Season 2, Ep.14: We Are The Music Makers

In the last episode of Left Of Nashville, I talked about Kevin Kelly’s blog '1,000 True Fans.’ It’s basically the theory that an artist can make a pretty nice living from 1,000 fans who will purchase everything that they produce.

But how do we go about this? Well for starters, we should do things and tell people. This will not only help you to reach 1,000 true fans, it will also increase your chances of bringing serendipity or luck into your life. 

If you remember Episode 6 from the first season of LON, I talked about connecting the dots and how seemingly meaningless things would later connect to game changing events. It’s all about putting pins on the map. Do things, tell people.

Aaron Francis has done things and told people. He is the creator of the Music Makers Podcast. I featured an episode of The Music Makers in the Crabs In A Bucket episode.

I found Aaron’s podcast when it was on New and Noteworthy in iTunes and I became a fan. After the 1,000 True Fans episode, it became evident that I needed to talk about how one might acquire true fans as well as get noticed by movers and shakers. Then I remembered two episodes of The Music Makers, episode 1, entitled “Do Things, Tell People” and a companion episode called Luck Surface Area.

And this is where things get really meta, I mean talk about serendipity. I reached out to Aaron about featuring these two episodes in this episode. I just think that it helps if you hear other people besides me having these theories. Later that day, I listened to the newest episode of The Music Makers, where Aaron announced that that day’s episode would be his final one, at least for now. 

So I decided that I would use this occasion to pay tribute to one of my favorite podcasts, while explaining how to increase your fanbase and your luck. These episodes stuck in my mind after all these months, and I decided to reference them here, all because Aaron did things and told people. This is the perfect example of how to get your art to make an impression on people. Like I said, this is pretty meta and trippy.

Not to mention the irony of using a podcast called The Music Makers (which isn’t about music at all) in my MUSIC DOCUMENTARY podcast to help me make a point.

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