so the possibilities for creative musicians to make money online are pretty vast and still actually growing.
In this book, we’ll discuss the basics of traditional models like teaching, performing, and recording (including music sales, royalties, and licensing) to leveraging new platforms on the web, as well as indie publishing, affiliate marketing, and more. These income strategies are all geared towards musicians in ANY STYLE who realize that CONTENT is king, and that being entrepreneurial online allows them much more musical freedom in their everyday musical lives.
Find your 5000 true fans while you open up other new and rewarding music-related revenue streams...
The web offers us an incredible opportunity now: to live anywhere, but still pursue your musical dreams. Use the web to its fullest by selling and licensing your music and other products, find affiliate marketing possibilities, all while developing active and passive income membership sites, e-commerce strategies, teaching platforms, instructional materials, indie publishing portfolios, and more.
How should I sell my music? Where can I distribute my recordings? How else can I make money as a musician? How can I find my true fans? Should I teach online? Should I write books? What platforms and websites in web 3.0 should a musician know about?
Do you want to know?
• How you can access your music, your musical experiences, and your knowledge of musical styles, gear, musicianship, and more to create additional revenue streams?
• What approach is useful when accessing new technologies, media, and outlets for your music?
• How to create content that develops passive income strategies for musicians and other creatives?
• What secret weapons musicians already possess that makes the web the perfect place to earn money?
• What ways you can expand and develop your online presence that can both simplify and also maximize your offline activities as a musician and creative person?
• What music fans can teach us about being better musicians?
