Have you ever wished
you could make a quantum leap with your music career? Have you ever felt like you know you could
get somewhere with your music if you could just get some momentum going? If you're like me, then I'm sure you've had
these feelings. As exciting as pursuing
a music career can be, it can also be daunting, frustrating and confusing. With so many different possible ways to get
your music out to people it can sometimes be overwhelming. With so many choices and options for
promoting our music it's sometimes hard to do anything at all.
Since my site and
newsletter focus on licensing, I'm going to stick to the topic of licensing and
how to move forward quickly, or at least more quickly. But this same approach can really be applied to
any aspect of your music career, whether it's promoting your CD online, booking
gigs, getting airplay or any aspect of your career that requires prolonged
focus (they all do!).
A Question
Let me ask you a
question. Think back over the last year
or so. How many different opportunities
to license your music have you sought out?
Have you been pursuing new places and channels to sell and license your
music every day? Every other day? Once a week?
Could you be doing more? A little
more? A lot more?
I think often times
musicians are so paralyzed by the seemingly endless array of companies and
people and places to submit music to that they end up not doing anything at
all. With so many players in the
industry, where do you even start?
Think Small To Get Big
I like to break
things down into small, easy bite size chunks.
If I think too long term it makes my head hurt. With so many variables and unknowns in the
music business it's really not helpful to think too far ahead. Instead I like to break goals and actions
down into monthly, weekly and daily steps that I know can manage.
And what I know I can
manage are the things that are in my control.
I can't make people like or buy my music. But I can make them at least listen to it. Ok
maybe I can't make them, but I can actively give people an opportunity to hear
my music. And I can do this on a regular
basis. This is empowering to me because
even though at the end of the day whether or not people like my music and
license my music is outside of my control, what's not outside of control is how
proactive I am in taking the steps I know I need to take to make money with my
music.
You can clearly take
this approach as well. If you're making
music that is of high quality and you want to monetize it, you can actively
pursue companies and places that license music.
The more often you do this, the greater your chances of success will
be. Small consistent action taken over
time leads to big results. In the same
way if you want a great body you can't expect to go to the gym once and get a
perfect body, you can't expect to just dabble in licensing and get great
results.
The 90 Day Music Licensing Challenge
Today is the start of
my 90 Day Music Licensing Challenge.
Every day for 90 days myself and others participating in the program
will be submitting our music to 90 different places that license music.
If you haven't yet
signed up for the program, but would like to, there's still one more day to
sign up. I'm extending the registration
deadline until midnight tonight eastern time.
Register here:
http://www.howtolicenseyourmusic.com/90daychallenge.php
If you don't have the
funds to participate in the program, but would like to take your own 90 Day
Challenge, I encourage you to create your own 90 Day Challenge. Use our directory to find leads if you'd
like:
http://www.howtolicenseyourmusic.com/2014-music-licensing-directory.php
Or search for leads
for free on Google.
Post your results on
my free forum:
http://www.howtolicenseyourmusic.com/forum.php
Connect with other
members and let us know about your results.
I can't guarantee
that you'll immediately have success by participating in this program or doing
your own, because I of course can't control the quality of music you're
creating or how consistently you're submitting and following up with my leads.
But what I can guarantee you is that if you
don't do anything, nothing will happen, 100% of the time.
