In today's episode, we’re gonna talk about the importance of having your own website.

- Credibility

- Tell Your Story

- Build Your Own Database of Fans

- Your Website Collects Valuable Data

- Sell Downloads & Merchandise

- Silent Sales Machine

Intro Music by Tonez&Re-C

Outro Music by Brian Tyrie - Owner and Founder of TalentWav.com

Photo by Radek Grzybowski @rgrzybowski on Unsplash

In today's episode, we’re gonna talk about how to get your first 1000 fans.

* Definition of a fan

* The best chance of getting 1000 fans

* Build a database of fans

* Have a Launch and Use a Checklist

* Get Your Music Distributed In As Many Networks As Possible

Intro Music by Tonez&Re-C

Outro Music by Brian Tyrie - Owner and Founder of TalentWav.com

Photo by Luuk Wouters @luukski on Unsplash

In today's episode, we’re gonna talk about why musicians should be going live.

- Free to play

- Connect with your audience

- Cheap to do

- Increase exposure to a worldwide audience

- You can charge to go live

Intro Music by Tonez&Re-C

Outro Music by Brian Tyrie - Owner and Founder of TalentWav.com

Photo by Kyle Wong @kylewongs on Unsplash

In today's episode, we’re gonna talk about "What you should be posting on social media".

This is one of the most popular I get asked on social and in my forum.

- Study Your Analytics

- Storytelling

- 90:10

- Platforms Have A Different Context

- Launch Process (The 5 I’s)

Intro Music by Tonez&Re-C

Outro Music by Brian Tyrie - Owner and Founder of TalentWav.com

Photo by BRUNO EMMANUELLE @brunocervera on Unsplash

In today's episode, we’re gonna talk about the top 5 ways to use Instagram to promote your music.

Even though I’m a massive Twitter and I believe it’s a great platform to have and jump into conversations. Don’t be in any doubt that more of your fans are found on Instagram. Taking over from Facebook and with so many cool features (including the latest one called Instagram Reels which is similar to Tik Tok). I can categorically say that there isn’t a hotter social media platform out there at the moment.

- Use Instagram story to tell your story

- Promote your music - 60 seconds

- Go live and IGTV 

- Using the ad platform

Intro Music by Tonez&Re-C

Outro Music by Brian Tyrie - Owner and Founder of TalentWav.com

Photo by Ian Dooley on Unsplash

The Topics:

Building a small tribe

Amateur & Professional

Place your fans front and centre

The 90-10 Method of Marketing

In today’s episode, we’re gonna talk about why I think it’s good to stay independent.

Control of your career

- As an independent artist, you have total control over your career

- Be as creative as you want

- Up to you if you want to change direction

- Adopt a new musical style

- If you’re good and you’re consistent, labels will start to seek you out

- Release when and where you want. There’s no time schedule (single, EP, albums)

- Able to express yourself

- Setup Patreon and collect on a monthly basis

You own 100% of the copyright

- This means you earn more

- You’re able to do more collaborations and still earn more

- You determine how much other artists and producers make

- You can spend more on branding and ads

- More chance of going full time

- You have creative control of your merchandise

- You make money when your track is played obscure places (Karaoke, internet radio, podcasts and YT),

Self-satisfaction

- You did this on your own (climbed the mountain, reached the peak)

Image credit: Ian Barsby - https://unsplash.com/@ian_barsby

Music credit: Intro - Tonez&Re-C - Kyoto Outro - Joakim Karud - vibe with me

On today’s episode, we’re gonna talk about why I think Twitter is underrated as a marketing platform.