in this video I'm going to show you how to make more money selling beats doing
studio time shooting music videos or all three what's up everyone my name is
Cracka Lack welcome back to Cracka Lack TV today's video is for my beat makers my
studio engineers and videographers I know a lot of people's goal is to make a
living off of music and quit their stupid jobs oh god I hate my job
and to do music full time I don't see a lot of people doing this and I honestly
feel that there's a lot of opportunities and money that people are missing out on
so my goal is to hopefully open your eyes and show you how you can make some
more money alright story time so I own a recording
studio here in Lansing Michigan called Crack House Recording studio so the other
night I had a couple of artists from Detroit come to my studio and then
wanted me to make a custom beat for them then getting to the money I know being
around I got to see my PO I can't beat around it girl on my head and she keep on
hounding she just want me around
smooth be the heartbeat like a little bit of both I kind of smooth her
our baseline but like smooth piping violent type
so after I made to be for them then they wanted to record the song so I put my
headphones on put my engineer hat on and then I recorded an extra song
my glasses
a little clearer
we on Crack time 10 we all feel that after that he wanted to do a in studio like
music video for so take the headphones off get my camera back out pull out
camera and then we shot a in studio music video for a song so I've been
doing beats and recording and mixing songs for about 16 years and I've been
doing videography for about 10-11 years and I feel that the three different
skills go hand in hand so by me making beats it helps me when I'm recording
mixing songs by me being familiar with how the dollars set up in bars and when
I'm sitting down editing music video it helps with that and cutting it up on be
also a lot of times I find with having a studio I have our artist come in for a
studio session and then the next second there has to meet y'all when can we
shoot a video for this in business and general acquiring a customer is the
hardest thing to do so once you've done the hard work and you actually have a
customer that wants to pay you for what you do you got to put yourself in the
customers shoes and think okay the customer being a rapper or singer and
let's say they're coming to you for beats they're coming to you for a studio
time or they're coming to you for a video work what else do they need
besides that specifically and they're going to you for so if you can do more
than one thing now you're not missing out on opportunities to get money like
they need money to buy a Beat then they need money to get the song recorded
and mixed then they need money to shoot a music video so if you can be that guy that
does all of those things or even just more than one of those things you didn't
make more money could you maybe show me how to make more money with this and
there's a lot more than just these three things that I'm talking about like even
with graphic design like if you can learn how to do some photoshop work that
they need artwork for their songs I also own a online CD duplication company
onedollarcdduplication.com and once the artist has a finished product
they want to get copies pressed up they can go through my company for that they
don't have to look around elsewhere with a lot of people is a comfort thing as
well so people like working with people that they're comfortable with
so once you've already got a customer or a artist that is comfortable working
with you and spending money with you on one thing
very easy to get them to spend money and work with you on a second thing or a
third thing they don't have to go elsewhere and look around that's the
power of convenience like I said I sell snacks in my studio why because of
convenience they don't have to go down to the store to the personal snaps no oh
you hungry boom I got snacks right here for sale you thirsty need a bottle of
water I got bottled water for sale convenience is key the main thing is
hustle like you got to be a hustler you got to get out there and learn new
things with the internet how it is today you can even subscribe to this YouTube
channel because I'm gonna be posting a lot more tutorials showing you guys how
to do the things that I do whether it's recording mixing songs or making bees or
shooting music videos those are three areas bad if you can lock those three
down you're gonna make a lot of money for example the story that I told you
guys about earlier with the artist that came to the studio there was no need
after I made the beat for them to be like alright we'll see you later we
gotta go find the studio that we can pay to record and mix the song goes boom okay
the booth is right there let's record an extra song then there was no need to
call it did you know anyone that's got a camera on let's call the cameraman get
him in here so you should have video like nah we got one convenience
convenience is key utilize yourself utilize your resources open your mind
think man there's been a lot of customers that have found me for one
specific thing and then through continuing to do business with me for
that one thing and they see me through social media and then I do these other
things then they reach home be like yo how much do you charge for this they're
still spending money on this thing but now they're also spending money on this
as well now there's a saying jack of all trades master of none I call horse
with that bull because there's so much time in the day like if with my
personality type - it's a good ease of mind as well so some days if all I did
was make beats every single day knows the only thing I did I would honestly be
sick of making beats and if all I did was recorded mixed songs I'd get sick of
doing that if I like there was shooting edit videos I get sick of that it's a
good change of pace like I know when I'm at home
in the day I'm in video editing mode when I go to the studio I'm usually in
recording to mix in song mode if I'm sitting down with artist one-on-one or
something that I'm making beats and I'm music producer mode when you're first
trying to go full-time you need all of the money that you can get I remember
when I first started selling beats and I was only getting like 10 20 dollars here
10 20 dollars there it was barely anything but I was also recording the
songs for them as well I was getting the studio time money was that and then when
I started shooting videos I was getting my little bit of beat money plus my
little bit of studio time money plus my little bit of video money so those 3
littles added up to where it was like oh I'm making more money now than a
minimum-wage job but then it got more and more and more and throughout the
years it's got me to where I am today the
point of this is to show you that it is a constant grind it is a hustle you got
to get out there and work and you got to find as many ways as you can to make
more money if you want to do it full-time
I'll leave you with this the average millionaire has seven sources of income
so I'm introducing to you guys just three if you're interested in seeing how
I do what I do or watching me do my thing I post weekly vlogs on this
YouTube channel I'm gonna put a link to my most recent blog right here
leave a comment and let me know what it is that you do are you a rapper are you
a music producer are you a studio engineer videographer DJ photographer
let me know in the comments below I'll see you guys a nice video Cracka Lack TV
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