Tag: patreon

  • How Musicians Can Achieve Passive Income

    How Musicians Can Achieve Passive Income

    Now more than ever, musicians need to diversify their income and generate passive income. In this piece we talk about some ways to do that immediately.

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  • How to Diversify Your Music Income While Maintaining Your Sanity

    How to Diversify Your Music Income While Maintaining Your Sanity

    If you plan on making a living from your music, then you plan on being an entrepreneur. While many DIY musicians envision themselves more like a freelancer, focused on bringing in income from one main skill set, an entrepreneur creates multiple streams of income in order to ensure that there’s always money coming in, even…

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  • It’s About the Relationship: How I Got to 1.5 Million YouTube Followers

    It’s About the Relationship: How I Got to 1.5 Million YouTube Followers

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. By Peter Hollens It’s almost the holiday season yet again, and to many singers and songwriters like myself, that means Christmas albums are popping up everywhere. I…

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  • Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Right for Your Next Music Project?

    Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Right for Your Next Music Project?

    For artists, depending on your patrons’ support is a practice as old as time. But these days it goes by another name: crowdfunding. You’ve probably already considered a crowdfunding campaign at some point in your career, and you’ve definitely already seen other musicians in your circle fund (or attempt to fund) their projects this way. It’s one…

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  • Social Media Made Easier: Content Planning for Musicians

    Social Media Made Easier: Content Planning for Musicians

    You’ve decided how you want to brand yourself online. You’ve created your band’s social media pages. You’re posting regularly, and still, you’re not seeing results. The solution: content planning. By putting all of your energy into posting new content without thinking about the big picture, you’re only getting half the job done. Instead, set marketing goals,…

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  • The Ultimate Music Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide

    The Ultimate Music Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide

    This holiday season, there’s probably a handful of Golden Ticket gift items on our wish lists, like the incredible Nord Electro 5 Keyboard, or Native Instruments’ new Komplete 10 pack, or Artiphon’s recently introduced Instrument 1, which unless we’ve been very, very good boys and girls, we might not get. So here are a few more great…

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  • What I Learned from 3 Artists Who Really Get Social Media

    What I Learned from 3 Artists Who Really Get Social Media

    + Pursue your next marketing goal with a Soundfly Mentor! Soundfly offers four-week mentorship sessions with a pro, customized to you. Get in touch. Social media is a chore for you (okay, me). But why? Because you’re (I’m) doing it wrong. You know who’s doing it right? Of course you do. Amanda Palmer is doing social media right because…

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