How to Make Money From Music Even If No One Knows You Yet!

Everything you thought you knew about the music business is wrong. How can it be that a talented person such as yourself is struggling to make money in this business even without fans or fame? It's only because the image portrayed by big artists for years is that you could make tons of money from selling music. The reality is that money is made from music when you service creatives or the public at a high-value level. Let me break it down.

Currently, you're not making money and you're probably stuck on "make music, put it out, and sell it and I should be good," right? Wrong! This can be really frustrating, especially if you haven't played the game long enough to understand how it works. However, if you continue to go around in circles, I guarantee your music will cease to be an ambitious dream for you and slowly become the hobby you left in the corner of your room.

If you're wondering why this isn't working for me, then let me tell you when I got a clue about this mysterious flip of the switch in this game.

I figured out that the one thing people want in the business is success, yet they don't know how to get it. That's clue one. And if they did know how to get a bit of success, they were able to make some money. That's clue number two. Now people love music, but there is so much of it that people are looking for that special song for the moment, and they will give you a pay rate of $0.0038 per stream. That's clue number three. This is great and all, but I can't depend on this little amount of money to pay my rent. Where are the people who will pay more for my music? Where are those people that I can service? That was the "Aha" moment. Oh, but wait — what about servicing other creatives? Where are they? Aha moment number two! Oh, but wait — what about the industry? Do you see where I'm going with this?

It clicked when I realized artists or music creatives don't make money from music. It's a loss leader, a necessary catalyst to all of the big money in the music game. I'm chasing the wrong thing. Yes, I need people to be aware of my talent so I need them to consume my music, but I need to service the industry, creatives, and the public with a high-value music offering if I'm ever to stay afloat doing music.

Creators - Selling a high value product to the creatives

Creatives don't need you, they want to be you! Or at least they want to pull a piece of you and integrate it into their creative fabric. So... Let... Them... This is called information, and anybody who wants a leg up will pay a pretty penny for it. Think about it, that's why you're watching this channel, right? That's why if you want to build a fully functional record label for yourself, you're scouring my YouTube page to see if you can find more information to validate my product, right?

Sell music creatives the SKILLS and TOOLS that you needed 5 years ago to level up to where you are now while you're on your journey to the top, and you will begin to have income. Selling to this audience is probably the quickest way you can start making money.

The Suits - Selling a high value product to the industry

The music industry doesn't care about you more than they care about increasing their top line or meeting their bottom line revenue quota. There is no secret mystery to it. If you bring your talent or company to a record company and you're already making money and you have a paying fanbase already and the record label sees how they can help you and you can be helped by the record label, then you're in the game. If you make great music for TV, films, and commercials then you're helping the sync agent. If you make great music for the clubs then the club owner is always going to want you to walk through, get a bag, so you can help bring people out! Are you getting this? But we've got to tackle the one thing that is misunderstood the most in the music game and that's the public.

Fans - Selling a high value product to the general public

The people love your music and you may inspire them, but love and inspiration is priceless. So how do you get paid? Well, people want experiences with music artists, and for this they will pay a pretty penny. Of course they can't pay you top dollar for streams, but they can pay you top dollar for a direct-to-consumer album complete with pictures, documentary footage, and explanations of songs. They will be willing to pay for that. Or how about the live experiences with you and the band, or an intimate digital fan club experience with you and the band? You see, this is how you make money in the music industry. The music is just a catalyst to it all because your talent has to be showcased first before anything else can happen.

Make this mental mindset switch to service the creatives, the industry, and the people with a high value product and you’ll never get stuck in the abyss of oh music doesn’t make money any more! In the grand schemed of things it never did. Just pull the covers back and you’ll see. Nothing is new under the sun.

Don’t do this…

Now that you know this, the biggest mistake you can make is to go back to making music for the sake of getting it playlisted and rising to stardom — that's a very selfish way to view the music game as a whole. Because when you focus on yourself instead of the people that you are servicing, you'll never make any money. Again, this comes from years of only viewing the industry through TV and phones, not seeing the real magic behind the scenes. This is how you and I developed the mindset of "if you make music then it should sell itself and make money," right? Yeah... but that's a half-truth. You've got to do it in the way I expressed, otherwise you become a hobbyist.

Believe me, I was right there with you for nearly 13 years before I had to make a lifestyle change and the epiphany slowly started to rise. That's when I created this show — now I don't need a side hustle. I did realize how truly passionate I was about teaching everything I knew all along; I just needed more people that would be willing to hear what I had to say.

The Future outlook

The biggest shift that's happening right now in the music industry besides the Direct-to-Consumer war is the war in your mind. The mindset shift you need to make. I want to give you a warning: you cannot unsee and unhear this video, which means if you don't make it somehow in this music industry after this point, it is because you chose to selfishly serve yourself and not one of these three consumer groups. Because if you serve one really well, the others will start to pick up steam soon.

I want you to jot down three products right now today!

I will create and sell ______ that is a high value product for creatives so I can____

I will create and sell ______ that is a high value product for the industry so I can____

I will create and sell ______ that is a high value product for the public so I can____

Own your future — don't let somebody tell you what to do with your talent. Because at the end of the day, all three of these consumer groups only want the best version of you.

Here’s what you can do!

So let me give you my whole modus operandi. My mantra, if you will.

"Right now, you have a choice: You can keep guessing and hoping things will change... or you can follow a system that's already working. The real question isn't 'should you do this?'—it's 'how much longer can you afford NOT to?' Take this advice and change your life!

When you set out on that path, take the tools beneath this video packaged in the 60 Day Record Label, because you're going to need a personal record label to handle all of the cash you're going to make, funding to help you get there. That's right, I said funding. And you're going to need a system that will help you collecting all of your music income, not just a SongTrust cop-out situation. The link is in the description—click it today. Or grab my free stuff if you need more validation.

But What if…

Creating a product for these consumer groups, cultivating your talent, and finding the time isn't as big of a problem as you think. It's really you, having a hard time shifting your mindset, getting over your analysis paralysis, and becoming committed to the process. Understand the needs of these customers so that you can provide for them successfully. Devise a small product offering that you can service one group with first so you can ease that analysis paralysis, and figure out a schedule you can create to devote time to the process.

Remember, even the biggest artists and industry players started small and built up from there. You can go hard or go home, but don't go big or go home because that's not how growth works. Get some experience and move from there.

What's it going to cost to do it yourself

Nearly 70% of the viewers watching this video will dig through the internet to find this information, but I promise you it's not there. This is experience information. Take this video as it is, do what you will with it, because if you continue your course, you will grow tired of the industry killing your motivating spirit just to force you into the hobbyist corner or out the door. So what's it going to be?

At the End of the Day

If you were struggling with how to make money from music even if you have no fans or fame, this is the grand blueprint to make it happen. Because if you want to become a surviving and thriving artist instead of a struggling artist, this is what it takes, and you now have the means to transform into that!