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    Make Money Online with Your Music: Creative Entrepreneurship Series
    Make Money Online with Your Music: Creative Entrepreneurship Series
    Make Money Online with Your Music: Creative Entrepreneurship Series
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    Make Money Online with Your Music: Creative Entrepreneurship Series

    By Andy McWain

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    Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn Extra Income as a Musician

    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?

    On some level, perhaps we all want to just create for a living. Even if you’re not a composer or songwriter/lyricist who writes original music, you might just want to create superb performances and amazing recordings. Or you might simply want a fair and comfortable wage for your work and your playing — and for all the years of preparation and practice, and for your experience. 

    Unfortunately, this isn’t always possible. Musicians — of all backgrounds — too often struggle to survive…

    Maybe it’s your region? Where you live there may not seem to be enough performance opportunities and music teaching gigs for your instrument, your particular style, your musical genre, for the given amount of musicians in that area. 

    So what can you do? 

    Should you just move to New York? Move to Los Angeles? Maybe Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai, or Buenos Aires? Perhaps. And it sounds like fun… But maybe you already live in one of those great places, and you still struggle to create a full, sustainable musical life.

    Musicians in the Global Marketplace

    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 nearly 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. 

    Sell them a recording, a concert ticket, a workshop, a book, anything…

    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 any way 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 relentless sales of your latest project? 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFuller Street Music & Media
    Release dateApr 18, 2015
    ISBN9781513026862
    Make Money Online with Your Music: Creative Entrepreneurship Series

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      Make Money Online with Your Music - Andy McWain

      [How to]

      Make Money Online

      With Your Music:

      Leveraging Web 3.0, YouTube, Google, Amazon, Facebook,

      Apple, Pinterest, Udemy, and other platforms

      Andy McWain

      Make Money Online With Your Music:

      Leveraging Web 3.0, YouTube, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Pinterest, Udemy, and other platforms

      Copyright © 2015 Andy McWain, Fuller Street Music & Media (FSMM). All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Although the author and publisher have made every reasonable attempt to achieve complete accuracy of the content in this guide, they assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Also, you should use this information as you see fit, and at your own risk. Your particular situation may not be exactly suited to the examples illustrated here; in fact, it's likely that they won't be the same, and you should adjust your use of the information and recommendations accordingly.

      Any trademarks, service marks, product names, or named features are assumed to be the property of their respective owners, and are used only for reference. There is no implied endorsement if we use one of these terms. Finally, use your own judgement. Nothing in this book is intended to replace common sense, legal, or any other professional advice, and is meant only to inform and entertain the reader.

      The author greatly appreciates you taking the time to read his work. Please leave a review wherever you bought the book.

      Thank you for supporting my work.

      First Edition: v.1.3

      Published by Fuller Street Music & Media.

      Also by Andy McWain

      Make Money Online with Your Music (ebook)

      Best Music Resources Online (ebook)

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      (ebook / Paperback)

      ISBN-13: 978-0692353127

      Dedication

      For the love of my life and our little girl:

      You two are wonderful. Thank you for everything.

      Introduction

      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?

      Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn Extra Income as a Musician

      On some level, perhaps we all want to just create for a living. Even if you're not a composer or songwriter/lyricist who writes original music, you might just want to create superb performances and amazing recordings. Or you might simply want a fair and comfortable wage for your work and your playing -- and for all the years of preparation and practice, and for your experience.

      Unfortunately, this isn't always possible. Musicians -- of all backgrounds -- too often struggle to survive...

      Maybe it's your region? Where you live there may not seem to be enough performance opportunities and music teaching gigs for your instrument, your particular style, your musical genre, for the given amount of musicians in that area.

      So what can you do?

      Should you just move to New York? Move to Los Angeles? Maybe Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, Memphis, Austin, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai, Milan, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Athens, Tangier, Algiers, or Buenos Aires? Perhaps. And it sounds like fun... But maybe you already live in one of those great places, and you still struggle to create a full, sustainable musical life.

      Wouldn't you agree that a musical life and career should be more viable, more consistent, and less a case of 'feast or famine'?

      Musicians in the Global Marketplace

      The world seems smaller now and for every business, including the music business, it's definitely a global marketplace, so that should help us right?

      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 nearly 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.

      Sell them a recording, a concert ticket, a workshop, a book, anything...

      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 any way 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 relentless sales of your

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