What is one of the biggest challenges facing musicians today? How can this problem be solved? In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I introduce a new community project I’m working on called Your Music Matters. You will also discover how you can help make this a reality.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:34 – Recent Facebook Live

00:59 – Introduction

01:24 – Where the work gets done

03:19 – Why start another project?

06:30 – What is Your Music Matters?

12:29 – Asking for support

18:33 – Follow us on our blog and social media

19:52 – Conclusion

Transcription:

Today I wanted to share with you the audio from a recent Facebook Live I did.

This Facebook Live wasn’t for The Music Entrepreneur HQ, but rather for a separate not for profit community project I started called Your Music Matters.

You might have a lot of questions as to why I started this project, what my intentions are and what it’s all about, but that’s something I speak to in the audio you’re about hear.

So, let’s get into it:

Hello everybody! It's David Andrew Wiebe here. Hopefully you can hear me. Some of you know me. Some of you don't. But either way, hello! It's nice to be with you today.

I'm not going to be waiting too long for anybody to come on this Live. I'm just going to go right ahead and get into today’s subject matter because you should always be able to go back and watch this video later if it's a topic that's of interest to you.

This is my room. It's nothing special. This is just where most of the work gets done. I'm in the music and creative industries. A lot of my work is just writing, and podcasting, and recording audio and things like that. I can do all of that just from this room right here. And I do.

So, there's nothing really to show here in terms of like a really cool background or anything like that but I still thought this was an important message that needed to be shared, and so here I am today to talk about Your Music Matters.

Now, you can always leave comments below. I'm happy to answer them. Even if I don't get around to them while this video is still going, I can always turn them into blog posts later and answer the questions on the blog. And, by the way, there is a very basic blog at YourMusicMattersToo.blogspot.com. So, that's YourMusicMattersToo.blogspot.com.

Now, I could have put a lot of more time, and energy, and effort, into the website and the blog but really this project… I think the message is what matters. It's not necessarily about putting on a really big front or looking a certain way or appearing in a certain way. It's not really about branding. It’s just about a community coming together around a cause that matters to them.

So far, I've talked to a few people who've expressed interest in being a part of this. So, I'm not doing this all alone either, and I'm not planning to do this all alone. In fact, maybe I'll be the face of it in the sense that here I am doing a Facebook Live but there's a lot of people that I want to enlist in this project to develop it and to make it what it's going to become.

Now, if you see me looking over there, it's just because my notes are right there.

Why Start Another Project?

I figured I would spend some time talking about this because anybody who knows me knows that I've already got lots of projects. I don't really need another project. I'm making a good living doing what I do. There's really no reason.

The reason that I decided to start this project is because I'm passionate about music. I'm passionate specifically about independent artists and musicians who are struggling to make it. Many of them are unable to make a living at their passion.

That just shouldn't be the case because the resources are unlimited. The internet is at your fingertips. You have the best marketing tools just sitting right there. And, because many of you don't know how to utilize them or even have kind of the right mindset around how to make it work for you,