Hey folks.. I’m starting this more or less from scratch and the last days I started to wonder and found myself in a bit of a pickle.. my insta profile reads: „enby anarchist matriarch queen / prod & perf - helping my peeps release unique music & add human value to surpass themselves and grow into their highest form“ - is that opening the store front or closing the door? Let me know how you feel, especially if you’re NOT queer :)

Hey guys, Nearly the end of the week! I wanted to leave you with a video but I also wanted to drop the first video in the Sales Academy which you can find in 'Classroom' at the top of the app. I thought this perspective might be relatable to a lot of you. I want to ask two questions: - What is one step you've made this week towards your music business? - What is the one thing you didn't do but you know you need to? I want to hold you accountable and move things in the right direction. I can only do that if you're willing to share ☺️ Be brave, take the frist step! George - StudioLand https://www.skool.com/studioland/classroom/8d566e50?md=358d424dd9094691a8aaabab7ecb1ff7

We’ve got amazing producers from all over the world here, but it got me thinking about location and how many people here rely on artists coming to them, and how many of you work completely remote? I’ve been remote for almost my entire career. Working with clients around the world in every continent. It means I can work on multiple projects a day sometimes if I need, and most importantly, I can plan my life alongside my work, not letting my work dictate too much of where I need to be. Comment below, are your remote? Let’s see what share of this community are!

Hey ! Glad to be here in the community! My name is Hero, and i go by SWAVE as my producer name:) I've been producing for 10 years now, and my favourite part of this job is creating music that uniquely conveys my worldview. Usually that means experimenting with/manipulating the sounds I use to more succinctly convey the granularity of my thoughts/emotions. Frequently, I create music inspired by colours/images/art, i love the creative liberty it gives me, and how it forces me to think differently about the sounds/fx/techniques i'm using! i'll attach some of my work below, for context, i took a boring picture of my coffee (lol), and used that to inspire the beat i went on to make afterwards ! As well as some more of my work that i'm particularly proud of:) In terms of what I'm working on, my focus at the moment is monetising my craft, and helping people find their sound as a producer! Because of AI, and the impact it's had over the creative industry, i've felt as though we need to explore our creativity now more than ever, and nurture the humanity in our music through exploring WHY it is we gravitate toward sounds, our personal relation to sounds and how they convey a certain emotion, the purpose our music serves etc etc. Where I'm stuck: I'm struggling to manage all the responsibilities that come with growing my income and balancing all parts of being a producer. Producing, inbound, outreach, filming videos, editing videos, calls, etc. It adds up to 12-14 hours a day (even by fixing the problem of task switching by assigning days to certain tasks), and of all the work I'm doing, I find it hard to know where I'm spending too little time/too much time and prioritising 'optimally' for lack of better words. So I guess in short, systemising it all and figuring out how to manage everything at once. Any advice on how you guys have systemised it ? https://www.youtube.com/@swavebeats https://www.instagram.com/herodotmusic/

One of our members tracked his outreach properly for a month. Not vibes, actual numbers. Here's what it looked like: 42 artists contacted 11 replied 3 asked for his portfolio 1 booked a call That's a 26% reply rate. For cold outreach, that is genuinely good. And it still took 42 messages to get one conversation. This is the bit nobody tells you. Most people send eleven or twelve, get a couple of polite nos, decide outreach doesn't work for them, and quietly go back to waiting for someone to recommend them. They weren't bad at it. They stopped at message twelve. The number that decides your month isn't your reply rate. It's your volume. The members who get clients are not better writers than the ones who don't. They just send more. One thing that does shift the reply rate: I tested sending short video messages instead of text over a single weekend and got 124 responses. Same offer, same people, different format. A face gets answered. A paragraph gets scrolled. Now, if 42 messages a month sounds like a lot, you're right. It is. And the messaging isn't usually what beats people. The admin is. Remembering who you contacted, who replied, who needs chasing on Thursday. That's why Carl and I have been building Homegrown. It's a CRM made for this exact job: finding people worth contacting, keeping track of every conversation, and telling you who's gone cold and needs watering. We built it because nothing out there did it without feeling like a spreadsheet with extra steps. The waitlist is open and this community gets first access. Link below if you want in. So, honestly, no judgement: How many outreach messages did you send last week? Zero is a completely valid answer and I'd genuinely rather know. Drop your number in the comments 👇🏼